This session brings together a selection of Innovations that have been exploited through licensing agreements, industry validation, joint development agreements with industry partners or through the creation of a spin-off company. The aim is to give you an overview on our different approach to research valorisation: a team work that involves different palyers and different expertises.
Carbon black, mainly used in the rubber industry, is widely used also as a pigment: patins and inks. However, in order to prepare stable dispersions in different matrices, it needs functional groups. The functionalization based on the NanoCarbon-Up technology allows the preparation of stable dispersions of carbon black (and of other carbon allotropes), in water and environmentally friendly solvents, for the preparation of materials with intimate and stable interaction between allotropes and polymer matrices, without altering the structure and properties of allotropes. This…
Multipurpose unit is a multi-function tent for emergencies. It consists of a modular textile structure with vertical walls. The main components are a supporting metal structure to which it is hung from inside the textile compartment and from the outside it is integrated an additional textile shading layer. The concept is based on the idea of developing a multi-use joint, designed to allow the creation of various possible architectures. In this way, the multipurpose unit, in addition to being lighter…
Green Valve is an innovative regulation valve designed by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering for the regulation of water flow and the dissipated energy recovery. The energy dissipation has always been a problem for the water networks and central thermo-heating for which it is calculated an average energy loss amounts to 4.6 to 8 MWh / month, or, in other words, the equivalent of the average energy consumption of 20-40 families of 4 people. Recover this energy would…
SBCEgame is a management game funded by the European LeamPPD project, that aims to raise awareness of the design template Set-Based Concurrent Engineering (SBCE), Lean approach ( “lean”) introduced by Toyota. The ESCB approach, which has enabled Toyota to raise its competitiveness in the car market, can be applied to all operational processes (not just those strictly industrial but also logistical, administrative, or product design and development). The aims of such approach are to reduce waste and optimize resources. The…
The numerical code named GASDYN has been developed since 1996 at the Department of Energy of Politecnico di Milano. It is based on simulation programs for internal combustion engines. The model allows a 1D (one-dimensional) simulation of unsteady reacting flows in the intake and exhaust systems of internal combustion engines, both Otto and Diesel cycle, naturally aspirated or turbocharged, including the after-treatment systems and silencers. From 1996 to 2014 the GASDYN code has been continuously developed and integrated with innovative…
The PCNL-BOZ is a training device that allows surgeons and medical students to practice hands-on simulation for targeting, crushing and removing kidney stones through the Percutaneous Nephrolithotripsy Surgery (PCNL). The Training model has been developed and patented by a Group of Bioengineers from the Department of Electronic, Information and Bioengineering (DEIB) of Politecnico di Milano in collaboration with a world-renowned urologist and medical consultant from the department of Urology Humanitas Mater Domini. The device faithfully reproduces the anatomical portion of…
The invention consists in a non-invasive technique for measuring the intensity of light radiation in an optical medium, without in any noise of the propagating optical field. The presence of light is detected locally in a quantitative way by two electrodes placed at a suitable distance from the optical medium, able to measure the electric impedance variation. The technique does not introduce any additional absorption, neither any disturbance of the optical signal phase. It has been successfully used in highly…