Our Mission

Decarbonizing Natural Gas Infrastructure

Our Core Values

Easy to Build

Minimal custom engineering keeps cost down

Skid mounted unit includes full balance of plant

Easy to Install

Modular, plug-and-play design allows for seamless integration with existing infrastructure

Easy to Operate & Maintain

Active magnetic bearings minimize wear parts

No customer oversight required

Lifetime maintenance service contract

100% Reliable

Installed in-parallel with existing pressure regulating valve

Isolates in less than 1.5 seconds and fails safe back to existing regulating valves

Anax Turboexpander

The ATE-500 harnesses wasted energy to generate clean power. 

Anax Management

Chief Executive Officer

As Chief Executive Officer of Anax Power, Mr. Longo manages and oversees the company’s engineering, manufacturing, operations, and sales activities….

Director, EMEA

As Director of Energy, Mr. O’Rourke drives the company’s growth through operational excellence. Mr. O’Rourke is an accomplished executive…

ATE Design Engineer

As ATE Design Engineer, Jerry Oselador oversees the technical development of the 500kW ATE. Jerry specializes in bridging the…

Lead Aerodynamic Engineer

In his role as Lead Aerodynamic Engineer, Dr. Burlaka oversees the aerodynamic design of the Anax Turboexpander. He is…

Head of Business Development

As Head of Business Development at Anax Power, Mr. Longo coordinates the sales, marketing, and operations activities of the…

Engineering Consultant

As an engineering consultant, Dr. Moroz oversees SoftInWay’s engineering contributions to the 400kW Anax Turboexpander. He is the founder…

Business Development

At Anax Power, Mr. Halstead focuses on developing growth opportunities for the Anax business in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Turboexpander Engineering Partners

THE TEAM TESTS THE ASTE IN FERRYHILL, SCOTLAND. (2017)
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Joseph Longo, P.E.

Chief Executive Officer

As Chief Executive Officer of Anax Power, Mr. Longo manages and oversees the company’s engineering, manufacturing, operations, and sales activities. Mr. Longo is a Licensed Professional Electrical Engineer and President of Longo Electrical-Mechanical, Inc., a leading independent electromechanical engineering service and sales firm headquartered in Wharton, New Jersey. He is a senior member of the Association of Energy Engineers and a past President of New York’s Metropolitan Chapter of the Electrical Apparatus & Service Association.

Mr. Longo is a graduate of The University of Notre Dame and of the Owner/President Management Program at Harvard Business School. He has been a board member of the Morris County Chamber of Commerce, Jersey Battered Women’s Services, and the Chair of the Corporate Development Council for Habitat for Humanity.

As Director of Energy, Mr. O’Rourke drives the company’s growth through operational excellence. Mr. O’Rourke is an accomplished executive with a 25-year track record of growing businesses in the energy sector. He has extensive knowledge of US markets in the areas of energy efficiency, distributed generation, and utility demand-side management. His demonstrated ability to set strategy and manage business model execution has resulted in market leadership and multi-million dollar organic growth for the firms under his leadership.

Before Anax, Mr. O’Rourke was the President and CEO of Lime Energy, a national energy and renewable energy company providing services to private and governmental clients. Mr. O’Rourke was responsible for all facets of the Company including market development, product development and operations . Under his leadership, Lime Energy grew revenue from $24 million to $100 million in just under four years.

Previously, Mr. O’Rourke was also the CEO of Applied Energy Management and VP of Engineering & Operations, for Duke Solutions, the unregulated arm of Duke Energy.

Jerry Oselador

ATE Design Engineer

As ATE Design Engineer, Jerry Oselador oversees the technical development of the 500kW ATE. Jerry specializes in bridging the gap between theoretical and ‘real-world’ performance for complex technical systems.

Jerry brings over 40 years developing, implementing, and troubleshooting controls systems. This experience includes designing and operating multiple turboexpander systems and other industrial equipment. Additionally, Jerry has over 25 years of experience with various Programmable Logic Controlled Systems with computer interfaces.

Before Anax, Jerry was a Senior Controls Specialist at Longo Electrical-Mechanical in Wharton, NJ. His experience also includes managing the automations and controls systems at the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission, one of the largest wastewater treatment facilities in the country.

Dr. Maksym Burlaka

Lead Aerodynamic Engineer

In his role as Lead Aerodynamic Engineer, Dr. Burlaka oversees the aerodynamic design of the Anax Turboexpander. He is also SoftInWay’s Lead Aerodynamics Engineer and specializes in flow path optimization, advanced 3D blade design, aerodynamics and CFD analysis and has published over 25 technical journals and papers. Dr. Burlaka holds his PhD in Rotodynamic Machines and Turbine Plants from the Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute

Dr. Burlaka’s experience includes:

  • Design and optimization of steam turbines for mechanical drives.
  • Development and design of advanced turbomachinery flow paths for steam turbines.
  • Lead developer for high efficiency SCO2 power cycle.
  • Developing supersonic profiles for steam turbines.
  • Developed mathematical model for supersonic nozzle loss calculation for a variety of expansion ratios at partial mode of operation and embedded in AxSTREAM software.
  • 3D blade design and CFD analysis for compound lean of blades.

Michael Longo

Head of Business Development

As Head of Business Development at Anax Power, Mr. Longo coordinates the sales, marketing, and operations activities of the business on a daily basis. He has given presentations on Anax for the American Gas Assocation (AGA), Petroleum Technology Alliance of Canada (PTAC), the Southern Gas Association (SGA), the Gas Technology Institute (GTI), and more. Prior to Anax, Mr. Longo worked as a consultant for BTS, where he helped Fortune 500 companies execute their corporate strategies.

Mr. Longo holds a BA in Economics with a minor in Political Science from Middlebury College, where he was a member of the men’s ice hockey team.

Dr. Leonid Moroz

Engineering Consultant

As an engineering consultant, Dr. Moroz oversees SoftInWay’s engineering contributions to the 475kW Anax Turboexpander. He is the founder of SoftInWay Group, and has extensive experience in the turbomachinery field. Upon graduation from Kharkov Polytechnic Institute (Ukraine) in 1982, Dr. Moroz held various positions at NPO TURBOATOM prior to founding SoftInWay to design, analyze and optimize axial and radial turbines, pumps and compressors.

Dr. Moroz’s extensive experience includes:

  • Design of flow path for gas turbines with power ranges up to 35MW and above.
  • Analysis of transient operating conditions (start-ups, shut-downs and etc.) and low-cycle fatigue of the most thermally stressed high temperature components of steam turbines for fossil (220MW, 300MW) and nuclear  (500 MW, 750MW and 1000MW) power plants.
  • Special thermal field testing of 750 MW and 1000MW steam turbine HP and LP cylinders.
  • Conceptual optimized design of gas/steam axial turbines for a wide range of power outputs.
  • Design of last stage blades for LP steam turbines up to 1030 mm/ 3000 rpm.

Matthew Halstead

Business Development

Mr. Halstead has more than 10 years of experience working in the energy sector. At Anax Power, Mr. Halstead focuses on developing growth opportunities for the Anax business in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Mr. Halstead has a track record leading publicly funded energy sector decarbonization projects in The Netherlands, across Europe under the European Horizon 2020 framework programme, and globally. Mr. Halstead also works for the Applied Scientific Research Centre of the Netherlands, TNO. Prior to Anax and TNO, he worked in the investment management industry where he helped manage investment portfolios for corporate pension fund clients. Mr. Halstead holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics and two Master of Science degrees, one in Computer Science and the other in Environment and Resource Management.