Steve Lindsey, founder of Lontra, hopes to revolutionise the engine with his energy-saving invention. The engine has seen little innovation since Felix Wankel’s contentious rotary effort back in the ...

A UK clean-tech start-up claims to have developed a solution for reducing the average 10 per cent of total electricity European industries spend on air compression. Lontra, based in the Midlands, has ...

What is robust design optimization (RDO), and is it better than standard optimization? In this customer case, we describe a multi-disciplinary optimization of a turbocharger compressor from Ford Motor ...

EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute) reports that 7FA gas turbines have a rotor life of about 144,000 hours, or 5,000 starts. The primary life-limiting factor is high cycle fatigue cracks ...

A UK manufacturer, responsible for a step change in air compressor technology, has joined forces with a prominent British engineering group to launch a state-of-the-art digital manufacturing facility.

Pretoria, 14 July 2016: Local fans and ventilation firm, MechCaL has been appointed by AngloGold Ashanti to install a prototype of a ground breaking compressor at their Mponeng mine. The fan will be ...

An innovative air compressor, claimed to be at least 20 per cent more efficient than existing devices, has earned its British inventor Steve Lindsey a finalist slot at the prestigious 2017 European ...

Failure analysis of gas and compressor turbine blades encompasses the systematic investigation of damage phenomena that compromise blade integrity. This field integrates diverse approaches including ...