Coated Conductor Cylinders

3-C’s has developed a unique platform technology based on High Temperature Superconductivity (HTS), which has the potential to radically change large high power electrical machines making them much smaller and lighter. This is possible as the current carrying capacity of superconducting films is vastly greater than that of copper wire used in large heavy windings for conventional motors, generators, transformers etc.

The technology is based on cylindrical modules with multilayer superconducting coils deposited using advanced manufacturing techniques inspired by the highly successful semiconductor industry, but aimed at high power electrical machines rather than electronic devices.

This disruptive technology would have a major impact on energy generation / distribution, transport, medical - science research (eg MRI), manufacturing and other global markets. In the energy and transport sectors there are profound implications for energy savings and reduced carbon emissions.

Energyflo Construction Technologies

The Energyflo Construction Technologies Ltd is a new Clean Tech. company operating in the building construction sector, which specializes in low energy and modular building design and construction.

Energyflo's primary aim is to deliver innovative, high performance products and services to the building construction industry that are affordable, and can be applied to all types of new and refurbishment building projects.

Energyflo has developed the Energyflo™ cell, a groundbreaking multi-functional dynamic insulation product that replaces conventional thermal insulation in the building envelope to substantially reduce space heating energy use, cut CO2 emissions and improve indoor air quality.

Combining Energyflo’s distributed through-the-wall ventilation systems with exhaust air heat recovery typically reduces HVAC plant cost by 10% and yields operational energy savings of up to 40% for space heating and cooling. In addition airborne particulate pollution from vehicle exhausts and other sources is filtered from the air as it flows through an Energyflo breathing wall panel resulting in a greatly improved living and working environment within the building.

Trials around Marylebone Road London (one of Europe's most polluted streets) confirmed the systems exceptional filtration ability - as effective as a conventional HEPA filter - but with the important distinction that breathing walls can be made to last the life of the building.

The Energyflo™ cell is undergoing final tests in full-scale building demonstration projects in the UK, UAE, and Korea in advance of its commercial launch in these and other world markets.

Inertius

Inertius Ltd has developed an inert anode technology that removes the production of CO2 from a number of metal winning processes including; Aluminium, Titanium, Stainless Steel, Chromate vi recovery, Rare Earth metals.

ITI Energy

ITI has developed a novel gasification system based on process intensification and miniaturisation technologies.

The ITI fixed-bed down-updraft type gasifier is designed to produce combustible gas of calorific value in the order of 4.1- 6.2MJ/m3 depending on the feedstock Calorific Value – approximately 1 MWe and 2 MWt/tonne of input per hour.

ITM Power

ITM Power is a leading technical innovator of fuel cell technologies for the hydrogen economy, making both hydrogen cells and electrolysers more efficient and cost effective.

ITM Power plc has patented new hydrophilic polymers for Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cells and electrolysers, which the company estimates are up to five times more conductive than conventional membranes. The company has completed a research programme to develop low cost fuel cells that can use a variety of fuels for bespoke applications and has developed a potentially low cost mass production process.

Ecowatts

Ecowatts has developed the Thermal Energy Cell (‘TEC’), the cell converts electricity to heat at efficiencies far in excess of that of a conventional electrical heater.

Eggxactly

James Seddon of Eggxactly was the winner of PowerGen's Energy Lab 2007/08 competition.

His novel egg cooker contains an electrical element that cooks eggs through direct contact heating and microprocessor control. The result being a convenient and quick egg cooker that saves a considerable amount of energy.

H2Renew

H2Renew is an early stage clean energy technology company with novel intellectual property related to the biological production of hydrogen from organic feedstocks. Funding from Advantage West Midlands and the Technology Transfer Fund of Birmingham Research and Development Limited has led to “proof of principle”. The next stage of business for H2Renew Ltd is to move to the pre-commercial or pilot plant stage.

Keld Energy

Keld Energy is a high growth technology development company founded to commercialise revolutionary process technology in the field of bio-energy developed in collaboration with the University of Manchester.

We have developed a novel highly efficient biomass fired co-generation process technology based upon gasification coupled with gas turbine technology. The technology is applicable to a variety of biomass fuels and markets. The first commercial application of the technology will be a combined heat and power (CHP) system for the poultry industry.

MCD Engines

A novel rotary engine concept that is simple, robust, low-cost and low-maintenance. This new concept provides a means of converting fuel energy, which could take a number of forms including conventional fuels, biofuels or hydrogen, directly into a torque output. The arrangement of the engine lends itself to microgeneration and pumping applications, particularly in regions where maintenance is difficult and only poor quality fuels are available.

MJB Products

Mel Blythe of MJB Products was the winner of the E.ON Powergen Energy Lab 2006/7 competition.

MJB’s “Bath Boulder” is an innovative device for conserving water and energy. It is designed to reduce the amount of water required to fill a bath to a predetermined level, thus reducing the energy needed to heat it.

Pulse Generation

Pulse Generation has developed an innovative design for water current turbines which can work in a variety of conditions to generate electricity, including tidal power devices which are uniquely able to operate in shallow water. Shallow flows represent some of the best located and most easily exploited tidal resource in the UK and worldwide.

The Pulse Generation system is based on pairs of vertically oscillating hydrofoils which operate through the full depth of water. Energy from the moving water drives two horizontal hydrofoils which resemble aeroplane wings. The vertical movement of the foils in the water turns a conventional generator above the water. The absence of a rotating turbine removes many of the restrictions to size that shallow locations impose on other technologies.

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This design gives Pulse a unique advantage over the competition in that its machines can use the full resource even in shallow water. Devices can be engineered for sheltered as opposed to true off-shore environments, thereby making considerable savings in installation and connection costs. However, this feature does not limit Pulse’s capability in deeper water as the modular design allows additional pairs of foils to be added to the supporting structure. This means that machines can be developed for any depth of water, by adding the appropriate number of foils. Machines can also be grouped together in linear arrays across a tidal flow. The installed capacity of each unit is 0.5 MW but clusters of machines will multi-MW generating capacity.

Synchropulse

Electric motors consume over 65% of the world's electricity, yet a large proportion of smaller motors are inefficient wasting much of the energy they consume (US Department of Energy estimates that some 500 million of these motors are only 20% efficient).

A new European Directive is introducing mandatory efficiencies for motors from 2011, increasing the pressure on manufacturers to find cost effective high efficiency technologies.

Synchropulse have the solution, their patented hybrid EC, brushless electric motors uniquely offer a high efficiency, variable speed motor, that is financially viable for general purpose applications. Find out more:

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January 2009 Synchropulse exited from the LIFE accelerator having successfully secured investment with LIFE's assistance.

SolarEmpower

SolarEmpower's Solar Photonic Optoelectronic Transformer (SPOT) technology has advantages over standard solar cell technology. With conversion of sunlight to useful energy improved from 15% up to a minimum of 75%, also reducing the required use of expensive solar cell material by a minimum of 70%.

Thermodynamic Nanotechnologies

TDNT intends to manufacture Thermodynamic Energy Conversion Devices based upon a novel concept.

It is intended that the technology will find applications in residential boiler, air-conditioning, refrigeration and engine sytems and will provide reliable, low-cost, more efficient and environmentally beneficial compact alternatives to currently available commercial systems.

Wind Dam

The Wind Dam Advanced Wind Turbine System is an augmented vertical axis wind engine and generator system, aimed at utilising the wasted wind resource in the urban environment, generating power where it is needed thereby cutting costs and avoiding grid infrastructure limitations.