Who We Are
We are a ClimateTech energy-conversion systems developer and low-carbon solutions provider, which levers our highly efficient and reversible advanced gas compression/expansion technology to decarbonize numerous industries and processes. Our game-changing product offerings target the following applications:
- Pressure-to-Power
- Heat-to-Power
- Long-Duration Energy Storage (LDES)
- H2 Compression for Hydrogen Refueling Stations (HRS)
- CO2 Compression & Transportation
- Gas-to-Liquids and Small-Scale LNG
- Water Desalination and Minerals Recovery
Our Mission
Accelerate The Energy Transition by developing systems, using our innovative gerotor machines to convert various types of energy like pressure, heat and others into low carbon electricity.
To reduce our impact on the environment, the greatest single lever we have is to make the essential transformations between those fundamental forms of energy more efficient.
Our History
StarRotor Corporation was born at Texas A&M University, where aspiring engineers and agriculturalists learn about energy and environment. To feed, clothe, and house over seven billion people, the world must harness massive amounts of energy. That energy must be converted into fertilizer, fuels, and electricity, and be delivered to many points of use. Almost every industrial process involves multiple transformations between heat, pressure, shaft power, and electricity. The productivity of an economy, and its environmental footprint, are greatly influenced by the efficiency with which those transformations and transfers occur.
The founder of StarRotor Corporation, Dr. Mark Holtzapple and collaborators were seeking a compact, highly efficient compressor to handle large volumes of low-density water vapor. Gerotors, which have been used to pump lubricating oil for almost a century, offered the potential to deliver the necessary performance characteristics. However, traditional gerotor machines could not be used as compressors because of metal-to-metal contact between the rotors. Adapting gerotors for gas compression and expansion was challenging, but the results have the potential to enable fundamental improvements in an extremely wide range of applications, from gas gathering, to waste heat recovery, to desalination, to engines.
For over two decades, StarRotor operated as a research and development company funded primarily by angel investors and some strategic customers, who believe in our potential to transform multiple industries while protecting the environment and reducing emissions. Thanks to our innovative, hard work and perseverance culture as well as to the support of our employees and investors, we have now sufficiently de-risked the core technology and refine its applications such we can quickly test and deploy them across the fast growing multi-billion-dollar energy transition market.