London, UK, July 05, 2011, Advanced Design Technology, Ltd., or ADT, a global leader in the development of advanced turbomachinery design methods, is pleased to announce that ebm-papst St. Georgen, a global market leader in the development of high quality fans and motors for many markets such as heating and air-conditioning, ventilation, refrigeration, automotive, IT/Telecom and drive technology, applied TURBOdesign1 - 3D inverse design code - to the design of high efficiency compact multi-blade row fans.

In the design of axial multi-row fans it is very important to have a good matching between the components. TURBOdesign1’s 3D inverse design method, provides direct control of spanwise work distribution and blade loading and enables good matching between different blade rows.

“The possibility to generate different designs in a fast and robust way makes TURBOdesign1 an integral part of the work flow for designing multi-row fans with guide vanes at ebm-papst St. Georgen.”, commented Ralf Haermeyer and Matthias Weiss, R&D Engineers Aerodynamics at ebm-papst St. Georgen, “After using TURBOdesign1 for a number of years, we now consider it our standard design tool for radial, diagonal and axial fans.”

The case study highlights how TURBOdesign1 allows design engineers to quickly develop new multi-row fans with matching components, speeding up the overall design process.

For more information please contact: Lorenzo Bossi l.bossi@adtechnology.co.uk

About Advanced Design Technology: Advanced Design Technology or ADT is a global leader in the development of advanced turbomachinery design methods, which help not only to shorten development time but will also improve the performance of turbomachinery components. ADT’s aim is to put the designers in direct control of the aerodynamic design and to shorten considerably the design time and time to market for a range of turbomachinery products. ADT’s clients, who represent some of the leading global players in the aerospace, automotive, power generation and marine fields, have achieved significant returns on investment in terms of reduction in design times, higher performance and ease of know-how transfer between different design teams and projects.

Advanced Design Technology Dilke House, 1 Malet Street, London WC1E 7JN United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)20 7299 1170 Fax: +44 (0)20 7636 8028 http://www.adtechnology.co.uk

About ebm-papst St. Georgen: The ebm-papst Group is the world's leading manufacturer of fans and motors, and is a pacemaker for ultra-efficient EC technology. In the last fiscal year 10/11, the company generated turnover of over 1.3 million EUR. ebm-papst employs over 11,000 people at 17 production facilities (including Germany, China and the USA) and 57 sales locations worldwide. Fans and motors of the global market leader are represented in many industries, including ventilation, air-conditioning and refrigeration technology, household appliances, heating engineering, in IT/telecommunications as well as applications in automotive and commercial vehicle engineering.

ebm-papst St. Georgen GmbH & Co. KG Hermann-Papst-Strabe 1, St Georgen D-78112 Germany Tel: +49 7724 81-0 Fax: +49 7724 81-1309 www.ebmpapst.com