Based in Northern Italy, Turboden specialises in applications of Organic Rankine Cycle, a technology which allows for the efficient production of electrical power from low temperature and/or low power heat sources. In 2009, Turboden became a Pratt & Whitney Power Systems company (UTC Group), with the goal of enlarging the business in generative and cogenerative solutions from renewables and heat recovery with ORC technology.

Since 1980 Turboden has focused its activity on the design and the production of ORC systems for distributed generation in renewable energy applications and industrial heat recovery.

Main application fields include:

• Biomass cogeneration for district-heating or for sawmills and pellet manufacturing companies;
• Waste heat recovery: Electric energy production from exhaust streams in industrial processes;
• Small combined cycles: Electric energy production from residual heat of internal combustion engines, or gas turbines;
• Geothermal: mainly from low-temperature liquid-dominated wells (100-180 °C);
• Solar thermodynamic conversion: electric energy production from medium high temperature solar collectors.
• Turboden ORC units are typically up to 10 MW electric per unit. Larger installations can be obtained by coupling a number of units.

For more information on Turboden, visit their website at www.turboden.eu.