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D5.4 Progress on exploitation

and dissemination, First Period

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June 2016

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PROJECT DETAILS

Project number: Project acronym: Project Title:

636942 CONSENS Integrated Control and Sensing for Sustainable

Operation of Flexible Intensified Processes

Instrument: Thematic Priority

Research and Innovation action Integrated Process Control

Contractual Delivery Date: Actual Delivery Date:

Month 18 Month 18

Start date of project: Duration:

January, 1st 2015 36 months

Organisation lead contractor for this deliverable: Document version:

inno TSD V1.4

Project coordinator Email

Bayer Technology Services, Manuel Pereira Remelhe [email protected]

DOCUMENT DETAILS

Authors (organisations) :

Ondine Freté, Benoît Masquin, Svetlana Klessova (INNO), Malte Salge, Philipp Thenée (INVITE)

Reviewers (organisations):

Manuel Pereira Remelhe (BTS)

Abstract:

This report details the dissemination and exploitation activities which have been ongoing during the first half

of the CONSENS project. It provides a reminder of the CONSENS strategy and objectives and presents the

development of the dissemination activities and the communication material prepared as well as the actions

engaged in exploitation.

It summarises the actions done with respect to the objectives written in the DoA and presents the actions that

will be engaged in the second half of the project. Due to confidentiality obligations, the report includes only a

public summary on the exploitation strategy and activities.

Keywords:

Communication Plan, Project Management, Dissemination, Exploitation

Dissemination level

PU Public X

PP Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission)

RE Restricted to a group defined by the consortium (including the Commission)

CO Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission)

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DISCLAIMER

THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITH NO WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF

MERCHANTABILITY, NONINFRINGEMENT, FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR ANY WARRANTY

OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF ANY PROPOSAL, SPECIFICATION OR SAMPLE. Any liability, including liability for

infringement of any proprietary rights, relating to use of information in this document is disclaimed. No license,

expressed or implied, by estoppels or otherwise, to any intellectual property rights are granted herein. The

members of the CONSENS project do not accept any liability for actions or omissions of CONSENS members or

third parties and disclaims any obligation to enforce the use of this document. This document is subject to

change without notice.

REVISION HISTORY

The following table describes the main changes done in the document since it was created.

Revision Date Description Author (Organisation)

0.1 03/06/16 Structuring and distribution of tasks INNO, INVITE

0.2 08/06/16 Sections related to dissemination INNO

0.3 15/06/16 Sections related to exploitation INVITE

1.0 15/06/16 Compilation of complete draft INNO, INVITE

1.1 17/06/16 Revision INNO, INVITE

1.2 21/06/16 Revision INNO, INVITE

1.3 22/06/16 Revision Coordinator (BTS)

1.4 28/06/2016 Revision INVITE

ACRONYMS AND DEFINITIONS

Acronyms Defined as

CS Communication Strategy

CAB Cross Sectorial Advisory Board

DoA Description of Action

IPR-E Intellectual Property Rights and Exploitation

NMR Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

PAT Process Analytical Technology

SME Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

SPIRE Sustainable Process Industry through Resource and Energy Efficiency

TRL Technology Readiness Level

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THE CONSENS PROJECT

Intensified continuous processes are a key innovation of the last decade for the production of high quality, high

value and customer-specific products at competitive prices in a sustainable fashion. To realise the potential of

this technology, key steps must be made towards long-term stable, tightly controlled and fully automated

production. The goal of the CONSENS project is to advance the continuous production of high-value products

meeting high quality demands in flexible, intensified, continuous plants by introducing novel online sensing

equipment and closed loop control of the key product parameters. CONSENS will focus on flexible continuous

plants but the results will be transferable also to large-scale continuous processes. The research and

development is driven by industrial case studies from three different areas, spanning the complete value chain

of chemical production: complex organic synthesis, specialty polymers, and formulation of complex liquids.

Innovative PAT technology will be developed for online concentration measurements (mid-resolution process

NMR), for the online non-invasive measurement of rheological properties of complex fluids, and for continuous

measurements of fouling in tubular reactors. New model-based adaptive control schemes based on innovative

PAT technology will be developed. The project results will be validated in industrial pilot plants for all three

types of process, including validation in production containers that have been developed in the F3 Factory

project. Furthermore, methods for sensor failure monitoring, control performance monitoring and engineering

support for PAT-based solutions will be developed. The exploitation of the new technologies will be facilitated

by a tool for technology evaluation and economic impact assessment. A Cross-sectorial Advisory Board

supports the transfer of PAT technologies and adaptive control to neighbouring sectors of the European

processing industry.

The CONSENS Consortium consists of:

Participant organisation name Participant short

name Country

ARKEMA FRANCE SA ARKEMA France

ATLAN-TEC SYSTEMS GMBH ALTAN Germany

BASF SE BASF Germany

BAYER TECHNOLOGY SERVICES GMBH BTS Germany

BUNDESANSTALT FUER MATERIALFORSCHUNG UND -

PRUEFUNG BAM Germany

Clariant Produkte (Deutschland) GmbH CLARIANT Germany

COATEX SAS COATEX France

inno TSD INNO France

INVITE GMBH INVITE Germany

KROHNE MESSTECHNIK GMBH KROHNE Germany

NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST

NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK - TNO TNO Netherlands

PROCTER & GAMBLE SERVICES COMPANY NV P&G Belgium

Rhodia Operations RHODIA France

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DORTMUND TUDO Germany

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI CAGLIARI UNICA Italy

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Index

1 Executive summary ................................................................................... 7

2 Introduction and overall strategy.............................................................. 9

Objectives of dissemination and exploitation ........................................................... 9 2.1

