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Carbon Trust - TTP Incubator has to date
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 4Energy |
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4Energy sells products to control the thermal management of key electrical and electronic equipment in a number of sectors, including the power and telecommunications industries.
Its technology provides cooling in a highly energy-efficient way without the need for air-conditioning. |
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Infinitum Multimedia |
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AdInfa’s energy monitoring, analysis, and reporting solutions enable its customers to optimise energy efficiencies in their data centres by making sense of energy and carbon data so that they can cut running costs, reduce carbon emissions and identify spare capacity. AdInfa’s products use a unique approach to monitoring, reporting and automation, delivering rapid ROI to its customers. |
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| Aeristech |
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Aeristech’s proprietary electric turbocharger technology reduces
CO2 emissions and fuel consumption of engines. It works by introducing a fully electric link between the exhaust recovery side and air compression side of a turbocharger, thus creating a hybrid electric turbocharger. It improves engine efficiency while offering robust transient performance, thereby making it an enabling technology for engine downsizing.
This technology applies to several industries, including automotive, marine, aviation, and some fixed power generation requirements.
Aeristech's business model is to license intellectual property and to offer consulting expertise in support of their proprietary technology. |
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| Affresol |
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Affresol Ltd has developed an innovative new process that produces a product called Reszinite™. Reszinite™ is used to manufacture low cost and social housing.
The process uses mixed plastic waste products and waste plasterboard which have been diverted from landfill. Each house uses approximately 20 tonnes of waste.
The waste products are processed and then mixed with a resin and a polymer that together create an exothermic reaction which then produces a mouldable liquid compound material similar to concrete.
The mouldable compound
(Reszinite™) will set in 24 hours and has intrinsic attributes that make the product stronger than “high strength” concrete, the product has excellent thermal insulation characteristics; it is water proof; it is fire retardant; and it does not rot.
Affresol will manufacture and sell Sustainable “low cost” and “social” housing made from this material. Indications are that an Affresol house can be up to 25% cheaper than a comparable traditional “low cost” house.
The designs for the houses are based around the traditional Column and “ring” Beam system with moulded infill panels within each of the sections. Each house is made up of 40 pre cast sections. Over 60% of the superstructure materials are made from the moulded product. A single 3 bedroom unit of 1000sq ft can be erected in 4 days. The subsequent fitting out process can be completed and ready for occupation within a further 2 to 3 weeks.
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| AMT |
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AM Technology was formed in 2000 to design and develop chemical process equipment used in the production of pharmaceutical and fine chemical
products. The company has a focus on IP and a strong portfolio of global patents for batch and continuous reactors.
The principle new products developed by AM Technology are the
Coflux® batch reactor and Coflore™, a range of flow chemistry reactors (winner of a
2008 Rushlight environmental award).
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| Applied
Multilayers |
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Applied Multilayers supplies world leading technology for depositing high quality multilayer thin film coatings.
The company offers a range of coating system platforms together with turn-key processes for applications such as anti-reflection, infra-red and electrochromic coatings.
The process technology is simple, scaleable and significantly less expensive; it is even applicable to sensitive polymer substrates. The company is now focusing on the optimization of processes for thin film CdTe photovoltaics where its sputtering technology has a significant low cost advantage.
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| Axon
Automotive |
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Axon
Automotive is one of Europe's newest car
companies and takes a distinctive approach to
the clean tech challenge in the auto
sector. Good aerodynamics, light weight
(arising from Axon's patented carbon fibre
chassis technology) and very fuel efficient
engines mean that Axon forecasts 100mpg fuel
economy and low CO2
for its
cars. Another unique commercial attribute
is that the capital investment to produce a
carbon chassis is over 100 times cheaper than
for a steel equivalent; this enables market
entry and profitability at significantly lower
volumes than steel and aluminium
competitors.
To
find out more about our relationship with Axon
Automotive please click here
to download a relevant press release.
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| Biomass
CHP |
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Biomass CHP Ltd’s combined heat and power generation process is based on the gasification of wood to produce energy in an environmentally friendly manner with very low emissions. The process is optimised for plants to generate electricity in the output range 200kW to 400kW with the same output level of heat, ideally suited to small factories; housing developments and leisure
centres, and to sites with waste wood to dispose of. |
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| Cryox |
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Cryox was formed to exploit the expertise in cryogenics held in the STFC Research Council Laboratories like Rutherford Appleton. Cryox designs and manufacturers cryocoolers and cryogenic systems targeting the power electronics sector, particularly superconducting generators for wind turbines, fault current limiters and superconducting power cables.
