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KOREAN PATENT AWARD
On 24th January 2014, the IMPLUXTM Wind Power Turbine successfully secured another major patent award. The Korean patent was granted after a re-examination of the full claim set. This opens the way for the use of IMPLUX in the densely populated cities of South Korea. The country, with its concentration of multi-storey buildings, is an ideal market for technologies like IMPLUX that have an advantage in renewable energy generation on top of buildings.
$189,377 CLEAN TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION GRANT
On January 10th 2014, KATRU was awarded $189,377 as grant funding under the Australian Federal Government's Clean Technology Innovation Program. KATRU won the grant after a competitive process with other potential carbon reduction technologies of the future. Funds will be used to field test the high efficiency IMPLUXTM Wind Power Turbine concept in a full scale prototype. The testing project is expected to cost around $400k, with matching funding provided on a 1:1 basis.
KATRU has commenced site assembly of its IMPLUX225 prototype for full performance testing in country New South Wales and intends completing all testing prior to June 2014.
December 2013
PHILIPPINES PATENT AWARD
On 10th December 2013, the IMPLUXTM Wind Power Turbine was awarded the Philippines patent.
June 2013
AUSTRALIAN CLEANTECH COMPETITION 2013
Katru Eco-Inventions has again been selected as one of the top 30 cleantech companies to participate in the next round of the 2013 Australian Clean Technologies Competition. According to the competition organisers, "the judges had the hard task of assessing each of the 150 entries with the aim of short listing those that have the 'greatest potential' to be a commercial success and thereby facilitate the greatest environmental benefits."
All winners will get two months of mentoring in the Cleantech Business Accelerator Program before having to submit business plans for further judging. The overall Winner will also participate in the Global Competition in the US in November.
The International Market Entry Acceleration Program, a new initiative this year, provides KATRU with an exciting opportunity to attend a trade mission to Hong Kong, Nanjing (China) and Singapore, from 3-13 November to meet with potential partners, customers and investors connected through an individual business matching service in each location. The trade mission to the Asian region will be a great opportunity for KATRU to introduce IMPLUX technology to the region. [More...]
CANADA PATENT AWARD
The IMPLUXTM Wind Power Turbine has been awarded the Canada patent.
May 2013
JAPAN PATENT AWARD
The IMPLUXTM Wind Power Turbine has successfully secured the much sought after Japanese patent in May 2013. After two rounds of detailed examination over two years the patent was awarded with 64 claims. The high levels of renewable energy development since the Fukushima nuclear disaster signals a bright future for distributed micro generation from renewables in Japan. KATRU is well placed to access this important market segment with future sales for IMPLUX units in Japan anticipated to be high.
March 2013
GE ECOMAGINATION CHALLENGE 2012
The IMPLUXTM Wind Power Turbine was a Finalist in the GE Australia & New Zealand Low Carbon Ecomagination Challenge of 2012. The Challenge is a $10 million innovation experiment where businesses, entrepreneurs and innovators share their best ideas on how to develop a Low Carbon future.
At the Innovation Awards event held on the 19th of March at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, the Chairman and CEO of GE, Jeffrey Immelt presented $100,000 each to the five winners in recognition of their innovative and entrepreneurial ideas. [More...]
December 2012
NEW INVENTION PATENT - IMPLUX POWER STATION AWARDED
Katru Eco-Inventions has secured a second patent in Australia with its new invention for urban renewable energy power stations based on the IMPLUX technology. Patent No.: 2007283443.
October 2012
FUTURE BUILD 2012
Katru Eco-Inventions was an exhibitor at the Future Build 2012 conference, held in the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre over three days from the 2nd to 4th of October. The exhibition brings together Australia’s commercial construction industry with a focus on the latest sustainable building technologies and solutions for commercial applications. Major institutional investors from China and Korea also attended to review the technologies from the 2012 Australian CleanTech Competition.
The IMPLUX 1/20 scale model was on display at the exhibition with a video presentation.
July 2012
AUSTRALIAN CLEANTECH COMPETITION 2012
Katru Eco-Inventions was selected as one of the top 30 cleantech companies to participate in the next stage of the 2012 Australian Cleantech Competition. The Semi-Finalist winners were chosen from a national field of entrants across the spectrum of clean technology activity, including transportation, smart power, green grid, energy storage, green building, renewable energy, energy efficiency and air/water/waste management. All the winners will participate in the Cleantech Business Accelerator Program, including an opportunity to pitch their businesses to international and local investors at the Investment Showcase at the Melbourne Convention Centre. This will be a dedicated stream of presentations run in conjunction with the Future Build conference from the 2nd to 4th of October.
