1. Kiril Levkov, CEO
LLC TurboEnergy
2015
TurboSphere
INNOVATIVE MACHINE
FOR UTILIZATION OF
NATURAL GAS
OVERPRESSURE
ENERGY
2. Natural gas transmission system
Industry Residential
Compressor
(spends 4-8% of
transported gas)
Well
20,3 bar 0,1 bar
3. Electricity
15-500 kW
Overpressure
energy
3 - 55 bar
>500 m3/h
3
Low grade
heat energy
20 - 40 C
TurboSphere – 3 in 1:
Turbine wheel
Heat exchanger
Generator
Velocity: 3000 rpm;
Size: from 600x600x600 mm;
Weight: from 300 kg;
4. Advantages
Low velocity
Internal multistage
heating
The possibility
of regulating
Work without fuel
consumption
No need for
extra equipmentImpermeability
4
The existing
turboexpanders
from 1000 kW Limited objects
TurboSphere from 15 kW
Thousands of
objects!
5. Manufacture
and supply Consumers
TurboSphere
(15-500kW)
Natural gas consumers
industry, electric and heat generation
Natural gas distributors
Gazprom, Beltopgaz, gazsystem etc.
Outsourcing
(partners)
B2g market
50% of sales
B2b market
50% of sales
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TurboEnergy
R&D and
engineering
6. 0
200
400
600
800
1000
2015 2020 2025 2030 2035
Size of the market, bln. RUB
USA
Europe
Russia
Belarus
0
10000
20000
30000
40000
50000
60000
70000
Quantity of units
low
pressure
high
pressure
56%
17%
22%
6%
Market by power
range
0-30 kW
30-60 kW
60-200 kW
200-450 kW
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7. Costs:
overpressure energy – $ 0
waste heat – $ 0
TurboSphere – $1500-2000 per 1kW
LCOE during 8 years – 2-4 ¢/kWh
payback period – 3-4 year.
…for own needs …for sale
Electricity (15-500 kW)
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8. Project team
Kirill LEVKOV
Project manager
Education: Belarusian National
Technical University, profession -
Industrial heat power engineering,
Master of Science.
Key experience and knowledge:
energy carrier production and distribution systems,
turbomachinery, business-planning, innovative
management.
Achievements: awards from contests, exhibitions and
conferences. Training programs and studies abroad
(USA, Germany, Syria, Lithuania). More than 30
scientific publications.
Leonid LEVKOV
Chief project developer
Education: Belarusian Polytechnic
Institute, profession - Heat and gas
supply and ventilation.
Key experience: 50 years of work in
technical equipment design, development and
appliance of energy saving technologies, project
realization of heat and gas supply, ventilation and air
conditioning systems.
Knowledge: gas and thermodynamics,
energyefficiency, etc.
Achievements: invention of a new turbine type.
ALEKSANDR
PANKOV
Chief
mechanic-
technologist
ALEKSANDR
NOVIKOV
Chief designer
SERGEI
SVERCHKOV
Developer
ELENA
SHCHEMELEVA
Project
manager
MATVEI
CHERENKOV
Mechanical
engineer
MAKSIM
NEKHAICHIK
Electrical
engineer
ANDREI
TABATCHIKOV
Designer-
technologist
VLADIMIR
ROMANIUK
Scientific
leader
More than 12 professionals
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10. Road map
2004-2014 2015-2016 2017-…
The idea, patent, R&D,
model sample,
preliminary test
Pilot project,
certification, IP
Commercialization
Science and research
department
Production and
testing laboratory
Production
Invested resources: Required investment: Further funding
from
10
14
42
CAPEX, mln RUB OPEX, mln RUB
7
31
10
12
13. Parameter
Measu
re
TurboSphere DGU-8 TRex 370 MDG-20 MTG 160
Picture -
Country - CIS Ukraine
Czech
Republic
Russia Germany
Electric power kW
15, 30,
(60, 120, 250, 500)
8 - 10 11 - 15 20 160
Rotational velocity rpm 3000 3000 3000 40000 45000
Flow rate m3/h 500 - 50000 1800 - 10000 1500 - 2000 17000 3000 - 10000
Input pressure bar 3-55 10-75 15-23 54 40
Stages of expansion - 3-20 1 1 1 1
Dimensions mm 820х600х820 N/A 400х600 N/A 1.093х955х735
Gas heating type - internal
exhaust
gases
external - boiler heater
Installation site - GRS and CGS GRS GRS GRS GRS
Source type
-
rejected heat gas gas - gas
Voltage V 380 220/380 400 380 400
Cost
$ Per 1
kW
1500 - 2000 N/A 4000 N/A ~7000
Comparison with analogues
14. Partners:Key partners:
Principles of cooperation:
Joint realization
Self-financing
No property transfer
Technology development, test
training and carrying out
Production and
testing base,
TurboSphere trial
operation
Construction
documentation
development,
TurboSphere and
testbed production