The Wilson Microturbine

This high-performance 300 kW microturbine will dramatically improve energy economics by producing over 50% electrical efficiency

Wilson TurboPower has designed a revolutionary 300 kW microturbine that uses ceramic components and a unique three-stage turbine to achieve a level of operating efficiency estimated by experts to be greater than 50%. Considering the magnitude of improvement over current microturbines and other combustion technologies (which struggle at achieving greater than 35% efficiency), the Wilson Microturbine will dramatically improve the energy economics of many municipalities, commercial businesses, and industrial processes. For some installations, the Wilson Microturbine could even be a profit center.

Critical to achieving an efficiency goal of greater than fifty percent is the high-temperature design and high efficiency of the Wilson regenerator-type heat exchanger which has already met its efficiency design goals in prototype testing. The first prototype of the complete microturbine engine will be developed and tested in 2007.

Current Product Development

A team of distinguished turbomachinery experts is advising and assisting in development and marketing. Beginning in early 2007, the first prototype of a 300 kW Wilson Microturbine will be built, tested, and refined. Current key members of the development advisory team include:

Ceramics advisor

Yet-Ming Chiang, MIT Kyocera Professor of Ceramics and founder of American Superconductor and A123 Systems

Technical and business advisors

Kymus Ginwala, microturbine and heat-exchanger executive, former CEO NREC (now Ingersoll-Rand Microturbines and Concepts NREC)

Lars Malmrup, founder and CTO of Turbec, a former joint venture of Volvo and ABB to develop a microturbine and a ceramic rotary heat exchanger

Ake Almgren, former CEO of Capstone Turbine Corporation, a microturbine company he took public in 2000

Technical and design advisors

George Touchton, former CTO of Solo Microturbines

Jim Kesseli, CEO of Brayton Energy, former Chief Project Engineer for the Ingersoll Rand microturbine and heat exchanger

Tom Wolf, Brayton Energy, former Project Engineer for the Ingersoll Rand microturbine and heat exchanger

Kurt Zimmerman, CEO Zimmerman Aeronautical

Dan Brown, CEO Brown Turbo

Jeff Willis, former Vice President of Technology, Capstone Turbine Corporation

Bjoern Schenk, Business Manager at Honeywell Turbo Technologies, former Manager of Strategic Technologies of Honeywell Engines & Systems and Program Director of Honeywell's DOE-funded Advanced Microturbines Program as well as the Ceramic Turbine Engine Demonstration Program