| Activity: | Thermal Buffer Test - TBT |
| Descripción: | The experiment consists of the installation of two electric heaters in a single vertical shaft excavated in granite, and surrounded by a bentonite barrier, with the aim of checking the behaviour of that barrier at high temperatures. |
| Activity: | The Multidimensional City |
| Descripción: | The general objective of the project is to develop new technologies associated to the building and utilization of underground spaces to promote their utilization in urban environments. A total of 24 Spanish companies and entities participate in this project coordinated by DRAGADOS. The role of AITEMIN in this project is to cover various aspects related to the data transmission system, energy, fire safety and personnel training. |
| Activity: | Ventilation test in clayish formations - VE Experiment |
| Descripción: | To observe and analyse the desaturation-resaturation processes in clayish rock formations caused by gallery ventilation and their impact on its mechanical, hydraulic and thermal properties. The assay is performed in a 1.2 m micro tunnel at the Mont Terri underground rock laboratory (Switzerland). |
| Activity: | Digital voice and data radiofrequency transmission |
| Descripción: | Development of a digital voice and data transmission system used to control mobile machinery that integrates intercom systems using wireless technology and data transmission technology through low voltage power networks. Another objective is to integrate voice transmission in digital format in the field bus systems used in the mining industry, improving digitally their quality and inteligibility. |
| Activity: | Improvement of copper based data transmission systems in coa |
| Descripción: | Improvement in the efficiency of transmission systems on telephone lines in mines, increasing the data transmission speed in order to be able to carry integrated services (voice and data) on a single physical channe |
| Activity: | Backfill and Plug Test - BPT |
| Descripción: | Full scale test of different gallery backfill materials, compacted “in situ”, along with a gallery sealing plugat the Äspö underground laboratory (Sweden). |
| Activity: | Heating test in clay formations - HE Experiment |
| Descripción: | To analyse the response of a clay-type rock formation from the thermo-hydro-mechanical point of view, with regard to the thermal impact of a radioactive waste storage. |
| Activity: | Hydrogeological tests at the FEBEX project |
| Descripción: | Conducting, documentation and preliminary interpretation of the tests of a hydraulic characterisation campaign conducted in the FEBEX tunnel of the underground laboratory of Grimsel (Switzerland. |
| Activity: | Improvement of cooper based data transmission systems |
| Descripción: | Improvement of the capacity of the data transmision systems currently used in undergound mining so that advanced functions could be used with the same cabling. |
| Activity: | SOSYEM: Advanced control software for cogeneration plants |
| Descripción: | Development of an advanced control system for optimised management of small or medium size cogeneration plants. |
| Activity: | Venting of soils contaminated by light hydrocarbons |
| Descripción: | To investigate the factors affecting the conducting of pilot venting tests on soils contaminated by light hydrocarbons as well as the venting feasibility as a function of the characteristics of the soil and type of contaminant. |
| Activity: | Silk-screen printing system for textile products - MILLENIUM |
| Descripción: | Development of an automatic printing system for textiles permitting the use of water-based dyes, which are more innocuous than those based on PVC. Millenium CRAFT project. |
| Activity: | TOPIC- Technically Optimised Piling Concept |
| Descripción: | Development of a new system for the construction of piles with improvements in the quality of execution, environmental impact and in costs of the operation. |
| Activity: | Automatic selection of plastic bottles - RAINBOW |
| Descripción: | Automation of a recycling plant of plastic bottles by optical classification. CRAFT project "RAINBOW". |
| Activity: | Control of mobile equipment in underground mining |
| Descripción: | Development of a remote control system for mobile machines, applicable to coal shearers, with wireless transmission of data. |
| Activity: | Experiment for underground heating in the Meuse/Haute Marne |
| Descripción: | Study for the experiment of heating in the ANDRA´s underground laboratory in Meuse/Haute Marne (France) |
| Activity: | Fire detection system in the Bulnes underground funicular |
| Descripción: | Fire detection system in the Bulnes underground funicular |
| Activity: | Methane purging control in single entry areas |
| Descripción: | Automation of the slow purging of methane working in single entry areas. |
| Activity: | Sampling of diffusion in clay formations |
| Descripción: | Chambers for diffusion test and water sampling in clay formations (DI-B Experiment) |
| Activity: | Gas migration test in clay buffer (GMT) |
| Descripción: | Experiment to determine the permeability to gas of a filling material composed of sand and bentonite, in an underground store for low and medium activity radioactive waste. |
| Activity: | Ventilation dynamic control |
| Descripción: | Automatic system for dynamic control of ventilation to optimize it |
| Activity: | Automation of mesh cutting and welding |
| Descripción: | Development of a new automated machine for the cutting and electro-welding of iron bars for the construction of meshes for pre-fabricated concrete products. |
| Activity: | Alarm and Evacuation Systems |
| Descripción: | Regular development and technological up to date of the RELIA 2000 control system, in functions related to safety, from the point of view both of the carrying out of automatic emergency actions and of signing for personnel. The system is widely spread in the sector by the technological transference agreement with the company ADARO TECNOLOGÍA, S.A. |
| Activity: | Full scale engineered barriers experiment in crystalline host rock - NF-PRO / FEBEX / FEBEX-e |
| Descripción: | The FEBEX project entails the thermal simulation, at real scale, of the Spanich concept of repositories of geological storage of highly active radioactive wastes in a granite formation to demonstrate the viability of the design and validate and improve existing prediction models for thermal-hydro-mechanic processes characteristic of this type of deep rock storage. |
| Activity: | Measuring of drilling parameters in a rotative rig |
| Descripción: | Instrumentation of a rotative rig for the measurement and recording of drilling parameters (MWD-Measuring While Drilling), for the subsequent analysis of said information as an indirect way of characterising the materials drilled through. |
| Activity: | RELIA 2000 mining monitorins and control systems |
| Descripción: | The RELIA 2000 is a general purpose control system to be used in potentially explosive atmospheres developed by AITEMIN for the mining industry. The system has been broadly disseminated in the sector through the technology transfer agreement signed with ADARO TECNOLOGÍA, S.A. |
| Activity: | Training activities at the Barredo Foundation |
| Descripción: | AITEMIN cooperates with the Barredo Foundation in the organization and teaching of training courses in different topics associated to the mining activity: Electrification, ventilation, use of explosives, and cables inspection. |