Bekaert Combustion Technology is a SME, employing 150 people with an annual turnover of nearly € 50m and a large supplier of premixed burners and also supplies aluminium cast heat exchangers for the use in commercial and domestic boilers. Research and development work on thermo-acoustics has been performed over the last decades. Since 2005 this topic has been explored together with academical partners such as universities of Leuven, Groningen en Eindhoven.
The majority of R&D work is finding thermo-acoustic solutions for customers over a broad gas quality bandwidth and broad modulation spectrum. The main focus of the R&D thermo-acoustic research is to provide the R&D engineers with tools to better or faster find those solutions.
The R&D department of Bekaert Combustion Technology is situated at two different locations in the Netherlands:one in Assen that employs 15 people (1 R&D manager, 4 R&D project managers, 6 R&D engineers and 4 technicians) and one in Belfeld (near Venlo) where 8 people are based (1 R&D site manager, 2 R&D project managers, 3 R&D engineers and 2 technicians).
BEK is a business unit of NV Bekaert SA, a Belgian multinational in steel cord and wire solutions and employs approx. 28,000 people worldwide. Technical support and courses can be facilitated by Bekaert Technology Centre and Bekaert Engineering.

TANGO Network projects

Task 3.5 – Numerical and experimental study of domestic burner with heat exchanger