The Katrix technology is an innovative fluid processing technology able to pump or compress, expand, or internally combust various fluids. It represents a new class of and a breakthrough in positive displacement machines. Its unique limaçon motion with in-built pressure characteristics and sinusoidal volumetric relationships results in compression-expansion machines that have:

• Leading power to size-weight ratio
• Leading efficiency across a wide operating range
• High torque, low speed power that allows compact, low cost, direct drive coupling
• Low count of simple to manufacture parts

Katrix’s fluid motors, like turbines, are devices that generate rotational power from the expansion of appropriate gases or liquids. Current expander technologies are typically not suited to small-scale systems or low-grade energy sources. The performance, efficiency and economy of Katrix expanders meet the requirements for commercially viable small-scale power systems.

Product applications are diverse as Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) systems that would replace batteries for Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS), CAES systems using powerful air motors for vehicle propulsion, micro Combined heat and Power (CHP) systems using low cost solar thermal energy, and compact power compounding systems that can use the waste heat from engines to generate additional, free, clean power.

Many of these applications will be enabled economically for the first time at the 1-50 kW power range. The Company has working prototypes of its initial products that have been tested by independent third parties, and seeks global application development partners to incorporate its products into specific systems.

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