Company Profiles - Cleantech/Environmental/Energy Alberta

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Company Profiles - Cleantech/Environmental/Energy
Alberta-Germany Collaboration Fund Symposium in Germany October
2012
Aquatera Utilities Inc.
Aquatera Utilities Inc. is a regional provider of water, wastewater and solid waste
services, and is a model of regional co-operation between three municipal shareholders,
the City of Grande Prairie, the County of Grande Prairie and the Town of Sexsmith. They
deliver waste, wastewater and solid waste services to more than 60,000 people in the
Grande Prairie region. They provide a full range of services including operating,
maintenance, engineering, and construction. Aquatera owns and operates a Level III
Water Treatment Facility and a Level IV Water Distribution System. Aquatera has 32
Operators that hold water and wastewater certification with 16 Operators at Level III or
higher. Most of their Operators hold dual certification in water and wastewater
treatment or water distribution and wastewater collection. Since being formed in 2003
Aquatera has returned over $28 million to its shareholders through cash dividends and
franchise fees.
They wish to form working partnerships with German firms in the areas of water,
wastewater, solid waste, or biotechnology. They are interested in German expertise in
the area of solid waste management. Aquatera has recently approved the construction
of a landfill gas to energy project capturing methane gas from their landfill to power
their wastewater treatment facility. They are seeking a partner with technology in water
treatment and reuse that is suitable across a broad spectrum of applications (municipal,
mobile, industrial processed water). They are also very interested in technology that
creates pure water, not simply the treatment of it.
http://www.aquatera.ca/
Fluid Clarification Inc.
Fluid Clarification is an Alberta based business that has been serving the needs of
industry for over 20 years, providing separation expertise and technology to Oil Sands,
Oil and Gas, Refining, Petro-chemical and a variety of other market segments.
Their technologies are used to separate liquids and solids from gas and liquid streams,
typically following bulk separation.
They have an Permit to Practice, allowing them to practice engineering, as recognized
by APEGA. They also have an externally audited Occupational Health and Safety
program. Their clients include Suncor, Syncrude, Shell, ExxonMobil, Imperial Oil, Keyera,
Atco, Encana, ConocoPhillips, Spectra, Husky, Devon, Cenovus, Talisman, and others.
They are interested in new technology or processes to effect separation of
contaminants from fluids, including water.
http://www.fluidclarification.com/
Frac Rite Environmental Ltd.
Frac Rite Environmental Ltd. is a Canadian service company specializing in
environmental fracturing to clean-up sites in challenging subsurface environments. Frac
Rite has developed a process using hydraulic fracturing technology modified from the
petroleum industry (our FRAC RITE™ and BIO-FRAC™ processes) to remediate sites
sustainably, without the need for excavation.
Fractures create permeable pathways that expedite the recovery of contaminants using
fewer extraction wells. Fractures are created by emplacing a sand slurry to produce
multiple, interconnected “sheets” of permeable sand pathways in the subsurface. Frac
Rite has further developed fracturing and injection technology to emplace various
biological amendments to clean-up sites naturally. Treatment amendments, such as
biodegradable plant based surfactants, nutrient solutions, or chemical oxidants, can be
injected into fractures to convert contaminants into naturally occurring and harmless
end products.
http://www.fracrite.ca/
Great Northern Power Corporation
Great Northern Power is a Calgary-based waste-heat-to-power (WH2P) system
engineering and project developer. It is dedicated to producing clean electricity from
large reciprocating engines, turbines, SAGD processes, and other sources of containable
industrial heat, principally within the oil and gas industries. To that end, GNP has
developed its patent-pending Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) based EXPANDER system.
GNP is in the process of commissioning its first EXPANDER unit in Alberta.
Commissioning is scheduled to be completed this autumn, with several projects in the
pipeline following this milestone.
GNP is interested in exploring waste heat recovery opportunities.
http://www.greatnorthernpower.com
Sustainable Energy Technologies
Based in Calgary Alberta, Canada, Sustainable Energy Technologies trades under the
symbol STG on the TSX Venture Exchange. Sustainable Energy has developed
proprietary technologies which enable the conversion of extra low voltage generation
and storage systems in grid interactive mode and applications at costs and efficiencies
that are materially higher than any other technology in sight. The technologies are
protected by more than 30 issued patented claims with further patents pending.
Sustainable Energy has commercialized products for fuel cells and solar PV applications.
The fuel cell application was developed in partnership with RWE AG which paid about
$3M for a limited non-exclusive fuel cell license. For solar PV the products value lies
mainly in enabling a “parallel” system architecture for grid interactive solar PV systems
at costs which are comparable to conventional high voltage inverters. The company is
now applying its innovative power conversion technology to emerging grid tied energy
storage markets.
Sustainable Energy's R&D focus is currently on grid tied energy storage applications for
its patented inverter technology.
http://www.sustainableenergy.com/
Western Hydrogen Limited
Western Hydrogen Limited is a Canadian company, based in Calgary, Alberta dedicated
to the development and commercialization of a new hydrogen manufacturing
technology called Molten Salt Catalyzed Gasification (MSG). The Molten Salt Catalyzed
Gasification process is projected to have significant economic and environmental
advantages over current hydrogen manufacturing technologies including lower
hydrogen supply costs, maximum feedstock flexibility and high pressure hydrogen
production, leading to the complete elimination of greenhouse gas emissions for
hydrogen production and electricity generation.
Western Hydrogen Limited has recently patented a zero-carbon hydrogen production
method using a renewable, biomass feedstock. The zero-carbon hydrogen can then be
used to produce zero-carbon, clean electricity via fuel cells or be used as a fuel for
hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) being released in the next 2-4 years.
Western Hydrogen Limited is interested in developing partnerships and in working
towards commercializing MSG in Germany.
http://www.westernhydrogen.com/