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Interview with Mark Holtzapple of StarRotor Continuous Cycle Engine

At about half the size of a normal car engine, the concept is purportedly two to three times more efficient than conventional internal combustion engines, anticipating 60 to 90 mpg once integrated into automotive applications.

StarRotor

Mark Holtzapple

COLLEGE STATION, TX, USA -- On Sept. 9, 2006, from 3:00 to 3:55 pm Pacific time, Sterling D. Allan of PES Network (PESN) will be doing a live interview with Mark Holtzapple, co-inventor of the StarRotor Continuous Cycle Engine.

The technology, which PESN highlighted last year, is featured this month in Popular Science magazine in an article titled 'The Race to 100 MPG".

Holtzapple, a professor of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M, was attempting to build a better air conditioner when he came upon the concept that is now the StarRotor engine. What he came up with is a compact Brayton-cycle engine capable of being powered by any type of fuel. The Brayton-cycle engine is the same thermodynamic cycle employed by jet engines.

The basic concept in Holtzapple's design is that the exhaust heats the incoming air enabling an efficiency of up to 65%, which is two or three times more efficient than the conventional internal combustion engine. Most existing engines waste a majority of the fuel energy out the exhaust and radiator.

At five years old, the company is now closing its third contract to build a compressor commercially; and hopes to eventually penetrate the automobile industry. While they have the compressor portion of the engine perfected, they have yet to refine the expander portion to a point that they can produce it commercially. Once that is done, the number of applications will increase substantially.

Holtzapple is presently being featured on the Texas A&M Engineering website's "Distinguished Lecture Series" page. He was one of two TAMU professors selected in the 2005-2006 school year to receive this distinction. The feature page includes links to his lecture and power point presentation, which addresses the StarRotor technology.

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