High Temperature Superconductors offer significant efficiency improvements and 3-4 X reductions in the size and weight of large wind turbine generators, reducing the cost of offshore wind power production by an expected 25%. For this technology to be viable in the offshore environment rugged forms of cryogenic equipment, must be developed. The experience STFC has in the design and manufacture of space based cryogenic systems has given Cryox a unique understanding of these requirements and the design solutions which support them. |
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| Enerfast |
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Enerfast’s new bolting system, ThermoNut, seals high temperature joints in oil refineries and chemical processing plants which are a major source of greenhouse gas emissions into the environment. ThermoNut controls these joints up to temperatures of 550˚C, providing an instant and easily implemented way of protecting the environment. |
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| Evince
Technology |
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Evince
Technology is developing
a breakthrough semiconductor technology targeted
to revolutionise the high power and high
frequency electronics industry,
by providing a new non-silicon solid state
switch. |
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| GenDrive |
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GenDrive Limited is developing a novel inverter product in the 6kW-50kW sector, which improves the way raw electrical energy is taken from renewable energy sources and converted into mains quality electricity for use in commercial buildings, or exported to the
grid. The patented inverter could unlock market growth in turbine-driven generation such as wind, marine and biomass, as well as grid-connected static systems such as solar photo-voltaic and fuel cells. |
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| Gnodal |
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Gnodal is a systems company developing the largest, fastest, most efficient Ethernet switches in the world. The trend towards virtualization, cloud and high performance computing (HPC), is putting extreme stresses on data center networks in terms of scalability, performance, cost and power consumption. Current solutions are not able to effectively scale beyond a few hundred ports, suffering from poor network performance, high power budgets and rising cost of ownership. By providing a family of switches which offer seamless scalability, Gnodal solves these problems and enables the construction of a new generation of Ethernet networks.
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| IRT
Surveys |
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IRT is a pioneering thermal imaging company and has successfully patented software that quantifies images for energy loss. The company has surveyed over 60,000 homes and numerous commercial buildings with its technology. It is expanding the business under license and partnering agreements and is launching a web enabled energy portal meaning anyone with a thermal camera can access their software and quantify their own images.
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| Juice
Technology Limited |
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Juice is a multi-award winning technology company delivering cost effective high performance solid state lighting solutions in partnership with large lighting OEMs. Using its broad range of unique patented technologies the company has developed a range of LED lighting fixtures which are currently being sold in North America and will shortly arrive in Europe.
Leading in cost, efficiency and performance, its solutions are driving the rapidly growing uptake of LED lighting, reducing worldwide energy consumption thus benefiting the fight against global warming.
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| Microsharp |
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Microsharp Corporation Limited has extensive expertise in the design, development and manufacture of micro surface structured optical films. Its products are used in a wide range of applications in the electronic display, defence, solar power, lighting and security printing industries.
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| NexxtDrive |
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NexxtDrive develops innovative fuel efficiency technologies for the automotive industry, new concepts for electric vehicle transmissions and concepts to improve the efficiency and reliability of wind turbines.
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| Nujira |
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Nujira’s ‘High Accuracy Tracking’ (HAT) technology significantly
improves the efficiency of power amplifiers used
in 3G, evolved 3G, DVB and WiMAX radio networks.
The technology allows equipment manufacturers to
design more power-efficient, smaller, and
cheaper base stations and transmitters, and
enables network operators and broadcasters to
make substantial reductions in the energy
consumption of their networks.
To
find out more about our relationship with Nujira
please click here
to download a relevant press release.
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| PowerPredict |
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PowerPredict Limited supplies the energy industry with accurate and reliable predictions of the electrical power output from wind turbines. Energy produced from wind farms currently trades at a discount to other energy sources because the variability of wind makes it difficult to schedule its
availability. PowerPredict provides accurate predictions for the production of wind energy that increases the price of traded wind energy, encourages increased investment in wind power and reduces the need to run stand-by, fossil fuel-based, generation capacity.
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| RaPro |
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RaPro
Emulations has developed and patented an
innovative domestic power shower, which saves
50% of both energy and water over electric
showers and 72% over mixer showers, whilst still
retaining the effectiveness and feel of a
conventional power shower. |
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| Robofold |
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Robofold has developed a patented method enabling industrial robots to form sheet metal into 3D objects. The technique removes the need for press stamping in most sheet metal forming processes and consequently reduces tooling costs to almost nothing (for companies with access to most standard industrial robots) and time to market by up to 90% by removing the requirement for a custom stamping former. The process also generates significantly less
CO2 per part made as a result of eliminating the embodied energy in the stamping press and the energy required to lift and lower the press for each part formed. Deploying the Robofold process enables companies to reduce the carbon footprint of many existing manufactured products thus helping them meet new legislative targets for
CO2 reduction with minimal capital investment and process disruption. |
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| Silicon
Basis |
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In consumer electronics there is a pressing need to reduce cost, lower power consumption and at the same time increase performance.
Invariably, this means creating a new silicon chip.
However, the cost of designing and verifying new chips is at least $10million and is escalating rapidly.
Silicon Basis aims to solve this pain with our advanced programmable logic technology, the soft gate array (SGA). SGA has considerably lower active and standby power consumption and is significantly lower cost than existing programmable technologies.
Silicon Basis will integrate SGA with industry standard CPUs and interfaces to produce chips that will address a wide range of potential applications such as multimedia accelerators, flexible radio interfaces, video processing and internet and communications infrastructure.
Using these off the shelf chips will get our customers to market in a third of the time and at a quarter of the cost of designing a new chip, whilst still meeting critical power and performance targets. |
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| Thermofluidics |
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Thermofluidics has developed a pumping engine without moving parts, capable of utilising small temperature differences to pump liquids or gases. The "NIFTE" can be constructed from cheap materials, using low-cost production methods, making it cost effective where other options are not. It has many possible applications in areas which require simultaneous heating and pumping, or where heat is available and other energy sources are scarce. |
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| Willis |
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Willis has designed and patented an innovative product - the Willis Solasyphon - that reduces the installation costs of a solar thermal system. The
Solasyphon is fitted to the property's existing hot water storage cylinder, thus saving the cost of replacing the storage cylinder.
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