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NEW TECHNOLOGIES

Projects in the industrial and oil and gas industries methods (reduction of prediction time com-
are highly energy-intensive and can benefit from patible with time to market constraints);

“energy recovery in liquid fl ows performed • The accuracy of the turbine performance
prediction using CFD tools is strictly linked
through systems such as HPRTs that can effectively to the setting of the CFD model;

contribute to maximizing plant efficiency, • For the BB4-type multistage pump, the ba-
profitability, and sustainability lancing line must be carefully selected sin-

ce it works as a bypass circuit and must
be adequately modeled in the simulation to
guarantee the best correspondence betwe-
en the CFD and test;
• For the OH2-type pump, CFD tools play an
essential part in adjusting the OH2 pump
geometry to fi t the required performances
as an HPRT, minimizing the design time.
Projects in the industrial and oil and gas industri-
es, as well as petrochemical plants, are highly
energy-intensive and can benefi t from energy re-
covery in liquid fl ows performed through systems
such as HPRTs that can effectively contribute to
maximizing plant effi ciency, profi tability, and su-
stainability.

Luigi De Franco

Luigi De Franco has an M.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering from Genoa University (2004). After
graduation, he worked for three years on thermofl uid-dynamic analysis of gas-turbines at CFD Engineer-
ing (now ENGINTEC). Luigi joined Trillium Pumps Italy’s R&D Department (then Termomeccanica Pompe)
in 2007 as FEM & CFD analyst. After a year of experience dedicated to FEM analysis, he switched to
CFD analysis and the hydraulic design of pumps, expanding his skills on performance test of prototypes
pumps. In 2017, Luigi became the Fluid Dynamics Design Manager and has held this position ever since.

L’utilizzo di pompe centrifughe come turbine di recupero di energia idraulica

Progetti nel settore industriale, Oil&Gas, e petrolchimico sono ad alta intensità energetica e possono trarre vantaggio dal
recupero di energia nei fl ussi di liquidi effettuato attraverso sistemi come gli HPRT, che possono contribuire effi cacemente a
massimizzare l’effi cienza, la redditività e la sostenibilità degli impianti.
Questo articolo riporta uno studio recentemente condotto dal Reparto R&D di Trillium Pumps Italy ha che ha portato alla
creazione di criteri di progettazione per lo sviluppo di pompe come HPRT attraverso l’uso di strumenti di fl uidodinamica
54 computazionale (CFD).
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