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)

NATURAL GAS

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

Reserch regarding the oportunity of using camelina oil as fuel in turbine engines

Processing and combustion of the pyrolysis oil obtained from thermoplastics waste materials

HYDROGEN MIXTURES COMBUSTION

HIDROCOMB - Combustion Chamber with Hydrogen-Natural Gas Mixture Fuel

COMBUSTION CHAMBERS FOR MICRO-TURBINE ENGINES

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