page: News & Events 2006-2009
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HYDROCOIL POWER, Inc. --
1st incubator client at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, NJ.
( www.fdu.org )
HYDROCOIL TURBINE --
for renewable, clean energy.
INITIAL FOCUS on existing, unused assets
--tens of thousands of Municipal Water Treatment Plants
--up to 78,000 LOW HEAD dams suitable for electrification
--improved aeration often a supplemental benefit
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| A charming New Jersey falls. |
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| Collaboration signed at Fairleigh Dickinson University: Prof. G.Farias of ISE, D. Katsanis-MBA, Dean W.Moore of Silberman College of Business, Dr.J.B.Rosefsky of HydroCoil Power, J.Cloud of ISE |
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| Scenic, untapped source of energy for local community. |
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The Record, Hackensack, NJ: March 30, 2008
Business section--The Greening of Business School--
"FDU sustains energy program", www.therecord.com
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| April 2009--test certification |
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Inset article by Douglass Crouse discussed the association of HydroCoil Power, Inc. with Fairleigh Dickinson University's Institute for Sustainable Enterprise [ www.fdu.edu/ise ]. Dr. Jonathan Rosefsky, Company chairman and founder, commented on FDU's emphasis on clean technology, helping green enterprise start-ups, and sustainability. FDU chose HydroCoil Power as the first client in its ISE incubator, under the aegis of the Silberman School of Business. HydroCoil Power will help provide new jobs in New Jersey. The Company had its initial New Jersey office at the Rutgers University EcoComplex [ http://EcoComplex.rutgers.edu ], and has subsequently relocated to 280 Bloomfield Ave., Verona, NJ 07044.
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www.NJEntrepreneur.com
News item featuring the HydroCoil [R] turbine for low head
hydro - "micro-hydro" - with modular clusters of turbines
at dams [12-60 ft. high], run-of-river sites, and other
under-developed, already existing assets. Issue of April 2008.
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| PROTOTYPE - HydroCoil [R] Turbine for generating low head hydroelectricity - with clean, green, renewable energy. |
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In a Daily Record article entitled,
"FDU launches business incubator:
Institute's partnership boosts green' hydropower turbine"
by William Westhoven.
INCUBATOR: Fairleigh Dickinson University's Institute for Sustainable Enterprise (FDU - ISE) at Florham Park (Madison, NJ) become New Jersey's first incubator program focused exclusively on sustainable businesses. During a news conference Dr. Gerald Farias, ISE executive director, introduced their first business partnership, a startup: HydroCoil Power Inc., a renewable energy-technology company which has developed a completely new, environmentally-friendly turbine using existing infrastructure. Dr. Jonathan B. Rosefsky, inventor and chairman of HydroCoil Power, based in Wynnewood Pa., patented the HydroCoil turbine.
SIZE and USE: As noted in the photo above, it is a cylindrical device about the size of a car muffler, easily retrofitted to suitable, nonelectrified dams, 12 feet or more in height. Electricity is generated for distributed, local use "behind-the-meter", or for selling the electricity back to a local utility--called net or reverse metering. The Hydrocoil turbine has a relatively simple design to enable manufacture at low cost and to allow installation in a variety of locations, in shallow or deep water.
INSTALLATION and SERVICING: It functions hardly being seen, without pollution, to turn existing dams, fluid-control systems and other underused facilities such as rooftop water towers, into productive assets. The turbine can be used alone or in groups of, e.g., 4, 7, 10, 40, or 100, depending on the water source and the need. When a few need servicing, the rest are still rotating, still generating power.
POWER: Two may provide enough power for a typical home using 500-600 kWh/month. while large clusters may be used to provide electricity for a business or village.
TWO VERSIONS: Thomas Miezejeski of Hackettstown, experienced in finance and marketing, observed that besides the 6" diameter turbine seen at the news conference, HydroCoil Power is working on a 12-inch prototype . "Twenty-five of the larger models could do the work of about 100 of the 6-inch models" at sites with large flow.
MISSION: HydroCoil Power, Inc.fits the model for the FDU Sustainable Business Incubator (SBI), which was founded in 2005 . Its mission is to "assist companies, especially but not exclusively startups, with business initiatives that address the issues of sustainability and encourage them to embrace principles and practices that maximize the triple bottom line of people, profits and planet."
ROLE of the FDU-ISE: William M. Moore, dean of FDU's Silberman College of Business, commented on "Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the needs of the future" in his opening remarks. Proof-of-concept testing at Villanova University validated the production of electricity by the HydroCoil technology. As noted in the Daily Record, the fledgling company, which already has five patents, will receive incubator support at FDU "in areas such as dealing with government agencies and energy-management firms, and identifying suitable water sources." For example, Miezejeski says the company is working with the NJ Board of Public Utilities to qualify the product for Class 1 renewable energy rebates. The company will establish operations and contract out manufacturing in New Jersey.
MANUFACTURE: HydroCoil is "made largely of injection molding and off-the-shelf parts," according to Miezejeski in comments to the Daily Record . At the time of the article the wholesale cost was estimated at about $1,500 per unit. Dr. Farias said that "There's a lot of work to do, but the technology has great potential."
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Anecdotal history--when the hydroelectric turbine was just a spark, it was referenced in an article about the marine propulsion design that preceded it:
Popular Mechanics [tm] "TechWatch" [c] section, on page 24, June 2003 issue--a feature about our "Ribbon Drive" technology. Also in the September 2003 issue of Look science magazine [KIJK, p. 11] from the Netherlands.
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