Disenco

Disenco’s 'HomePowerPlant' is a m-chp device designed to provide both heat and electricity to the home. An alternative to conventional boiler systems, the HomePowerPlant produces all of the heat, hot water and up to 50% of the electrical needs of a residential home or small business premises.

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.

CMR Fuel Cells

CMR Fuel Cells Limited is a UK developer of fuel cell stacks for portable and small stationary power generation applications.

The Compact Mixed-Reactant (CMR) fuel cell stack technology is for use in applications such as battery chargers, auxiliary power units, laptops, power tools, robotic devices, portable generators, and portable military applications. Assuming 50% electrical conversion efficiency for a CMR fuel cell system operating at low current density, 2 kWh of electricity are produced/kg methanol.

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.

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.

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.