We would like to inform our clients, suppliers and partners that we have now moved premises! As of 10th December 2020 you can now find our new building on Victory Road in Derby. Our new address is:
Our contact telephone number will remain the same.
+44 (0) 1332 365 652
Whilst we won’t be able to have the grand opening we might have hoped for due to current Covid-19 restrictions, we are looking forward to welcoming you through our new doors as soon as possible!
Over the past year, SCITEK Consultants Ltd. and TBG Solutions Ltd have been working on a prototype for an exciting new product: an Enhanced Software Defined Telemetry (ESDT) system for ground and flight testing. This new project forms part of an Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) funded collaborative R&D programme.
Currently, gas turbine engine manufacturers make use of analogue radio frequency-based telemetry systems when monitoring strain and temperature measurements in rotating engine parts during ground and flight testing.
This project is focused on exploiting the benefits of moving from an analogue radio frequency platform to a digital radio frequency replacement.
The Enhanced Software Defined Telemetry system provides a superior solution in that its parameters are defined in software and can thus be changed to provide enhanced performance or for re-purposing the system to suit new requirements.
What’s more, the project aims to push the capability of the ESDT system well beyond what was originally conceived in order to achieve at least a four-fold increase in data rate transfer compared to the original analogue systems.
Expanding transmission capacity in this way will allow engine manufacturers to monitor more sensors simultaneously, thus reducing the number of test-runs, saving costs, fuel, and reducing the development time and environmental impacts of testing.
The prototype system will first be demonstrated on SCITEK’s Honeywell ALF 502 engine.
To find out more about the specifications of the prototype ESDT systemClick here
To find out more about SCITEK’s engine testing facility Click here
For more information on the system you can get in contact with SCITEK or TBG Solutions Ltd using the contact details below.
We would like to advise all our customers and suppliers that we are continuing to operate as normally as possible during the COVID-19 pandemic. We can confirm that SCITEK is following government guidance on social distancing measures and that our office layout has been rearranged to accommodate this. Best practice hygiene requirements are also being enforced and we are reviewing government guidelines on a daily basis.
Our technicians are continuing to support our manufacturing work, whilst adhering to government guidelines. Please rest assured that we are still very much open for business.
It is great to see the build of our new facility at Victory Road in Derby progressing!
We are looking forward to using the extra space to expand our in-house testing facilities for our customers such as vibration, gas turbine blade fatigue testing and spray characterisation.
SCITEK are excited to announce that they will once again be presenting at this year’s EVI-GTI Conference on Gas Turbine Instrumentation, held in Graz on 20th and 21st November 2019.
Each year the conference attracts a wide international crowd from the fields of measurement and control, looking to gain an insight into the latest innovations in gas turbine measurement and analysis.
SCITEK is delighted to be carrying out two presentations at the conference centred on the topic of test cell concepts and instrumentation.
Catch our presentations between 10.30 and 12.10am on Wednesday 20th November 2019:
A GT Facility for the Development of New Sensor and Other Technologies
Advanced Rig for Permanent Magnet Alternator Testing
Click to see the full conference programme here. For more information, please visit the conference homepage at www.evi-gti.eu
