New UK Alliance for assault on global engineering
New UK Alliance for assault on global engineering
Keywords: Fluids, Engineering, Alliance, UK, Australia
A formidable world force in fluids engineering has emerged with the signing of an alliance between the UK’s BHR Group (BHRG) and Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).
It will be supported directly by CSIRO Thermal and Fluids Engineering, part of CSIRO, which is one of the world’s largest and most diverse scientific research institutions with a staff of more than 6,000.
BHR Group’s Fluid Engineering Centre at Cranfield, UK, is a leading technology centre for fluid mixing, water and pipeline management, sealing technology, separation, high-pressure jet cutting, and development of software systems for modelling complex networks.
The combined strengths of the two organisations in fluid dynamics and fluids engineering form a solid foundation for the claim that together, CSIRO and BHR Group provide the world’s leading fluids engineering capability.
Mr Larry Little, the head of CSIRO Manufacturing and Infrastructure Technology says, “The Alliance will provide a springboard for CSIRO into EU and North American markets.”
BHR Group Chief Executive Mr Alistair Muir, says, “We are delighted to have the opportunity, with CSIRO’s support, to reach a wider customer base in the Asia-Pacific region with our products, services and technologies.”
Dr Dilip Manuel, who was involved with the design and development of the Olympic Flame for the Sydney 2000 Games, has been seconded to the UK as part of CSIRO’s commitment. He will be working with BHRG’s Marketing Director, Mr Mike Butcher, to market CSIRO’s and BHRG’s fluid dynamics capabilities and technologies globally, and to introduce CSIRO’s capabilities and technologies to UK, Europe and North America.
As part of the Alliance agreement, CSIRO and BHR Group will co-brand the respected BHR Group international conference programme including events on Jetting Technology, Fluid Sealing, Multiphase Technology and Aerodynamics and Ventilation of Vehicle Tunnels.
Using the synergies created by the alliance, BHRG and CSIRO will extend their services and products to the health, chemical, food, biomedical, water,utilities, building and manufacturing industries.
Just one of the technologies the new alliance will offer its World-class expertise in Mixing Technology including:
the Rotated Arc Mixer (RAM), a radical new mixing technology from CSIRO that is five times more energy efficient than traditional industrial mixing for processing products ranging from explosives to cosmetics;
BHRG’s Fluid Mixing Processes consortium, which has for 18 years been the leading industrial mixing research and development facility used by the major international companies working in the chemical industry;
a fluids dynamics capability for the mineral processing industries, which is used to develop new technologies to improve product yield, reduce equipment wear and maintenance costs, and reduce power consumption.
It will also offer developments and products such as:
DIAJET, a unique system for cold cutting most materials from plastics, to hard ceramics and steel in applications including de-commissioning of munitions and sub-sea structures, fire extinguishing and manufacturing. In machining duties it delivers a 7x improvement in cutting performance without the changes to the material’s properties or distortion of the cut material, often caused by hot cutting.
The Rotary Classifier, a CSIRO development that has revolutionised the use of separator screens used in a large number of industrial applications, from recycling to mining.
Process Intensification introduces a new paradigm to the chemical industry and enables the design of compact table-top reactors. The result is safer,cheaper- to-build plant with lower operating costs, which permits just in time production and distributed processing. PI is alreadyproven on several processes and recently an advanced facility has been supplied to a major multi-national pharmaceutical company.
The Alliance members’ Web sites are at http://www.bhrgroup.com and http://www.bce.csiro.au
For further information contact: Alistair Muir, Chief Executive, BHR Group Limited, The Fluid Engineering Centre, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, MK43 OAJ, UK. Tel: +44(0)1234 750422; Fax: +44(0)1234 750074; E-mail: amuir@bhrgroup.com
(or) Mike Butcher, Marketing Director (BHR Solutions), BHR Group Limited,The Fluid Engineering Centre, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, MK43 OAJ, UK. Tel:+44(0)1234 750422; Fax: +44(0)1234 750074; E-mail: mbutcher@bhrgroup.com
(or) Dr Dilip Manuel, Marketing Manager – CSIRO/BHRG Alliance, The Fluid Engineering Centre, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, MK43 OAJ, UK. Tel: +44(0)1234 750422; Fax: +44(0)1234 750074; E-mail: Dilip.Manuel@csiro.au
