Small three-wheeler EVs for transportation

Clean Motion has developed a small, efficient vehicle. The ultra-light Zbee is three-wheeled, electric vehicle aiming to achieve high efficiency and driving economy. Clean Motion claims its front-end crash structure and three-point safety belts give it improved safety features over competing lightweight vehicles. Zbee replaces conventional cars for short distance transportation of up to three people or light cargo. The company claims that Zbee uses 7% of the energy of the average fossil-fueled city car, with speeds of up to 45 km/h. Its lean form factor and lightweight fiber reinforced plastic body allow it to be parked easily.

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Renewable gas for industrial process heat

Meva Energy provides modularized and pre-manufactured turn-key gasification systems to generate renewable industrial gas or power based on small fraction fuels. The technology converts solid biomass to renewable biogas or to combined heat and power (CHP). The plant technology offers a small-scale decentralized and circular energy system which enables gas or CHP production with very high efficiencies and a minimum of distribution and parasitic losses. The innovation was created with the intention of improving air quality, reducing fossil fuel-based emissions, improve soil quality as well as to inspire and promote renewable and circular solutions.

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Infrastructure for next generation of wind turbines

As wind turbines increase in height, transportation poses considerable problems given that base diameters for 100+ meter towers exceed 4.3 meters and the limit for transport width in most parts of the USA and the EU. Furthermore, conventional steel tower constructions get dramatically more expensive with height due to the increasing need for thicker walls. In order to make significant returns on wind technology investments, organizations will need to drastically improve both costs and efficiency. Modvion´s module technology enables significantly decreased cost, efficient transportation and streamlined installation of towers exceeding 120 m.

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Apparel as outdoor experience services

The current short average life time of clothes and other apparel causes significant environmental damage as the production process results in significant emissions. One solution of this is to maximize the lifetime, eliminating the production need. Based on this, Houdini has developed concept based on sharing, reusing and renting apparel. To make sure their products have several owers and long life times, they have clothing repair infrastructure as part of the solution. The rental services also allows customers to have flexible state of the art clothing options. Lastly, the solution also includes locations where users can buy and sell products, resulting in less consumption.

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Recovery of waste air in food-producing buildings

Due to the problematic nature of waste air from food-producing buildings, such as restaurants, the ventures tend to not recover any of the high-potential air resulting from the cooking processes. As such, large amount of energy is wasted. With this is mind, Enjay has developed a solution for reusing waste energy. It works by collecting the unwanted particles (high amounts of fat and soot), while also reusing the high-potential air stream for energy. This can then be applied locally for a range of uses such as heating of spaces and water, thus saving users money while decreasing their environmental impact.

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Energy storage based on nano-coated salt

SaltX Energy Storage is a sustainable, all-natural thermo-chemical storage solution providing peak shifting. The intended market is seen as energy utilities, industrial and commercial customers. The company claims that based on its patented Nano Coated Salt (NCS) technology, SaltX is simple, scalable and cost competitive compared to traditional energy storage solutions. The solution can increase the amount of renewable energy stored in batteries. It also avoids the use of toxic chemicals and minerals used in some batteries.

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Concentration of solar power

Absolicon T160 is a solar thermal parabolic collector that concentrates sunlight to produce heat and steam with temperatures up to 160˚C. The technology works by concentrating the incoming sunlight onto a receiver tube where a heat transfer fluid is circulated. The collector is mounted on beams in groups of 4. The beams contain an active tracking system that allows the innovation to follow the sun’s movement during the day. The tracking system is designed to also protect the machinery from overheating, high winds or other harmful weather conditions.

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Mobile car wash

Through the Woshapp app, Woshapp takes the car wash to the car and reduces the amount of water needed for each wash. The company goal is to revolutionize the way we clean cars using sustainable and environmentally friendly methods. On average it takes 1.5 hours to wash a car and in addition about 200 liters of water are consumed per wash. Woshapp service agents cycle to the car and carefully hand wash it in an environmentally friendly way, using only about 400 milliliters of water per wash, thereby saving 99% of the water consumed by a regular car wash. The method provides better quality than a mechanical car wash, avoiding the scratches that can occur.

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Electric three-wheeler city taxi

Bzzt Taxi Pods provides an app-based taxi service in urban areas through the use of small electrically powered 3-wheel taxis at the price point of public transport and with zero local emissions. All the taxi pods in the fleet are Light Electrical Vehicles and the fleet operation is optimized with an inhouse software. Onwards, the fleet could also serve as a flexible and low emission alternative for last mile urban deliveries.

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Flexible inverter for smart power systems

Ferroamp have developed a flexible inverter called ‘EnergyHub’ that enables a flexible integration of photo voltaic systems, energy storage, small-scale wind and electric car charging. This makes it possible to utilize the consumption variations between buildings while also cutting power peaks during times of high consumption. The solution can convert the power between AC and DC with minimal losses compared to traditional systems. Furthermore, EnergyHub can be scaled and connected between buildings and are applicable for all levels of effect needed.

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