Experimental Setups
Setups for Reacting Flows/Combustion
Atmosperic
- Tube burner with air preheater - flame flashback
- Duct burner - boundary layer flashback in unswirled flows for premixed combustion
- Swirl burner - flame flashback and emissions in externally and technically premixed flames under wet and dry conditions
- Hydrogen/ hot air mixer - injection and mixing investigations
- Full scale combustion chamber - hydrogen combustion investigations
- Large-scale test rig - reacting jet in vitiated cross flow
High pressure
- Combustion test rig - autoignited combustion processes
- Laminar diffusion flame - high pressure flame radiation
Internal combustion engines
- Periodical chargeable combustion chamber - ignition and combustion processes in engines
- 2 rapid compression machines
Further setups
- Explosion channel – flame dynamics and acceleration, deflagration-to-detonation transition (DDT) and detonation dynamics
- Hydrogen storage - continuous catalytic hydrogenation and dehydrogenation of liquid carriers
- Water channel - flow field and mixing quality of gas turbine burners
- Parabolic flight setup - NOx generation in spray flames under microgravity conditions
Setups for the Investigation of Thermoacoustic Instabilities
- Single burner test rig with acoustic excitation - thermoacoustics under dry and wet conditions
- Annular combustion chamber with acoustic excitation - thermoacoustics of multi-burner arrangements and characterisation of acoustic dampers
- Two-staged test rig - high-frequency transversal acoustics in sequential combustion chambers
- Atmospheric swirl burner - self-excited transversal acoustic modes
- Setup for the identification of thermoacoustic regenerators
- Representative rocket engine test rig - aeroacoustic investigations on scattering and damping
Setups for Multiphase Experiments
- Boiling test rig - subcooled flow boiling close to critical heat flux
- Horizontal two-phase flow facility - flow regimes, such as plug and slug flows
- High-pressure cell - Diesel spray injection
- Test rig for DeNOx SCR technology
SETUPS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY TESTING
- Renewable energy desalination - test rigs for humidification/dehumidification, reverse osmosis membranes and modules, membrane distillation and solar stills
- Solar cooling - absorption and compression chiller test rigs
- Air-conditioning of battery-run electric cars - test rig for micro-scale condensation and desublimation experiments
- Heat transfer in porous media - test facility for thermal conductivity measurements of porous media
- Solar energy systems - tracked photovoltaic plant (heliostat), 40 kW (peak) photovoltaic plant, solar thermal