Dissemination and exploitation strategy ................................................................. 11 2.2

3 Communication material and activities ................................................... 14

CONSENS dissemination material ........................................................................... 14 3.1

Update on the CONSENS website ........................................................................... 18 3.2

4 Dissemination of project results ............................................................. 19

Publications ............................................................................................................ 19 4.1

Project presentation during relevant events ........................................................... 19 4.2

Project presentation during relevant fairs ............................................................... 21 4.3

Networking with relevant communities .................................................................. 22 4.4

5 Public summary of exploitation activities ............................................... 24

Development of the exploitation strategy .............................................................. 24 5.1

Targeted markets and market analysis.................................................................... 26 5.2

Cross Sectorial Advisory Board – Support of exploitation ........................................ 27 5.3

IPR-E Board and IP manual ...................................................................................... 28 5.4

Technology demonstration ..................................................................................... 30 5.5

6 Next steps ............................................................................................... 32

Planned dissemination and exploitation activities .................................................. 32 6.1

Planned events ....................................................................................................... 33 6.2

Annex A ....................................................................................................... 34

A.1 TEMPLATE CONSENS Questionnaire Exploitation - Current status and planning...... 34

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List of figures

Figure 1: CONSENS overall dissemination plan ....................................................................................... 9

Figure 2: CONSENS general exploitation strategy ................................................................................. 12

Figure 3: CONSENS flyer recto ............................................................................................................... 14

Figure 4: CONSENS flyer verso .............................................................................................................. 15

Figure 5: CONSENS poster ..................................................................................................................... 16

Figure 6: CONSENS press release on the website ................................................................................. 17

Figure 7: CONSENS website (news & events page) ............................................................................... 18

Figure 8: Presentation of the NMR Spectrometer at the Hannover Fair .............................................. 21

Figure 9: Part of BAM flyer for the Hannover Fair ................................................................................ 21

Figure 10: News about CONSENS on the SPIRE website ....................................................................... 22

Figure 11: CONSENS website (news & events page) ............................................................................. 23

Figure 12: TRL Scale ............................................................................................................................... 24

Figure 13: Overview of exploitation activities ....................................................................................... 25

Figure 14: Qualitative assessment for relevant industries by the CONSENS consortium ..................... 27

Figure 15: Overall expected best performance (black dots) with respect to actual performance ....... 31

Figure 16: Plan for the remaining 18 months........................................................................................ 32

List of tables

Table 1: Project’s dissemination indicators ........................................................................................... 11

Table 2: Publications related to CONSENS ............................................................................................ 19

Table 3: Presentation of CONSENS during events ................................................................................. 20

Table 4: Targeted markets sorted by case study ................................................................................... 26

Table 5: Future events ........................................................................................................................... 33

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1 Executive summary The purpose of this deliverable is to provide a complete report of the dissemination and exploitation

strategy and the related activities realised by the CONSENS partners in the first 18 months of the

project.

The deliverable is organised as follows:

Chapter 2 summarises the objectives and the dissemination and exploitation strategy, as well

as their evolution.

Chapter 3 presents the development of the communication material and activities conducted

in the first half of the project.

Chapter 4 focuses on the initial dissemination of project results, more specifically peer-

reviewed publications published, events attended and presentations presented as well as

networking activities.

Chapter 5 contains a public summary of the exploitation strategy and activities.

Chapter 6 aims to present the next steps from month 19 to the end of the project (Month 36).

Responsibilities

INNO leads work package 5 “Impact Assessment, Exploitation and Dissemination” and is in charge of

the implementation of the communication campaign, including the creation of a visual identity,

publicity and promotion material, as well as the set up and regular update of the project website.

This task is supported by TUDO and INVITE on the strategic level. Within work package 5 INVITE is in

the lead for “Exploitation” and is supported by INNO. INVITE will coordinate and promote the

exploitation of the project results.

All other project partners are involved in the communication and dissemination activities, and are

requested to provide updates on a monthly basis about their activities by filling dissemination tables

sent by e-mail. Those updates are then added to the repositories on the SharePoint. In terms of

exploitation all partners are regularly asked to provide input regarding the current results and the

plans for their use.

Target audiences and specific needs

As identified in the dissemination plan, the following communities were targeted in the first half of

the project:

Chemical industry stakeholders such as process industries, members of the SPIRE initiative,

associations of process industries in Europe, European Technology Platforms (ETPs) and

others.

Research community such as the SPIRE initiative, other related projects such as the EU funded

project PROPAT (project number 637232), European R&D organisations and the higher

education and academia community.

Staff of the consortium’s large companies members, as CONSENS partners represent a

significant part of the European chemical industry.

EU and national policy makers involved in the chemical industry.

General public and other interested stakeholders.

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Synergies with SPIRE

CONSENS has used the SPIRE label and benefits from the following dissemination support

provided by the SPIRE Secretariat:

Integration of the projects’ information in the SPIRE web-based platform;

Link between project-devoted websites and the SPIRE website;

Reaching out to target audiences;

Joint and widespread circulation of information through newsletters and press releases;

Featuring project in SPIRE publications;

Sharing the project’ news/presentations/publications on social networking sites;

Support in preparing publications, workshops, meetings and other types of initiatives.

