Professors Marcelo Saraiva Coelho and Arnaldo de Carvalho Junior, from the Industry area, and Leandro Campelo, director of Research and Innovation at Câmpus Cubatão, were at the headquarters of the company Sirio Sistemas Eletrônicos (SSE), in Santos; present at the meeting were Sergio Pazzi, global CEO; Domenico Pascolo, CEO in Brazil; Barbra Melo, project manager, and Tayan Martins, technical director and student and graduate of the campus.
The main agenda of the meeting was the presentation to the company of Professor Marcelo Coelho's research project, which seeks to develop an anti-surge control system for centrifugal compressors, which are used extensively in various processes in the oil and gas area, such as gas injection in exploration wells or production transfer.
To the SSE, Leandro Campelo presented the structure and projection of the campus and the IFSP. Professor Marcelo then explained the system project, to be developed in 2022, which involves developing a model of the behavior of a centrifugal compressor and its anti-surge control system, using the Matlab/Simulink®️ computational tool, with subsequent implementation of a hardware prototype.
During the meeting, the company representatives were informed by the visitors that, in this first stage of the project, the idea is to sign a cooperation agreement, with no financial counterpart, between SSE and the campus.
The importance of this agreement for the Federal Institute of São Paulo was highlighted by Arnaldo Carvalho, who emphasized the significance of encouraging and supporting research and science. Professor Leandro explained to the company's directors the procedures for signing the partnership agreement.
After the reports, the CEOs of Sirio Sistemas Eletrônicos showed interest in signing an agreement with the Federal Institute.
As a result, it was decided that Professor Coelho will meet with Tayan Martins to discuss the work plan and fill in the appropriate forms, which will then be sent to the Innovation and Technology Transfer Agency of the Federal Institute of São Paulo (Inova), the body responsible for managing the Institute's innovation policy and speeding up the processing of procedures and initiatives aimed at technological innovation, the protection of intellectual property, technology transfer and entrepreneurship within the IFSP.
Set up in 2009, SSE Brasil, an arm of Sirio Solutions Engineering, founded over 35 years ago in Italy, provides customized solutions for rotating machinery and control and supervisory systems for the oil and gas, petrochemical, power generation and renewable energy industries. The company recently hired two former Cubatão campus students as interns, João Pedro de Sá Moreira and Matheus Alves Guimarães de Lima, who are now automation designers in the engineering sector.
