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The Dr.-Rudolf-Eberle-Prize

The prize commemorates the Minister of Economic Affairs, Dr. Rudolf Eberle, who instigated the Innovation Prize for small and middle sized companies in 1984. He passed away shortly thereafter. Since 1985 the prize is awarded annually to a small or middle sized company who has demonstrated an accomplishment in the field of developing a new product, process or technological advancement or utilization of modern technology.

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For further information, please refer to the official homepage of the Economics Ministry of Baden-Württemberg.

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Innovation Prize 2007 for the environmental technology from Ultrawaves

On November 27, 2007 the environmental technology from Ultrawaves was awarded the Baden-Württemberg Dr.-Rudolf-Eberle-Prize. At the prize ceremony at the center of Commerce attended by the deputy mayor, Joachim Karcher, Elke Wildemann – business development – Werner Raab (MdL – member of state assembly) and Gerd Adeler, deputy CEO of the IHK Karlsruhe – the Minister for Economic Affairs, Ernst Pfister, stated: “Innovations are the platform needed for a flourishing economy. The competition indicates that impulses for innovations in many cases come from small and middle sized companies”. Thereafter, the prize was handed to representatives of Ultrawaves and the Baden-Württemberg Karlsbad-Itterbach based partner company, Sonotronic.

The prize was awarded for exemplary development and utilization of the ultrasound reactor for the treatment of biomass. “The combined developmental efforts, between Ultrawaves, the technical University of Hamburg-Harburg and Sonotronic, leading to a fully functioning ultrasound reactor, have led to an improvement in the economics on municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants and on biogas plants, “ said Ingo Nagel, CEO of Sonotronic.

Currently, Ultrawaves is researching the possibility of further applications: The goal is: “The swimming pool without chlorine and an end to red eyes”. Germs and bacteria are to be neutralized by ultrasound, without the addition of chlorine. The test phase began in Hamburg in December and a swimming complex in Heidelberg has also expressed interest in the technology. The ultrasound reactor is already an exported product and is successful in China, Japan, Spain and several other countries. A cost comparison clearly speaks for the ultrasound reactor: “An investment in the million Euro range for an additional anaerobic digester would be unnecessary”, wrote the Pforzheim newspaper in conjunction with the prize ceremony. “There are over 3500 biogas plants in Germany, which can be equipped with an ultrasound reactor. Through the cost effectiveness of the reactor, the investment costs are swiftly remunerated”.

 

For further information, please refer to press articles:
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Innovation Prize for Technology from Hamburg	TUHH Spectrum	02.2008	[download]
Environmental Technology on a High Level	BNN	29.11.2007	[download]
Innovation Prize Documentation	Economics Ministry	12.2007	[download]