Timing of the project

The timing of the dissemination activities follows a two-step approach. The first step is the

elaboration of the dissemination material, which is finalised and described in the deliverable “D5.1

Communication strategy and communication tools”. This step is extremely important as it is the most

significant milestone allowing the successful dissemination of the project. The material will be a

vehicle for the distribution of information about the project progress.

The second step is the dissemination of the project results developed by the project. The aim here is

to disseminate the outcome of the project to the biggest possible part of the target audience defined

above. This step is done over the entire duration of the project and has already started over the past

months as the first results of the project have become available.

The CONSENS project has been presented on several events, where publicity material and

presentations have been distributed. Several additional communication materials have been

prepared, such as a project leaflet and a presentation poster. They have and will be presented in

events and are available online on the project website: www.consens-spire.eu. Networking with

related communities has also been strengthened through the SPIRE community.

In terms of exploitation an exploitation plan and initial business plan has been developed in the first

half of 2015 and been updated in the beginning of 2016. To provide a common framework for all

project partners with regards to the protection of intellectual property an IP manual as well as a

board for intellectual property rights and exploitation has been created.

As CONSENS is a research project, it is important to note that the majority of the publications about

the results are planned for the second half of the project. The dissemination activities will continue

and be extended as the project progresses. A similar development is planned for the exploitation

activities. As the project advances the results and their particular features and capabilities become

clearer, targeted measures and activities will be carried out. Consequently, exploitation efforts will

intensify in the second half of the project as well.

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2 Introduction and overall strategy This section is a quick reminder about CONSENS overall objectives and strategy developed in the

Description of Action (DoA) for the tasks T5.4 and T5.5 and in the communication strategy described

in the deliverable D5.1.

Objectives of dissemination and exploitation 2.1

Based on the DoA, the objectives of the CONSENS dissemination strategy are the following:

To communicate about the project and promote scientific dissemination of the project

progress and results.

To raise awareness of the project and promote the project work, but more specifically:

• To attract attention from potential customers, suppliers and technology providers.

• To attract other stakeholders in order to collaborate further on the project’s topics and

possibly share contributions.

• To present the project activities and results to a larger audience, beyond technical

specialists.

To provide a communication platform (website) that gives easy insight to the outside world

in both the joined activities of the consortium as a group, but also for paying attention to the

achievements of the individual partners.

To support to the intra-corporate dissemination of technical results and their technical

transfer as well as possible transfer to other fields than the ones investigated within

CONSENS.

To ensure a maximum impact of the project results and findings in relevant communities.

Figure 1: CONSENS overall dissemination plan

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Scientific dissemination

Since the start of the project, scientific dissemination has been a key objective. Most of the project

output will be disseminated during the second half of the project’s lifetime (M19-M36) to the

relevant scientific community. Nevertheless, the work in progress and the case studies were

updated in month 15 on the website to disseminate the first CONSENS results to the scientific

community as well as to a broader interested public.

Exploitation and impact assessment

Based on the DoA, the objectives of the CONSENS task related to exploitation and impact

assessment are the following:

Identification of exploitation opportunities

Development of an industrial-oriented exploitation plan and business plan to coordinate and

promote the deployment of the project results

IPR management of relevant research results

Identification of targeted markets

Market analysis to estimate the added value of the different technologies

Development of a benchmarking framework for the assessment of the market-potential of

the technologies covering technical and non-technical aspects

Development of a methodology for assessing the impact of the technologies

• Consideration of economic, social and environmental aspects

• Consideration of partner and industry sector level (EU-wide)

• Promotion of the impact of the project

In the early phase of the project (M01-M18) the main goal has been the identification and first

assessment of technological components well suited for further scientific or commercial application

and the development of an initial strategy for their exploitation. These considerations will be

updated in the second half of the project (M19-M36) and supported by the development of the

previously mentioned methodologies for benchmarking and impact assessment. A detailed

description of the work carried out in the first 18 months is given in section 2.2.2.

Promotion of the impact of the project

The impact assessment will be updated in the second half of the project to estimate more precisely

in which conditions and to what extent the output of the project will be spread beyond its initial

target (chemical industries) and create benefits for the European industry in terms of economic,

social and environmental sustainability. The dissemination tools and channels already identified will

be used to promote the impact of the project.

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Dissemination and exploitation strategy 2.2

Dissemination strategy and its evolution 2.2.1

The dissemination activities in CONSENS are based on the deliverable 5.1 “Communication Strategy

and Communication tools” elaborated and issued in month 3 of the project.

The timing of the dissemination activities follows a two-step approach:

1. The elaboration of the dissemination material and identification of the target group.

2. The dissemination of information processed by the project. This phase has successfully

started and will be continued throughout the duration of the project.

So far, the following main actions can be listed:

The elaboration of the communication tools has been finalised and the target groups have

been identified. This provides a milestone that allows successful dissemination about the

project to increase the awareness of intended audiences. The material set up is a vehicle for

the distribution of information about the project progress as well as the project results.

The project website was designed, set-up in month 6, and is updated on a regular basis

Three press releases were published

Contribution to the SPIRE Newsletters

Dedicated presentations on 6 major events

9 news articles have been published on the website

Reporting and documentation

The main deliverables linked to this report are:

Questionnaire – CONSENS Dissemination questionnaire (M2, confidential)

Deliverable D5.1 – Communication Strategy and Communication Tools (M3, public)

Deliverable D5.2 – CONSENS Website (M6, public)

These documents were based on the input from the project partners during the project’s lifetime in

the first 18 months.

