Company Name: Advanced Cyclone Systems, S. A. Location / Contacts: Rua de Vilar, 235 3ºE, Edifício Scala 4050-626 Porto | Portugal www.acsystems.pt [email protected] Tel: +351 226 003 268 Foundation: Start of Activity: June 2009 Pedro Ribas Araújo (CEO), Industrial and Management Engineer from FEUP and MBA from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Founders: Romualdo Salcedo (CTO), Professor from the Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP). Other Shareholders: Armilar Venture Partners SCR Brief history of the company, activity and products: ACS was established in May 2008 with the support of the CoHitec program, promoted by Cotec – a Portuguese institution- Applications: Emission Control > Companies whose production processes result in fine particulate emissions to the atmosphere are obliged, al innovation association. ACS is a company dedicated to the development, commercialization and installation of its own particle filtration systems, based on cyclones. These systems are internationally patented and were developed by Romualdo Salcedo, ACS founder, in partnership with FEUP. Main commercialized technologies include numerically optimized high efficiency cyclones (Hurricane) and cyclones with mechanical or electrostatic recirculation (ReCyclone®). This last technology was the winner of the National Environmental Press Award in 2008. The first prototypes tested in the industry by the founder have been working for more than 8 years mainly for particulate emission control in biomass boilers in the cork and wood industries. These good results in the past lead the founders to establish ACS. With an international focus and diverse application fields, ACS is the only company worldwide exclusively dedicated to cyclone systems and uses this technologic platform to solve particle separation problems in several industries. ACS has a quality management system under the norm ISO 9001:2008 certified by Bureau Veritas and accredited by the Portuguese Institute of Accreditation (IPAC). due to more and more restrictive environmental legislation, to control these emissions. In most industrialized countries, companies are compelled to install efficient dedusters to comply with the legally established emission limits. These equipments are usually based in one of the following three technologies: (i) cyclones, (ii) bag filters (BFs) or (iii) electrostatic precipitators (ESPs). Due to its low investment and operation costs, cyclones are the preferred technology for particle collection in most industrial processes, but are unable to offer adequate efficiency levels regarding the majority of the gas emissions types. BFs are financially affordable and very efficient (> 99.9 %), but can be very maintenance demanding in the presence of high temperature or moisture due to frequent changing and cleaning of filter elements. ESPs are robust equipments and are very effective for a given range of dust types. However, ESPs have a limited range of application and, ultimately, the investment and retrofitting costs exceed the budget of small and medium size companies. Hurricane and ReCyclone® systems are based on the same cyclone technological principle, making the difference due to a unique set of geometries and an innovative recirculation system. Due to these technological innovations, these systems show efficiency levels comparable to some bag filters, and present a high efficiency / total cost ratio as its most important competitive advantage. Emission Control Applications: Industrial Hurricanes • Biomass and Coal Combustion • Fuel Oil Combustion • Steel and Ferroalloys • Clinker Cooler and Pre-Heater Dedusting • Pyrolysis, Incineration and Gasification • Calcination Processes • Glass & Ceramic Furnaces • Air Caption and Dedusting • Oil and gas • High Temperature Separation Processes for Energy Re

mechanical/electrostatic recirculator air and particles from the boiler/dryer numerically optimized Hurricane cyclone collected particles Powder Recovery > These systems can also be used in many other applications involving gas-solid separation, mainly for product recovery in industrial processes. This is particularly relevant in industries that process high-valued products under the form of fine powder (pharmaceutical, food, chemical and milling or drying processes in many other industries). ACS is frequently inquired, from the most remote places, for applications that go from food ingredients...