Investment opportunity
Moscow-based Arter Technology, which utilises extensive intellectual potential and results developed in the military aerospace industry, is looking for investors to help it develop two energy-related projects.
The first is what it says is a conceptually new shrouded wind turbine that solves or reduces all the major problems faced by conventional wind power generation. The turbine is based on the de Laval nozzle, and is also referred to as a diffuser-augmented wind turbine.
The new turbine, says Arter, is considerably more efficient than conventional wind turbines, easier and cheaper to manufacture, lighter and more compact, and able to operate safely at higher wind speeds.
The second technology is a way of creating bioethanol from cellulose. The company says it has developed a proprietary, highly cost-effective mechanoenzyme pre-treatment process for grain straws or corn husks, which allows bioethanol to be distilled from agricultural residues and unused parts of corn crops.
The mechanoenzyme process combines milling the biomass to an average particle size of 20 microns with the introduction of enzymes at the milling stage. As a result, says Arter, its process can produce 282 kilograms of bioethanol from 1 tonne of wheat straw, as against 195 kilograms for a conventional modern bioethanol process.
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