ACTIVITIES AND RECENT PROJECTS
KEROSEN
FP7 Program: ESPOSA - Efficient Systems and Propulsion for Small Aircraft
Experiments with kerosene fuel : 0.3 kg/s air; 400 kPa; 530 K air (2015)
TEENI “Turboshaft Engine Exhaust Noise Identification” FP7-AAT-2007– 212367–(TURBOMECA and DLR) – Full scale combustion chamber test
Natural gas fueled: 1.3 kg/s air; 1200 kPa; 1350 K
Low pressure experiments - natural gas combustion chambers for turbine engines
800 KW - 113 kPa air; 1.3/Kg/s air 1500 KW - 113 kPa air; 2.5/Kg/s air
COGENERATION, AFTERBURNING RIGS
Afterburner for gaseous fuels with PIV measurments
Laser PIV measurments (Particle Image Velocimetry) - flow field velocity mapping
Proiect JTI CLEANSKY 2014 - OPA (Optimization of Air jet pump design for acoustic application)
UNCONVENTIONAL FUELS
The combustion of camelina - kerosen mixtures in aviation - Project: Cambridge University, COMOTI, TAROM
HYDROGEN MIXTURES COMBUSTION
HIDROCOMB - Combustion Chamber with Hydrogen-Natural Gas Mixture Fuel
0.7 kg/s;4000 kPa nominal air - low pressure, similitude paramenters
GASIFICATION
Experiemntal model of a gasification unit - UBICENT - 01 - possibility of working as cogeneration cycle
PULSO-JET
Pulsating jet combustion Chamber
CFD Analysis
The development, the implementation and the validation of an original functional numerical algorithm for a combustuion chamber with turbulent reacting flow