F.A.Q.

Turboden Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) units enable power production (up to 40 MW per single turbine) by recovering excess waste heat from the exhausts of gas turbines or reciprocating engines, or from the hot streams typical in Oil & Gas industry. ORC turbogenerators provide a solution to improving the efficiency of typical Oil & Gas processes, by allowing users to reduce their environmental footprint through converting waste, high-to-low grade heat, into mechanical/electric power.

ST&P®, Turboden Steam & Power ORC system®, is a new technical solution for Combined Heat & Power (CHP) generation, with a very high overall energy efficiency, directly employed in manufacturing and industrial processes. It allows the production of electricity and a valuable high temperature heat carrier, such as steam, directly exploitable in manufacturing processes.

Turboden gas expander is a solution to enhance the energy efficiency of a natural gas network infrastructure, producing electricity by taking advantage of the reduction of gas pressure from the delivery level to the one required by users, be they residential or industrial.

Binary ORC plants use heat exchange to exploit geothermal fluid to heat up and vaporize a secondary organic fluid that drives a turbine and produces electric power. In this way, the geothermal fluid remains within a closed loop of piping (from the reservoir to the reinjection) without passing through the turbine, with no harmful emissions into the atmosphere. The heat that is not converted into electricity can be delivered to a thermal user or dissipated through a suitable cooling system. ORC is very effective for exploiting resources with high steam fractions at locations where it is not convenient to collect and deliver all the fluids to a centralized station, but preferable to employ modular well-head units. Existing single-flash power plants can be improved by adding an ORC system on the separated brine stream, before reinjection. This makes it possible to produce more power from the same geothermal resource.

Turboden Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) technology can be profitably and efficiently used to produce electric and thermal power from waste and to enhance the efficiency of existing waste to energy plants. Turboden solutions can valrise different kind of waste: municipal solid waste, animal waste, industrial and hazardous waste and sewage sludge. Turboden ORC turbogenerators in this application are able to produce up to 40 MW of electric power per single generator.

Turboden strongly contributes to technology innovation, environmental sustainability and industrial competitiveness, being actively involved in public-private partnerships (PPPs) and technology platforms. Turboden is also partner of a number of successful projects co-funded either by international organizations, the European Commission or national authorities.

Turboden closely monitors legislative and policy developments related to renewable energies and energy efficiency at international, European and national level through interaction with authorities, institutions and trade associations. In this respect, Turboden has built up an extensive network of global relations in order to participate in common projects and public private partnership.