Company Profile
Clean Power Technologies Inc. (CPTI) is a publicly listed company trading on the Nasdaq Over the Counter Bulletin Board (OTCBB) Exchange under the symbol CPWE. CPTI is also listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange on XETRA under the symbol C1L.
CPTI, through its wholly owned UK subsidiary, Clean Power Technologies Ltd. (CPTL), is developing fossil fuel and steam hybrid technology. The Company is developing novel power trains that generate supplementary auxiliary power energised by the normally dissipated exhaust heat from conventional internal combustion engines.
Our Technology
A running road vehicle expends approximately 36% of the available fuel energy to exhaust, 33% to engine cooling, and 4% to rolling resistance, leaving only 27% of the energy to power the vehicle along the road. Clean Power's laboratory tests have demonstrated that its Clean Energy Separation And Recovery (CESAR) technology can capture up to 35% of this otherwise wasted energy and used it to power vehicles.
CESAR utilises the waste heat energy from an internal combustion engine exhaust to generate steam which can be used to power a small engine. In turn, this steam engine can provide the motive power for ancillary equipment on a vehicle or indeed provide a supplement to a vehicle's main power source. Using this system the overall fuel usage of the vehicle is substantially reduced along with the overall emissions. CESAR is equally applicable to stationary engine use where similar fuel and emission benefits are realisable.
Clean Power has a prototype vehicle and stationary engine systems under active development using the CESAR concept and we recognise the potential application to all forms of internal combustion engine driven systems. Applications in the transport sector range from light cars through heavy trucks to locomotives and marine transport. In the stationary sector CESAR can be applied to internal combustion engine driven electric generators, particularly those engines powered by recovered gas from landfill sites.
Our technology will help to allay universal concerns regarding the issue of oil dependency.
Development
CPTI is currently developing a steam-powered electrical drive system for application to truck refrigeration trailers (reefers). We have entered into collaborative partnerships with one of the largest grocery chains in the US and with a US and a Canadian long-haul operator. The partnership will enable us to develop a unique refrigeration (reefer) system that will provide fuel efficiency, emissions reduction and overall economic benefits for each of these requirements. In 2008, we conducted a large-scale data collection exercise in Canada with the grocery chain operator in order to characterise the reefer power requirements of typical distributor missions. Based on this data, we are actively developing the system to meet our corporate objectives.
Also under development is a stationary engine application where the incorporated CESAR system can deliver the same benefits of fuel efficiency and low emissions as with vehicle applications. Of particular interest, from an improved output and environmental point of view, is the landfill site application where methane gas is recovered from the decomposing landfill and used to run large gas engines that drive generators producing electricity for the National Grid. We are developing a system for a UK site in collaboration with a company managing and operating electricity generation at a number of UK landfill sites.
CPTI is also working on projects based on the CESAR process in the fields of stationary electricity generators, marine applications and hybrid automobiles.