Engineering
Every turbine is a custom project from scratch.
A standard rangeOne parametric turbine family with scaling rules per kW, so a new site is a configuration.
H7 / Hydropower and energy
Turbines and water control, built as ranges.
Turbine families, frames and structures, water-control equipment and certification documents, for manufacturers, developers and owners. One parametric range, so a new site is a configuration.
20+hydropower machines designed and validated
5–160 kWturbine sizes
7+countries, four continents
Sound familiar?
Where hydro projects lose money.
Cost
The rotor and the structure eat the margin.
Sheet metal and validated marginsCastings out, weight out where the stress isn't: ~80% lower rotor cost, ~32% lighter structure.
Delivery
Certification paperwork holds up handover.
Documents built with the designManufacturing drawings and machine manuals for CE marking come out of the same models.
What we do
From one-off machines to a standard range.
Turbine ranges
One-off turbines into a standard range: structure, scaling rules, release packages per size.
Structural validation
Static, fatigue, buckling and modal checks, and sign-off before anything is fabricated.
Certification documents
Manufacturing drawings and machine manuals for CE marking, made from the same models.
Water control
Gates, weirs and trash racks designed for fabrication and validated for their loads.
Site scans to CAD
LiDAR scans of existing sites turned into CAD, so retrofit design starts from what is really there.
Fabrication set up
Shops and suppliers in Europe, the US and China, with quotes compared before you order.
Case studies
Hydropower work.
Design-to-costTurbulent, BelgiumVortex turbines
Cast impeller to press-brake sheet metal
Cast blades need moulds and machining, and they set the cost of the whole rotor.
A blade geometry a standard press brake can form: no special dies or moulds, one weld per blade, bend angles easy to check. Redesign, FEA, flat patterns, fabrication drawings.
~80%lower rotor cost (impeller and bearings), efficiency within 6% of the cast design
ProductizationTurbulent, Belgium2018–2024
From one-off turbines to a certified range
Six years on vortex turbines, the last four as Head of Structural Validation: structural sign-off before fabrication, a structure made ~32% lighter, and all manufacturing drawings and machine manuals used for CE certification.
Projects included Doñihue (Chile), Otepää (Estonia), the Versailles water plant (France), Green School Bali (Indonesia) and a fish-friendly turbine approved by the UK government.
~32%lighter turbine structure, same structural margin
Track record
Machines on four continents.
United KingdomFish-friendly turbine technology approved by the UK government (Turbulent).
FranceVersailles water plant (Turbulent).
ChileDoñihue (Turbulent), with work on site.
EstoniaOtepää (Turbulent).
IndonesiaGreen School Bali (Turbulent).
AfricaHumanitarian community hydro projects.
On site in Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland and Chile. Full track record →