New IE Engine for Zhenit project
Company GLUAL hydraulics has completed the production of the IE Engine developed for the Zhenit project.
Energy of the Future!
We develop revolutionary technologies for energy conversion and offer unique products and solutions for your business
Encontech B.V. is a spin-off of the University of Twente, founded in 2005
Our focus is on externally heated engines and compression chemical reactors.
Our expertise lies in the fusion of engineering skills and scientific knowledge, positioning us as leaders in heat-to-mechanical energy conversion.
Why Encontech
Our Products and Solutions
With over 20 years of R&D, we’ve developed the innovative Isobaric Expansion technology, solving the cost issue of low temperature heat engines (such as ORC), and a groundbreaking chemical reactor concept — the pulsed compression chemical reactors.
Isobaric Expansion Technology
Converts heat to mechanical energy or electricity with unsurpassed efficiency, eliminating costly and complex expansion stages found in conventional heat engines. Our IE engines offer a simple, reliable, and cost-effective design that significantly reduces thermal and mechanical losses and enables efficient use of low-temperature heat sources.
IE engines deliver energy in a very convenient hydraulic or pneumatic form that can be converted to any other form of energy, and therefore they can also perform all known operations of existing heat engines. Several different heat engines have successfully been tested in the laboratory using hot water as the heat source and tap water as the heat sink for diverse applications like pumps, compressors, and power generators
Pulsed Compression Technology
Allows chemical transformations at extreme temperatures and pressures unattainable by other methods. This technology could revolutionize the chemical and petrochemical industry by producing liquid fuels not from oil, but from natural gas and ethylene, the most important chemical, from methane.
Our projects
Encontech cooperates with many industrial companies, research centers and universities including:
Encontech has successfully participated and continues to participate in various national and international energy-related projects
Application
Our company is ready to show the possibilities and
usefulness of our technologies in your industry
Isobaric expansion technology is very versatile. Anyone with waste heat can benefit from our heat engines by converting waste energy into mechanical energy or electricity, thereby improving energy efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
This technology enables the efficient conversion of low-temperature heat into usable energy, addressing the main challenge faced by conventional low-temperature heat engines — high costs. Examples of promising applications include:
The pulsed compression technology is designed for carrying out chemical transformations at extreme temperatures and pressures which cannot be performed by the known methods, in a very efficient manner. The most important applications are:
- Production of synthesis gas from various gaseous, liquid and solid hydrocarbons.
- Direct conversion of natural gas (methane) to ethylene, acetylene, hydrogen, carbon black by (hydro/oxy-) pyrolysis of methane and other hydrocarbons.
- Olefin production by dehydrogenation of paraffins.
- Direct synthesis of nitric oxide from nitrogen and oxygen, and hydrogen cyanide from nitrogen and hydrocarbons.
- Controlled generation of monodisperse ceramic, metallic, and amorphous nanoparticles by thermal decomposition of appropriate precursors (carbonyl- and organometallic compounds, salts, etc.).
- Thermal destruction of impurities that are discharged in industrial process exhausts (air cleaning) and toxic compounds.
- High pressure processes – polymerization, hydrogenation, hydroformylation etc.
- Processing of “difficult” feeds such as coal powder and slurries, oil residues, shales or sands, biomass and biomass derived liquids and industrial wastes.
- Fisher-Tropsch or methanol/DME synthesis.
We are a cutting-edge spin-off company of the University of Twente, established in 2005
We are renowned as international experts in Isobaric Expansion (IE) technology, a breakthrough heat-to-mechanical energy conversion process.
Encontech is equipped with significant infrastructure, including a unique pilot plant for testing process equipment, co-designed with Shell and constructed by Zeton B.V. This fully automated pilot plant, housed within a container, serves as an autonomous laboratory for testing and innovation. Additionally, we possess in-house developed heat engines capable of converting heat to mechanical energy with a power capacity of up to 100 kW.
Our founder
Alexander Kronberg
Founder and managing director of the company, is an expert in fluid mechanics, chemical reaction engineering and process development. He holds two doctorate degrees, in Fluid Mechanics and Chemical Engineering, published about 80 scientific papers, 60 scientific reports and a co-authored book. During his tenure at universities, he has supervised or co-supervised 23 M.Sc. dissertations and 5 Ph.D. theses.
Alexander believes that industry and society will take note of the value of the proposed technologies and embrace their wide application.