IoT Microturbine
IoT Microturbine - An energy harvesting device that generates energy from pressure in gas pipelines to enable IoT solutions for smart grid management.
IoT Microturbine enables the off-grid performance monitoring and control of pressurized pipeline networks with an energy harvesting device integrating a turbine and an electrical generator that reliably feeds electronic control units (e.g. Remote Terminal Units - RTU).
The plug & play microturbine takes advantage of existing pressure drops and gas flow in the system to generate electricity used to power ancillary equipment for the maintenance, monitoring and operation of the networked pipeline systems. The energy harvesting device is self-protected against surcharge and over speeding and capable to perform auto diagnosis and communicate with other devices. The energy captured by the microturbine and converted into electric energy, is directly available in situ for monitoring devices. IoT Microturbine offers off grid real time monitoring and control solutions with a high reliability over time and across operating conditions while enabling the pipeline to work at low pressure, reducing the greenhouse effect through reduction of gas leakages as well as the CO2 emissions that would result from an equivalent grid connection in a remote location.
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Key features
- •Reduction of CO2 by 0.5 tons per year
- •Zero carbon emmission
- •Leakage reduction and pipeline life extension
Profitability
- •Payback estimated in 1 year
Categories of Application
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Maturity Stage
- Medium and large scale commercialization
- Small scale commercialization
- Initial market commercialization
- Prototype testing in the real world
- Prototype testing 1:1 in the lab
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Europe
Malta, Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Republic of Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania, Jersey, Italy, Iceland, Isle of Man, Ireland, Hungary, Croatia, Greece, Gibraltar, Guernsey, United Kingdom, Faroe Islands, Finland, Spain, Estonia, Denmark, Czechia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Åland, Albania, Andorra, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Russia, Sweden, Slovenia, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Slovakia, San Marino, Ukraine, Vatican City, Kosovo,
North america
Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Belize, Nicaragua, Panama, El Salvador,
South america
Guyana, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, French Guiana, Falkland Islands, Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, Bouvet Island, Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina, Peru, Paraguay, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela,
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