CINTEP, together with 21 other cutting-edge technology companies from 11 countries, showcased to a world-class group of specialist delegates, which included financial investors, corporate investors, established industry players, key policymakers and international trade media.

The presenting companies were sourced and screened by Innovator Capital, the London based boutique investment bank, with help from international partners in Asia, Europe, Oceania, North America and South America.

His Serene Highness Prince Albert II presented the awards to the following winners for Excellence in the Field of Environmental Technology:

Research:

Winner:   Mango Materials (USA)

Runners Up:   Nanofoundry (USA) and Vantage Power (UK).

Development:  

Winner :    Frigesco (UK)

Runners Up :    CINTEP (Australia) and Exeger (Sweden).

Commercialisation:

Winner:   One Earth Designs (Hong Kong)

Runners up:   GreenQloud (Iceland) and Pavegen (UK).

Source:  PRNewsWire

CINTEP CEO, Nick Christy, was recently interviewed on 612 ABC Brisbane radio with Steve Austin.

Below is an excerpt from the ABC website:

When you stood under the shower this morning, did you spare a thought for the litres of water washing down the drain?

A two minute shower uses about 20 litres of water.

A Brisbane company claims to have invented the most energy and water efficient shower in the world, perhaps taking some of the guilt out of those long showers.

CINTEP is showcasing its shower to an investment forum in Monaco later this month, with the hope of attracting some big dollars for the marketing and distribution of its product.

Listen to the full interview below:

When Nick Christy first came to Brisbane from the UK in 2007, he arrived at the height of one of the worst droughts in Australian history. The crisis was so bad that Queenslanders were being asked to take four-minute showers in order to conserve water. Christy decided there had to be a better way, and started the long road to finding a more efficient shower design.

Christy eventually heard about Peter Brewin, an industrial-design student at the Royal College of Art in London. Several years earlier, Brewin had begun work on a recycling shower system that uses 70% less water and energy than conventional showers without reducing flow rate, water pressure, temperature or time spent in the shower. The two men pooled their talents and founded CINTEP.

The humble shower uses more water than any other household activity, and more power than anything apart from space heating or cooling. “Next time you get a shocking water or electricity bill at home, blame your badly designed existing shower,” said Christy. But CINTEP’s Water Recycling Shower will save a typical household 37,500 to 75,000 L of water a year. Additionally, the shower uses 40-70% less power, which saves upwards of 1900 to 6000 kWh of energy per annum.

The CINTEP Water Recycling Shower.

Beginning each shower with 3 L of fresh drinking water, the product captures, filters and heat-pasteurises the water while it is in use – it’s the same method used for purifying milk. The entire process takes less than 30 seconds and treats the water to meet the required safe-water standards. This means that no person using the recycling shower will share the water with another user. The system also includes a hydrocyclone that uses centrifugal force to fling undissolved particles, like dirt or sand, to the edges, where they are separated from the treated water and washed away.

CINTEP engineers used the 3D design, simulation, collaboration and visualisation capabilities of Autodesk Product Design Suite Ultimate, a suite of software tools used for evolving design concepts, generating parts for rapid prototyping, and producing detailed models and drawings for manufacturing. During the optimisation of parts for structural integrity and performance, the company used Autodesk Simulation Mechanical and CFD software to ensure reliability of components and improve the flow characteristics of water.

“The Autodesk Clean Tech Partner Program is absolutely fundamental to our success. We can’t be a successful company without being able to design a more efficient shower, and our core tool for doing that is Autodesk Inventor Professional,” said Christy. “The Autodesk software allows us to optimise components using the design and simulation tools. The bottom line is that we have access to the software that we really need to do the job properly.”

CINTEP black box connectors.

Reception to the Water Recycling Shower has been overwhelmingly positive, with the prototype winning the prestigious Dutch Lottery Green Challenge. According to Christy, “It has applicability anywhere there is a conventional shower used. The biggest challenge is getting to people to adopt it.

“It will also have a significant impact in mining. A lot of mining camps are a long way from established urban infrastructures and the residents use off-grid water power supplies to live. There could be 1000 people in dorms who might be there for weeks at a time, probably showering once or twice a day. By installing the recycling shower, they will spend up to 70% less on water. That 70% reduction is 80-100 times more in money terms and therefore the payback – the number of months it takes to recover the cost of the shower – is much faster.”

