Belgian Technologies for the Renewable Energy Market - Agoria

Cenaero
www.cenaero.be
Contact
Cécile Goffaux
Head of Energy and Buildings group
T +32 71 910 937
cecile.goffaux@cenaero.be
Michel Delanaye
General Manager
T +32 71 91 09 30
michel.delanaye@cenaero.be
Annual turnover
€ 0.15 million in the energy and
a total of € 5.5 million
Workforce
55
Keywords
Energy, Buildings, Simulations, Optimization, Comfort, Wind, Fire, Pollutant, HVAC
Products/services
Cenaero’s Energy & Buildings team is actively involved in the analysis of
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Energy and comfort assessment within building, including night-free
cooling, ventilation, solar gains and shading characterization
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Pollutant dispersion and destruction in urban area and industrial sites
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Fire case and smoke simulations to assess the norm respect
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HVAC system optimization and integration assessment within building
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Wind effect on comfort within urban area
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Wind effect on the mechanical design of bridges, towers and special
equipped roofs and facades
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Wind energy, including dimensioning tools, blade design, wind resource
assessment, structural design and manufacturing of metallic and
composite elements
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Concept exploration and multi-objective optimization, based on an
in-house optimization tool
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Energy recycling on industrial lines
Cenaero offers both SMEs and large companies simulations based on
specialized tools that are developed internally and externally. It also has a
powerful calculation infrastructure comprising more than 3,000 processors.
Cenaero is involved in numerous collaborative research projects, and is
coordinating a ERDF project named SIMBA (2009-2013) focusing on the
technology transfer of advanced simulation to the building industry.
Some references
Greisch, Samyn and Partners, ArcelorMittal, AGC, TPalm, SECO, Equilis
Solar
Wind
Biomass
Company description
Cenaero is an applied research center providing to any company, involved in a
technology innovation process, high fidelity numerical simulation methods and
tools to invent and design more competitive products. Our ambition is to be internationally
recognized as a technology leader in modeling and numerical simulation,
to be a strategic partner of large global industries as well as a real support
to regional companies including innovative SME. Mainly active in Aeronautics,
Cenaero wishes to increase the transfer and the application of its technology
to surface transport, energy, health and sustainable development. Cenaero will
develop the necessary experimental capabilities to validate its methods and tools
and will maintain a top supercomputing infrastructure among the world 500 most
powerful systems. Partner and customer satisfaction as well as the guarantee of
the quality of our processes and products are at the heart of our actions.
Cover image by courtesy of BE Gresich: Cenaero’s simulation within the BE Greisch
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