Luca Porreca

MAN Diesel & Turbo Schweiz AG

Luca Porreca is the Head of the Application Engineering – Thermo group Industrial Gases at MAN Diesel & Turbo AG Schweiz. He is currently responsible for the thermodynamic layout and testing of isothermal inline centrifugal compressors and axial compressors used for air separation plant applications and steel industries. He worked for the same company as Project Manager and Aerodynamic Development Engineer mainly for centrifugal compressors stages for oil & gas applications. He graduated from the University of “Roma Tre” in Rome, Italy in 2001 and he obtained his PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich, Switzerland in 2007. He is a member of the ASME IGTI Turbomachinery Committee since 2008.