OTurb is a spin-off from the Laboratory for Applied Mechanical Design (LAMD) which is based in Neuchâtel, Switzerland and part of the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
OTurb’s area of expertise is:
- Dynamic gas film bearings (efficient and clean)
- Foil journal and thrust bearings
- Herringbone-grooved journal and spiral-grooved thrust bearings
- High-speed rotor design
- Rotors between 1e6 to 3e6 mmrpm (rotational speed in rpm times the rotor diameter in mm) successfully tested
- Rotordynamics
- Rotor mechanical integrity
- Rotor thermal analysis
- High-speed rotor balancing
- Small-scale turbomachinery design
- Compressors, blowers, and fans
- Turbines
- Turbochargers
- Integrated system simulation (including detailed turbomachinery and bearing modeling)
- Heat pump cycles
- Fuel cell systems
- (Organic) Rankine cycles
- Experimental realization of components or systems (prototyping)
- Assistance for series production
OTurb’s services:
- Consulting
- Design and CAD
- Manufacturing (contacts to leading high-precision manufacturing partners)
- Prototyping
- Products:
- Steam-driven recirculation fan, the fan-turbine unit (FTU), for fuel cell applications
- Domestic-scale heat pump