Turbomachinery and power plant engineering
The capital region has a worldwide unique concentration of global actors in the field of turbomachinery and power plant engineering. The density of turbomachinery manufacturers is the highest in Europe.
Strong Industry
- One of the world's leading industrial regions for manufacturing and servicing turbomachinery
- Outstanding opportunities and sales potential for innovative and specialized suppliers
- Production of the currently largest and most powerful gas turbine in the world
- Production of the world's largest geared compressor
- Excellence in balancing and adjusting extremely fast rotating shafts and wheels
- Innovative solutions and applications in the manufacture, maintenance, overhaul, and modernization of prototype and component test turbomachinery (e.g. gas turbine burner testing center/Clean Energy Center from Siemens and Rolls-Royce's Mechanical Test Operations Center)
- High competence in the environmentally friendly optimization of power plant technology
- Development and production of micro gas turbines
In the area of turbomachinery, companies in the region form a complete value added chain from research and development, via production, through to design, planning, installation, as well as MRO (maintenance, repair, and overhaul):
- MAN Energy Solutions SE
- MTU Maintenance Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH
- Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co. KG
- Siemens Energy AG
In the field of power plant technology, industrial technology users are pioneering the use of flexible power plants operated with conventional fuels and also with mixed gases with high hydrogen content:
- Vattenfall
- GASAG
- ENERTRAG
- GE Energy Power Conversion
- Schneider Electric
Excellent research
- In the Energy Laboratory of the HFI - TU Berlin innovative combustion technologies for tomorrow's gas turbines are tested and developed.
- As part of an SFB project, the use of Otto cycle combustion in gas turbines is being investigated.
- The BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg unites numerous departments that deal with power plant technology.