Research Projects
1.AASTMT Different Departments- Projects
Pr1.COMPOSTING THE ORGANIC WASTES INTO AN ORGANIC FERTILIZERS USING THE EARTHWORM EISENIA FETIDA (RED WIGGLER)
October 2021 -September 2022
Recycling the organic waste is considered as a great problem allover the world and especially in the Arab countries which have an increase rate of population and development. Most of these organic wastes are dumped in landfills and a very few are buried in specially designed underground places. The decomposing of such organic wastes leads to the production of greenhouse gases as CO2 and methane. Also, it causes many problems to the underground water. The current project aims to the building a sustainable composting unit for the disposal of the organic wastes using the earthworm which will feed on them. After digesting the worms for these organic wastes, it produced a cast called vermicompost which is very rich in organic nutrients as well as growth hormones which will be very useful for plant growth. Moreover, the production rate of these worms is very high and also its protein content reach 70%. So, the dried worm meal can be used as a supplementary feed for fish and poultry. This in turn will decrease the fish and poultry production coast and hence decrease the overall prices of such important human food. So the current project is trying to solve the problem of organic wastes in cities and also converting them to a valuable and important product. Moreover, such techniques will decrease the overall emission of greenhouse gases.
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Pr2.DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A MOBILE VENTILATOR
October 2021 - September 2022
One of the most serious problems that faced hospitals all over the world including Egypt since the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus, is the shortage of ventilators which occurred due to the acute increase in number of patients who needs the assist of ventilators to breath. Our objective presented in this proposal is to design and implement a mobile ventilator prototype that will allow the manufacturing of a reduced price ventilator to be used in AASTMT clinics and in public hospitals. The technology transfer here could offer a local ventilator that might be in the future an alternative to imported expensive ventilators that have prices ranging from 300,000 to 350,000 EGP. Following the main design concepts published in April 2020 by Medtronic ventilator model PB 560, we are going to build a prototype of a mobile turbine ventilator with a battery. The ventilator will support the most important invasive and non-invasive ventilation modes commonly used in commercial ventilators. We will design and implement our own software, an embedded system board that control all ventilator pneumatic and electronic parts, in addition to a user friendly GUI touch screen with menus and charts to control and monitor all parameters. 3D printing technology as a fast response solution to print all possible connectors and spare parts as well as the outer case of the ventilator. The whole design and manufacturing stages will be held in the Industry Service Complex inside the AASTMT Campus. Further tests and validation will be held by clinicians in order to obtain reviews and make modifications.
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Pr3.TRACE & TRUST HUBS FOR MED FOOD
April 2020 - April 2023
MED Food TTHubs is a PRIMA project that seeks to support the implementation of full-path tracing practices through the whole distribution channel from seed to shelf in order to achieve safer and more sustainable Mediterranean food products. Aiming to implement full transparency concerning the traceability and authenticity in the food supply sector, MED Food TTHubs taps into cutting edge technologies and &ldquoInternet of Things&rdquo (IoT) solutions and builds on standardised approaches to food production processes and location identification, transparent monitoring procedures and innovative business partnerships. Therefore, MED Food TTHubs establishes and operates seven pilot Trace & Trust Hubs forming a transnational network playing the role of a one-stop-shop for traceability and authenticity for &ldquoadded value&rdquo Mediterranean food products. The Med Food TTHubs consortium consists of 10 partners from Greece (Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), University of Patras (UoP) and Green Project SA (GP)), Portugal (INOV INESC Inovação), Spain (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)), Italy (TECNOALIMENTI S.C.p.A (TCA) and Engineering (ENG)), Egypt (Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT)), Tunisia (Higher School of Engineers of Medjez El Bab (ESIM)) and Jordan (Jordan University of Science & Technology (JUST)), covering a wide range of expertise.
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Pr4.APPLICATION OF RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES FOR GREEN PORTS: EGYPTIAN PORTS AS A CASE STUDY
October 2021-September 2022
Sea Ports/harbours are regularly situated close to urban communities/local locations and are contrarily influencing the climate and environment, as far as air and water quality, noise, and emissions. To meet administrative prerequisites for air quality and the foundation of low emissions zones inside urban communities progressively necessitates that emissions for modern portable applications should be tended to. The environmental impressions from ports that are near urban places are high not just due to for the presence of shipping with huge diesel engines, yet additionally because of the huge length of loading and discharging of goods from these ships. Emissions from terminal port tasks related with electric power are assessed to contribute roughly 10% of the all-out port greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while emissions caused by ships at berth typically accounts for up to 30%, with the excess dominant part of emissions brought about by to ships generators. Most of seaports rely upon the national electric network as a wellspring of power for the domestic and ships’ electric demands. Therefore, this project is supporting the organization of sustainable power sources for seaport to diminish fuel consumption, increment the energy efficiency and to improve port activity. This project examines the chance of shifting ports from depending on the national grid electricity to green power-based ports. With expanding focus around both nearby and worldwide emissions, zero emissions arrangements that have a capacity surpassing current sustainable power sources are required. For such applications, the suitability and viability of fuel cell technologies, solar panels and offshore wind turbine should be assessed. Considering this appraisal, the most encouraging arrangements ought to be created and approved in the field. The project targets evaluating prospective decreases of ships’ emission of GHG notwithstanding the expected economic impact in case of applying various renewable energy technologies for seaports. As a case study, this project researches the possibility of changing Egyptian Ports over to be an eco- friendly port with the emphasis on technical, logistic, and financial prerequisites.
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Pr5.Disinfection Gates
October 2020-September 2021
In 2020, as COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, in an attempt to limit its spread among people who frequented their jobs or various bodies and institutions.
