Facilities

Experimental Facilities
  • Prototype cool flame vaporizer
  • Closed-loop circuit with different test-sections for investigation of liquid-solid two phase flows.
  • Prototype swirl stabilised and porous radiant burners
  • Plexiglas scale-down model of a lignite pulverization mill
  • Prototype furnace for controlled expansion of perlite particles
  • Experimental facility for spraying and coating of particles
  • Novel mill facility for grinding and pulverization of non-metallic materials.
  • Installation for measuring cyclic temperature variation in materials with transient thermal properties
Measuring Techniques
  • Laser Doppler and phase Doppler anemometry
  • Laser diffraction particle sizing(Malvern Mastersizer 2000)
  • IR-Thermography (FLIR Thermacam PM595)
  • Gas Chromatography (Agilent 7890A GC/FID-TCD)
  • Digital photography (FASTEC high speed camera)
Computational Tools
  • 2PHASE CODE

In-house developed CFD code for numerical simulation of turbulent two-phase flows (gas – solid, gas – liquid, liquid – solid) and combustion with pre – and post – processing graphical tools.

  • P.Y.TH.I.A

Decision support tool developed for stochastic and deterministic multi-criterial analysis on energy conversion technologies.

  • COMMERCIAL CODES: – CFX, TRNSYS, FLUENT, CHEMKIN, FDS, SIMAPRO

Simulation of multi-phase flows; industrial combustion processes; fire spreading in buildings;life cycle analysis.