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Technology Transfer
Air-Breathing Propulsion
and Other Energetic Systems: Testing Facilities
Applications
> Automotive, Naval, Thermal Energy, Aeronautical
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Development of advanced subsonic and supersonic combustion chambers.
- Forecast of pollutant and smoke emissions.
- Instabilities of combustion.
> Environment
Keywords
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Energy, Turbojet, Ramjet, Scramjet, Pulsed detonation engines, Turbulent combustion, Advanced combustion chamber technologies, Micro energetics, Energetic materials, Fuels.
Advantages
- Unique testing facilities in Europe: auto-ignition combustion testing and High Pressure High Temperature testing (1000 K, 40 bar, 4kg/s): powerful, flexible testing facilities, exceptionally close to industrial applications.
- Simulation and development of supersonic combustion chambers.
Testing
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Combustion Chambers
- Study and installation of combustion testing on operational or prototype combustion chambers.
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Test facilities
- Kerosene-air or methane-air premixed subsonic flames in elementary or advanced combustion chambers.
- Supersonic combustion of a fuel in the air .
- ATD laboratories:
- High Pressure High Temperature (HPHT), (1000K, 40 bar, 4kg/s) combustion testing.
- Auto-ignition and flash-back combustion testing .
- Industrial wind tunnels, speeds up to Mach 20.
- Innovative optical diagnostics and visualisations:
- Laser Doppler Velocimetry (LDV),
- Coherent anti-Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS),
- Rayleigh and Raman scattering
- Planar Laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF) imaging
- Techniques of visualisation
- Velocimetry by Imagery of Particles (PIV)
- Measurements of size and speed of particles by technique Phase Doppler (PDPA) and Electrical Low Pressure Impactor (ELPI)
Expertise
- Design of combustion chambers.
- Assistance with critical experiments.
- Development of methodology.
- Control, testing, diagnosis.
- Collated results.
- Extensive databanks backed by validated models.
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