Fortune Magazine
Texas smackdown: The winners
Too much trash. Not enough energy. These are the problems Priyanka Bakaya aims to solve with her clean-tech company PK Clean. You can't accuse her of being an underachiever.
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Too much trash. Not enough energy. These are the problems Priyanka Bakaya aims to solve with her clean-tech company PK Clean. You can't accuse her of being an underachiever.
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CNN / Money
Startup turns trash into oil
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MIT Entrepreneurship News
Cleaning Up at the Super Bowl of Business Plan Competitions
Priyanka Bakaya wants to increase our supply of oil without increased drilling.
Her solution? One word – plastics.
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Priyanka Bakaya wants to increase our supply of oil without increased drilling.
Her solution? One word – plastics.
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Harvard Business Review
Our Future Business Leaders Are All About Green
If these entrepreneurs are our future business titans, then I'm feeling pretty good about where we're headed. In short, next-gen leaders want to build businesses that solve sustainability problems.
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If these entrepreneurs are our future business titans, then I'm feeling pretty good about where we're headed. In short, next-gen leaders want to build businesses that solve sustainability problems.
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Business Insider
10 Reflections On 2 Business Plan Competitions: Disproportionately Male
Priyanka Bakaya of MIT and PK Clean, another finalist, won the $10,000 nCourage Courageous Women Entrepreneur Prize.
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Priyanka Bakaya of MIT and PK Clean, another finalist, won the $10,000 nCourage Courageous Women Entrepreneur Prize.
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Department of Energy
Meeting the Next Generation of Energy Entrepreneurs at MIT Showcase
Tuesday afternoon I had the honor of sharing the MIT Clean Energy Prize Showcasefloor with 25 teams of America’s most promising entrepreneurs. Representing the best in class...
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Tuesday afternoon I had the honor of sharing the MIT Clean Energy Prize Showcasefloor with 25 teams of America’s most promising entrepreneurs. Representing the best in class...
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Indian Express
From Waste to Oil
Among the six winners of this year’s Business Plan Competition conducted by Rice University, Texas, was PK Clean Technologies, which bagged the third position for an environment-friendly technology it uses to recover energy from waste products. PK Clean also won MIT’s Clean Energy Prize under the non-renewable category.
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Among the six winners of this year’s Business Plan Competition conducted by Rice University, Texas, was PK Clean Technologies, which bagged the third position for an environment-friendly technology it uses to recover energy from waste products. PK Clean also won MIT’s Clean Energy Prize under the non-renewable category.
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Dallas News
Environmental Winners at Rice University’s Business Plan Super Bowl
The PK Clean technology would result in less hazardous waste as well as provide alternative energy sources. The pilot has the potential to convert 20 tons of plastic waste into 80 barrels of fuel each day.
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The PK Clean technology would result in less hazardous waste as well as provide alternative energy sources. The pilot has the potential to convert 20 tons of plastic waste into 80 barrels of fuel each day.
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Boston Herald
Contest finalist turns fat into jet fuel
PK Clean of Cambridge, which has developed a patented process to transform plastic waste into fuel oil.
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EE Times Asia
Universities to help drive energy savings innovations
PK Clean has patented a process for making fuel from discarded plastic, thereby transforming mountains of waste into barrels of oil. The process would allow the team to tap into the multibillion-dollar fuel market.
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PK Clean has patented a process for making fuel from discarded plastic, thereby transforming mountains of waste into barrels of oil. The process would allow the team to tap into the multibillion-dollar fuel market.
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Design News
Winning MIT Idea: Convert Plastic Trash to Diesel Fuel
Plastics remain the bane of many environmentalists, but aspiring venture capitalists seem to see polymers in a different light. Their intriguing idea? Conversion of plastic waste into diesel fuel. That should stop all the trash talk about plastics.
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Plastics remain the bane of many environmentalists, but aspiring venture capitalists seem to see polymers in a different light. Their intriguing idea? Conversion of plastic waste into diesel fuel. That should stop all the trash talk about plastics.
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Greentech Media
Solar Fridges and Low-Sulfur Jet Fuels: Live From MIT’s Energy Prize
The finalist for the “clean non-renewables” category, PK Clean aims to turn landfill plastics into oil through a patented catalytic depolymerization process that it is now testing in a 20-ton-per-day pilot facility.
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The finalist for the “clean non-renewables” category, PK Clean aims to turn landfill plastics into oil through a patented catalytic depolymerization process that it is now testing in a 20-ton-per-day pilot facility.
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