One more candidacy passed at LAMD - Congrats Emanuele

Emanuele is working on the modelling of tilting pad gas lubricated bearings. This device allows for rotating machines like turbo-compressors to spin at extremely high speed, with better stability characteristics with respect to traditional gas lubricated bearings.

His thesis will focus on a first part in investigating the device, with a more comprehensive modelling technique with respect to the existing ones, and in a later part he will use the obtained knowledge to experimentally validate the models and develop guidelines on the design of tilting pad bearings. In parallel, he will develop a tilting pad supported compressor-turbine unit to be utilized in a CO₂ capture unit that will be installed at a waste incineration plant, in order to separate the carbon dioxide from the industrial burnt gasses.