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| Turbine demonstration May 28, 2008 |
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| PROTOTYPE - HydroCoil [tm] Turbine for generating low head hydroelectricity - with clean, green, renewable energy. |
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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
--up to 78,000 LOW HEAD DAMS to be electrified.
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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
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Business section--The Greening of Business School--
"FDU sustains energy program"
www.therecord.com
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| injection molded & easy assembly |
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Inset article by Douglass Crouse discussed HydroCoil Power, Inc. in his write-up on Fairleigh Dickinson University's Institute for Sustainable Enterprise. The Company's president and founder, Dr. Jonathan Rosefsky, commented on FDU's emphasis on clean technology and helping start-up green enterprises. HydroCoil Power is FDU's first client in its ISE incubator, under the aegis of the Silberman School of Business. HydroCoil Power will manufacture its turbines in New Jersey after obtaining outside funding and a New Jersey office location.
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| Blue right end contains a water-proofed, off-the-shelf auto alternator. The connection to the spinning turbine shaft is proprietary. |
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www.NJEntrepreneur.com
Click here in April 2008 for a news item featuring our
HydroCoil [tm] turbine for low head hydro -
"micro-hydro" - with modular turbine clusters at dams
[10-60 ft. high], run-of-river sites, and other under-
developed, already existing assets. |
CLICK HERE http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage , for link to the the Daily Record newspaper of Parsippany, NJ serving Morris County and northern New Jersey. Their writer and photographer covered the event described below in the issue of January 31, 2008. |
In a Daily Record article entitled,
"FDU launches business incubator: Institute's partnership boosts green' hydropower turbine" written by William Westhoven, Fairleigh Dickinson University's Institute for Sustainable Enterprise (ISE) at Florham Park (Madison, NJ) moved a major step forward, becoming New Jersey's first incubator program focused exclusively on sustainable businesses. Dr. Gerald Farias, ISE executive director, introduced their first business partnership during a news conference. The startup company is HydroCoil Power Inc., a renewable energy-technology company which has developed an environmentally-friendly turbine. Dr. Jonathan B. Rosefsky, inventor and president of HydroCoil Power, based in Wynnewood Pa., patented the HydroCoil turbine. As noted in the photo above, it is a cylindrical device about the size of a car muffler, and is designed to be easily retrofitted to suitable, nonelectrified dams, 12 feet or more in height. The result is generation of renewable energy for isolated, local use or for selling the electricity back to a local utility--called net or reverse metering. The Hydrocoil turbine is a relatively simple design to enable manufacture at low cost and to allow installation in a variety of locations, in shallow or deep water. It functions without 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 2, 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. Two or three may provide enough power for a typical home using 500-600 kWh/month. while 40 to 100 or more may be used together to provide the power needs of a small business.
Thomas Miezejeski of Hackettstown, director of finance and marketing for HydroCoil Power, observed that "Our initial targets for marketing will be small businesses....But we're working on a 12-inch prototype instead of the six-inch one we have here, which is our only prototype at the moment. Twenty-five of the larger models could do the work of about 100 of the 6-inch models."
HydroCoil Power, Inc.fits the model for the Fairleigh Dickinson University 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."
Dr. 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 turbine. 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 Board of Public Utilities to qualify the product for Class 1 renewable energy rebates...."We're going to get that." The company will establish operations and contract out manufacturing in New Jersey. HydroCoil is "made largely of injection molding and off-the-shelf parts," according to Miezejeski in comments to the Daily Record, and therefore wholesale cost is 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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