9/3/2008 - 3:19:48 PM
CSU wins clean tech award
By Staff
FORT COLLINS - Clean technologies earned Colorado State University international applause this week.
CSU received the 2008 Royal Award for Sustainable Technology Transfer from Crown Prince Felipe of Spain and Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark. The award was presented at COPENMIND, a technology transfer conference under way in Copenhagen, Denmark, this week. The award recognizes universities for efforts in transferring clean, renewable and efficient energy technologies to the marketplace.
The CSU technologies highlighted by the award were an international clean cookstove project and two-stroke engine conversion kit associated with Envirofit International and biofuels production from algae being commercialized by Solix Biofuels.
"We believe in a proactive approach to technology transfer; an approach to ensure the maximum benefit to society is achieved," said Bryan Willson, director of the Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory at CSU, in a prepared statement. "We are honored to receive the Royal Award for Sustainable Technology Transfer here at COPENMIND."
Other finalists for the awards included the University of Cyprus for a process to reduce nitrogen oxides and the University of New South Wales in Australia for an improved method for recycling plastic waste.
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