OVERVIEW OF THE CONSORTIUM:

INTERLAB IEC, SAU - (Spain)

Main business activity: Electronic Engineering and equipment. Ultrasonic inspection systems. Chemical and bio-sensor manufacture. Interlab IEC will coordinate the project and provide its expertise in aeronautical electronics and in transducer electronics. It will take care of electronics development, manufacture and testing, becoming the single electronics specialist in the project. Its experience in sensor industrialization and business development benefits the possibilities of future commercialisation of project deliverables.

AIRBUS FRANCE, SAS - (France)

Main business activity: Designs and manufactures aircrafts, aircrafts parts, systems, equipments and derived products. AIRBUS will coordinate the specifications WP and has the main function of ensuring the project meets the needs of the European aeronautical industry. Additionally Airbus will ensure overall technical coherence in relation aircraft integration and will perform the testing of the final assembled system.

EADS DEUTSCHLAND - CORPORATE RESEARCH CENTER, GmbH - (Germany)

Main business activity: Research centre of aerospace industry. Developer of aircraft subsystems. EADS will develop infrared, optical-light-barrier and electrical sensors, co-ordinating the sensor development WP. The research and development work on the online monitoring systems will be carried out by the Microsystems & Electronics department or the EADS Corporate Research Centre. Sensor development activities are further supported by an electronics workshop and several sensor validation laboratories including laboratories for testing chemical (gas and liquid property) sensors.

LUFTHANSA TECHNIK BUDAPEST Kft. - (Hungary)

Main business activity: Aircraft maintenance and repair. Overhauls. Lufthansa Technik Budapest will provide its insight, experience and market knowledge into project, ensuring coherence with maintenance protocols and practices. LT will develop a new maintenance concept incorporating the deliverables of Superskysense. More specifically, LT will test the developed sensor block on site investigating the precise optimisation in maintenance obtained.

LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY - (United Kingdom)

Main business activity: Education and research.University of Loughborough (UoL) will select, test and optimise materials employed in water adsorption technologies, including alumina, silica gel and zeolites. UoL brings into the project facilities for separation processes research, including for research into conventional solid/liquid separation technologies, adsorptive processes, membrane technology, novel separation techniques and aerosol separations.

INSTYTUT LOTNICTWA - (Poland)

Main business activity: Design and development centre for Polish Aviation Industry. The Institute will perform environmental tests, more specifically vibration tests on the sensor block. In addition to mechanical tests, the institute will put its expertise in designing capacitative fuel gauging systems into the development of a capacitance based sensor to monitor the quality status of hydraulic fluid.

COMPAÑÍA ESPAÑOLA DE SISTEMAS AERONÁUTICOS, S.A. (CESA) - (Spain)

Main business activity: Design and manufacture of hydraulic system components. CESA will be responsible for reservoir-system integration and will supervise the mechanical testing of the system's performance tests. Additionally it will lead exploitation related activities and perform market-watch and market oriented activities.

SOFRANCE - (France)

Main business activity: Aeronautical Filtration Systems. Sofrance provides expertise in hydraulic fluid filtration, particularly in aeronautic applications and co-ordinates the fluid regeneration part of the project. The company will focus on free water separation technologies and re-conditioning system integration and characterization.

UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID - (Spain)

Main Business activity: Education and Research. Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) will develop and test a range of luminescent sensors for measuring moisture, dissolved oxygen, chlorine and acidity in hydraulic fluids. This task involves molecular engineering and characterisation of suitable luminescent dyes, and characterisation of their properties and behaviour once attached to the supports.

GIE EADS CCR - (France)

Main Business activity: Research in materials, manufacturing, structures and systems for aerospace applications. EADS CCR will collaborate in the definition of sensor specifications with regard to the properties which needed to follow fluid durability. Its main role in the project is providing expertise in the analysis and behaviour of hydraulic fluids, taking care of the comparison of sensor response with conventional chemical analysis. Additionally, EADS-CCR will provide expertise into the regeneration part of the project and will perform analytical work into the identification of the kinetics of solubility of the water in the hydraulic fluids.

FUNDACION INASMET - (Spain)

Main business activity: Material research, prototyping, Product Engineering and industrial process improvement. INASMET will contribute to system specifications and has a vital role in developing and modifying polymeric supports for sensor development, working in close collaboration with other sensor partners. Additionally INASMET will work in the mechanical design and lead the manufacture of the test sub-systems prior to their testing.

CENTRE DE TRANSFERT DE TECHNOLOGIES CERAMIQUES - (France)

Main business activity: Development of technologies employing ceramic materials. The role of CTTC in this project is to develop technologies to use materials recommended by the UoL for water absorption and to manufacture samples to be tested by Sofrance. CTTC will propose different ceramic process-based solutions to elaborate material samples. CTTC will also characterise the material's properties.

GROUPE D'ETUDES EN PROCEDES DE SEPARATION - (France)

Main business activity: Membrane Technology. The essential role of GEPS is the investigation and implementation of the filtration-based water removal technologies. GEPS brings into the project expertise in membrane filtration and their unique equipment, the bi-liquid porometer.

Madrid, 10th November 06
Project SuperSkySense, for the development of system enabling Smart Maintenance Aviation Hydraulic Fluid Using an On-board Monitoring and Reconditioning System