Environmental Solutions Worldwide, Inc. (ESWW)

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$700k Grant for XTRM Cat

Environmental Solutions Worldwide, Inc Awarded $731,000 Grant for EPA Verification of the XTRM Cat Marine/ Locomotive Catalyst

Tuesday April 7, 2009, 9:30 am EDT

Print.CONCORD, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Environmental Solutions Worldwide Inc. (OTCBB: ESWW - News) (Frankfurt Stock Exchange FWB: EOW) announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary ESW America Inc. (ESWA) has been awarded a $731,000.00 grant for Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) verification of the Company’s proprietary XTRM Cat™ Marine/Locomotive catalyst technology from the Texas Environmental Research Consortium (TERC) and the Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC).

This new grant is intended to support ESWA in the final testing of the XTRM Cat™ technology in real-world applications along with providing a platform for EPA verification. In March of 2009 the EPA finalized more stringent emissions standards for locomotives and marine compression-ignition engines opening the door for this exciting newly regulated market. (1.)

This grant is made possible by the New Technology Research and Development (NTRD) Program which was created in 2001 by the 77th Texas Legislature. The NTRD Program is funded by the State of Texas through the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). NTRD grants are designed to expedite the commercialization of new and innovative emission reduction technologies that will improve the air quality of Texas.

For more information about HARC, please visit: http://www.harc.edu/
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Yiqun Huang Ph.D., NTRD Program Director for HARC, remarked “We would like to see this important technology to be demonstrated with EPA verification test so that it can be accepted and commercially available for retrofitting locomotive and marine diesels to reduce their emissions. I believe just like diesel oxidation catalyst and diesel particulate filter for current on-road and offroad diesel applications, technologies like XTRM Cat™ will have an important role in reducing emissions from locomotive and marine engines.”

Mr. David J. Johnson, ESW's President and CEO commented, “We believe this new grant underscores the confidence TERC/HARC has in our Company’s ability to provide tangible real world results which will in turn provide significant contributions towards cleaning the air quality in Texas. We are looking forward to implementing the XTRM Cat™ infield demonstration and final EPA verification testing. We believe, once the EPA verifies, the XtrmCat™, it will give the Company a competitive edge in the marine/locomotive emissions retrofit sector of the Industry.”

“ESWA has been awarded the grant in part due to the significant progress and success that was achieved with the XTRM Cat™ on Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) 2-stroke diesel engines during the previous $250,000 TERC/HARC grant received in 2007. Mr. Johnson further remarked, The EMD design engines are standard equipment on Marine/Locomotive applications in North American with a population demographic in excess of 40 thousand units in operation.”