Hi, I'm Felipe Gomez del Campo and i'm
the founder and the CEO of FCC Plasma Solutions
and i'm here to tell you that the next big thing in airspace is actually small
So, basically the idea with our technology is that we're using a plasma
to change how fuel burns. So the effect
of this has is that you can keep a
flame lit with less fuel. So the benefit
of that is that in situations where
essentially you're just waiting at low power,
for example when you're waiting to
take off and the engines are running and  burning fuel...
if you can keep that flame lit with less fuel.
That would save fuel and save emissions.
To the tune of one to five percent decrease in emissions average
for the entire US airline industry.
which could potentially be very significant.
Most of what I do is a lot of research and development on the technology
to make sure it's ready for the market
Basically what we have here is one of
our burners that we have set up in our
lab here. What we're doing here is we're
lowering the amount of fuel in the
mixture until the flame extinguishes.
As soon as you start to reduce the
amount of fuel the flames doesn't like
it starts to become very unsteady and
eventually it will extinguish, as you can see here.
When we turn on the plasma at
the same amount of fuel the flame is able to exist again.
We can keep the flame lit with less fuel and that could
potentially allow them to save fuel by
reducing their fuel flows at idle.
So this is our first prototype. You can tell it's
sort of cobbled together with hot glue
and parts from the mastercar. It was
designed to be manufactured very
cheaply but it worked well and it proved the concept.
I just finished my Bachelor of Science from Case Western Reserve University in mechanical and aerospace engineer
I'm currently working towards my masters in aerospace engineering, also from Case.
For me, the most rewarding thing about being an engineer
is that as engineers we get to put
science at the service of technology.
So we get to use fundamental
knowledge about the world and us it to
create technology and then we get to
use that technology and put it at the
service of society. We get solve real and
tough problems in our world using
our scientific understanding. As an
entrepreneur I get take that one step
further and make sure that those
solutions actually make it into the
world. So for me that's been a
tremendously rewarding experience
that i would recommend to anyone having
an inkling of a desire to go in into some STEM field.
Because it's a tremendously rewarding career.
