Fruges

Fruges wrote: Fruges product taaza grow seeds treated with bio-fertilizer and bio-pesticides coated with phyto-polymers. It allows farmers to adopt organic farming fertilizing their crop, protects from any insect or disease with 10% to 50% less water. Taazagrow cuts the energy and transportation cost required to manufacture and deliver huge quantity of fertilizer and pesticides used for conventional farming. Saving approximately 100% of the carbon emitted during the whole production and supply chain. In addition of organic matter in soil by decomposing the organic waste, it restores natural soil fertility, kills harmful microbes and degrade toxic organic chemicals. This eventually improves crop production by 20-30%... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Pakistan

Small scale low head vortex hydro power

In order to provide off-grid locations with stable electric power, Stallion Vortex has developed a small-scale hydropower plant. The solution utilizes the principle of creating a vortex to extract energy from water streams. It can operate with a high efficiency with a height difference of the water stream of 5 meter, making it viable in many locations with limited access to larger sources of water. According to the company, their product requires minimal maintenance after installation, and it require little to no manual control to function to its full potential.

India

Community Based Solar Powered Thermal

Thermal Thieves wrote: Active solar water heat storage systems offer a viable way to supplement current energy intensive methods of generating space heating and hot water. There are solar panel technologies designed for the purposes of collecting thermal energy from the sun and transferring it to a closed loop heating system. This on site creation and storage of thermal energy at the source eliminates the infrastructure and inefficiencies inherent in district heating systems supplied by offsite power generators. In addition to personal unit supplies, we propose a community storage system that operates on a separate closed loop and is energized once personal systems have reached capacity... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Norway

Smart anti-air polluting system

SAPS- Smart Anti Air Pollution system wrote: Saps is a special air cleaning/filtering system inside that we plan to install inside streetlights. Saps can clean air from co2, nitrous oxides (no, no2 etc), fine and coarse dust particles, and other harmful/toxic gases. The word smart stands for two things: that our product will feature a various sensors that will not only detect air pollution level regularly and send live data about the city's or district's air pollution level to people and to our purposes, but also will turn on and off the street light lamp according to ambient light(day/night), and that the machine will adjust its cleaning speed according to the pollution level of the area that it is located... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Azerbaijan

The FuturECOool

The FuturECOool wrote: We developed a hybrid between vapour compressor system that is used right now and the elastocaloric technology that is considered to be the technology of the future. Main advantage compared to existing cooling technology is 30% higher effiviency and usage of. 30% less harmful refrigirants (freons). We have applied for tha patent on main potential markets. Main technological issues have been resolved already (liftime of materials) and we are ready to licence the technology... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Slovenia

Low cost high-performance solar PV microinverter

A power converter for solar panels that increases the solar energy utilization of solar panel.

India

Sunket (Sun jacket)

TTF wrote: Sun jacket or sunket is a jacket which would be modified with solar microchips which would be woven into a fabric. The solar microchips would gather the solar energy and transform it into electricity which would power small devices like phones and tablets and maybe even laptops. The jacket itself would look apsolutely like every other jacket. The fabric would be washable and the microchips would be waterproof so in case of washing, the jacket would be safe. In the start of making the prototype, the devices would be conected with an usb cabel but in further development, we would find a better solution. The jacket would come in three different designs: everyday use (smaller power usage, more focused on the design)... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Croatia

Energetic manure

Energetic manure wrote: With the help of collective tubes , we gather waste from houses to the inlet which brings the waste to the anaerobic digester. Here waste is being recycled by special methanogenic bacteria which only work in anaerobic environment, in absence of oxygen. The output of this reaction gives a mixture of methane and carbon dioxide which is called biogas which could be used to supply houses with thermal energy and electricity. However, the leftover sludge is, the recycled waste, is sent to the. Tank to be used as fertilizers... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Azerbaijan

We make hydropower more cost-effective

ExoLabs wrote: Hydropower operators need accurate water inflow predictions to generate energy most profitably. In snowmelt dominated catchments (1/4 of the world’s hydropower), uncertain snowmelt quantities deteriorate inflow predictions resulting in overall losses of 7-10%, annually. Our solution to this problem includes data from multiple satellite constellations, ground station networks and numerical weather forecasts to derive real-time snow quantities in a 20 m spatial resolution for entire mountain ranges. Using scalable cloud processing and innovative machine learning algorithms, we are capable to serve hydropower stations globally... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Switzerland

Aerogel-based solar autoclave for medical sterilization

An alternative sterilization method for rural areas where traditionally used equpiment is not available. It is a solar-operated autoclave which produces pressurized steam.

India