updated video December 5, 2011 remarkably efficient thermo electric conversion Sterling cycle acoustic compression device, Etalim Inc.: Rich Murray 2011.12.30
"Very high efficiency -- almost twice the efficiency of other small engines Operation from any available heat source or fuel Zero mechanical friction or wear Zero maintenance over an operating life of many decades Very low cost - simple architecture using standard materials and production processes Micro-CHP Application Micro Combined Heat and Power systems..." "Etalim plans to provide second-generation TEG engines to developers and integrators of renewable power projects. The Etalim innovation provides the lowest cost of generated electricity and the availability of solar energy is well matched to peak electrical demand...." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyCZP3BsEHY 2:29 minutes Uploaded by electronker on Dec 5, 2011 Etalim Inc. http://www.etalim.com/news.php June 2011: Etalim awarded Most Promising Pre-commercial Technology 2011 by the BC Technology Industry Association February 2011: Etalim grows to 10 employees and relocates to larger facilities in Vancouver, BC. January 2011: Etalim is featured in the prestigious MIT Technology Review . July 2010: Etalim is awarded a $2.2 million grant from Sustainable Development Technology Canada. January 2010: Etalim successfully completes the maiden run of the TEG prototype. October 2009: Etalim receives a third round of R&D grant funding from the NRC-IRAP program. September 2009: Etalim is awarded 2nd prize for most promising startup, out of 180 competitors in the BC Innovation Council New Ventures BC competition. Etalim also receives the BC Hydro Sustainability Prize. March 2006: Etalim is founded. Address Etalim Inc. 62 West 8th Avenue Suite 400 Vancouver, BC V5Y 1M7 Canada Phone (604) 566-3487 Email i...@etalim.com Amos Michelson, M.B.A., B.S. Electrical Engineering Chairman Amos Michelson is Chairman of three high-tech start-ups and Director in an additional five high-tech companies in the areas of life sciences, energy, and Web 2.0. Mr. Michelson was CEO of Creo, Inc. from June 1995 until Kodak purchased Creo for C$ 1.2 Billion in May 2005. Prior to joining Creo, he was CEO of Opal Inc., a semi-conductor equipment company, and prior to this Mr. Michelson was Chief Operating Officer of Optrotech Ltd., a developer and manufacturer of optical and imaging systems for the electronics industry. Amos Michelson holds a Master of Business Administration from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. Amos Michelson is a past member of the Premier’s Technology Council and in 1999 was named Entrepreneur of the Year, along with Dan Gelbart, by Ernst & Young. In 2005, Mr. Michelson was named the “BCTIA Person of the Year”, an award presented to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the technology industry during the year. Ron Klopfer, M.B.A., B.S. Electrical Engineering CEO Mr. Klopfer is an experienced technology entrepreneur and manager, having co-founded, financed and managed three successful technology startups over the past eight years, two of which have been acquired by larger companies to generate strong returns to seed-stage venture investors. Mr. Klopfer has also consulted to various technology companies on market strategy, sales, mergers and operations. Mr. Klopfer's technology sales and business development background originates in the Silicon Valley, where his sales team doubled a large sales region and key Fortune-500 account revenues for a hardware manufacturer. Mr. Klopfer holds an MBA in technology marketing from Queen's University, and a Bachelor of Computer Engineering from the University of British Columbia. Dr. Thomas W. Steiner, PhD Chief Scientist After graduating with a PhD in experimental physics from Simon Fraser University in 1986 Dr. Steiner spent a year and a half at IBM’s T.J. Watson research lab before returning to British Columbia and eventually working at Creo (later to become a division of Kodak). At Creo he provided technical leadership and many of the core ideas in the development of several world beating products including Creo’s first thermal laser exposure head, an optical cross-connect switch and a continuous inkjet printing head. Dr. Steiner held the position of principal physicist at Kodak before founding Etalim to pursue his interest in energy related topics. He is the author of more than 30 papers in peer reviewed journals and the holder of nine patents with at least six more pending. Briac de Chardon, P.Eng. Engineering Project Manager & Business Development Analyst Mr. de Chardon obtained a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Victoria in 1999. He spent over six years working at Creo (later Kodak) in product development roles and ink jet research. In 2005 he then moved to start-up company Vectis Technologies to commercialize plate processing technology. Mr. de Chardon joined Etalim in 2006. Core Innovation Etalim Inc. is developing new and