Research & Development

TEI has an active research and development program researching innovative technologies and solutions to provide prospective clients with additional energy saving and emission reduction solutions. R&D is also seen as providing a capacity to expand markets into other sectors and provide long-term revenue generation opportunities and growth for TEI.

THERMALONOx™

TEI filed a provisional patent in Q3 FY2006 for a new technology to reduce nitrogen oxides emissions from coal-fired power plants and other industrial and commercial applications.

The technology may be marketed under the THERMALONOx™ name. This is a new technology developed by the Company’s Chief Scientist Dr. Raymond Belanger who has a strong background in chemical analysis and an extensive career in alternative and sustainable energy research and development. He possesses a wealth of practical knowledge of phosphorous and nitrogen compounds, and the associated chemistry, all fundamental to the success of THERMALONOx™.

THERMALONOx™ was originally proposed as an economical way to remove nitrogen oxides from the flue gas of coal-fired power plants through a chemical reaction with ozone created from a chemical process developed by Dr. Belanger. Initial bench tests show a high success rate in achieving the desired chemical reaction. In fact, initial results in our chemical reaction process are positive and are generating a significant source of ozone. Thus, TEI has extended the provisional patent to now encapsulate an invention which is for a high output chemical based ozone generation technology.

TEI believes its THERMALONOx™ process may represent the most cost effective method available for the production of large scale quantities of ozone. The Company hopes to move to a pilot project phase for THERMALONOx in the near future.

FLU-ACE®

TEI is presently working on next-generation designs for its FLU-ACE® waste heat recovery systems. FLU-ACE® has continually evolved over almost two decades of research and implementation, with system changes and design customization accommodating a variety of unique and proprietary applications within the ICI markets It is our intention to achieve almost the same rate of energy savings as are obtained by the current FLU-ACE® design with a redesigned FLU-ACE® system that has significantly lower costs of production. TEI intends to achieve this through a re-engineering of the product, development of pre-engineered packages and designs.