Then there’s the problem of teenage water consumption. “Most people spend an average of eight minutes in the shower,” said Christy, “but 11% of teenage girls spend more than half an hour. Boys and girls combined spend an average of 13 to 16 minutes per day. The advantage of the recycling shower is that parents will eventually be able to control how long the shower operates for, at the touch of a button.”

The product is expected to be launched in drought-prone areas towards the end of 2014, with an incremental approach to international distribution to follow.

Original Source: Sustainability Matters

CINTEP, maker of the world’s most efficient shower systems, will present at CleanEquity Monaco 2014 on March 27th & 28th at the Sporting d’Hiver, Monaco.

LONDON, Feb. 21, 2014 (Source: PRNewswire)

CleanEquity Monaco is an annual invitation-only event hosted by Innovator Capital, the London based specialist cleantech investment bank.

Other partners and sponsors include Prince Albert II of Monaco’s Foundation, Covington & Burling, Qualcomm, PR Newswire, Kwittken & Company, the Monte-Carlo SBM and Monaco Chamber of Economic Development.

CINTEP has been identified by an expert panel as one of the world’s most innovative cleantech companies and has been selected to present to senior financial and strategic cleantech investors, policy makers, legislators, end users and media.

CINTEP is an Australian company that has developed the most energy and water efficient shower in the world, and is expected to disrupt the US$12.2bn global shower industry. Showering uses more water than any other household activity and more energy than anything other than space heating or cooling. CINTEP’s showers reduce water consumption, energy consumption, CO2 emissions and running costs by 70% but with no reduction in flow rate at the showerhead.

CINTEP’s shower incorporates a touch screen control, an internet ready digital control system that gives precise temperature and flow control and enables real time 2 way communication with building management systems. It eliminates cold water on startup, provides unlimited hot water volume independent of a hot water system and offers personal pre-sets and a remote control option.

In 2011 CINTEP won the world’s largest CleanTech competition, The Green Challenge, and has also won a Dyson award and received A$0.8M grant funding from the Australian government.

CINTEP’s shower will be available in early 2015 and the company is actively seeking distributors as well as investment funding at CleanEquity Monaco.

Nick Christy, the company’s CEO said, “it’s a huge privilege to be selected to present and will help us bring better, more efficient, digital showers to the world, next year.”

Nick Christy (CEO)
Tel: +61 416 495 351
info@cintepltd.com
www.RecyclingShower.com.au

About Innovator Capital
Innovator Capital is a specialist investment bank advising Cleantech and Life Science companies from around the world. Established in 2003, Innovator focuses on the provision of expert strategic and capital markets advice, transaction arranging and M&A services for private and public companies.

London, UK Source: (PRWEB UK) 4 May 2013

Multi-award winning company CINTEP will be exhibiting at Grand Designs Live with their revolutionary Recycling Shower. The most efficient shower systems in the world, CINTEP’s Recycling Showers use 70% less water and 70% less energy than conventional showers without reducing flow rate at the shower head, water pressure, water temperature or time spent in the shower.

Now CINTEP has announced that it will be giving away two free Recycling Shower Systems between 4th and 12th May 2013 at Grand Designs Live. For a chance to win, entrants simply need to register their interest at http://www.RecyclingShower.co.uk. In addition, everyone who registers will be awarded a 10% discount voucher for a Shower System.

CINTEP is targeting mid 2014 for the release of the first showers and those who register during the show will be amongst the first who will be able to purchase them.

Grand Designs Live, the UK’s leading contemporary home show, will open its doors from 4th – 12th May 2013 at ExCeL London. Based on the Channel 4 TV series, and presented by design guru Kevin McCloud, the event will be packed with over 500 exhibitors, across seven different sections, covering interiors, gardens, home improvement, self-build, renovations, technology and shopping.

Visit CINTEP in the Eco-Tech House in Grand Technology at Stand L70.

CINTEP is an Australian company that develops the most efficient shower systems in the world. CINTEP won the 2011 Green Challenge, the world’s most valuable clean technology competition, a Dyson Award and the British Standards Institution Environmental Design Award. CINTEP was founded by Nick Christy and Peter Brewin in 2009. Nick Christy is a chartered accountant, ex KPMG; Peter Brewin is an award-winning engineer who also founded Concrete Canvas.
 

1 litre in, 3.3 litres out. The world’s most efficient shower system will be exhibited at Grand Designs Live at the ExCel Centre London.