groundbreaking technology that converts any fuel or heat source to electricity, with extraordinary efficiency and simplicity. The Etalim TEG device is elegant, straightforward to manufacture, and inexpensive. Etalim's unique TEG platform has several addressable markets, such as utility-scale solar power, cogeneration/CHP, and auxiliary/rural/telecom power generation. Etalim plans to manufacture and sell TEG devices to system OEMs within our target markets. The Etalim TEG can achieve an extraordinary set of performance breakthroughs: Very high efficiency - almost twice the efficiency of other small engines Operation from any available heat source or fuel Zero mechanical friction or wear Zero maintenance over an operating life of many decades Very low cost - simple architecture using standard materials and production processes Micro-CHP Application Micro Combined Heat and Power systems are essentially a home heating furnace or boiler that produces electricity in addition to heat. Conventional grid electricity generation is highly inefficient, with as little as 35% of the energy in the fuel burned in the power plant becoming electricity in the home. The rest of the energy is wasted as heat in the power station, with a small amount lost in transmission across the grid. Micro-CHP systems use natural gas (or other fuels) to generate electricity at the point of demand, with very high efficiency. This is possible because waste heat from electricity generation is captured and used within the home. Micro-CHP offers homeowners several hundred dollars in energy bill savings per year, with approximately five-year payback of equipment cost. Utilities and governments are strongly advocating micro-CHP because it can increase overall power generation capacity without expensive capital equipment and transmission investment, while reducing the carbon footprint of an average home by 1 tonne per year or more. The micro-CHP market is young, with first-generation products becoming available in 2009 and 2010. Europe and Asia are the main markets, due to the large spread between retail electricity and gas prices and the prevalence of hydronic boilers (technically simpler for micro-CHP than forced-air furnaces in North America). Every major home heating manufacturer in Europe is now pursuing micro-CHP. There are very strong regulatory incentives in place for micro-CHP, particularly in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and Japan. The micro-CHP system market is expected to be worth $1 billion by 2014, and to ultimately capture 30-40% of the $11 billion annual market for home heating boilers. Etalim plans to produce and sell the TEG engine to established OEM boiler manufacturers who will design and market a complete micro-CHP product around the TEG. Current micro-CHP products use Internal-Combustion, Rankine or Stirling engines for electricity generation. While these engines are somewhat mature, they are relatively expensive and inefficient at electricity production. Future micro-CHP designs envision fuel cells as the prime mover. Fuel cells are efficient, but are also very expensive and complex at the system level. The Etalim TEG offers the high efficiency of a fuel cell, with the simplicity and reliability of a Stirling engine - at lower cost than either. Solar Power Application The Etalim TEG is well suited to utility-scale solar power generation. An Etalim-based solar power system will be comprised of a solar concentrating dish, 3m in diameter, that tracks the sun and concentrates sunlight onto our proprietary TEG. A 10 MW power plant based on the Etalim dish/TEG system would consist of an array of dishes 60 wide and 60 deep. 5000 GW of new electric generation capacity will be required worldwide over the next 20 years, at a cost of $4.2 trillion. Independent estimates of the Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) market, all of which is addressable by Etalim, suggest $300 Billion in solar power generation investment through 2030. Twenty-nine American states, India, China and the EU are all drafting renewable energy directives, typically requiring 20% of total electricity to come from renewable sources, such as solar, by 2020. Etalim plans to provide second-generation TEG engines to developers and integrators of renewable power projects. The Etalim innovation provides the lowest cost of generated electricity and the availability of solar energy is well matched to peak electrical demand. From our analysis of expected future system costs using uniform assumptions for both alternative technologies and for Etalim, we expect to be able to dominate based on a cost of generation that is lower than even coal-fired generation. The Etalim cost advantage will lead to an even larger profit advantage. On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Aussie Guy E-Cat <aussieguy.e...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/32267/ > Video here: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43jv00l7pa0&feature=player_embedded
