Industrial reycling of tyre material

Enviro has developed a process for recycling old tyre material into several useful products. The process, where the tyres are introduced as shredded pieces, includes pyrolysis followed by separation and treatment, resulting in steel that can be sold, industry-grade oil, gas that is re-used for energy in the recycling process, and carbon black, which is sold for reusage in new products. The innovation is unique in its ability to evenly heat the tyre material in the reactor, allowing for high efficiency and enables the extraction of carbon black from the material.

Sweden

Infinitum

Infinitum wrote: Infinitum offers a platform for renewable energy selling that enables buying cheaper energy peer-to-peer.. Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Lithuania

Infinity

Infinity wrote: We propose automated bins based on nir spectroscopy that sort textiles by fibre for recycling (skipping the waste/incineration emissions): natural fiber can be used for producing new clothes (skipping the growing and harvesting emissions). Synthetics can be routed to pet to products like bottles (skipping the petroleum emissions). The infinity bin is fully automated. Clothing pieces are inserted one by one on the belt which starts up (similar to automated book drops in some libraries). The fibre sensor (fibersort) works by measuring how much light from an infrared light source is absorbed by each textile. The reflected light creates a characteristic spectrum of each fibre type or blend combination... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Switzerland

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.

Sweden

Innovative eco-sustainable cement

A.G.MA. wrote: The external insulation system reduces energy waste and maintains an ideal temperature longer inside buildings. The insulation of buildings is expensive and the products on the market do not last long at high temperatures, which makes the currently used materials not accessible to a large portion of the population. Agma unlike other manufacturers of insulating materials, produces cement foam panels through an innovative process that reduces the price by 55%. The panels are fireproof and high temperatures resistant, giving greater security to homes. The price of the product is competitive because we use fly ash as a raw material, a waste product from thermoelectric plants... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Italy

Innovative green walls

PlantYourLung wrote: How sustainable management of textile wastes can reduce impact of air pollution? we created a simple product that can do that!. “plantyourlung” is offering innovative green walls which connects garden and elevation of the building. It helps to decrease air pollution in city centers with simultaneous recycle of textile waste. We are creating an idea of world, in which there is no wastes, because every garbage can return in non-ending product lifecycle. You can be environmental sustainable company, government official, headmaster or just ordinary smith. It is not important, who you are, only what matters is your decision to change environment for better!.. Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Poland

Insect-based protein for aqua feed

Hexafly is developing new material sources for the aqua feed, chitin and plant nutrition industries from the sustainable farming of insects. Chitin is a high-value bio-polymer with many uses in medicine, cosmetics and as a food additive. In the next few years, Hexafly predicts that the exponential increase in demand for fish food will far exceed supply. Industry will not be able to meet this demand due to declining wild fish stocks, stricter fishing quotas and an increase in material costs. The aim of the innovation is to bring an insect farming revolution to the world and find smart ways to feed the planet.

Ireland

Integrated solar cooking/heating and battery

The AnnapurnaMPEP (Multi-Purpose Energy Pod) is a combined Sodium Nickle Chloride battery and Photo Voltaics solution with built in heat recovery. The unit can be used as an electricity back-up storage while the recovered waste heat from the Sodium batteries can be utilized for cooking purposes. The Energy Pod is built for low maintenance and has a predicted life length of at least 8 years. The innovation can be used for cooking and power back up in a typical rural home, replacing air polluting cooking stoves and fossil fuelled back-up generators.

India

Integration of energy storage from kW to MW

The solutions aims to support energy storage technology. Energy storage is made more efficient by the proposed standardization from the company. The application range is wide, allowing for standardization to be used in more cases. There is also a proposal for energy storage system farms. Increased storage can enable more intermittent renewable energy to be produced.

India

Integration of solar into microgrids using batteries

SwitchDin Pty Ltd is simplifying integration of solar and batteries into micro-grid and edge-of-grid services by using a local controller called “Droplet”. It enables site energy control, management and coordination. By connecting to a cloud platform, “StormCloud”, the individual Droplets are supported with data. Furthermore, connecting to the cloud allows individual controllers to cluster using a long-range communication system, which can help secure the service for areas not supported by cellular networks.

India