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project info
Start date: 1 September 2016
End date: 30 September 2020
funding
Fund: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Total budget: 603 518,57 €
EU contribution: 410 561,00 € (68,03%)
programme
Programming period: 2014-2021
Managing authority: Région Normandie

ERDF HN0005660 — UNIVERSITE LE HAVRE NORMANDIE — AMED INVEST FONCT

Amed (Multidisciplinary Analysis of Domino Effects) is a regionally structuring project that develops a prospective multidisciplinary approach in coherence with energy issues and future industrial developments in Normandy.The coupling of renewable electric energy (ENR) from wind turbines (off and on shore) with nuclear production and the various fossil sources (coal, gas, oil) is a complex group with very varied dynamics and constraints to which are added the many sources of production by cogeneration and other energy recovery.It appears that electricity cuts due to random phenomena (natural causes, accidents, loss of control...) can have cascading consequences on Norman industrial parks as well as on the transmission of electricity.The overall analysis of the operation of such a system in degraded mode, in non-operability or even in phases of resilience, is crucial. It is necessary to measure the impact of these events, especially on industrial parks and to study different scenarii causing the non-governability or loss of control of sensitive systems.With the help of a domino effects specialist Professor Valerio Cozzani (DICAM of Bologna [Italy] expertly recognised, more than 185 items in rank A, Hirsch index above 29), the AMED project was initiated. It concerns the study of domino effects in the context of mixed electricity supply (fossile and renewable). This theme emerged as a topic of interest especially by considering the vulnerability of regional industrial parks after the multiple incidents of July 2015, depriving more than 150,000 households of electricity and requiring the containment of 1000 Renault employees.To develop tools and methods, target processes have been chosen in relation to future industrial developments in Normandy.The first target concerns processes using biomass as raw materials. Indeed, the decline in fossil resources, environmental problems, global warming and the desire for independence from fossil or nuclear energy exporting countries are the various factors that promote the development of these processes.The second (linked to the first) is the chemical storage of electrical overproduction which in a context of decarbonisation of human activities is a promising path.

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