Tripling the energy output of solar panels

Sunovate wrote: Sunovate is a combined solar thermal and pv technology (pvt) that has been designed to provide a renewable solution for the heating and cooling demand that accounts for ~43% of final energy consumption globally. The sunovate pvt system has been designed to service this heat requirement and produce renewable electricity and does this by boosting the output of pv panels by 300%. The sunovate technology maximizes the energy output from solar panels, providing buildings and businesses with heat as well as electricity. It has been intentionally designed to integrate with existing solar panels to redirect the heat from the panels for use in space, water, process and pool heating... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Australia

Evacuated tube solar cooker

ETC tubes and heat exchangers which utilized solar energy for cooking appliances. Can be used indoors. 

India

Producing biodiesel from microalgae

SuperAlgae wrote: Our goal is to make a system for profitable production of microalgae biodiesel in nordic countries. We will be able to produce economically competitive biodiesel by using the heat from cooling water from narva power plant and selling biodiesel residual products... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Estonia

Surface water cleaning using separation

Surfcleaner removes oil and other waste products such as plastic and debris from water surfaces. This is done using automatic separator that automatically drags in everything (including water) into it. The water is then removed using separation and returned to the water mass while the rest of the materials is transported to a secondary storage unit that can be emptied at will. The device itself is cheap and requires minimal service while also having a long lifetime. The solution can be applied to specific situations such as oil spills or wastewater treatment, but also for general for areas such as plastic collection.

Sweden

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Portable solar-electrical hybrid food oven

Solar-electricity hybrid cookling appliances. Has a foldable solar reflector.

India

Selling basket of sustainable food

SUstainable and Nutritious Food wrote: Ssun food makes business by selling nutritionally analyzed organic food that addresses health needs, problems and diseases of the city people in india. The food is produced using sustainable methods and processes which would help fight climate change. . The seeds chosen for cultivation will be such that they have medicinal properties. The produced organic food can prevent or cure diseases like cancer and also maintain health for pregnant women. . The demand for these products is high among people in hospitals, socially conscious clubs, health rejuvenation clinics, spiritual, yoga and meditation centers... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

India

Sustainable passive cooling house

Sustainable Passive Cooling wrote: Our solution tackles extreme weather events; extreme temperatures to be exact, either it be low extremes or high. The solution constitutes two phases: spreading awareness regarding environmental and economic damages related to using conventional cooling/heating systems, then introducing new approaches of eco-friendly cooling/heating techniques. The first phase consists of launching awareness campaigns through social media and field visits. Extreme temperature leads to over consumption of energy, causing an increase in levels of co2, further exasperating the surge in temperature; in the second phase we aim to cool houses passively without the continuous use of conventional air conditioning systems... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Sudan

Sustainable Solutions

Sustainable Solutions wrote: To reclaim our planet earth by reusing and recycling various. Disposable products which are otherwise harmful for our environment. We aim to provide eco-friendly, innovative sustainable solution for solid waste. Management. Our main focus is to reuse the plastic pet bottles in concrete blocks. This way we can not only get rid of massive number of pet bottles dumped every. Year but we can also control soil erosion... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Pakistan

Eliminating waste acid from stainless steel industry

SUSTEC is focusing on green technologies to reduce the environmental impact of existing technologies. SUSTEC has developed a process they call 'REGMAX' to overcome existing problems with mixed acid pickling and its regeneration. According to SUSTEC, the REGMAX process enables total recovery of all waste acids components: The process is applicable for all metal and acid concentrations and gives freedom of choosing the optimum pickling conditions for best pickling performance. The closed material loop minimizes the operational costs and environmental impact of pickling.

Austria

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SusTECH

SusTECH wrote: The industrial activities are the main responsible for the release of contaminants in the aquatic bodies. Many of these contaminants are toxic and persist in the environment, causing diverse impacts in the ecosystems, and human health. On the other hand, the conventional technologies for water treatment are expensive, use several chemicals, generate large amounts of contaminated sludge and may be inefficient to achieve trace concentrations. We offer a green, and efficient biotechnology to industries that allows treating their effluents in a simple, and inexpensive way enabling aquifer discharge or water reuse... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Portugal