integrated metrology community.
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Resource management focuses protecting and using resources such as water, materials or energy, in a sustainable manner and ensure that resources won’t be depleted and are still available in the future. The Unites Nation’s sustainability goal 12 ‘responsible consumption and production’ focuses on sustainable consumption and production patterns with the goal to significantly reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse as well as halve per capita global food waste by 2030. These objectives rely on a traceable metrological network to develop strategies to manage resources sustainably.
EURAMET supported a range of resource management projects such as ‘Metrology for the recycling of Technology Critical Elements to support Europe's circular economy agenda’ (20IND01, MetroCycleEU). Additionally, several European Metrology Networks are working on implementing sustainable resource use, such as the European Metrology Network for Safe and Sustainable Food.
Many EURAMET projects have supported metrology for resource management, inlcuding the ones listed below:
RELATED CASE STUDIES
Validating ion engines for interplanetary travel
Curiosity led exploration of space has driven the development of over 2000 technologies including integrated circuits, lightweight insulation and automated credit card transactions. However, overcoming this harsh environment requires state-of-the art technology which presents its own new measurement challenges. This is especially true for interplanetary travel where high vehicle fuel efficiency is required for the long distances involved, maximising mission payloads and the amount of science that can be performed.
Reducing aero-engine operational costs
Curiosity led exploration of space has driven the development of over 2000 technologies including integrated circuits, lightweight insulation and automated credit card transactions. However, overcoming this harsh environment requires state-of-the art technology which presents its own new measurement challenges. This is especially true for interplanetary travel where high vehicle fuel efficiency is required for the long distances involved, maximising mission payloads and the amount of science that can be performed.
Better heat-treatment process control
Temperature measurements above 1000 °C are difficult to make but essential for a wide range of industrial processes, many of which require close temperature control to be effective. Laser hardening at high temperatures is used to harden the surface of components used in the automotive, aerospace, power generation, construction and many other sectors, but it is hard to make reliable surface temperature measurements due to the challenging measurement conditions.
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World’s first methods for detecting hydrogen fluoride contamination in biomethane
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New measurement infrastructure for real-world domestic water metering
New measurements will provide European water meter manufacturers and water suppliers with reliable and trustworthy measurement capabilities.
Solving the siloxane measurement problem
EMPIR project demonstrates benefits of traceable on-line measurement of siloxanes in industrial biogas.
EMPIR project improves equation of state for hydrogen-enriched gas
Work by EMPIR project has improved understanding of hydrogen-enriched natural gas characteristics.
EMPIR project leads publication of first ISO measurement standard on graphene
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