Full of energy Belleli Energy

FULL OF ENERGY

Italy-based Belleli Energy (CPE) Srl is one of the world’s leading suppliers of critical process equipment solutions. Barbara Rossi talks to the company’s sales and marketing director Mr Mori to discover the reasons for its success.

Belleli was founded in 1947 and soon became one of the market leaders in highly reliable EPC and Critical Process Equipment in both Europe and the Middle East. After a major expansion in the Middle East and various other developments, in 1997 the company was re-established as Belleli Energy Srl. In 2003 it was bought by the US-based company Hanover and was subsequently split into two separate entities: Belleli Energy Critical Process Equipment (CPE), located in Italy; and Belleli Energy (EPC) based in Dubai.

Belleli Energy (EPC) mainly serves the needs of customers in the Middle East and focuses on the manufacturing and installation of desalination plants and tank farms, providing clients with a complete range of services on an EPC basis. Belleli Energy (CPE) is a manufacturer of highly reliable equipment for critical processes. Mr Mori explains: “Our in-house design, engineering and manufacturing allow us to ensure the integrity of the materials, processes and products, from raw materials to the finished product. We manufacture some of the world’s largest equipment and transport it from our docks to facilities around the world.”

The company’s Mantua headquarters with a total area of 280,000m2, of which 60,000 m2

are covered, host the largest facility in Europe for producing heavy wall reactors and shell and tube exchangers. This very combination of space, large manufacturing equipment and favourable transport conditions for international shipping (through its Mincio river harbour the company can have direct access to Venice International Seaport) enables Belleli to satisfy all kinds of requests for sophisticated process equipment of any size and weight.

Product range

Belleli designs, engineers and manufactures critical process equipment for the hydrocarbon and power industry, supplying the refining and petrochemical industries, the industrial and chemical as well as the nuclear sectors. For example, for the refining and petrochemical industry the company produces hydrocracking and hydrotreating reactors, breech lock type heat exchangers, tubular reactors, methanol reactors, EB/SM equipment, GTL reactors and high-pressure hot and cold separators.

For the industrial and chemical industries Belleli supplies high-pressure heat exchangers, urea equipment, ammonia converters, synthetic gas equipment and heavy wall vessels. The range of products for the nuclear sector consists of reactors, steam generators and heat exchangers. This range of products makes Belleli one of the most important worldwide producers of critical process equipment for the energy sector.

Research, people and the environment

Whilst maintaining the high quality standards that made it well known in every corner of the world and which gained it the ISO 9001:2000 certification, the company has diversified its activity in order to combat the effects of the financial crisis. In addition to its technical competence and on-time deliveries, Belleli can also guarantee the high quality of its entire manufacturing process from innovative design to after-sales service.

In the last few years the company has added the production of urea to its portfolio, as well as becoming one of the very few Italian companies which hold the ‘N’ stamp. In fact, Belleli Energy (CPE) also holds the ASME codes, such as the nuclear pressure vessels ‘N’, ‘NPT’, and ‘NS’, as well as the U, U2, U3, S, and PP stamps. Other certifications held by Belleli are the Gost pressure vessel and heat exchanger certificates, the TUV certificate, and the CSEI (Manufacture license of special equipment – People’s Republic of China). Within the equipment division there is a dedicated engineering team which is fully qualified to carry out engineering services for sophisticated equipment design, including the design and development of basic data supplied by the client, thermal and fluid-dynamic design, stress analyses and mechanical design. Belleli also has a long tradition in developing innovative industrial design solutions and performs sophisticated in-house design activities such as 3D simulations, stress analysis by finite elements methods, fracture mechanics analysis, static analysis in steady and unsteady conditions, fatigue analysis, creep fatigue damage evaluation, and the thermohydraulic design of heat transfer systems.

There is also an energy plant engineering division – a dedicated team, supporting the contracting divisions with all the engineering services they provide for the construction of power plants, chemical and petrochemical plants and desalination plants. The plant engineering division is equipped to perform all engineering services such as general layout, piping, structural, instrumentation and the related support services to the procurement and construction divisions.

Belleli has also an excellent after sales service, with a team of multidisciplinary specialists with years of knowledge and expertise who are continuously looking for ways to better serve clients anywhere in the world. n