Turbotec Engineering
Turbotec is an engineering company that specialises in the design, prototyping and CFD analysis of turbomachines (compressors, turbines, pumps and fans), based in Ghent, Flanders. Our flagship project is the design of a hydrogen fueled gas turbine for use as an zero-emissions generator / range extender for a hybrid-electric vehicle or in a combined heat and power (CHP) system. The TURBOTEC HyTG 550 is a hydrogen fuelled gas turbine, designed as a marine propulsion and generator unit. The engine offers 550kW (737hp) of electric power and in a Combined Heat and Power (CHP), it could provide up to 950kW of thermal power. This modular unit can fit in an 18 ft. high cube (9?6?) shipping container. This modular hydrogen gas turbine generator unit can be parallelized to get the desired power output in a larger hybrid-electric system.
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Hydro Power
- Market Focus:
- Internationally (various countries)
This company also provides solutions for other industrial applications.
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About us
In CFD the volume to be analysed is divided into small cells (Finite Volume Method) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software calculates the pressure, velocity, temperature, … in every cell.
CFD allows for a detailed understanding of the complex and often unstable flow patterns in turbomachines. The software we use to analyse these complex flows is Numeca.
It is sometimes the only option for those exceptional turbomachines rarely described in literature or those operating on totally new concepts.
Design of turbomachines is a combination of well established design methods based on theoretical principles of fluid mechanics mixed with a set of experience based coefficients.
Even though several literature sources provide values for those coefficients, they never fail to mention that nothing replaces experience when designing efficient turbomachines.
Although this still holds, CFD assists us in acquiring this experience in building turbomachines virtually and testing them in a way not possible in experiments. It helps us verify our theoretical calculations and allows us to refine the design in an iterative manner.
Theoretical calculations and numerical CFD simulations are only a part of the total design process. To go from preliminairy design, to numerical simulations (CFD and FE) and finally to a functioning prototype ready for testing is a time intensive process that requires a lot of experience in machine design.