Turbomachinery Design Engineering

Comprehensive Engineering Solutions For Turbomachinery Design

Our highly-trained engineering team works closely with you to understand your performance, reliability, manufacturability, and cost goals. Concepts NREC analyzes alternative design approaches and provides vital insight into the interdependencies between hardware design and operating requirements. We suggest improvements, develop designs, supply retrofit components, and provide complete equipment solutions.

Proven Expertise

Concepts NREC's engineering consulting services can supplement and support your in-house capabilities with world-class technology, specialized methods, and proven experience in fluid mechanics, heat transfer, combustion, applied mechanics, production, and system controls. Our engineers work closely with you to understand and resolve various performance, structural, and rotordynamic problems in individual machines, entire turbomachinery trains, or complete plant systems.

Concepts NREC helps you solve difficult engineering problems to improve the efficiency, performance, and manufacturability of your compressors, pumps, turbines, fans, blowers, and turbochargers. We can work from existing specifications or only a statement of the desired requirements.

Services We Offer

Design & Development

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Laboratory Testing

Fundamental Research

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Agile Products Support (APS)

APS is Concepts NREC’s software maintenance and support program that elevates us from just a software provider to a valued partner. 

An APS subscription is included with all annual licenses and is a highly-recommended option for perpetual software licenses. Every software customer is supported for one month following purchase for any installation questions that may arise. Learn more on the Agile Products Support Membership Benefits Datasheet. 

  • Free software updates
  • One business day response times
  • Expert technical assistance
  • Major discounts on software workshops
  • Discounted professional development course
  • Annual balloting system for development planning
  • Annual Meetings

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Our integrated design and manufacturing software tools provide designers with a cost-effective, concurrent development approach that balances issues of performance, reliability, cost-effectiveness, and manufacturability.

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Advanced Diffuser & Volute Design Consortium

The seventh phase of the Advanced Centrifugal Pump and Compressor Consortium for Diffuser & Volute Design is focused on improving diffuser designs to exceed 80% energy recovery. Work is underway but there is still time to join. The program builds upon earlier consortium research and Concepts NREC’s own long history of innovative diffuser and volute design. The current Consortium phase consists of leading international sponsors from across the global turbomachinery industry.
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Contact Us

Americas, India & SE Asia

Mr. David Pincince
Concepts NREC
Phone: 603- 866-9594
Fax: 802-296-2325
Email: dpincince@conceptsnrec.com

Greater China

Mr. Peng Wang
Concepts NREC
Mobile: +86 186 1128 2696
Email: pwang@conceptsnrec.com

EMEA

Mr. Claudio Raia

ConceptsNREC

Phone: +39 366 2180259

Email: craia@conceptsnrec.com

Japan

Mr. Motonari Takahashi
Daiichi System Engineering (DSE)
6F Nittochi Nagoya Bldg. 2-1-1,
Sakae, Naka-ku, Nagoya City,
Aichi 460-0008  Japan
Phone: 81-52-857-1715
Fax: 81-52-857-1711
E-mail: sales-CN@dse-corp.co.jp

South Korea

Dr. Hoyoun Kim
KIMHUA Technologies, Inc.
4F, Sema B/D, 535, Eonju-ro,
Gangnam-gu, Seoul, 06138 Korea
Phone: 82-02-556-1257
Fax: 82-02-556-4020
Email: hykim@kimhua.co.kr

“We were working well with the OEM but even with our combined efforts we were struggling to get a critical compressor to pass performance on their test stand.  Although I'd never directly done business with Concepts NREC I was familiar with them and their capability so I chose to contact them when I came to the realization that we needed some objective insight. Concepts NREC fielded my cold call and immediately engaged their expertise in a complex problem that was also challenged by schedule constraints.  They provided increased understanding of an already complex CFD which resulted in increased confidence that the proposed solution would succeed on the next test stand attempt (which it did!).  We are pleased to have had the help of Concepts NREC and now have a well-performing compressor in our process.”

 Bryan Barrington, Senior Advisor - Machinery Engineering

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