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CAPTure 50kW system delivered

December 13, 2018
CAPTUre 50kW  Hot Air Turbine
We are pleased to announce that CAPTure’s 50kW hot air turbine has now been delivered to the concentrated solar power test facility based in Almeria, Spain.
The high efficiency system featuring twin turbocharger stages and bespoke intercooling will be commissioned and tested during 2019, with testing to be completed in the Spring of 2010.



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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 640905.

New MONO-50 system for CPP-800 delivered

November 6, 2018


We have now completed the build and factory testing of a 50kW hot air turbine and delivered it to Compag in Switzerland.

The system will be used with a Pyrolysis plant using Okozentrum’s innovative Floxburner technology to burn the Pyrolysis gas cleanly, the heat being transferred to the hot air turbine to produce 50kW of electricity.

50kWe Mono system for Pyrochar

August 6, 2018

screen-shot-2018-08-06-at-13-35-49The detailed design phase of our 50kWe MONO system designed to couple to the Okozentrum / Compag CPP-800 PyroChar plant is now complete. The system is now expected to be built by the end of October with site factory testing planned for the winter.

Link to COMPAG site showing CP-800 plant

CAPTure high pressure Hot Air Turbine nearing completion

August 6, 2018

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAThe build phase of the new 50kWe prototype high efficiency Hot Air Turbine, designed for concentrated solar applications is now nearing completion. It features two main advances:

  • A second high pressure stage turbocharger enabling the heat exchanger pressure to be raised from 5 bar to 7 bar, substantially increasing efficiency
  • A low pressure drop intercooler, increasing air mass flows and output power




    EU Horizon 2020 programme
    H2020
    This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 640905.

Electric Turbocompounding for gas and Diesel engines

May 30, 2018

img_2107Bowman have already installed a large number of E-Turbocompound systems on a number of different engines.

We’ve just finished a package of work for Bowman Power, looking at the benefits of adding turbogenerators for a number of different gas and Diesel engines. The work involved both thermodynamic simulations using a Modelica engine model previously developed by Bluebox Energy configured with Bowman’s new KTG turbine maps and calibrated with practical testing in Australia on a Caterpillar 3516. Engines modelled include:

  • Caterpillar 3512, 3516, 3516 LE
  • Cummins QSK78
  • EMD
  • GEVO
  • Jenbacher 312, 412
  • MAN 18V51-60G
  • MTU 12v4000, 16v4000
  • MWM TCG2020V12, TCG2032B
  • Scania DC13
  • Wartsila W20V32DF-B, W20V31SG, W20V34SG

  • This work has enabled them to increase the number of engines they can offer, some projects of which have already started. We are now working with Bowman to develop this area of work, with Bluebox taking the lead for installing Turbocompound systems for clients that have only 5-20 engines in their fleet.

DMP Turbocore

April 9, 2018

Bluebox Energy has been working with Dynamo Micropower since 2014 developing small gas turbine systems designed for the oil and gas industry. More recently, DMP selected Bluebox Energy to model a new Turbocore product and specify the required turbocharger hardware. The Turbocore is a turbocharger based heating system designed to run on multiple fuels with low emmissions.

Shell Springboard Finalist

March 13, 2018

We’re very pleased to have been selected for one of the 8 finalists in one of the two shell springboard regions.

Congratulations to the 3 winners for their bioplaatic, sea greenhouse and Lithium battery reforming technology.

DSTG system operational

February 20, 2018

After just 7 days of final installation and commissioning, one of our turbogenerator systems test beds is now operational at DSTG in Australia. This is a key step towards proving the technology to improve the efficiency of the Navy’s submarine engines, increasing their range.

New video of DUO+ 100kWe system at Dudingen

April 24, 2017

DUO+ Upgrade at Dudingen now complete

April 11, 2017

During initial operations at Dudingen, a number of upgrade possibilities were discovered to improve the durability and performance of the system. These upgrades are now complete and our datasheet has now been revised to reflect the better performance:

The new performance was better than we hoped for and demonstrated 85kW of electricity equating to over 16% efficiency based on electricity out / calorific value of fuel consumed. Over the coming weeks we plan to gradually increase furnace temperatures to achieve 100kWe output.

DUO+ Datasheet

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