Multi-award winning company CINTEP will be exhibiting at Grand Designs Live with their revolutionary Recycling Shower. The most efficient shower systems in the world, CINTEP’s Recycling Showers use 70% less water and 70% less energy than conventional showers without reducing flow rate at the shower head, water pressure, water temperature or time spent in the shower.

CINTEP’s showers start every shower with 3 litres of fresh drinking water and then capture, filter and heat pasteurise that water whilst it is in use. The treatment process takes less than 30 seconds and means no water is stored in the shower and no water is shared between users.

CINTEP’s shower can be used in commercial and residential applications and in new-builds and renovations.

About Grand Designs
Grand Designs Live, the UK’s leading contemporary home show, will open its doors from 4th – 12th May 2013 at ExCeL London. Based on the Channel 4 TV series, and presented by design guru Kevin McCloud, the event will be packed with over 500 exhibitors, across seven different sections, covering interiors, gardens, home improvement, self-build, renovations, technology and shopping.

Visit CINTEP in the Eco-Tech House in Grand Technology at Stand L70 and experience an immersive 3D video projection which will explain the inner workings of the shower, the water, energy and cost savings, and inspire your next bathroom project!

About CINTEP

CINTEP is an Australian company that develops the most efficient shower systems in the world. CINTEP won the 2011 Green Challenge, the world’s most valuable clean technology competition, a Dyson Award and the British Standards Institution Environmental Design Award. CINTEP was founded by Nick Christy and Peter Brewin in 2009. Nick Christy is a chartered accountant, ex KPMG; Peter Brewin is an award-winning engineer who also founded concrete canvas.

CINTEP Page at Grand Designs Live

Grand Designs Live 2013

Source: Business Insider

Peter Brewin invented the Water Recycling Shower, an eco-friendly shower that has the ability to aid water conservation efforts around the world. The shower cleans, filters, heats, and recycles 70 per cent of the water it uses, meaning that water consumption is reduced by the same amount.

The Australian engineering firm that manufactures Brewin’s Water Recycling Shower, CINTEP, estimates that with this shower a typical four-person household would save about 20,000 to 40,000 gallons of water per year.

Brewin studied engineering at Cambridge and served as an officer in the British Army’s Corps of Royal Engineers. He then began a master’s in Industrial Design Engineering at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College. It was during this time, at RCA, that Brewin developed and patented the re-circulating shower technology.

We asked this inventor about his inspiration, his penchant for creating sustainable products, and his newest invention: Concrete Canvas, a type of flexible concrete that he uses to make shelters for rapid deployment in disaster relief and remote situations.

Business Insider: Tell us about the water recycling shower.

Peter Brewin: The shower starts with fresh water each time then cleans and reuses 70 per cent of the water. Because the water is returned very rapidly to the shower and is heated only in the shower it uses 70 per cent less energy than a conventional boiler fed shower. Water has a very high specific heat capacity which means that a huge amount of energy is required to heat cold water for a shower so the energy saving is a very considerable environmental and cost benefit.

BI: When and how did you come up with the idea for the water recycling shower?
PB: I invented the shower while studying a post graduate degree at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London in 2005. I had previously designed a shower head to reuse the waste water while people wait for a shower to warm up so I had done some work in the area. I chose the shower from a large range of ideas I had at the time as it embodied a lot of neat synergies from an engineering perspective and had both a strong environmental and consumer benefit.

BI: Pasteurization is an important part of the recycled water process. How did you decide to pasteurize the water? And why is that more effective than other solutions?
PB: There are a large range of potential water sterilization technologies: UV, ozone, etc. All have with their own benefits and disadvantages. The main issue with pasteurisation is that it requires a lot of energy because of water’s high specific heat capacity. The main benefits are that it requires no chemicals and can be very rapid. Because in a recirculating shower you are starting with warm water and you have to heat it anyway it was possible to use a heat exchanger to heat the water to a high enough temperature to achieve pasteurization without a significant additional energy input.

BI: Tell us about the process of actually creating the shower. Did you tinker with it for years or was this a quick discovery?
It took me a year working full time at the university to develop the first demonstration prototype, although I had done some work previously on a shower project. I went through a large number or prototypes for some of the systems in particular working on the hydrocyclone geometry.

BI: Obviously the shower is very environmentally-friendly. Did you have an interest in environmental issues before you created the shower? How important is it to you for your products to be green?
PB: I am a pragmatist who loves engineering, and it is obvious that if we are to continue enjoying the level of civilisation we have at the moment we must find ways to do so more efficiently. I feel that in order to make a difference a product has to be better for the end user as well as using less resources. Otherwise it will never stand a chance of being adopted widely.