Dr. Marc Newson, from the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education said, "Going by the calibre of entrants for this year's competition, Australian Cleantech is extremely well placed to prosper at home and in the global market. Some of the technologies are world class." The judging panel consisted of private sector experts in innovation and business commercialisation. [More...]
September 2011
NEW WIND TURBINE DESIGN BOOK PUBLISHED
The new wind turbine energy extraction limits theory which the IMPLUXTM Wind Power Turbine research and development work contributed to has now been featured in a new book Innovation in Wind Turbine Design (Jamieson, P. 2011. Wiley – Blackwell Publishing). The book addresses the fundamentals of wind turbine design, methodologies for technology evaluation and the application of existing engineering knowledge to further advance wind technology.
The author Peter Jamieson, a long time established expert in the wind turbine design field, performed the validation work of the IMPLUXTM turbine and subsequently developed the limits theory. One chapter of the book has been dedicated to the IMPLUXTM technology.
June 2011
CHINA PATENT AWARD
The IMPLUXTM Wind Power Turbine has been awarded the China patent.
May 2011
AUSTRALIAN TELEVISION SHOW - NEW INVENTORS
[Click here to view video - condensed version]
The IMPLUXTM Wind Power Turbine was featured in a special edition of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s television show New Inventors featuring renewable energy technology.
Varan Sureshan, the inventor was interviewed by a panel of judges about the source of the idea and the development of the invention. A live demonstration of the 1/10th scale model operation was conducted.
Subsequently, the IMPLUXTM design was featured in internet and print magazines in multiple languages resulting in several product queries from a number of countries. [More Video...]
March 2010
MEXICO PATENT AWARD
The IMPLUXTM Wind Power Turbine has been awarded the Mexico patent.
February 2010
I225 PROTOTYPE COMPLETED
The first full prototype of IMPLUX has been fabricated and test assembled at Dolphin Engineering in Singapore. The I225 model has been designed with a steel frame and structural fibreglass elements, by Aerotrope Ltd (UK), to provide sufficient strength to withstand testing in the high speed winds of Scotland.
July 2009
FABRICATION CONTRACT AWARDED
Dynaglass Reinforced Plastic Pte Ltd of Singapore, a long standing industrial and commercial fibreglass product manufacturer has been awarded the contract to fabricate the shroud components of the Implux 225 (I225) prototype. It is expected that they will be building the moulds and producing the first unit before the end of the year.
July 2008
USA PATENT AWARD
The IMPLUXTM Wind Power Turbine has secured USA patents on 15 July 2008. USA patent No. US7400,057,B2 was awarded with 55 claims.
January 2008
NEW THEORY PUBLISHED
IMPLUXTM Wind Power Turbine R&D work contributed towards the development and formulation of the latest theory on energy extraction limits by GL Garrad Hassan in January 2008. This work was peer-reviewed and published through Wiley InterScience in the reputable Wind Energy magazine (Jamieson, P. Wind Energy. 2008).
The theory, detailing Universal Energy Extraction Limits from fluid velocity fields in modified flows will also be presented in a scientific track at the European Wind Energy Conference in April 2008 (EWEC 2008 Powerpoint Presentation / EWEC 2008 Conference Paper).
September 2007
ENGINEERING EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2007
The IMPLUXTM Wind Power Turbine won an award as a 'Finalist' in the Engineering Excellence Awards 2007 (Sydney Division). The turbine featured within the Innovation & Invention category in the Institution of Engineers Australia's showcase of innovations across the full range of engineering disciplines. The award is a result of a state wide competition for the recognition of outstanding achievements in the advancement of the science and practice of engineering. (Click here to view Implux video clip)
KATRU’s Managing Director, Varan Sureshan was presented with the Finalists Award certificate at the award presentation evening held at The Westin Grand Ballroom in Sydney, Australia. A video of the operating model was shown at the ceremony. Photographs and a summary of the invention were published in the showcase book currently being widely distributed to the engineering industry.
March 2007
HONDA FORMULA 1 EXPERT TEAM CONCLUDE BREAKTHROUGH STUDIES
The development of the IMPLUXTM Wind Power Turbine concept moved one step closer to reality as the cutting edge Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) study undertaken by HONDA F1’s expert CFD team concluded. Their 12 month virtual wind tunnel study of the new concept yielded ground-breaking results.
The HONDA F1 team utilised the latest industry leading software and complex analysis tools developed in-house to assist with the designing of their Formula 1 racing car, to test and optimise the Series 1 and 2 IMPLUXTM prototypes.
These results will now be provided to GL Garrad Hassan, the prominent international wind design consultants, for independent validation and analysis.
