Fuel-Flexible Combustion
Combustion hardware for hydrogen, hydrocarbons, and blends, developed around stable operation, controlled emissions, and safe transients.
Fuel and safety envelope
Hydrogen combustion systems
Hydrogen-Ready Gas Turbines.
Compact micro gas turbine hardware for critical loads, cleaner backup power, and propulsion pathways.
50-200 kW
Target microturbine class
Fuel-flexible
Hydrogen, blends, and hydrocarbons under validation
Mission
Build useful turbine systems.
Hycosys is developing compact gas turbine platforms for cleaner, resilient, and high-performance power across demanding applications.
Technology
A compact recuperated micro gas turbine developed as one integrated machine, from fuel-flexible combustion and compact heat exchange to high-speed rotating hardware and rapid iteration.
Compact Heat Exchanger
Recuperator and heat-exchanger hardware developed for pressure loss, thermal cycling, weight, and manufacturable efficiency.
Thermal effectivenessHigh-Speed Rotating System
Radial compressor, turbine, rotor, bearings, and generator co-developed for variable load, long life, and controllable operating margins.
Speed and load mapsRapid Hardware Iteration
Additive manufacturing and AI-led workflows shorten the path from design change to instrumented rig test.
Design, print, validateApplications
Where compact turbine systems can work.
Critical-load generation, clean backup power, and combined heat recovery.
Compact Power Generator
Micro gas turbine generator package for critical loads, load following, and resilient backup duty.
Combined Heat & Power
Recover exhaust heat for useful thermal loads where site demand, duty cycle, and packaging support CHP operation.
Compact turbine power for small aircraft and long-endurance unmanned platforms.
STOL / VTOL Aircraft
Compact turbine power for small aircraft where energy density, fast turnaround, and reserve power matter.
HALE Drone Platforms
Lightweight continuous power for long-endurance unmanned aircraft and persistent missions.
Hydrogen-enabled range extension for heavy transport, marine, and rail corridors.
Hydrogen Trucks
Long-haul range-extension pathways where refuelling time, steady-state operation, and local air quality matter.
Marine & Rail
Power pathways for port equipment, marine auxiliaries, freight rail, and hydrogen-enabled logistics corridors.
Fuel-flexible distributed power for weak-grid, remote, and hybrid-energy sites.
Grid-Independent Sites
Hybrid solar, wind, BESS, and MGT systems for far-flung sites and weak-grid regions.
Local Fuel Pathways
Use biogas, hydrogen, CNG, and blended local fuels to reduce dependence on diesel logistics.
Network
Partners & Supporters
Institutions helping deep-tech climate hardware move from prototype to deployment.
News
Latest updates.
Ansys Startup Summit Panel
Tapish participated in a startup summit panel on digital engineering and simulation-led product development.
↗NITI Frontier Tech Story
Frontier Tech India featured Hycosys and its hydrogen-fuelled micro gas turbine work for diesel generator replacement.
↗Energy Leap Great Hydrogen Challenge Winner
Hycosys was selected as a winner of Xynteo's Energy Leap Great Hydrogen Challenge.
↗AIT Switzerland Bootcamp
Swissnex AIT participation featured by Doordarshan after the Switzerland bootcamp.
↗Catalyst UAE Bootcamp
Hycosys listed among climate-focused startups in the Catalyst Accelerator Bootcamp.
↗Envalior Sustainability Innovation Program
Venture Center and Envalior support track for climate-tech startups.
↗Elevate 2025 Grant-in-Aid
Selected for the Government of Karnataka's flagship grant-in-aid program.
↗NIDHI PRAYAS Grant
DST-backed prototyping support for early-stage hardware validation.
↗SOLIDWORKS Innovation Day Panel
Hycosys CTO featured in the Bengaluru engineering leaders panel.
↗Cummins CSR Grant
CSR support for climate and social-impact hardware development.
↗Team
Dr. Tapish Agarwal
Co-founder & CEO
Gas turbine researcher with experience across IIT Kanpur, CentraleSupelec, and Technion-Israel.
Ugandhar Reddy
Co-founder & CTO
Aerospace combustion leader with experience at GE and Reaction Engines UK.
Dr. V. Ramanujachari
Advisor
Former DRDO Scientist H, HSTDV Project Director, and CTO, Deep Propels.
Dr. Muruganandam TM
Advisor
IIT Madras professor and Head, National Center for Combustion Research and Development.
Dr. Anubhav Sinha
Advisor
IIT BHU Assistant Professor. Research interests: hydrogen applications, combustion, and safety.
Ashvani Shukla
Advisor
Aeron Systems co-founder and CEO with aerospace domain and company-building experience.
Careers
Build gas turbines.
Open roles across turbomachinery, combustion, structures, mechanical design, materials, and controls.
Power economics
Power economics for critical loads.
Compare daily ownership cost and annual emissions across BESS, DG, fuel cell, and micro gas turbine scenarios.