Concrete Canvas is similar in that it is much more efficient than conventional ways of using concrete which saves our customers time and money and at the same time creates less carbon dioxide.

BI: What impact do you think that this shower will have on the world?
PB: I hope that it will enable people to use less resources without having to make sacrifices.

BI: Had you ever invented anything else before the water recycling shower?
PB: I have always found I have a lot of ideas and as a child was perpetually building my ideas. At Cambridge I worked with some friends on an idea for a more efficient tumble dryer and a new idea for a materials handling system based on the way ants use simple codes to organise themselves.

While at the RCA and Imperial I had a lot of opportunity to work on a range of my inventions, many of which won awards. These included Concrete Canvas, a new type of helmet camera that enabled you to save footage after something happened, a type of floor tile that helped people escape fires, a system for diagnosing pronation in runners, a water saving shower head and a few others.

BI: Are you working on any other inventions now?
PB: At the moment Concrete Canvas is very consuming. The production equipment has been developed in-house and contains a very large number of innovations and the material also has immense potential. We are also working hard on a number of really exciting new products from fire proof to bullet proof variants.

Most people love taking a long, hot, steamy shower on a cold day. But it comes at a cost to the environment and your wallet. A person taking a 10-minute shower uses anywhere from 20 to 50 gallons of water, at the use of 2 to 5 gallons per minute.

Australian engineering firm CINTEP has developed a product that cuts that number by more than half. The Water Recycling Shower looks and feels like an ordinary shower, but is able to slash water consumption by 70 per cent. It does this by automatically cleaning, filtering and pasteurizing used water. The shower then recirculates and reuses 70 per cent of that clean water.

Peter Brewin, a British engineer, invented the environmentally-friendly shower in 2004 while he was an industrial-design student at the Royal College of Art in London. The shower functions somewhat like a small-scale water treatment plant in that it continuously captures, cleans, and recirculates 70 per cent of the water used during a shower. Pasteurization—the same method used for heating and purifying milk—because it’s the fastest and most environmentally-friendly way to clean and recirculate the water.

“The main benefits [of pasteurization] are that it requires no chemicals and can be very rapid,” Brewin said. “Because in a recirculating shower you are starting with warm water and you have to heat it anyway it was possible to use a heat exchanger to heat the water to a high enough temperature to achieve pasteurization without a significant additional energy input.”
Nick Christy, the CEO and co-founder of CINTEP with Brewin, explained the step-by-step process of how this shower works.

 
 
How It Works

1. Water is pumped from the mains (cold water only, no hot feed necessary), and a non-return valve prevents back flow into the mains.
2. The mains water is then pumped to the mixer, which will adjust the relative cold and hot flows until the mixed flow is at the requested temperature.
3. The water passes through a mesh filter and is pumped from the shower tray to the hydrocyclone.
4. The hydrocyclone removes heavier than water particles from the water and splits the flow so that 30% leaves through the underflow carrying the majority of un-dissolved solids to the drains. The balance of 70%, which is now clean, exits through the top of the hydrocyclone.
5. The clean water is then carried to the carbon filter where it becomes visually clean and chlorine is removed. This filter will require replacement every 6 months.
6. The water is now visually clear and enters a heat exchanger with an efficiency of 90%. The heat exchanger raises the temperature of the water in the inflow to the heater, reducing the energy input required to reach pasteurisation and increasing the efficiency of the shower.
7. The water then enters an electric heater where the temperature rises above 72 degrees Celsius/162 degrees Fahrenheit for 15 seconds. This pasteurizes the water (the same treatment that makes milk safe to drink) and is sufficient to kill almost all biological pathogens.
8. After leaving the heater, the water re-enters the heat exchanger where some of its heat is transferred to the water entering the heater, reducing the temperature of the water in the outflow, which reduces the amount of cold water required to reduce the outflow water temperature for use in the showerhead. The presence of the heat exchanger therefore increases both the energy and water efficiency of the shower.
9. The water then enters the mixer where it is mixed with cold water (approximately 30% of the re-circulated volume) from the mains supply to reduce its temperature to the requested temperature and to replace the volume lost at step 4 from the underflow of the hydrocyclone.
10. After passing through the mixer, the water passes to the showerhead.
 
