Nirvana's Thermoacoustic Power System (TAPS™) is a NASA-derived Stirling engine-based platform that converts heat into electricity, cooling, heating, and hot water using a near-solid-state architecture with no compressors, no refrigerants, and near-zero moving parts.
TAPS is designed to scale from ultra-small applications, such as personal cooling or night vision goggles, to 25 kW+ per individual unit, with modular daisy-chained deployments capable of supporting MW-scale data center, industrial, defense, commercial building, and residential energy needs.
With Nirvana's proprietary linear actuator technology achieving approximately 90% electro-mechanical efficiency, Nirvana has developed one of the world's most advanced power generation, refrigerant-free heat pump, and cryogenic cooling platforms.
Nirvana TAPS™ is engineered to deliver reliable energy services from a single modular architecture: electricity, cooling, heating, hot water, and deep cryogenic cooling.
TAPS converts thermal energy into useful power and cooling through high-efficiency thermoacoustic processes. The same core platform can be configured for power generation, refrigerant-free heat pumps, industrial thermal management, hot water, and cryocooling.
Originally developed for deep-space missions where maintenance is impossible and reliability is critical, TAPS is designed for decades of maintenance-free operation in the world's most demanding environments.
The platform can leverage electricity, natural gas, hydrogen, geothermal, solar thermal, JP-8, waste heat, and other renewable or conventional heat sources.
Conventional power and cooling systems rely on compressors, refrigerants, combustion-heavy architectures, and complex mechanical systems that increase maintenance, downtime, and operating cost.
TAPS uses a near-solid-state architecture with no compressors, no refrigerants, and near-zero moving parts, enabling a more durable, quieter, lower-maintenance product platform.
By solving longstanding challenges that limited conventional Stirling engine adoption—including size, power density, high-temperature operation, system complexity, and scalability—Nirvana has created a practical thermoacoustic platform for mainstream energy markets.
Nirvana's Thermoacoustic Power System converts thermal energy into acoustic energy, then transforms that energy into electricity and cooling through high-efficiency linear alternators and thermoacoustic processes. Unlike conventional systems that depend on compressors, refrigerants, and complex mechanical assemblies, TAPS delivers power and cooling through a near-solid-state architecture engineered for long-life operation.
Nirvana's TAPS™ platform is engineered for modular deployment, allowing customers to start with a single unit and expand capacity as requirements grow. Whether powering a remote sensor, supporting a residential energy system, enabling distributed industrial operations, or supplying power and cooling for AI infrastructure, the same core thermoacoustic platform scales seamlessly from picowatts to 25+ kW per unit and multi-megawatt deployments through modular expansion.
Multiple TAPS units can be interconnected into intelligent distributed energy networks, providing scalable power generation, cooling, heating, and thermal management without the complexity of traditional infrastructure. This modular architecture allows organizations to add capacity incrementally, reducing upfront capital requirements while maintaining deployment flexibility.
Every TAPS system is connected through Nirvana's IoT-enabled operating platform, providing real-time monitoring, remote command and control, predictive diagnostics, and fleet-wide performance visibility. Combined with machine learning optimization algorithms, Nirvana continuously maximizes efficiency, reliability, uptime, and economic performance across individual units and entire distributed fleets.
Heating, cooling, hot water, and distributed power for homes, commercial properties, and high-efficiency building systems.
Modular power and thermal management for industrial sites, remote facilities, critical infrastructure, and fuel-flexible energy systems.
Multiple TAPS units can operate together to provide greater levels of power and cooling for larger facilities and campuses.
Modular arrays can support behind-the-meter MW-scale deployments for AI infrastructure, data centers, manufacturing, and industrial energy users.
Nirvana's core thermoacoustic platform can be configured into multiple high-value products across power, cooling, heating, and deep-temperature applications.
TAPS can convert thermal energy into electricity using high-amplitude acoustic waves that drive linear alternators.
TAPS can provide refrigerant-free heating and cooling without conventional compressor-based HVAC architecture.
Nirvana's technology can be configured for ultra-low-temperature cooling applications below -80°C.
Nirvana is partnering with leading organizations across AI infrastructure, data centers, distributed energy, industrial systems, defense, commercial buildings, and residential markets to deploy a new generation of resilient, fuel-flexible, and sustainable energy solutions.
Behind-the-meter power, cooling, and heat recovery for AI facilities facing grid constraints, rising cooling loads, and power availability challenges.
Convert waste heat, renewable thermal energy, or conventional fuels into useful power, heating, cooling, and process thermal management.
Quiet, low-maintenance, fuel-flexible power and thermal management for extreme environments, remote bases, and mission-critical operations.
Refrigerant-free heating, cooling, hot water, and distributed energy for buildings, homes, and high-efficiency comfort systems.
TAPS eliminates the need for traditional refrigerant-based cooling cycles, reducing environmental and regulatory exposure.
The platform avoids conventional compressor-based HVAC architecture, reducing mechanical complexity and maintenance burden.
The near-solid-state architecture supports long-life, low-maintenance operation in demanding environments.
TAPS can leverage electricity, natural gas, hydrogen, geothermal, solar thermal, JP-8, waste heat, and other heat sources.
Deploy a single unit or connect multiple units together to increase capacity for larger facilities and MW-scale systems.
One core platform can support electricity, cooling, heating, hot water, and cryogenic cooling across multiple markets.
Nirvana is seeking partners across data centers, AI infrastructure, industrial energy, defense, commercial buildings, and residential markets to accelerate deployment of TAPS-based power, cooling, heating, hot water, and cryocooling systems.
