GT2 Energia, following the path towards service expansion for the thermoelectric sector, cogeneration and thermal processes, has just signed an exclusivity agreement to represent KnightHawk Engineering in Brazil.

KnightHawk Engineering is a North American company, headquartered in Houston, TX, which offers a wide variety of engineering services to the aerospace, automotive, manufacturing, naval, oil and gas, petrochemical, pulp and paper, mining, and energy generation industries, among others.

 Among the services offered, the most noticeable are:

• Failure Analysis
• Vibration Testing & Analysis
• Metalography
• Creep Life Analysis
• Pipe Stress Analysis
• Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
• CFD Computational Fluid Dynamics – Fully coupled including chemical kinetics – transient and steady state
• Third Party Design Audit
• Critical Piping Systems
• Heat Exchanger Design
• Pressure Vessel Design

These services may be implemented in the many productive sectors in the country, working with a great variety of equipment: gas turbines and steam turbines, pressure vessels, heat exchangers, ovens, reciprocating and rotary compressors, pumps and others.

GT2 Energia has performed successful tests on the first prototype of an organic Rankine cycle (ORC), made in Brazil. The R&D project was developed by GT2 Energia in the PUC-Rio laboratories, under the act 9.991/2000 of the Agencia Nacional de Energia, ANEEL, sponsored by UTE Norte Fluminense S.A.