Unlock Innovation: Browse JOULIA’s Deliverables
Please note the following publications are still subject to the European Commission’s approval
The project Handbook is the central document describing major aspects of the governance structure and the project management process. It is intended to provide guidance and direction for specific management, planning, and control activities such as scheduling, reporting, communication, and quality, among others.
The focus of this document is to describe the governance structure and the approaches being taken in the project to communicate among consortium members, control the quality of project deliverables, and provide links to other important procedures in Grant Agreement and/or Consortium Agreement.
This deliverable establishes a project management plan in order to have a smooth operation of the project activities. The project management plan is a living document and will be updated after each reporting period. Its purpose is to increase the probability that the project will be completed on-time, within budget and with a high degree of quality. In addition, it ensures the common understanding of what was agreed upon. The audience of the Project Management Plan consists of members of the JOULIA consortium and the Project Officer on the controlling and grating side.
The present Project Management Plan (PMP) will evolve as the project progresses. At any time, the PMP will reflect the current state of the consortium’s agreements regarding time schedule per task and subtask, responsible partners, dependencies on other tasks and results. The PMP will be updated regularly throughout the project in such a way that the full plan is always available. This deliverable complements the Grant Agreement and Consortium Agreement of JOULIA project and will be used in conjunction with them.
This deliverable establishes a comprehensive KPI-based framework to evaluate innovative induction and microwave heating technologies across technical, environmental, economic, and social dimensions. It is applied to two industrial demonstrators at ARTIGO (rubber vulcanisation, Italy) and K-FLEX (multilayer pipe gluing, Poland), comparing upgraded systems with conventional heating. The work defines relevant KPIs, identifies the key process-driven parameters required for their calculation, and specifies the necessary monitoring equipment. Overall, it provides a robust basis for quantifying performance improvements, CO₂ reductions, and working-condition benefits, while supporting scalability and wider industrial adoption.
The electrification of industrial activities based on induction and microwave heating systems can play a crucial role in the energy transition across various industrial applications, offering higher thermal efficiency, precise process control, faster heating rates, and improved product quality across multiple industrial sectors.
This deliverable examines the key challenges and needs of stakeholders for adopting induction and microwave heating technologies. Based on interviews with industries, operators, and energy suppliers, it identifies barriers including technology integration, grid limitations, high costs, regulatory gaps, and workforce skills. The report recommends scalable technologies, targeted training, and coordinated policy support to enable industrial electrification. Its findings will guide reskilling, safety requirements, and communication strategies across the JOULIA project.
The JOULIA project has successfully concluded a major milestone with the finalization of the impact assessment framework, formalized in Deliverable 7.3 (D7.3). This milestone marks the completion of the preparatory work required to evaluate the overall valorisation of the project’s new integrated technologies, induction and microwave heating systems, across two industrial demonstration sites.
Key Achievements Detailed in D7.3:
• VERIFY Platform Expansion: The in-house Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Life Cycle Costing (LCC) platform, VERIFY, developed by CERTH, was successfully extended and modified to address the specific needs of industrial electrified heating processes.
• Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) Development: Comprehensive LCI databases were developed for each integrated technology. Data was collaboratively gathered and evaluated, with CIRCE and SIMIC detailing the induction heating system, and CEI and KTH mapping the microwave heating system.
• Complete Scenario Mapping: The successful retrieval of outstanding financial parameters, including capital expenditure (CAPEX) and annual maintenance costs from the technology providers, allowed for the seamless ingestion of the static LCI libraries into the VERIFY platform. The baseline and upgraded electrified production scenarios for both the ARTIGO and K-FLEX demonstration sites are now completely mapped out within the system.
Next Steps:
With the LCI databases fully populated and core operational parameters established, D7.3 sets a robust, data-driven foundation. This framework enables the dynamic environmental and financial performance monitoring that will be executed during the project’s upcoming real-world demonstration phase.
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