Key performance indicators

The evaluation of dissemination activities performed is based on a number of factors, such as:

Indicators Number

Press releases

News on the website

3

9

Events where the project has been presented 9

Poster dissemination

Flyer

1

1

Project publication 2

Table 1: Project’s dissemination indicators

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Exploitation strategy and its evolution 2.2.2

Introduction

The advanced PAT sensors (BAM and TNO), the adaptive PAT based control strategies (TUDO and

UNICA) and the tools and models developed for the evaluation of process control data (CLARIANT,

BTS and ATLAN) have a strong potential for commercial and scientific exploitation. In order to enable

a coordinated and planned approach for the active exploitation of the results during and after the

project runtime a strategy has already been developed in the beginning of 2015.

The objective of CONSENS exploitation strategy is to establish suitable activities and guidelines

in order to ensure the exploitation of the project results. The exploitation strategy

distinguishes between commercial and scientific exploitation:

Exploitation

Scientific exploitation

Teaching

Publication

Commercial exploitation

Subsequent research

activities

Internal implementation

Provision of services

Licensing

Sale

...

…

Figure 2: CONSENS general exploitation strategy


The objective of the commercial exploitation strategy is to transfer the CONSENS results into

products or services which can be introduced and offered to the relevant markets. Therefore

the exploitation strategy will guide and support the partners. Market oriented exploitation is

especially relevant for those technologies achieving a rather high technology readiness level

(TRL) at the end of the project (explanation of TRL: see section 5.1).


Regarding scientific exploitation, the main objectives are the presentation of the project

results to a broad audience and their use for further research activities. The CONSENS research

project focuses on the concept validation of novel technologies with a low TRL. The different

technologies and services developed in CONSENS are estimated to reach the market readiness

in an average between 2-5 years after the project. Consequently, scientific exploitation

represents a substantial part of the overall strategy.

A detailed description of the development of the exploitation strategy is given in section 5.1.

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Evolution

M01-M06

In the starting phase of the CONSENS project (M01-M06) a common exploitation

strategy as well as first individual exploitation plans were defined. An initial business

plan was developed in order to identify targeted markets and guide the commercial

exploitation. Based on the conducted market analysis, the business plan defines the

value proposition and pricing strategies for the different technologies. In summary the

main activities were:

Raise awareness for the future exploitation of the results

Develop and communicate the basic exploitation strategy between partners

Identify research results suited for further exploitation

Identify targeted markets

Definition of the value proposition for each technology

Estimations on dates for market introduction, sales figures and pricing strategies

Definition of rules regarding the protection of intellectual property

M07-M18

In the further course of the CONSENS project (M07-M18) the exploitation plan was

updated according to the current status. The main objective for this period was to

specify the planning for each partner. Exemplary, these topics were addressed:

Update of the individual exploitation strategy

Identification of steps foreseen in the project in order to reach the exploitation goal

Identification of dependencies between partners

Identification of hurdles compromising the exploitation

Definition of the individual IP strategies

Update of the market analysis

Identification of supportive workshops, seminars or services focused on exploitation

A public summary of the exploitation activities is given in chapter 5.

Reporting and documentation

The main documents linked to this report are:

Questionnaire 1 – CONSENS Questionnaire Exploitation and Business Plan (M3, confidential)

Deliverable D5.3 – Initial Exploitation Plan and Definition of a Business Plan (M6,

confidential)

Questionnaire 2 – CONSENS Questionnaire Exploitation - Current status and planning (M14,

confidential)

The template of Questionnaire 2 is shown in Annex A.

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3 Communication material and activities Section 3 presents the development of the communication material and activities conducted in the

first half of the project.

CONSENS dissemination material 3.1

CONSENS flyer 3.1.1

A project flyer has been designed to efficiently reach the scientific and industrial community by

detailing the project’s concept as well as the expected results and impacts. It is also designed to be

easily understood by the general public. This leaflet was dispatched at many relevant project events

at the EU and national level.

Figure 3: CONSENS flyer recto

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Figure 4: CONSENS flyer verso

A second project leaflet detailing the project results and outcomes might be prepared later on.

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Poster 3.1.2

The CONSENS poster provides a generic presentation of the project and is addressed to all the

audiences including the general public. It is also an efficient way to communicate quickly about the

project by giving a glance of CONSENS general aspects:

Figure 5: CONSENS poster

A technical poster will be prepared to address the industrial community. It will present the project

results of the three case studies and how the results can be applied to other technologies or sectors.

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CONSENS PowerPoint presentation 3.1.3

Following the specific CONSENS branding, a generic PowerPoint presentation was developed to be

used for awareness-raising and information at events and via the partner’s networks. It can be used

by all partners involved in the project dissemination. It can be easily adapted by partners for specific

audiences and updated with new information. It details the structure of the project in terms of

objectives and main results that the project aims to achieve and the tools the project will use.

Project communications 3.1.4

The first project press release was prepared and dispatched at the beginning of the project. It was

aimed at informing the public about the recent start of the project, presenting the challenges

addressed and the impacts on the competitiveness of European chemical industry, and other sectors,

as well as the project partners.

See the full press release here:

http://www.consens-spire.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/press-release-consens-vf.pdf

Two other project communications on events and activities relevant to the project have been edited:

CONSENS First year achievements


http://www.consens-spire.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/CONSENS-Press-Release-First-

year-achievements.pdf

Positive Feedback from the Cross-sectorial Advisory Board!


http://www.consens-spire.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Consens-press-release-Positive-

Feedback-from-the-Cross-sectorial-Advisory-Board.pdf

Figure 6: CONSENS press release on the website

These project communications were disseminated to the community through various means such as

the project website, direct contact and reuse by project partners, SPIRE and the SPIRE community.

