A Consortium of Large Scale Facilities in the Field of Energy, Combustion and the Environment

Combustion Technology: Research, Development & Training
Transnational Access to Major Research Infrastructures

Development of a flame diagnostics system based on the use of a fast television camera for the detection of relevant species (also for graduates in chemistry)

The work includes the collection of images of spatial distribution of relevant species and radicals as well as the image post-processing to derive information on the flame structure.

GRADUATES IN ENGINEERING

1. Diagnosis, prevention and mitigation of environmentally relevant potential accidents in thermoelectric plants

2. Gas turbine combustion

3. Development of simplified kinetic models for the interpretation of experimental data on the formation of Polynuclear Aromatic Compounds (PAC) under pyrolytic conditions

4. Set-up and characterisation of a laboratory scale fixed bed reactor for the study of solid fuel thermal behaviour (coals, biomasses, refuse derived fuels, new fuels)

5. Development of Internet/Intranet application using html and Java

6. Combustion simulation in industrial advanced burners

7. Development of a mathematical model for the prediction of spray quality for a twin-fluid atomizer

8. Fluid-dynamic characterisation of burner and/or gas turbine combustors in isothermal conditions

9. Development and implementation of a model for the estimation of the fluid-dynamic behaviour of ash from pulverised coal combustion or gasification

10. Development and test of an active control system related to combustion instabilities in gas turbines

11. Experimental assessment of biomass pyrolysis

12. Externally fired combined cycles for integrative employment of low cost fuels

13. Integration of biomass pressurised gassification in combined cycles

14. Turbomachinery

GRADUATES IN CHEMISTRY

1. Chlorine mobilization under thermal treatment of waste material for energy recovery

2. Laboratory scale experimental study on Polynuclear Aromatic Compound (PAC) formation and destruction during coal pyrolysis and gasification

3. Analysis and risk assessment of asbestos containing materials

4. Characterization and re-use of oil combustion ashes

5. Mechano-chemical inertization of industrial hazardous wastes

6. Chemical characterisation of fuels, ash and deposits

7. Industrial statistics: application of optimal design and correlation techniques to combustion experiments 

8. Modelling ash deposition during coal combustion

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