Engineering & Energy
Ceres Power
Ceres Power is a high growth product development company founded in 2001 to commercially exploit revolutionary fuel cell technology originally developed within Imperial College during the preceding 10 years. The company combines significant industrial experience involving the commercialisation of high technology with world class research and development expertise.
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Cortexica
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DUVAS
DUVAS is an acronym for Differential UltraViolet Absorption Spectroscopy. DUVAS offers a highly flexible cost effective family of intelligent portable, mobile and fixed sensors using closed path spectroscopy, capable of detecting multiple pollutants simultaneously at ppb level.
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Dynamic Boosting Systems
Dynamic Boosting Systems Ltd designs, engineers, and supplies air and gas handling equipment, and associated motors and drives. DBS is an Imperial College Company with innovative patented turbomachinery, TurboClaw™, for leading-edge applications such as fuel cells & engine downsizing.
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Evince Technology
Evince Technology has created a new class of diamond electronic device that will revolutionise the control of electrical power. For the first time the energy industry will have the prospect of controlling utility 15,000V voltages using single electronic devices, enabling the creation of cost effective, direct grid-linked solid-state power control systems for the first time.
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EVO Electric
Evo Electric is developing high power density, axial flux electric motors based on a unique modular design. The company is targetting the hybrid bus and electric vehicle markets.
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IC Fineval
IC Fineval produces useful, reliable and easy to use finanical evaluation, risk assessment and decision making tools. The company was established in 2000, building on over seven years of extensive financial modeling research at Imperial College London.
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Ionscope
Ionscope manufactures Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopes - using patented technology developed by a team of scientists from Imperial College London and Cambridge University. Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy offers high-resolution topographic imaging of immersed targets with zero force — making SICM the first and only high-resolution imaging technique not to interact/interfere with the sample during image acquisition.
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Lontra
Lontra is a UK based Cleantech start-up developing energy saving compressors and engines. Technologies include the Blade Compressor™, Blade Supercharger™, Blade Expander™ and the novel Lindsey Engine™. The company has a strong IP portfolio and is developing products with world leading partners in major global markets. Priority applications and markets include: waste water aeration compressors; automotive superchargers; and oil-free industrial air compressors.
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Membrane Extraction Technology (MET)
Membrane Extraction Technology is a specialist separation process development business which develops cost-saving applications based around proprietary membranes, lab scale equipment, in-house plant design capability, for customers in the chemical, fine chemical and pharmaceutical industries. MET's technologies include Organic Solvent Nanofiltration (OSN) techniques such as heavy metal removal, catalyst recovery, product purification, and solvent exchange, in addition to the recovery of aromatic acids and bases using the Membrane Aromatic Recovery System (MARS).
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Microsaic Systems
Microsaic develops next generation systems capable of identifying trace compounds such as pharmaceuticals, explosives, chemical weapons, and narcotics. Mass spectrometers are sophisticated systems used in everything from explosives detection to drug discovery. Today's mass spectrometers are large, heavy and expensive. Microsaic's breakthrough Ionchip technology integrates the system onto a single silicon chip leading to massive size, cost and reliability advantages.
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Midaz Lasers
Midaz manufactures an innovative range of diode-pumped solid state (DPSS) lasers based on proprietary technology, providing a breakthrough in laser performance. Midaz technology offers an unparalleled combination of increased efficiency, ultra-compact size and competitive pricing, whilst simultaneously offering high power, almost perfect beam quality and high peak power pulsed operation. Applications are diverse, but Midaz products will be particularly beneficial in industrial processes where speed and the highest quality are desirable, for example, in manufacturing of electronic components and other semiconductor devices.
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Mycologix
Mycologix is focused on the development of low cost, highly efficient biological pre-treatment process for 2nd generation biofuels. The company was formed in 2009 based on more than 20 years of research by Dr. Richard Murphy of the Deptartment of Biological Sciences at Imperial College London. Mycologix has secured grant support from TSB and the Carbon Trust Incubator programme. Mycologix is being developed by Nick Brooks, previously an Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Nick spent 30 years at Shell in a variety of senior management positions. Since leaving Shell in 2005, Nick has been CEO of several Biofuels businesses, including Sun Biofuelds, Bioverda Europe, and BioEnergy Africa.
Nexeon
Nexeon is a battery materials and licensing company with a unique silicon anode technology. Nexeon's technology unlocks the potential of silicon to deliver increased capacity without compromising lithium-ion battery cycle life, providing lighter batteries with more power and longer lifetime between charges.
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Novacem
Novacem has developed a carbon negative cement which offers a transformative solution to the challenge of reducing carbon emissions from the cement industry. Novacem's cement is based on a non-carbonate raw material, magnesium silicate, and uses a relatively low temperature production process. Overall, production absorbs more CO2 than it emits. For every tonne of Ordinary Portland Cement replaced by Novacem, CO2 emissions will be reduced by up to 900kg
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Plaxica
Plaxica is developing a new generation of polymers derived from sustainable resources. Plaxica’s polymers are a range of polylactic acid (PLA) based materials which have improved physical properties compared with first generation biopolymers, a smaller environmental footprint, are fully recyclable and cost competitive with current oil-based alternatives. These second generation PLA polymers are aimed at the replacement of conventional oil-derived products like PET, polypropylene and polystyrene.
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PSE
PSE is a world-leading provider of Advanced Process Modelling (APM) technology and Model-Based Innovation (MBI) services to the process industries. The company operates from headquarters in London, with offices in key markets of the USA, Japan, Korea and Central Europe, and agency operations in China and India.
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QuantaSol
Quantasol is developing high efficiency compound semiconductors cells for use in concentrator photovolatiac systems. QuantaSol’s technology is expected to deliver not only greater conversion efficiency, but also better spectral performance and longer cell lifetimes than competing technologies.
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STS
Southside Thermal Sciences (STS) Ltd. was founded in 2002 as spin out from Imperial College London to develop and commercialise sensors based on optical technology. The company’s Intellectual Property is the result of over 5 years of research by a team of leading scientist at Imperial College. The STS team combines proven business skills and decades of industry and entrepreneurial experience with the scientific excellence of the technology’s inventors.
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