These press releases have given the project a significant visibility.

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Update on the CONSENS website 3.2The CONSENS website was made available and finalised in month 6 of the project, June 2015. It

represents the first communication channel in information dissemination and awareness raising

about the project. As planned in the Description of Work, it contains a general presentation of the

project objectives and consortium as well as all information related to the project activities, results

and events. At the moment, it contains 9 news elements. The website is updated as frequently as

news is available, which depends on the project’s meetings and activities.

Check on the CONSENS Website at: www.consens-spire.eu

Figure 7: CONSENS website (news & events page)

The project website consists of 8 different sections. The following sections are the most regularly

updated:

News and events which also contains the press releases;

Outcomes which gathers the publications, communication materials (where the poster and

the flyer are available) and public deliverables;

Case studies which have been updated in March 2016 in order to show the progress made in

the three areas concerned.

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4 Dissemination of project results This section focuses on the initial dissemination of the project results, more specifically publications

published, events attended and presentations presented. The dissemination of results is one of the

most important aspects of the CONSENS project. The following tables summarise the different

activities accomplished by the consortium.

Publications 4.1So far 2 publications have been produced / will be published by the CONSENS project:

Responsible

Partner Title of Publication Date Target(s)

TUDO

Paper on application of Evolutionary

Algorithms in Guaranteed Parameter

Estimation

Published in the

conference

proceedings

approx. 07/2016

Scientific

community,

industry

CLARIANT

Comprehensive Analysis Competence

and Innovative Approaches for

Sustainable Chemical Production

Submitted for

review

Process

industries

Table 2: Publications related to CONSENS

Project presentation during relevant events 4.2CONSENS has been presented by the partners at several relevant events and within the SPIRE

community (see also point 4.4.1).

Responsible

Partner Event Subject Date Target(s)

BTS Spire Project's

Conference

Impact and cross-

cutting issues of

CONSENS

20/04/2016 SPIRE community

COATEX

Lyon Polymer Science

and Engineering

workshop (LPSE)

Couplage Raman-

Visco-NIR:

Polyesterification

06/04/2016

French industrial

and academic

researchers

BTS SusChem ICT Meeting General presentation

of CONSENS 10/03/2016 Process Industry

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BAM

10. Interdisziplinäres

Doktorandenseminar,

Berlin (PhD Meeting)

Field integration of

benchtop NMR

instruments for

online monitoring

and process control

of a modular

industrial reaction

step

28/02/2016 PhD Students

BAM

4th Annual Practical

Applications of NMR in

Industry (PANIC)

conference in

Houston, Texas, U.S.A

Field integration of

benchtop NMR

instruments for

online monitoring

and process control

of a modular

industrial reaction

step

16-

18/02/2016

Industry,

regulatory,

government, and

academic

institutions

BAM

11. Kolloquium

Arbeitskreis

Prozessanalytik,

Wien/AT

First steps towards

field integration of

benchtop NMR

spectroscopy for

online monitoring

and process control

01-

02/12/2015,

German speaking

PAT community

INVITE

ProcessNet-

Jahrestreffen Prozess,

Apparate- und

Anlagentechnik PAAT

Durchführung einer

Zuverlässigkeitsbetra

chtung für eine

modular aufgebaute

Produktionsanlage

17/11/2015

German speaking

community for

process

engineering

BAM

Audience of the Small

Molecule NMR

Conference, Baveno,

Italy

First steps towards

field integration of

benchtop NMR

spectroscopy for

online monitoring

and process control

17/09/2015

Audience of the

Small Molecule

NMR Conference

TUDO

Application of

Evolutionary

Algorithms in

Guaranteed

Parameter Estimation

Presentation at the

IEEE World Congress

on Computational

Intelligence

24-

29/07/2016

Scientific

community,

industry

Table 3: Presentation of CONSENS during events

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Project presentation during relevant fairs 4.3At the Hannover Fair, 25-29/04/2016, Hannover, Germany, the Federal Institute for Materials

Research and Testing (BAM) has shown the new nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer

for online applications developed as part of the CONSENS project.

Figure 8: Presentation of the NMR Spectrometer at the Hannover Fair

Figure 9: Part of BAM flyer for the Hannover Fair

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Networking with relevant communities 4.4

In order to increase the efficiency of the project, the activities pursued by CONSENS are being

synchronised with relevant external initiatives and confronted with different stakeholders’ views:

SPIRE 4.4.1

As planned in the CONSENS Communication strategy, joint dissemination activities are organised on

a regular basis with SPIRE under different formats (conferences, articles, newsletters). The joint

dissemination actions aim to improve visibility and uptake of project results as well as help identify

collaboration opportunities during the project’s lifetime.

The following section describes the joint activities with SPIRE starting with the publication of articles

on the SPIRE website:

News on the SPIRE website

Figure 10: News about CONSENS on the SPIRE website

SPIRE Newsletter

CONSENS contributes on a regular basis to the SPIRE newsletter in order to reach a bigger audience:

http://www.spire2030.eu/about-a-spire/newsletter

SPIRE Brochure

As part of the SPIRE community, the project has a page dedicated to the SPIRE brochure. This

document helps the project to get visibly in the community. The 2016 version is currently

being developed: http://www.spire2030.eu/library

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SPIRE Conference

CONSENS was involved in the SPIRE Conferences in Brussels in 2015 and 2016. The project has

been presented to the SPIRE community, but also to the European Commission and relevant

stakeholders.

