Details of Grant

EPSRC Reference:

GR/S72351/01

Title:

Grid Based Information Models to Support the Rapid Innovation of High Value Added Chemicals (GOLD)

Principal Investigator:

Other Investigators:

Smith, Mr R	Ryan, Professor PYA	Martin, Professor EB
Watson, Professor P	Dunning- Lewis, Dr P	Morris, Professor AJ
Shrivastava, Professor S

Researcher Co-Investigators:

Mr R Smith

Project Partners:

Britest Limited	Chemical Industries Association Ltd	Faraday: INSIGHT (Chemical throughput)
Foresight Centre for Process Analytics	One North East Centre for	Unisys Ltd

Department:

Chemical Engineering & Advanced Material

Organisation:

Newcastle University

Scheme:

Standard Research (Pre-FEC)

Starts:

01 February 2004

Ends:

31 January 2008

Value (£):

2,093,725

EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:

Artificial Intelligence	Design of Process systems
Manufact. Enterprise Ops& Mgmt	Networks & Distributed Systems

EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:

Chemicals

Related Grants:

Panel History:

Summary on Grant Application Form

This project will build on existing Grid technologies to provide an infrastructure capable of supporting full lifecycle processes in extremely dynamic Virtual Organisations, with an emphasis on dramatically reducing time to market of chemical processes.Chemical manufacturers focus on new product development as a means of growth, with time to market as the key driver. Analysts state that more structured mechanisms for managing the innovation process must emerge if companies are to extract maximum profitability. Innovation must be placed in a context broader than traditional chemical R&D. New ways of working exploiting dynamic virtual organisational structures are needed. The Virtual Organisations comprising the chemical industry are highly dynamic and solutions requiring significant infrastructural overhead are impractical. R&D processes spanning the entire lifecycle of some chemical product are similarly dynamic and complex.This project provides key Grid middleware components that will allow the creation and management of extremely dynamic Virtual Organisations comprising the full chemical R&D lifecyle. This will include facilities for: Trust Management, Workflow, Information Distribution, Centralised Access Control and management facilities. The project has the potential to provide a major advance in business decision-making via a step change in the way high value chemical products are conceived, developed and taken to market.

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