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| Study of innovative solutions for a miniaturized turboengine for “on board vehicle power”
The society is responsible for the design from a white paper of a turboengine of small size for electric power generation. The complete dimensioning of the engine has been completed exploiting both in house developed design tools and CFD simulation. A software for estimating engine performance at design and off-design conditions has also been released. The final design of the principal components is performed with detailed CFD analysis. In particular the combustion chamber is verified in terms of combustion process and pollutant emissions by means of reactive computations.
Customer: Oral Engineering
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| Gas and Steam turbine components design
Ergon Research provides outsourced engineering services co-working with several GE Oil&Gas departmens: Our contribution ranges from the sale activity support to the most advanced R&D applications.
Development of design software for turbomachinery
Continuous upgrade of costumer’s proprietary software for preliminary dimensioning of steam and gas turbine engines introducing new components and implementing different selection criteria.
Performance analysis of scrubber
Regular support for the design and control of large scale industrial liquid/gas separators by means of CFD.
Test rig design of an heat exchanger test bed
Ergon Research is involved in the design of test beds for the performance validation of innovative heat exchangers combining both the common practices and exploiting CFD simulations to validate the proposed designs.
Study of steam plant layout
Analysis and design of plant layout for electric power production from biomass, fossil fuels and concentrating solar power based on steam cycles.
Customer: GE Oil&Gas
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| European Research Projects
LEMCOTEC: Design of a turbine combustor simulator
Ergon Research is directly involved in the LEMCOTEC project financed by the EU in the FP7. The aim of the activity is the design and the commissioning of a turbine combustor simulator to be used for the investigation of compact size combustor by means of the most innovative experimental and numerical techniques.
Customer: European Comunity
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| In-line probe for vegetable oil quality assessment
Development of in-line and real time measurement tools for vegetable oil quality during filtering process.
Customer: VS System
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| Thermal and structural analysis
Detailed thermal and structural analysis of turbomachinery and plant mechanical components by means of finite elements computational codes (FEM).
Customer: Quest Global
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| Design and testing of innovative water-mist fire prevention systems for passenger environment and enhancement of current fire extinction system in use on train cars by means of mathematical models
The project aims at setting up dimensioning and installation criteria for fire extinction systems on passenger cars exploiting advanced CFD techniques. In particular a first phase is focused on customizing the open-source code FDS for railway applications to exploit the big amount of experimental data available by the customer to characterize employed materials. The second part is instead focused on the set up and realization of realistic experiments involving fires on both mock-up and real scale train cars measuring temperature evolutions, radiative heat transfer and pollutant emissions.
Customer: Trenitalia
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| Fire scenario analysis in commercial, house and office buildings
Continuous support to fire extinction system design exploiting performance approach and flight simulation for security plan approval. The procedure includes the selection of performance criteria, of fire scenario and the direct simulation of the fire evolution with fire extinction system activation. Several commercial buildings have been considered:
Benetton store Milano (2010)
The main goal of the activity was to design, by means of computational fluid dynamics, the heat and smoke vents installed in the buildings as an active fire protection measure.
Prada outlet Marcianise (2011)
Ergon Research was responsible of the building HSV design. The commercial area dimensions as well as the constrains imposed by the customer in terms of shop layout, were the main challenging aspects of the analysis.
Commercial stores Milano (2011)
The building consists in a three floors commercial/office area. Natural HSV was modeled in the office area while an automatic fire suppression system have been implemented in the commercial space. Several fires scenarios were considered in conjunction with Sprinkler/Watermist systems.
Gessi store Milano (2011)
This three floors building have been analysed to design its HSV system in terms of vents dimension/positioning and extracted mass flow rate.
Prada outlet Incisa (2011)
The commercial area consists in two floors. Ergon Research main activity concerned with the building HSV design. The commercial area dimensions as well as the constrains imposed by the customer in terms of shop layout, were the main challenging aspects of the analysis.
Customer: ESA Engineering
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| EU projects test rig development
Continuous support to test rigs design and manufacturing.
Customer: University of Florence
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