Figure 11: CONSENS website (news & events page)

Other networking activities 4.4.2

Organisation of a joint workshop initiative with PROPAT

The SPIRE conferences and workshops organised in Brussels once a year provide opportunities to

meet with other EU projects working on similar issues and having common objectives. After the

SPIRE Conference in April 2015, CONSENS and the PROPAT project

decided to work together on the organisation of a common

workshop.

PROPAT aims to develop novel sensors and analysers for providing measurements on composition,

particle size and local bulk properties, as well as more traditional but smart sensors for measuring

other process parameters, and integrate them into a versatile global control platform for data

acquisition, data processing & mining and User Interface in order to measure properties of process

streams and products, accurately and in real-time.

The CONSENS - PROPAT cooperation was initiated in M15.

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5 Public summary of exploitation

activities In order to facilitate an effective use of the CONSENS results, a strategy for the protection and

exploitation of intellectual property has to be developed and implemented. A public summary of the

according strategies and activities is given in this section.

Development of the exploitation strategy 5.1The goal of the CONSENS project is to introduce novel online sensing equipment combined with

closed loop control of key product parameters for continuous production. Furthermore methods for

sensor failure detection, control performance monitoring and engineering support for PAT-based

solutions will be developed. The development of the new technologies will mainly be carried out by

the research institutes and academia. The technologies will then be demonstrated in an industrial

environment at the facilities of the partners from the process industry.

For the exploitation strategy of the new developed technologies the Technical Readiness Level (TRL)

is considered as a guiding indicator. The TRL is used to assess the development status of a technology

from a basic principle (TRL 1) up to a fully operational product (TRL 9) (see Figure 12).

Figure 12: TRL Scale, Reference: Horizon 2020 - Work programme 2014-2015, Annex G: Technology

readiness levels (TRL)

Based on the current feedback from the partners a certain TRL range has been identified. For the

novel sensor technologies the readiness level is currently in between 3-4. In terms of the developed

software tools a higher TRL (4-5) has already been achieved. It is expected that the sensing tools will

reach TRL 5 at the end of the project while the developed software tools will reach a TRL closer to 6.

The partners estimate that market readiness will in average be achieved in 2-5 years after the project

end.

Taking the actual and desired TRL into account as well as the background of the different partners, it

is possible to deduce different exploitation strategies and activities. The exploitation strategies can

be divided in two major areas of commercial and scientific exploitation.

Work during CONSENS

TRL 3-5

Further development after

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In cooperation with the project partners a first overview on the direction of exploitation was

generated. Figure 13 shows the different planned and executed exploitation activities. As a result of

the different background of the partners ranging from academia to industry, various exploitation

activities are envisioned. The exploitation activities are uniformly distributed in the areas of scientific

and commercial exploitation.

Figure 13: Overview of exploitation activities


The industrial partners (ARKEMA, ATLAN, BASF, BTS, CLARIANT, COATEX, KROHNE, P&G and SOLVAY)

will mainly focus on the commercial exploitation. The commercial exploitation is closely connected to

the developed business plan and will for example be achieved by licensing of the newly developed

software tools and selling of the innovative sensor technologies. The provision of services will be

another potential exploitation activity. The fourth part of the commercial exploitation will be an

internal implementation of the technologies in the production plants of the respective companies.

An individual exploitation strategy for each partner was defined in the initial exploitation plan

together with the business plan. This plan is continuously improved and adapted to the current

research progress. A detailed documentation of the work carried out is given in section 2.2.2. As

described in section 6.1 several activities are planned in order to adjust the exploitation strategy

according to the project outcome.

The sensor failure detection from ATLAN as well as the control performance monitoring tool

developed by CLARIANT already reached a rather high TRL. An example for a successful

demonstration of a technology in an industrial environment is given in section 5.5.

Sale

Licensing

Provision of services

Implementation in own

company / internal exploitation

Publications, Conferences

Subsequent research activities

Teaching

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The scientific exploitation of CONSENS results will especially carried out by the academic partners

(BAM, TNO, TUDO, INVITE and UNICA). On the one hand scientific exploitation is achieved through

scientific publications and contributions to conferences. Scientific dissemination will contribute to a

broad awareness of the generated results within the CONSENS project. A summary of the scientific

dissemination activities in the first 18 months is given in section 4. On the other hand CONSENS is

used for scientific education by offering Master and PhD theses on CONSENS topics (BAM, INVITE,

TUDO and UNICA).

Due to low TRL of some developed technologies, e. g. the novel online fouling sensor, it is expected

that further research projects will be initiated in order to finalise the development. Bilateral research

projects between the academia and industrial partners with defined applications would be a

promising chance to further increase the TRL.

Targeted markets and market analysis 5.2The CONSENS project is focused on the chemical industry. In this regard, industries such as the fine

chemical industry, the polymer industry and the consumer good industry are targeted. The primary

targeted markets are represented by the three different case studies. The first case study contains an

intensified lithiation reaction for the synthesis of complex organic molecules. The formation of

complex molecules can for example be found in the crop and pharmaceutical industries. The

achievements made in the second case study may be used for further exploitation in the markets for

polyamides, polyesters and thermoplastic polyesters. The third case study is addressing the markets

for consumer goods such as cleaning agents and personal care products. An overview of the targeted

markets is given in the table below.

