Disire

The Disire project is projects in the EU venture Spire, which is part of the EU Horizon 2020 program. The overall project has been awarded 6 M Eur. Luleå University of Technology coordinates the project and is one of the project's 15 partners.

The project started 1 January 2015 and will run for three years. The Quality Technology group is engaged through Stefan Englund with supervision from Bjarne Bergquist and Erik Vanhatalo. The Disire project was inspired by the real and specific needs of the processing industry, i.e. a product that is continuously processed in different process steps but where the measurement of product characteristics cannot be performed on a defined product unit such as is piece-wise manufacturing. Instead, measurements need to be related to the product through the time and place it passed several measurement locations, and much guesswork goes into estimating the product's final properties from process measurements. Process control and traceability thereby becomes difficult. In the Disire project, we study about how sensor platforms dropped into the product streams can be used to improve control and traceability. The project therefore intends to create novel opportunities for the processing industry to directly studying product characteristics in-situ. The work of Quality Technology will focus on a continuation of Björn Kvarnström's work, ie, how can we improve traceability in the transport of iron ore pellets? RFID transponder experiments in the lab as well as pilot PCH full scale will help us answer this research question. We will also study the possibility of providing smart pellets with sensors such as accelerometers.

A video on the project is found here: External link.