Cleantech Update

Oxford Instruments Manufactures  Sophisiticated R& D and production equipment that innovators are using for cutting edge cleantech and renewable energy product developemnt,among other things. Here is the announccement for a recent contract they one. -Editor Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology (OIPT) has just received a 3 system order from the prestigious new Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication (MCN) in Australia. The systems, two Plasmalab® System100 ICP380 tools and a Plasmalab System100 PECVD system, have been bought as part of the Centre’s programme to equip their cleanrooms with state of the art instrumentation for nano and micro scale fabrication. Oxford Instruments has a reputation for working with and equipping many renowned universities and research institutes throughout Europe and USA. That fact and the flexibility of OIPT’s tools were important criteria in MCN’s decision to choose OIPT as a strategic partner. The MCN is the Victorian node ...

I pulled this from a Alfagy's website: They are developing wood mass gassification in a high heat low oxegen invironment, the burining the clean gas. Very interesting... -CTE Editor The range of fully automated Wood Gasified Heat and Power Plants are as follows: The ENERCARB wood gas technology offers customers a turn-key automated solution for heat and power generation from wood. We can provide a complete solution covering the full value chain from wood preparation to power generation in the 250 kW to 1,000 kW range. This is a gap in the market where the company believes there is a potential £725m market worldwide.A full scale 500 kW wood gasification plant was built for a client and has been operating since April 2009. Over the next 3 years sales of wood gasification plants are expected growing rapidly with the introduction of new support structures. Biomass accounts for around 5 per cent of total energy consumption in Europe. In countries such as Finland, Sweden and Austria it...

Green Ocean Energy has a device to add to wave energy generation to ocean based wind turbins. [This from their website] Wave Treader has grown out of our work with Ocean Treader and uses it's Sponsons and Arms but this time they are mounted on the base of a static offshore structure, typically a Wind Turbine or Tidal Turbine. By sharing the high infrastructure costs with another device, such as the foundation costs, cabling costs, etc., the economics of both devices are enhanced and the energy yield for a given sea area greatly improved. [Wave only device] Ocean Treader is a floating device designed to be moored 1 – 2 miles offshore in ocean wave systems, and as such will be largely unobtrusive from the shoreline. The theory behind the machine has been proven in wave tank testing and we are now working towards developing a full size machine for offshore testing. Wave Treader has grown out of our work with Ocean Treader and uses it's Sponsons and Arms but this time they are ...