Case study Market

1. Intensified synthesis of organic compounds

Fine chemical industry

Crop industry

Pharmaceutical industry

2. Production of high-viscous polymers

Polymer industry in general:

• Polyamides

• Polyesters

• Thermoplastic polyesters

3. Continuous formulation of complex liquids Personal care industry

Table 4: Targeted markets sorted by case study

In addition to the markets addressed in the case studies a broader application of the technologies is

planned. This is well possible because the results of CONSENS will apply to all continuous flow-

processes and therefore also provide an impact on other processing industries. Based on an

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assessment by the project partners relevant industries could be identified. The different sectors are

illustrated in the following Figure.

Figure 14: Qualitative assessment for relevant industries by the CONSENS consortium

Beside the already addressed industries in the case studies, Figure 14 shows that the developed

technologies are expected to have an impact on a variety of industries. Viscosity is often a key

parameter in the food industry and used for monitoring and quality control. The novel fouling sensor

could be very helpful in the food industry as well. Especially the dairy industry has often to deal with

fouling. Online NMR concentration measurements could have positive impact in the industries for

personal care and petrochemicals. The developed software tools such as the sensor failure detection

and the performance monitoring could be exploited over a wide range of industries. The CONSENS

results can consequently have an impact on multiple industries.

Market analysis

Part of the initial business plan is a market analysis. It provides an overview of the existing

technologies and services being commercially available. The analysis allows identifying possible

market gaps. The project partners can target their research efforts to address these needs. This will

enable an efficient commercial and scientific exploitation of CONSENS results. The market for sensor

technology and the market of currently available monitoring and evaluation tools have been

examined. The market analysis was then updated in the course of the project.

Cross Sectorial Advisory Board – Support of 5.3

exploitation The Cross Sectorial Advisory Board (CAB) supports the consortium in ensuring scientific excellence

and improving the exploitation strategy. It consists of external scientists and managers from most

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relevant sectors of the European processing community. The CAB is consulted to gather their

requirements and inputs on their needs and visions in terms of optimization of the continuous and

automatic controls in industry processes and provides the consortium with market as well as

technological insights for aspects needed to assess the potential of the CONSENS technology. The

exchange allows adapting the business plan and the exploitation strategies to the different sectors

and their specific requirements. In summary the CAB aims to raise the awareness of possible

exploitation opportunities and increase the visibility at a higher European level.

The first meeting of the Cross Sectorial Advisory Board (CAB) took place in conjunction with the

plenary meeting at the Clariant Innovation Center in Frankfurt-am-Main one year after the project’s

launch. A press release has been published “CONSENS Press Release – Positive Feedback from the

Cross Sectorial Advisory Board” (see section 3.1.4).

At this occasion, the project partners presented the progress of their research on novel online

sensing equipment, closed- loop control methods, and software tools for monitoring and design

evaluation to the CAB members coming from the following sectors:

Oil industry (Sartec S.p.A),

Food industry (Bühler AG),

Lab scale systems, pilot plants, demonstration plants and small modular commercial plants

(Zeton B.V),

Process automation (Schneider Electric SA)

The results as well as the opportunities and obstacles to transfer the concepts, methods and

technologies into different sectors of the process industry were discussed.

Three CAB meetings are planned during the lifetime of the project. The next meeting with the CAB

will take place in December 2016.

IPR-E Board and IP manual 5.4The research carried out during CONSENS will generate significant intellectual property. In order to

ensure further and extended industrial and commercial use of the results, the protection of

intellectual property rights is a crucial task. This topic has been addressed by the establishment of

the Board for Intellectual Property Rights and Exploitation and the development of an IP manual.

IPR-E Board

In order to manage the intellectual property developed within CONSENS and support their

exploitation the Intellectual Property Rights and Exploitation Board (IPR-E Board) has been set up in

the beginning of 2015. Briefly, the IPR-E Board:

Keeps track of Background IP to be included/withdrawn

Organizes approval of any type of public documents (patents filed, scientific publications,

and other types of public documents (Dissemination))

Keeps track of results / licensing

May have to convince results’ owners to make their results accessible and usable for the

whole consortium for dissemination or use;

Moderates disputes of partners in disagreement on IPR-E issues.

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IP manual

An IP manual has been developed and distributed among all partners in June 2015. The document

provides a short overview on IP and scientific publications issues and procedures, and provides a

decision process to address these IP issues. The IP manual emphasizes that, according to the Grant

Agreement, each partner has to protect the results generated within CONSENS.

More specifically, the IP manual provides:

A short description of the IPR-E

Definitions of background IP and project’s results

A short description of the created register of background IP belonging to consortium

members and how to use it

A short description of the procedure to exploit the results of the project

In order to allow for all partners a clear view of the results achieved within the projects and report to

the European Commission, 3 living documents titled

Register of Results – Patents

Register of Results – Publications

Register of Results – Confidential know-how

have been created.

In order to allow each partner to give their opinion about the results, the following steps have been

defined:

STEP 1 – IDENTIFICATION

Results need to be identified by each partner and categorised as one of the following:

(A) Results (to be) patented

(B) Results (to be) published

(C) Results – confidential know-how

STEP 2 – VALIDATION

Results to be patented and results to be published need to be validated by the General

Assembly during the project and for a period of 1 year after the end of the project. The

validation period takes up to 45 days.

• Results to be patented: As soon as possible, partners should file for patent, and

then inform the other partners of the filed patents. If other partners consider that

changes are necessary, it will still be possible. If there is a bigger concern, then the

application could be withdrawn.

