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program is proposed basing on a detailed process model, which includes nonlinear dynamics and uncertainty.
For prediction of possible accidents and operating problems attention will be focused on the assessment of
hazardous causes and effects of multiple steady states and possible disturbances.
Project duration: from 01.01.2004 to 31.12.2006
6 FP NMP2-CT-2005-515831 VIRTHUALIS - Virtual Reality and Human Factors Applications for
Improving Safety (Ľudovít Jelemenský)
The overall objective of the VIRTHUALIS project is to reduce hazards in production plants and storage sites by
addressing end-users´practical safety issues, such as training control room operators, designing proper alarm
systems, training teams to cope with emergencies, assessing the impact of plant modifications on operators’
reliability, helping managers to see the impact of their decisions on sharp-end operators’ daily work, through the
development of an innovative technology. The new technology will be achieved by merging Human Factors (HF)
knowledge and Virtual Reality (VR) technologies. The innovative character of the VIRTHUALIS technology will be
mainly given by the new HF knowledge that will provide both solutions to cope with identified safety-critical issues
and the “driving license” to profitably exploit VR technologies. The new HF knowledge will be produced ad hoc to
cope with the specific safety case at hand based on the most advanced HF methodological concepts available.
Project duration: from 01.05.2005 to 31.04. 2009
D. Hybrid systems with membranes and solvents based on ionic liquids” Slovak Grant
Agency project VEGA No. 1/2468/05 (Štefan Schlosser)
Formation and modeling of reaction-separation systems with membranes for simultaneous chemical or
biochemical reactions and separations and/or several separation processes. A better understanding of a new
generation of solvents and liquid membranes based on ionic liquids used for separation and biochemical
transformations.
The aim will be creation of new reaction-separation hybrid systems and development of new analytical
methods. Study of microfiltration through ceramic and polymeric membranes with different geometry
aimed at modeling of mass transfer and interactions of solutes with the membrane.
Investigation of the possibilities of transfer of data obtained for various geometries of modules.
Interactions will be studied mainly on model two-component suspensions.
Project duration: from 2005 to 2007
E. International joint project No. MEDRC 04-AS-004 Study of the adsorption- membrane
filtration (Amf) hybrid process for removal of boron from seawater“ (Štefan Schlosser)
International joint project No. MEDRC 04-AS-004 co-financed by MEDRC (www.medrc.org) coordinated by the
Ege University, Izmir, Turkey with participation of teams from the Slovak University of Technology and Technical
University of Wroclaw and individual experts from other Universities.
Project duration: from 2005 to 2007
F. Research contract of the Department of Agriculture, Food and Safety, subtopic 14b,
Isolation and research of properties of bioactive compounds from Amaranthus and their
using in human nutrition (Vladimír Štefuca)
The project aim is the developing of procedures of isolation of proteins and lipid compounds from green parts and
the corn of Amaranthus. The final objective is to design technological solution for the production of compounds
from Amaranthus that can be used in human nutrition as alternative sources of more conventional compounds.
Project duration: from 01.09. 2003 to 31.08.2006
G. Project FP6-SME-2003-1-508374, Ohmic heating for food processing (FOODPRO) (Milan
Polakovič)
The aim of this CRAFT (scheme of FP6 focused on small and medium enterprises) project is to develop an
alternative heating process through the use of ohmic heating, where the heat is generated through passing an
electric current through the food heating it as a result of electric resistance. Thus overheating can be avoided and
food with improved taste and nutritional content, and with maintained and in some cases improved microbial
safety, may be produced. The role of STU in this project is to investigate the effects of ohmic heating on the
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