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Design Technology & Innovation ltd owns the rights to a number of patents, all developed by DTI, which

provide Intellectual Property rights to DTI to cover the unique elements of the following developments

and innovations. This document does not, and is not intended to, grant or infer the grant of any rights over

any DTI technology or intellectual property. The licensing of any DTI intellectual property will be considered

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* Intellectual Property - Adjective / Noun - The result of creativity

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Design Technology & Innovation Ltd - DTI

DTI is a small company based in the South of the United Kingdom

Registered Office: Suffolk House, Croydon, Surrey, CR0 0YN, England, UK

London Office: 5 Clifford Street, London, W1S 2LG

Main research site: just North of Brighton, Sussex

The main activity of DTI and the group is developing Intellectual Property to the point

of proof of concept and early stage prototyping

The developed IP is available to be licenced or, where appropriate, taken into joint

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* Space - Noun - The final frontier - it’s big - very very big

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DTI-r developed the Dutyion™ Root Hydration System - dRHS™, an irrigation technology based

around pervaporation and irrigation with water vapour. The technology was developed to enable

polluted water, seawater, waste industrial water and run off to be used for irrigation without the need

for any pre treatment or purification

Testing in the DTI-r greenhouses growing tomato, maize and many other crops prior to field scale

trials in the deserts of the Middle East. The technology was demonstrated in the extreme climate of

the Abu Dhabi desert, irrigating and supporting 200 Prosopis trees through 18 months of high and

very high daytime temperatures, in excess of 50°c with almost zero rainfall

As the direct result of the field scale trials and the work previously undertaken in the DTI-r

greenhouses the technology has been licenced to DuPont on a WorldWide basis for all terrestrial

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DTI-r retains all rights to irrigation for low gravity / space / deep space applications

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* Irrigation - Noun - to supply water to land and plants to aid growth

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Courgette - DTI-r greenhouse Prosopis tree - Abu Dhabi field trial

Prosopis tree - Abu Dhabi field trial

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* Dewater - Verb - remove water from sediment or waste or valuable materials

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DTI-d has developed a way to dewater virtually any wet material, whether it is MSW, a waste solution such as

slurry or sewage or a solution containing valuable materials in dilution which makes it marginal to recover from

dilute but valuable when dewatered & concentrated. These streams can be dewatered to whatever degree is

appropriate for the desired end result - the technology retains virtually all microbes

DTI-d has been approached to dewater anaerobic sludge in order to make sludge disposal significantly more

economic as the weight of water is removed and the volume of waste is hugely diminished

There are many applications for this technlogy since the technique relies on pervaporation, ensuring virtually all

contaminants and or valuable components are retained within the apparatus and concentrated by the process for

more economic segregation and recovery

DTI-d is also working on the dewatering of slurry, particularly from milk farms in the Middle East in order to gasify

the waste (see DTI-p) to return energy to the farms and totally solve the environmental problem in a totally

sustainable way - this technique applies to human sewage as well as slurry or indeed virtually any waste water,

perhaps from industrial processes

One of the spin-off advantages of this technique is that the pervaporated water vapour can be recovered and,

subject to the method of recovery, is the equivalent of nano-pure water as determined in NASA’s Space Science

Labs in Florida. In essence, the by-product of the technique is pure water


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DTI-d - AD Waste

DTI-d - dewatered AD Waste

AD waste dewatered - from

80 - 85% liquid to 98% solid

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pervaporation

From waste stream to

valuable resource

This technique delivers not

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* Water - Noun - a colourless, odourless, liquid, essential for all life on Earth

DTI-w is able to produce water which is effectively nano pure, researched in NASA’s Space Science

Labs Florida

DTI has been working with NASA to determine the purity of water obtained by the DTI-w technology. In

terms of desalination, the DTI-w technology does not compete with Reverse Osmosis plants,

particularly the massive RO plants found in coastal regions of the Middle East. However it can compete

in regions where there is no RO plant and no chance of one being built anytime soon. It is also far more

environmentally friendly

The technique is to pervaporate water through a Dytyion™ membrane and condense the pervaporate.

It is simple and effective although the water obtained is so pure it needs to have mineral salts added

back into it to make it palatable

Water is essential for all forms of living thing. Whilst there is more than enough water on the planet for

almost any need imaginable, the problem is most of it is contaminated, usually with salt. The DTI-w

solution to the problem is simple and effective. It can be done on a non grid basis, locally, with virtually

no civil engineering. A 40ft shipping container sized unit can produce more than 10,000 gallons a day.


