Monitoring & metering
SENSMET WINS €2.5M AWARD FROM THE EIC ACCELERATOR FUND
Sensmet, the Finnish developer of a unique water quality monitoring technology, has been awarded a €2.5m grant in the latest round of the EIC Accelerator. The EIC award is recognised as a mark of excellence, and builds on a recently announced additional investment of €1.5m.
ABB FLOWMETERS TO SUPPORT DIGITALISATION AT A PETROCHEMICAL COMPLEX
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BB has won an order from Zhejiang Petroleum
& Chemical to deliver ProcessMaster FEP600 electromagnetic flowmeters with Ethernet-APL (Advanced
he European Innovation Council (EIC) is the European Union’s flagship innovation programme designed to identify, develop, and scale up breakthrough technologies and game-changing innovations. Established under the EU Horizon Europe programme with a budget of over €10 billion (2021–2027), EIC supports researchers and startups that enhance green and digital transition. Sensmet’s technology directly aligns with the objectives of the EU’s Critical Raw Materials Act, and has received funding from the EIC under grant agreement No. 101298437. Sensmet signed the EIC grant Agreement on 29 May 2026. Founded in 2017, Sensmet has developed and commercialised technology for the continuous, real-time multi-metal analysis of aqueous samples. Employing patented Micro-Discharge Optical Emission Spectroscopy (µDOES), Sensmet products are particularly well suited for strategic materials production and recycling, including battery metals and rare earth elements (REEs). They are also ideal for high-value, ultra-sensitive applications such as monitoring residual palladium after catalytic processes.
Commenting on the award, Sensmet CEO Dr Toni Laurila says: “The EIC Accelerator is one
of the most competitive deep-tech SME funding instruments in Europe, so this award represents powerful third-party validation of both our technology and our commercial roadmap. More specifically, this award will primarily be used to advance µDOES, further improving its capability to enable customers to perform high-precision measurements directly at the point of value creation, where real-time chemical intelligence has the highest impact.”
Explaining the scale-up potential of µDOES technology, Dr Laurila says: “There are two clear factors underpinning the enormous potential that this represents. First, continuous multi-metal analysis offers substantial process, financial and environmental benefits in critical processes. Metals such as lithium, cobalt and nickel for example, are essential for batteries, renewable energy systems, and advanced manufacturing.
“Second, the traditional approach to metal measurements in liquid processes has involved sampling for laboratory analysis, which incurs delays and causes inefficiency. Continuous measurements with µDOES completely resolves these issues.”
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Physical Layer) connectivity for an upgrade at a large refining and petrochemical complex in China. The facility, located in the Zhoushan Green Petrochemical Base on Yushan Island, has a total refining capacity of 40 million tons per year. ABB’s ProcessMaster flowmeters will be deployed in a chemical production facility within the complex. The facility has an annual production capacity of 450,000 tons of adipic acid, a key raw material used in the production of nylon 66, specialty engineering plastics, and polyurethane. The Ethernet-APL instrumentation will enable high-speed, real-time data transmission across the facility, supporting efficient and reliable plant operations. The flowmeters will monitor the flow of high- temperature, corrosive acidic fluids in the plant, and are designed for a wide range of pipe sizes, ranging from DN 15mm to DN 300mm. A single two-wire cable provides power and high-speed Ethernet-APL communication, enabling the highest level of safety protection (Ex ia), and reliable data transmission over distances of up to 1,000m.
ABB uses PFA lining technology to protect the flowmeters and ensure measurement accuracy and equipment longevity.
The order builds on ABB’s previous delivery of Ethernet-APL VortexMaster & SwirlMaster flowmeters to Zhejiang and Rongsheng Petrochemical, both part of Rongsheng Group, a Fortune Global 500 company. The FEP600 series of electromagnetic flowmeters are widely used in the petrochemical and chemical industries worldwide.
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