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James Kwok CPEng; FIEAust; MCMechE; FAIM; NPER1; Chartered Professional Engineer and Fellow Institution of Engineers Australia.

Is the inventor/technologist of numerous world patents pending including vortexodial turbine for wind energy; vortexodial turbine for wave energy; PortalGen and Solar-Prism for solar PV. Holds granted Patents for the commercially ready technology, hydrodynamic-cycle for deep water pressure energy conversion technology (Hidro+). In 2008 Professor Ion Boldea of Politehnica University, Romania joined as a co-developer in Hidro+'s multi-module tower linear electric generator (MTLEG) technology, the Hidro+ MTLEG joint patent between James Kwok and Professor Ion Boldea is currently world patent pending.

During the 90s to 2000, owned engineering and construction firm Energy Equipment (EE Power Systems), conducting research and development and commercial project deployments in renewable energy technologies. Leading teams on many projects including Fluidized-Bed Reactor as proprietary Technology (FBR) using CO2 gas-recycling to control high temperatures projects. The FBR large steam generator plants (up to 25t/h) using lignite as fuels, these plants are in commercial operation throughout Australia for major industries, such as the 1993 plant built for Joe White Malting in Tamworth, NSW. In 1995 designed and built a 30,000Nm3/hr commercial environmental coal gasification plant using lignite (brown-coal) as fuels, completed in Henan Province PRChina for State owned Steel company, Lou Yang Heavy Machineries. This plant is still in commercial operation producing gas for steel works furnaces and high quality (de-sulphurized gas) for households town gas. Other plants include in 1996 a commercial plant using 25t/d waste-water treatments sludge as feedstock, part of a bio-diesel production plant for Waste Management Authority at Subiaco Waste Water Works, in Western Australia. This FBR technology was also tested as being suitable for environmental coal liquefaction process using high moisture low calorific value brown coal/lignite. In 1998 James Kwok initiated and co-developed with Prof Dr Udo Hellwig of ERK Germany the unique integrated 'shell-tubes' rated at 35t/h superheated steam generator at T400dC and P40barg to power 7MWt steam-turbine which was incorporated in the EE Power Systems proprietary and patented Fluidized-Bed Reactor Technology (FBR). The FBR processes includes low-temperature gasification followed by high-temperature combustion, commercially verified by independent experts as meeting the world's best practice for power generation using either fossils and organic materials such as biomass, coal and lignite (brown coal). Designed and completed a large-scale (5MWe) biomass (70,000 t/yr garden pruning waste) renewable power plant in 1999. This plant includes a specially designed and commercially completed 25m high FBR-boiler rated at 35t/h and T400dC constructed as an embedded generator for an Industrial complex in South East Queensland, Australia. In 2001 this plant was granted with Australia's first renewable energy generation and transmission license, and renewable energy certification from the Australian Greenhouse Office (AGO in Canberra). In 2002 this plant was successfully commissioned with independent experts verifications to meeting designed performances and emissions abatements.

Working on a multitude of engineering projects James Kwok has seen first hand the inefficiency, availability, affordability, reliability and feedstock issues associated with power generation today and came to the conclusion that the only practical solution for continuous power generation had to come from nature and as a result the curiosity he formed as a child with the great mathematician & engineer Archimedes was reignited.

Hidro+ has emerged through hard work, practical applications, working prototypes and demonstration unit in order to provide you with a truly sustainable energy generator.

James Kwok is a Member of the Australian College of Mechanical Engineers and in Panel of the Australian National Registered Professional Engineers. Inventor and Developer in Renewable Energy Generation Technologies.