NATIONAL RESEARCH AND

DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE FOR

GAS TURBINES
COMOTI
Bd. Iuliu Maniu 220, Sector 6, Bucharest
ROMANIA
www.comoti.ro contact@comoti.ro
 COMOTI
AN EUROPEAN AEROSPACE
AND POWER GENERATION
PARTNER FOR THE XXI
CENTURY
 1985 - founded as Scientific Research and
Engineering Center for Aircraft Engines
INCREST

Main achievements before 1990:

- Propulsion system of IAR- 93 (YuRom) – ground

attack twin jet aircraft

- Propulsion system of IAR- 99 military jet training

aircraft
IAR 93 (YUROM)
IAR-99 Hawk
IAR-705 Regional Commuter
 1996 - national institute

belonging by the National Agency for Scientific

Research

Personnel – 175 (2008)

R&D – 112
Academic degree – 113
PhD - 13
 EXPERIENCE
Calculation, design, manufacturing, control,
diagnosis and consultancy for:
- Aircraft and industrial turbo-engines
- Turbo-compressors, expanders and blowers
- Centrifugal and screw compressors
- Environment protection equipment
- Co-generation electro-turbo-generative
groups
- European projects – aircraft noise reduction
- Aircraft and industrial turbo-engines
Centrifugal impeller designed and
manufactured by COMOTI
COMOTI’s air compressors plant
Natural gas compressors
Natural gas turbo-compressors plant
designed and build up by COMOTI
The principle of obtaining energy by
co-generation
2xGTE 1800 SB Cogeneration Plant –Suplacu de Barcau
Natural gas screw compressor set designed and build up
by COMOTI
 Patents

• Most of the industrial applications previously presented

are based on the 31 granted invention patents and 10
patent requests
• 16 patents have been awarded at international events:
Geneva, Brussels, Budapest
- 6 gold
- 3 silver
- 7 bronze medals
 EXPERIENCE IN EUROPEAN PROJECTS

“METHOD” – achieving maximum efficiency of centrifugal compressors FP V

 EXPERIENCE IN EUROPEAN PROJECTS

“JEAN” – Jet Exhaust Aerodynamics and Noise FP V

 EXPERIENCE IN EUROPEAN PROJECTS

“ABRANEW” FP V increase of gas turbine efficiency by using abrasive material

deposits
 EXPERIENCE IN EUROPEAN PROJECTS

“SILENCER” FP V
NOISE REDUCTION PRODUCED BY AIRCRAFT IN ORDER TO
PROTECT THE INHABITED AREAS
“SILENCER”
AVIATION WEEK & SPACE TECHNOLOGY, November, 6, 2006
 EXPERIENCE IN EUROPEAN PROJECTS

“VITAL” FP VI – CLEAN, QUIET AERO-ENGINES

 EXPERIENCE IN EUROPEAN PROJECTS

CoJeN FP VI – Computation of Co-axial

Jets and Noise
CoJeN- obtaining the velocities, temperatures and
turbulent fluctuations from the conservation law of
momentum and enthalpy

The results are similar with Rolls-Royce and Boeing

Co-planar co-axial nozzle
Comparison with experimental data provided by
CoJeN consortium (co-planar case)

Coplanar, case2, Exp (Warwick)

VFM (COMOTI)

450

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Uax[m/s]

250

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CoJeN - short cowl nozzle
Comparison with experimental data provided by CoJeN
consortium (short cowl case)

Short cowl, case2 Exp (Warwick, QinetiQ)

VFM (COMOTI)

450

400

350

300

250
Uax[m/s]

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50

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 COMOTI partner in FP7 projects

FP7 Aeronautics
- TEENI – Turboshaft Engine Exhaust Noise
Identification 2007 (PL – SNECMA)
- TEAM – Toolset for Environmental Aviation
Modeling 2008 (PL – DLR)

FP7 – Infrastructure
- ATFA – Aeroacoustic Test Facilities for
Aerospace 2008 (PL – QinetiQ)
 COMOTI’s international visibility
Member of:
• X3-NOISE European Thematic Network
• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
(AIAA)
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
• International Board of Editors – AIAA Journal of Aircraft
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• Organizer of biennial international conference “TURBO”
• Editor of the quarterly journal “TURBO” – ISSN 1454-
2897
COMOTI’s offer for the next FP 7
projects
1.TEST FACILITIES

• Test and certify turbo-engines and power

units laboratory
• Acoustics and vibration laboratory
• Turbo engines units trial laboratory
• Physics and chemistry test laboratory
• Metrology laboratory
 2 .Working capabilities in the
domain of mechanical
design of turbomachinery
with application in industry
and aviation
• Cycle and functional
parameters calculus for turbo
machinery
• Numerical simulation for flows
in closed spaces and open
spaces through analytical and
finite element (volume)
methods.
• Flow regimes:
– subsonic and supersonic
flows;
– turbulent and laminar flows;
– viscous and inviscid flows
• Numerical simulation of heat
transfer in turbomachinery
combustion chambers.
•
Numerical simulation for
stresses and deformations:
– static/dynamic efforts and
deformations in
turbomachinery parts for
linear and curvilinear loading
due to mass and pressure
forces
– stresses due to pieces
contact
– static/transient efforts and
deformations due to
temperature gradients
Design (CAD) executed with latest computer technology for

turbomachinery from aviation and industry

• Available man capabilities regarding
design and research programs:
• - CATIA V4, CATIA V5, UNIGRAPHICS
NX4, PATRAN – NASTRAN, AUTOCAD
(2D – 3D), FLUENT, STAR CD,
FORTRAN, C, MATHCAD, COREL
DRAW, OFFICE, Q3D.
Applications based on
the working
capabilities:
Aviation Centrifugal
Compressors in 2D
and 3D
configuration with
high compression
ratio, between 1
and 5, and between
6000-5000 rpm
Aviation fans with high
compression ratio,
between 1.2 and 1.78, and
dilution factor between 2
and 12; speed between
6000 and 20.000 rpm

Axial turbines;
Combustion chamber for
engines;
Compression groups
equipped with screw
compressors;
Power stations equipped
with aeroderivative
engines.
“THE GOOD PROJECTS DERIVE
FROM EXPERIENCE

THE EXPERIENCE DERIVES FROM

BAD PROJECTS”

Theodore von Karman (1881-1963)