The R&D department at Industry Service complex with the direct support of His Excellency the President of the Arab Academy designed and manufactured disinfection gates to carry out a partial disinfection process for people when they passed through it. 73 were manufactured for the Arab Academy, which distributed it to many Egyptian state institutions and branches of the Arab Academy in Egypt.
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Pr6.GREEN LAND GREEN SKILLS FOR A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
October 2020 - April 2023 The Mediterranean area suffers from extremely high rates of youth and female unemployment. To face this challenge, GREENLAND promotes social inclusion and fight against poverty by providing unskilled and underprivileged young people with marketable skills in the Green and Circular Economy, with the potential to generate thousands of jobs, To reach its objective, the project will create new curricula based on market needs, skills transfer to NEETs and women, media-based training tools, and cultural exchanges among young people.
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Pr7.HIGH LEVEL RENEWABLE AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY MASTER COURSES
November 2017 - October 2021 HEBA is a three years project started on October 15, 2017, and funded by the European Union through Erasmus+ programme. The project aims to reform and improve existing master programs in Energy Efficiency (EE) and Renewable Energy (RE) on single technology and energy systems level, improving existing or establishing Centers/Laboratories of EE+RE in Jordan, Lebanon, and Egypt. The consortium will help the society to protect the earth. It will help in providing qualified professional resources capable of sustaining and managing the huge effort of EE+RE infrastructure development. Special emphasis will be given to advanced energy management. HEBA will be oriented to further development of the process of interaction with professional communities and reflects their requirements in the developed curriculum. The EU experience is a major component in the success of the HEBA project. The courses/modules and adapted curricula within HEBA project should be based on the needs and challenges of the building/industry/energy sectors.
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Pr8.INTEGRATION OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS INUNIVERSITIES FOR BETTER CLIMATE CHANGE MANAGEMENT"INVOLVE"
Jan 2021 - Jan 2024 To strengthen the role of the Egyptian Universities in the achievement of the environmental Sustainable Development Goals – or “SDGs†– through enhancing their organizational governance capacities, creating current and future SDGs implementers, and upgrading their operational facilities necessary to the implementation of innovative practices for the achievement of the environmental SDGs.
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Pr9.River Transport Authority
2020 - 2021 Building training kits for the Egyptian Transport Authority (RTA) for training laboratories. The project divided into 3 phases for most mechanical equipment used in river vessels. The training kits were made using real equipment after making necessary modification like cross sections for training purposes.
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Pr10.SMART AUTONOMOUS IOT AGRICULTURAL MONITORING SYSTEM
September 2019 - September 2020 This project involves implementing the latest sensing and IoT technologies and machine to machine communications in agriculture practices. Currently, seamless integration of wireless sensors and the IoT in smart agriculture can raise agriculture to levels which were previously unimaginable. CISCO, provides a cloud-based software platform for the IoT in Agri-business, which is rapidly embracing IoT services to capitalize on automation, real-time visibility and remote diagnostics to achieve smart agriculture. Products like Topcon, Motech, Observant and Semios are the best examples that bring the power of communications, sensor technology and cloud computing to the agriculture industry to enhance productivity and efficiency. MICROSOFT has begun investing in smart agriculture. The company launched a 5-year, $50-million initiative in 2018 called "Artificial intelligence for Earth" FarmBeats is their main project. Google (OpenAgTM) has suggested a vision for the future of crops and agriculture. IBM leverages its experience, data and IoT Artificial intelligence services to help the farmers make better decisions throughout the crop stages. This new innovate agriculture platform utilizes IBM‘s most advanced facilities and capabilities in AI, IoT, and cloud computing. INTEL (Infiswift) is an IoT platform based on high performance agriculture solutions. DELL has started to introduce agricultural robots and machines equipped with the latest machine learning and AI capabilities. Qualcomm has been one of the leading wireless tech players, considers AgTech to be one of the major investment areas for future projects.
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Pr11. THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY DURING PHOTOTHERMAL RENEWABLE THEORY WITH ELECTRON-HOLES EXCITATION OF SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIAL
October 2021 -September 2022 In this project, a novel mathematical model of photo-thermoelectricity theory will be constructed. The governing equations are taken when the semiconductor material is homogenous, and has isotropic properties. The interaction between the electrons and holes inside the medium during The photo-thermoelectricity theory is taken into account. The microelement processes with the coupling between electrons-holes inside the medium is taken into consideration. The two dimensional deformation for governing equations is taken to discuss the main model in dimensionless. Some mathematical techniques is used to remove one space-time variable in the physical domain. To obtain the main physical quantities in the time domain, the ramp type heating is used at the free surface. Other mechanical-elastic-plasma conditions at the boundary is used with some numerical technique. The numerical results will be represented graphically to discuss the behavior of the plasma, thermal, elastic and mechanical waves through the semiconductor elastic material.
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Pr12.YOUTH EMPLOYMENT IN PORTS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
Start September 2020 - End 2023 Within the specific thematic objective A.3, special attention is given to women and youth, particularly those belonging to the NEETS category. The YEP MED project is focusing exclusively on those two disadvantaged groups and will provide training and jobs to 4650 and 420 people respectively. An important point will be also to fight against the bias of gender in the ports’ ecosystem, which, like in other educational fields, makes gender a very determining factor when choosing a professional training itinerary. -YEP MED will carefully incentivize the participation of women in apprenticeship stages particularly in companies that received a subgrant from the project. Selection of companies will be done through public calls where gender equality will be considered a main requirement. Trainers will be trained in cross-cutting issues such as gender equality and environment protection and will be asked not only to monitor women attendance but also about job conditions and salary perceived.
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