OUR TECHNOLOGIES
Three platforms. One mission: make clean energy work better.
Arctura applies deep expertise in plasma physics and advanced control systems to solve real, costly problems across the wind energy and chemical industries.
ALP20 Lightning Protection
Lightning is one of the costliest and least-discussed threats to wind farm profitability. Every year, blade damage from lightning strikes costs the industry hundreds of millions of dollars in repairs and lost generation. ALP20, powered by our proprietary ArcGuide® coating technology, addresses this problem at its root.
ALP20 is a specialized topcoat applied directly to wind turbine blades. It redistributes electrical charge across the blade surface, guiding lightning attachment to the receptor system rather than allowing damaging punctures. Independent testing has validated a 73% reduction in blade damage. Applied once during manufacturing, retrofit, or repair, ALP20 lasts the lifetime of the blade with no aerodynamic penalty and no recurring cost.
ALP20 is commercially available today, manufactured in partnership with Mankiewicz.
Distributed Nitric Acid Synthesis
Nitric acid is a critical industrial chemical — used in fertilizers, semiconductors, aerospace components, and dozens of other applications. Today it is produced almost exclusively at large, centralized facilities using fossil fuel-intensive processes, then shipped long distances to end users. The result is a supply chain that is expensive, emissions-heavy, and surprisingly fragile.
Arctura's low-temperature plasma technology produces nitric acid from just air, water, and electricity — no fossil fuels and no complex feedstocks required. Because the process is modular and scalable, it enables point-of-use production: manufacturers can produce the acid they need, where they need it, at potentially lower cost than delivered alternatives.
This technology is currently in development with support from the U.S. Department of Energy. We are actively seeking industrial partners and investors to accelerate its path to commercialization.
eXSeek™ Wind Farm Optimization
Wind turbines in a farm don't operate independently — the wake of each turbine affects the wind available to those downstream. Conventional approaches to optimizing this interaction rely on physics-based models that require detailed site characterization and struggle to adapt to real-world variability.
eXSeek™ takes a fundamentally different approach. Our extremum seeking control algorithm treats the wind farm as a dynamic system and finds the optimal operating point — including yaw angles for wake steering — entirely from live SCADA data. No physics model is required, no site-specific calibration, and no new hardware. The algorithm adapts continuously as wind conditions change, capturing energy that conventional fixed-setpoint control leaves on the table.
eXSeek™ is being developed under an active NSF STTR grant in collaboration with Professor Mario Rotea at UT Dallas, with field testing underway at a commercial wind farm operated by Leeward Renewable Energy.
Our Collaborators
Arctura works alongside leading research universities, national laboratories, and industry partners to develop and validate our technologies.
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We're always open to conversations with wind energy operators, industrial partners, and investors who share our conviction that hard technology can solve hard problems.
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