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PROJECTS

TESTA+

More volume, same technology

  • Project code
    POCI-01-0247-FEDER-038356 / LISBOA-01-0247-FEDER-038356
  • Approval date
    18/12/2018
  • Start date
    03/12/2018
  • Conclusion date
    02/12/2020
  • Promotor
    ARALAB
  • Copromotors
    Itecons
  • Intervention region
    Região Lisboa e Região Centro
  • Total eligible amount
    486.460,77 €
  • Financial support from the European Union
    FEDER - 256.282,19 €
  • Funding

The TESTA+ project has as its main objective to test the applicability of the technology developed previously in the ClimTestE+ project, as a way to develop a climatic chamber with larger dimensions (1,500l), allowing to strengthen Aralab's position in the global market.

 

SCOPE

In order to keep up with the paradigm of the global industry, Aralab has developed, as part of the ClimTestE+ co-promotion R&D Project, a set of new technologies aimed at launching a new generation of climatic chambers. With this project, Aralab was able to achieve an optimised behaviour, namely in thermodynamic and energy efficiency terms, of its lower volume chamber (300 litres). Following the successful ClimTestE+ project, Aralab now intends with the TESTA+ project to transfer and demonstrate the technologies and the concept developed, to its larger reach-in chamber, intending to make available at the end of the project, to the national and international industrial testing sector, a 1500 litre fully functional demonstrator climatic chamber.

 

MAIN OBJECTIVES

  • The increase in operational and environmental efficiency (achieved in the ClimTestE+ project) – reduction of energy consumption between 24 to 75%, and reduction of sound level between 6.9 to 16.2 dB(A);
  • The increase in the ease of use of the climatic chamber (achieved in the ClimTestE+ project), with the integration of new communication systems that allow monitoring and control of approximately 90 parameters simultaneously, through IoT tools.
  • Industrially develop a prototype of the new range of test climatic chambers;
  • Technological and economic validation of the new range of climatic chambers for the Testing segment.

 

PROJECT ACTIVITIES AND EXPECTED RESULTS

  • Scale-up studies: design and development of the 1500 l demonstrator climatic chamber;
  • Modelling of physical phenomena: strengthening activities of design and engineering with R&D in the solution of specific physical challenges that arise during the scale-up of the climatic chamber size from 300 l to 1500 l.
  • Productive approach: materialisation of the work developed in the previous stages in the construction of a 1500 litre demonstrator prototype;
  • Experimental Validation: validate the technical solutions used for the manufacture of the demonstrator, based on the scale-up of a 300 l climate chamber – prototype of a previous co-promotion project;
  • Dissemination: wide dissemination of project results;
  • Demonstration: present the new range of climatic chambers, result of the project.