• Results to be published: Before submitting a paper for publication or an abstract

for a conference, formal approval of the General Assembly is necessary. The owner

of the results needs to send the document to the General Assembly and allow them

45 days for reactions.

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Any partner may object to the planned publication within the 45 calendar days after receipt

of the notice, if it can show that its legitimate interests in relation to the results or

background would be significantly harmed. The objection has to include a precise request for

necessary modifications. In such cases, the dissemination may not take place unless

appropriate steps are taken to safeguard these legitimate interests.

Members of the General Assembly must also check the publication for patentable

components during the publication approval procedure. If components are patentable, a

patent application has to be filled before publication. In this case, a publication can be

published after the filing date.

A detailed procedure for validation has been defined. Once the General Assembly has

approved the publication of the results, the process can move forward.

STEP 3 – ENTRY of the RESULTS IN THE REGISTERS.

Once the results have been validated by the General Assembly, the owner of the results

needs to enter the information in one of the three living documents titled “Register of

Results” on the CONSENS SharePoint. The information to fill out depends on the type of

results.

Technology demonstration 5.5In the following section an example for a recent pre-commercial exploitation activity from CLARIANT

is given.

CLARIANT: Performance monitoring

In most plants the optimum performance is not a fix value but a function of time. The changes in

performance can be caused by fouling, catalyst deactivation or seasonal effects. Therefore it is

necessary to evaluate, if an autonomous control system really reaches the optimum performance or

if adaptations are needed to improve the predictive control model itself. Additional to the mentioned

aging and fouling effects with very long time scales unpredictable outside disturbances on short

timescales can occur as well. A systematic and automated performance monitoring algorithm is

necessary to realize deviations early enough to keep the system at its best performance. Since

advanced control systems try to improve the existing good plant performance, it is often hard to

detect if a system is working at the optimal operating point. This means that additionally to the long

time scale effects and unpredictable outside disturbances a very accurate observation of the

performance is necessary in order to distinguish for instance aging from weak control of the process.

For demonstration purposes data from an existing large scale production plant has been used. The

implemented advanced control system directly uses measured data from on-line sensors of the

product quality. From this, the performance of the plant can be derived directly. The plant shows

significant load changes and also stable load levels lasting several weeks.

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The algorithm of the performance monitoring methodology follows the following steps:

1. Data pre-treatment

2. Clustering of load levels

3. Creating sub clusters to reduce aging effects

4. Cross validation of the performance on the sub-clusters

5. Derive a curve for the expected best performance for each cluster

6. Evaluate distance between actual and expected performance

The evaluation of the actual performance compared to the expected performance shown in Figure

15 is an indicator if the advanced control system runs properly or if maintenance is necessary either

to adapt model parameters (e.g. training periods or parameter weights) or if a significant change of

the model description is necessary.

Figure 15: Overall expected best performance (black dots) with respect to actual performance

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6 Next steps

Planned dissemination and exploitation activities 6.1

M18 M36M27

Revision of the

partners

priorities in the

dissemination

activities

Public workshop in the

3rd year of the project,

with presentation of the

results (with

involvement of the CAB)

Deliverables:

D5.5 - D5.6 - D5.7 - D5.8

Meeting

with

PROPAT

Dissemination

Exploitation

CONSENS internal

exploitation

workshop (to be confirmed,

specific date tbd)

Update of the

exploitation plan

according to the

project status

Development of the

methodology for

impact assessment

and benchmarking

Exchange with CAB(specific date tbd)

Figure 16: Plan for the remaining 18 months

For the remaining 18 months until the end of the project, the dissemination activities will be

continued as they were started (i.e. publication of news, press releases, update of the website and

the case studies, contribution to the SPIRE dissemination activities, etc.).

Numerous deliverables related to the dissemination and exploitation strategy will be drafted by the

end of the project (Month 36):

D5.5 – Progress on exploitation and dissemination

D5.6 – Report on benchmarking and impact assessment

D5.7 – Report on the results of exploiting the knowledge base

D5.8 – Summary of CONSENS exploitation activities

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Besides this, specific activities are planned for the second half of the project:

As planned in the DoA, a final public workshop will be organised in the third year of the

project presenting all the project achievements and involving the CAB. An ongoing workshop

will be organised at mid-time of the project to promote the concepts and research

backgrounds of the project.

Revision of the partner’s priorities related to the dissemination through a questionnaire (see

the first results in the D5.1, p.14)

Organisation of a joint workshop will be organised with the PROPAT project

Preparation of new materials for communication (flyers, poster)

Development and application of a methodology for benchmarking and impact assessment

Exchange with internal (and external) partners for data collection on impact assessment

Update of the exploitation plan

Project internal workshop focused on exploitation

Exchange with the CAB

Planned events 6.2

A list of future conferences and events that are suitable for the presentation of CONSENS results is

given in the following. The consortium will aim to present CONSENS results at these events:

Name of the

event

Title of

presentation /

paper

Date and

place of the

event

Type of

audience

Countries

addressed /

represented

Partner

responsible /

involved

IEEE World

Congress on

Computational

Intelligence

Application of

Evolutionary

Algorithms in

Guaranteed

Parameter

Estimation

24-

29/07/2016

Scientific

community,

industry

Canada TUDO

National

Conference

GRICU 2016

CONSENS Poster

presentation

12-

14/09/2016

Research,

higher

education

Italy UNICA

Table 5: Future events

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A.1 TEMPLATE CONSENS Questionnaire Exploitation - Current status and

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