Adelan

Adelan is a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) “spin out” company originating from the materials research developments from Birmingham and Keele Universities. Started in 1996, Adelan has progressively established itself as a leading fuel cell company in the UK, working with global partners.

Beck Mickle Hydro

Beck Mickle Hydro have redesigned the water wheel for the 21st century to provide renewable inexpensive electricity from even tiny streams without harming fish.

Catal International

Catal International, formed in 1994, has a compact hydrogen producing steam reformer with a variety of applications in industry, transport and energy generation.

Catal has developed to proof-of-concept stage a compact, hydrogen producing steam reformer operating on natural gas and liquid petroleum gas (LPG). Every litre of LPG produces a litre of reformate gas of around 70% hydrogen.

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.

Disenco

Disenco manufactures micro combined heat and power (m- CHP) systems for sale in the United Kingdom and in other European markets.

Disenco’s m-CHP unit is a home power system – an alternative to conventional boiler systems – which produces all of the heat, hot water and up to 50% of the electrical needs of a residential home or small business premises.

Environmental Building Partnership

The Environmental Building Partnership Ltd (EBP) is a new Clean Tech. company operating in the building construction sector, which specializes in low energy and modular building design and construction.

EBP’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.

EBP 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 EBP’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 EBP 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.

EBP won a £40,000 Shell Springboard Award in February 2007 in recognition of its energy saving technology.

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.

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.

MJB Products

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

OM Energy

OM Energy is a start-up company with an innovative platform technology allowing for the efficient production of hydrogen.

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.

Q Flo Energy

The company has recently introduced a method of continuous spinning of carbon nanotube fibres and films from the gas phase of a CVD furnace. Unlike previous carbon nanotube fabrication techniques, the nanotubes are sufficiently long and grow with sufficient local concentration such that they form an aerogel. The method described is of significant commercial importance and offers the most direct and potentially lowest cost route to a new generation of continuous high performance carbon nanotube fibres and films.

Synchropulse

Electric motors consume over 60% of the world’s electricity and account for over 10% of the world’s carbon emissions. A significant proportion of these motors are AC induction motors (around 90%), which are commonly chosen because of their low unit cost.

The problem is that AC induction motors often waste 80% or more of the electricity they consume, so annual operating costs can be significantly greater than the original unit cost. Attempts to address this issue have included the use of improved electronic control and DC motor technology, but these remain uneconomic.

Synchropulse’s solution was to develop a patented motor design which uniquely combines features from different motor types resulting in a commercially viable, high efficiency motor. When compared to existing induction motors the Synchropulse device requires much less energy (using just a quarter of the electricity of a conventional motor) and fewer raw materials to deliver the same performance. It also offers more affordable variable speed control, which can further aid energy savings during operation. The result is a motor that is competitive on price but that has superior performance and can reduce energy consumption (thus carbon emissions) by up to 87% with payback achievable within a year.

The UK motor and generator market alone is worth £2.6billion per year, the worldwide market is estimated at $100billion. Synchropulse have identified that the most appropriate applications are those where motors are required to run continuously (thus energy costs are significant) and efficiency saving would be the greatest. Examples of this include industrial refrigeration, heating, ventilation and air-conditioning.

In 2007 Synchropulse won both a £40,000 'Shell Springboard' award and the Rushlight 'Power Generation & Transmission' award, in recognition of its energy saving technology. In 2008 Synchropulse has been shortlisted for the Heating & Ventilation News 'Environmental Initiative of the Year' award.