Conserving Water & Energy

The shower recycles 70 per cent of the water it uses. That means that for each liter input to the shower system, it will output 3.3 litres at the showerhead.

Christy explained that when the shower starts, it fills with three litres (.80 gallons) of clean unfiltered water. It then heats and filters that water before you even step foot in the shower, meaning that you won’t have to waste any time waiting for the water to get hot. The shower will then continually re-use 70 per cent of that water. At the end of the shower, it will drain completely before it can restart, meaning that you will never use dirty shower water.

But the shower doesn’t just conserve water. It saves energy too. It uses about 40 to 70 per cent less power than a traditional shower because the system doesn’t have to heat as much water.
“Water has a very high specific heat capacity which means that a huge amount of energy is required to heat cold water for a shower so the energy saving is a very considerable environmental and cost benefit,” Brewin said.

Christy claimed that each person who uses the Water Recycling Shower would take up about about 5,000 to 10,000 fewer gallons of water per year. That means that over the course of a year, a typical household (with a family of four) would save about 20,000 to 40,000 gallons of water.

Popular Science calculated that this would mean that a local water treatment plant would save upwards of 200 kilowatt-hours of energy per household per year.

The shower is currently in the testing phase, but Christy said that he expects the shower to be available for sale in early 2013. CINTEP has not yet set a price for the shower, but Christy claimed that “the shower will pay for itself in 3 to 4 years at current utility prices.”

Original Article Here
 

A Brisbane start-up will develop an energy-efficient shower system using a $795,000 grant, courtesy of Commercialisation Australia, which has unveiled its latest round of recipients.

CINTEP, led by chief executive Nick Christy, has developed a shower system that uses 80% less water and energy than a conventional shower, without reducing flow at the showerhead.

It has received a $795,000 Early Stage Commercialisation Grant from Commercialisation Australia in its latest funding round, which saw more than 20 organisations share in $9 million.

To be eligible for a grant, companies have to be able to demonstrate the commercial viability of their product, process or service and have an annual turnover less than $50 million.

According to Christy, the funding will allow CINTEP to complete the final commercial design work, and certification of the product to Australian standards.

“We are currently six to 12 months away from supplying the Australian market with the first ultra-efficient shower system,” Christy says.

“With shower use representing the biggest household water guzzler and the second biggest use of energy, 70% savings mean a significant financial benefit to Aussie households.”

“The support from Commercialisation Australia will help us meet the needs of Aussie households sooner.”

Taking a shower draws more water and more energy than any other daily household activity. Low-flow showerheads save only a little of both, typically at the expense of comfort. That’s because they let the hot water-and all the heat energy it contains-go down the drain.

In 2004, Peter Brewin, an industrial-design student at the Royal College of Art in London, set about creating a more efficient shower that doesn’t require lower pressure. It couldn’t just capture and recirculate the water; most countries require shower water to meet potable-water standards. So instead he designed a miniature treatment plant that continuously captures, cleans, and recirculates 70 percent of the water used during a shower. Even with the energy the system consumes, it still uses 40 to 70 percent less power because the system doesn’t have to heat as much water. Over the course of a year, a typical household would use 20,000 to 32,000 fewer gallons of water with Brewin’s system. That, in turn, would save a local treatment plant upward of 200 kilowatt-hours of energy.

Because other water-treatment processes are too slow for real-time recirculation, Brewin decided to use pasteurization, the quick heating and cooling method for purifying milk. Shower water is already about 106°F when it hits the drain. A heat exchanger and a small electric heater raise the temperature the extra 56 degrees needed to reach the pasteurization point of 162°. To filter out dirt particles, Brewin constructed a funnel that spins the water that flows into it. Centrifugal force flings the heavy undissolved particles to the edges, where they are washed down the drain.

Within a year of starting work, Brewin had a proof-of-concept prototype. (To test its filtering ability, he would limit his showers to once a week.) Since then, he has licensed the technology to Australian engineering firm Cintep to solve remaining problems, such as how to more effectively remove shampoo residue. The first showers, which will most likely be installed in drought-prone cities and disaster areas, will debut next year.

Inventor: Peter Brewin
Invention: Recycling Shower
Cost to Develop: $1.75 million
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HOW IT WORKS
A funnel separates undissolved particles from water. The water passes through a filter, a heat exchanger and a pasteurizer that kills any remaining bacteria. It circulates through the heat exchanger again and mixes with new cool water before entering the showerhead.

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