Marco Pelella

Baker Hughes, a GE company

Marco Pelella is Engineering Manager for NPI Systems Engineering & Operability of Centrifugal Compressor & Turbo Expander Applications at BHGE, in Florence, Italy. His responsibilities include the new product system and architecture definition, the definition of process control philosophies, development of dynamic simulations and optimization for Centrifugal Compressors and Turbo Expanders applications. He joined GE in 1999 as Centrifugal Compressors Design Engineer, becoming, in 2003, integrally geared and pipeline compressors design Team Leader, in 2006 he was Compressor Design Manager based in Le Creusot, France, and, in 2008 he went back in Florence, appointed Axial and Centrifugal Compressors Design Manager for LNG and Down Stream applications covered for 5 years. Mr. Pelella graduated with honor in Mechanical Engineering at University of Naples, Italy in 1997, he has authored and co-authored 8 papers in compressor field and he presently holds 10+ patents.