GOING WITH THE FLOW
Professor Tom Povey , Oxford Flow Technical Director industry and academia . CEO Simon Hombersley is the industrial entrepreneur behind energy efficient compressor Lontra and former chairman of Oxford based start-up TwentyNinety , which developed a wireless management and control system for photovoltaics , and founded the innovation consultancy Puntios .
Designer of the regulator and Oxford Flow ’ s technical director , Professor
Tom Povey , is a former Rolls-Royce Industrial Fellow , whose work through the Osney Thermo-Fluids Laboratory has also involved projects with Siemens , Qinetiq and GKN . Professor Povey is known for his energysaving saucepan , the Flare Pan .
Professor Povey identified the need for the valve while researching jet engines . He ’ d been working with high flow rates of compressed gas
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