Kelvion Awarded for Collaboration with Technip, Wieland
Emmanuel Renevot, President of Kelvion (GEA Batignolles Technologies Thermiques), with Barbara Shussler (Marketing Manager for Wieland) and Brigitte Ploix (Deputy Vice President for Process and Technologies at Technip), receiving the Innovation award (photo: © Tonje Thoresen)
Günther Oettinger, EU Commissioner, and Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut, German Ambassador to France (photo: ©Tonje Thoresen)
Kelvion, formerly GEA Batignolles Technologies, was recognize with a 2015 French-German Economy Award, presented in the beginning of December at a ceremony held in the Pavilion Gabriel on the Champs-Élysées to six winners for their French-German collaboration in activities involving industry, environment, innovation, human resources and start-up ventures.
The awards ceremony was attended by more than 400 French and German leaders at the Pavilion Gabriel in Paris in the presence of Günther Oettinger, European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society; Matthias Fekl, French Minister of State for Foreign Trade; and Iris Gleicke, German Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Economic Affairs and Energy, and Federal Government Commissioner for the New Federal States, with responsibility for SMEs and tourism.
Kelvion took home the award for the Innovation category, in recognition of its collaboration with Technip and Wieland in a project involving their innovative DIESTA finned tubes. From 200 candidates, the award for Innovation to the joint venture of Kelvion, Technip, and Wieland is the result of strong industrial development toward energy efficiency and optimization in LNG production. It is also based on participation of industrial and academic leaders in the project: most notably, Total, Ademe, and Armines on the French side, and Kassel University on the German side. Kelvion was shortlisted with another German corporate group, BASF, in the category for Innovation and New Technologies.
DIESTA, short for “dual internally and externally structured tube for air coolers,” is an innovative finned tube technology that applies enhanced surfaces. It was developed for dedicated applications in air-cooled heat exchangers, especially in the field of natural gas liquefaction. For use in LNG plants, it offers improvement in heat exchange efficiency of up to 20 percent, reduction in CO2 emissions by lowering specific fuel gas consumption, and increase in LNG production as a result of power savings achieved.