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* Kuwait - Country - situated on the North West coast of the Persian Gulf

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DTI-f has looked at the Worlds resources of water, land, fuel and food. From the previous pages it will

be clear that many of the Worlds problems can be solved with DTI solutions. One area that is stubbornly

limited is the area of land available for farming. It is considered that in excess of 80% of the available

agricultural land is already in use or has been trashed by poor farming practices. There are vast areas

of land not currently suitable for agriculture and it is these areas that DTI-f has turned it’s attention to

DTI-f has designed a building which is able to be virtually self sustaining, can be built almost anywhere

and particularly in desert regions on sand where nothing will normally grow. The key feature of the

design is that the majority of the building’s exterior is in permanent shade and the small area which is in

full sun is actively worked as a solar collector

Farming in a controlled environment is a far more productive way of producing food than in the open air.

Added to which, one acre of surface land can be turned into multiple acres of growing acreage with

multiple growing levels both above and below the surface. Further, with a controlled environment there

is less need for pesticides and herbicides and zero reliance on direct rainfall. Most of the water used to

grow crops can be recovered for re-use. All the ‘waste’ biomass can be turned into cooling or electrical

power and harvesting can be done in any weather, even debilitating sandstorms.

The amount of fresh clean water required to grow crops in a controlled environment is very substantially

less than is required in the open air due to simple recovery systems and reduced losses to evaporation


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There is quite simply not enough

land capable of sustaining

crops to feed the ever rising

numbers of people in the World

Climate Controlled Vertical

Farming is about the only way

enough food can be produced -

in a strange twist of fate, it is

also more environmental and

sustainable

The unique design of the DTI-f

Climate Controlled Vertical Farm

ensures most of the building is in

shade. All the solar gain, even in

hot deserts, it put to use to control

the temperature and growing

environment to maximise crop

yields, which can be as much as 4

to 5 times those of outdoor

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* Power - Noun - the ability to influence others - or maybe activate a machine

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‘Harvesting the power of the Universe’

Reliable Predictable Everlasting* Environmental

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* Interest in renewable energy has been spurred on by the oldest causes of all - necessity, wealth and power - in all senses (some more of those fatal flaws!) - man is now looking to find ‘true’ renewables - ie, natural sources of energy which are not used up faster than they are replenished and which do the least possible harm - ideally no harm - to the environment Wind Power - Solar Power - Wave Power - these are interesting because they are seen as ‘totally renewable’ and ‘essentially totally green’ - these factors tick a lot of boxes. In the case of Wind and Solar Power, the technologies used to harvest these sources of energy are well understood and although efficiency gains are still there to be made, they are very usefully efficient technologies already today. Wave Power technology is lagging a little behind but is gaining ground quickly - the only thing is - Wind Power - depends on the wind - no wind no power - oh heck Solar Power - only works during daylight and only seriously usefully in bright sunlight - limiting Wave Power - depends on the wind - hang on, I’ve heard that recently somewhere . . . We can only boil the kettle during the day or when we have a windy night - oh dear*

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*Greed - Noun - the intense and selfish desire for something - especially - wealth, power or food - sometimes all three

Harvesting natural resources is not a new science - neither is the concept of making use of naturally occurring energy sources - water mills - windmills - these simple devices have been harvesting natural renewable energy for thousands of years - wood - coal - steam - oil - gas - even nuclear energy - these are all naturally occurring sources of energy, man has simply seen an opportunity and exploited what is all around The problem is, man has at least one fatal flaw - greed (there are others trust me on this one) - the inability to know when to stop and the insatiable need to use resources faster than they can be naturally replenished

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These traditional Archimedean Screws require a head and a fall of water to operate and work most efficiently when

only half the thread is immersed in the flow - there are a limited number of installation opportunities and they usually

need significant civil engineering and are often in areas of outstanding natural beauty and are therefore frequently

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The alternative and vastly more versatile Air Lock Archimedean Screw Impeller*

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The DTI-p designed Air Lock

Archimedean Hydro Screw can

be located under the surface in

rivers, generating power as the

flow allows, 24 hours a day,

unseen and relentlessly making

electricity in the centre of

towns or out in the country,

even in national parks and areas

of outstanding natural beauty.

Similarly, in tidal regions, it can

be used to generate power not

from unreliable wind and wave

power but simply from the

totally reliable, perpetual rise

and fall of the tides, working in

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DTI- w DTI-w - waste - the problem of waste is universal and takes many forms, waste food, waste car

tyres, waste paper, waste printer cartridges, waste plastic bottles, slurry, sewage, biomass,

discarded timber, old clothes, waste industrial water, hospital waste, the list is endless, but so is

the DTI-w solution . . .

