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Oxsensis and the Institute of Combustion Technology of the German Aerospace Center sign Cooperation Agreement
Oxford, UK, May 2011. Oxsensis have signed a Cooperation Agreement with the German Aerospace Center’s (DLR) Institute of Combustion Technology.
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is Germany's national research center for aeronautics and space. Its extensive research and development work in aeronautics, space, transportation and energy is integrated into national and international cooperative ventures. The Institute of Combustion Technology is a leading centre for gas turbine combustion research and carries out research and project work on the design principles of technical combustion processes. The main goals are:
- Reducing the emissions of pollutants such as nitrogen oxide, Carbon monoxide, unburned hydrocarbons, soot and CO2
- Increasing reliability, especially regarding ignition, extinction and thermoacoustic oscillation in transient combustion
- Promoting the effective and sustainable use of new, unconventional fuels
- Developing and optimizing burner and combustion systems
The Institute works closely with industrial partners including Siemens and Alstom and maintains a valued position in the gas turbine industry with a high level of expertise and state of the art facilities. It is also involved in a number of publically funded projects including TIMECOP-AE (Toward Innovative Methods for Combustion Prediction in Aero- Engines), H2-IGCC (Advanced gas turbines for solid fuel gasification processes) and LIMOUSINE (Limit cycles of thermo-acoustic oscillations in gas turbine combustors) to highlight just some of the many projects they are involved in.
In Oxsensis’ short history, it has worked strongly and closely with gas turbine OEMs to develop its novel fibre optics based combustion dynamics sensors. As these sensors have been able to operate at the most challenging mounting locations close to the primary combustion zones, they provide the highest quality information on combustion instabilities and the onset of these. Recognising the DLR’s position at the forefront of combustion research, the two parties signed up to a cooperation agreement and Oxsensis agreed to provide their novel sensors as part of the ongoing testing at their high-pressure combustor rig (HBK-S).
Stephen Fasham, the Technology Development Director at Oxsensis stated “We are pleased to be working with the DLR Institute of Combustion Technology, to help provide high quality data from locations which were previously inaccessible for dynamic pressure sensors. We are particularly interested in the strength of their research in high hydrogen combustion as this is a direction that the gas turbine industry will clearly move towards. We envisage our technology will have a strong role to play in establishing smooth operation of gas turbines on high hydrogen content fuels and other varied quality fuels for that matter.”
Dr Peter Griebel, the Head of the High-pressure Experiments Group stated “We are happy to have the novel technology of Oxsensis available to assist in our ongoing research at the Institute. In some of our testing we have already seen a benefit of using these sensors particularly for monitoring high frequency dynamic modes”.
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