Alternative/renewable Energy

Alternative/renewable Energy

Technology Listings
Slip Permanent Magnet Generator (S-PMG)
This novel generator does away with cumbersome gear boxes and electrical converters by relying on electrical machines to produce a direct drive system that is directly connected to the grid.
Electrical Water Heater
The innovation comprises of an electrical water heater monitoring system and method to detect and estimate usage events. These events may then be used to develop a usage profile for the specific user, which may be used to develop a customized heating schedule for the water heater.
Water Collection Trough System
A cost-effective, highly efficacious assembly for collecting and removing drops with minimal air-side pressure drops for use in evaporative heat exchangers or cooling towers. The innovation reduces water consumption and required fan power.
Value added chemicals from Lignin
This invention describes a process for the depolymerization of lignin under mild oxidizing conditions, which does not produce highly acidic or basic waste-streams and is particularly useful for making aromatic aldehydes such as vanillin and syringaldehyde.
Faster and more frequent calibration of large heliostat fields in tower CSP/CST systems using UAVs
This technology uses Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to calibrate heliostats used in large Concentrating Solar Power/Thermal (CSP/CST) tower system fields faster than traditional methods allow. Faster and more frequent calibration results in improved system efficiency and could result in CAPEX savings associated with the heliostats.
Paper sludge to value product through using a new contaminant sensitive bioprocesses technology
Biofuel technologies make use of readily available and low-cost feedstocks to produce high-value and high-energy molecules. These feedstocks generally originates from unclean sources which result in microbial contamination - the leading cause of failure in biofuel production processes.
System and process for the desulphurization of pyrolysis feedstocks.
The pyrolysis process is commonly used to produce fuel oil products and char. Common problems with the oil products have been identified to be large boiling point ranges and high sulphur content.
 
Splash grid for rain or spray zones
A splash grid for rain or spray zones in cooling towers that results in drop size reduction thus enhancing the heat and mass transfer performance characteristics.