Metal recycling is a mature valuable trade worth billions a year. Plastic recycling is taking off but

recycled plastics are generally degraded iterations of their former selves. The problem of sewage

is very often pumped into the sea and forgotten about - a crime on any level. Old car tyres are a

problem every corner of the Globe, there are tyre mountains consisting of literally millions of tyres

in many places. Old mattresses are a huge problem everywhere, even in landfill sites where they

cause big problems. Cattle slurry, often simply pumped onto fields or into open festering

evaporation ponds or simply into the desert, an environmental catastrophe visible on Google

Earth.

DTI-w has a solution to virtually every single form of carbon based waste, all the above and almost

everything not mentioned . . . which returns around 97% of it to useful purpose in a different form

and can even return it to new plastic, not degraded low value plastic . . .

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For waste disposal, DTI is already working in partnership developing the total solution. DTI-w’s solution is to de-water any wet carbon based waste and gasify it. Gasification is a closed cycle method of converting ‘waste’ into energy (syngas) with zero emissions and a waste stream of virtually inert ash or bio char which is less than 3% of the treated waste. The gas has very similar characteristics to LPG, used globally for cooking, heating and industrial processes. Waste ceases to be a problem but becomes a valuable resource. Obviously some materials do not need to be de-watered but the technology can take any waste stream in any combination. In traditional gasification the gasifier will not work unless it is fed with a highly segregated single waste stream, wood chip for instance.

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DTI-w & our partners in waste conversion have developed a way to avoid the normal limitations of gasification and the technology can take any mix of waste in any combination on an ever changing basis. This is a unique solution and means that the technology can be used to convert the most difficult and environmentally damaging waste streams and turn them into a valuable resource. Dehydrated sewage and slurry are good cases in point, they make high quality syngas!

Syngas can be simply converted to dimethylether, DME, a fossil fuel replacement, which is extremely clean burning and has a slightly higher energy density than diesel. There are a number of trials of DME powered vehicles, trucks and cars, around the World being run as we speak

The byproduct of dewatering waste by the DTI method above is pure water which can then be used for drinking, irrigation or industrial use

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DTI-w’s gasification is small scale, deliberately. Most commercial gasification is done on a huge scale with highly segregated and homogenised waste streams.

Gasification to electricity on a small scale can deliver reliable power to small town or village scale grid systems as well as solving the waste problem, locally. No more hauling waste.

Furthermore, gasification can generate employment both in the aggregation of waste, the dehydration of any wet waste stream and the management and operational running of the plant. The spin-off benefits of reliable power are almost beyond value to those without and the direct benefit of dealing with virtually 100% of waste in an environmentally sensitive and sustainable way make this a compelling opportunity

There is no other system available today which can do what this technology can

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Many of the DTI technologies you have seen above work as either stand alone applications or in unison. For

instance de-watering and fresh water production. Extend that to de-watering, waste conversion and fresh

water production. The benefits of using the technologies together are that the various elements work

symbiotically, the waste heat from gasification can be harvested and used to enhance dehydration, enhanced

dehydration means less power is required to de-water and therefore there is more power to sell and so on.

DTI is looking for regional or global licensees or partners* to take the technologies to commercial roll out for

the purposes envisaged by DTI as well as opportunities our partners might see in the technology.

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DTI-s has developed a collision avoidance technology which removes the ambiguity and contradictory

signalling of current brake lights

In normal driving conditions the brake lights are simple, dumb, - ‘light on’ - ‘light off’ - signals with no

specific meaning. The signal is generally understood but in reality is non specific, open to

interpretation and more particularly misinterpretation and split second wrong information. This can be

dangerous and lead to accidents, some of which will tragically and unnecessarily fatal

The DTI-s iDBS solution is to take the brake light, enhance it’s capabilities, add intelligence to the

signalling so that it is simply and intuitively able to show not just that the brake pedal is being pressed

but also how heavily the brake is being pressed, any changes to the rate of slowing and also whether a

vehicle is moving and braking or simply stopped. Single meaning clear intuitive signals requiring no

interpretation

Road safety is something which affects us, our children, our wider families, in fact almost everyone. It

is wrong to have dumb - light on - light off - signals which can be, and often are, misinterpreted. DTI-s

has a very low cost solution which will reduce accidents and the misery they cause, costing health

services millions of pouds each year, money that could be better spent on prevention or other less

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Signalling the difference between light braking, heavy braking, changes in the rate of braking as well as

simply and uniquely differentiating between a vehicle which is moving and braking and one which is stopped

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