Title: Modernization and development of the materail base for research studies in the field of gas turbine engines combustion efficiency
Acronim: TURBOCOMB
Contract: PN II Capacities no. 63 / September 2007
Financing: state budget
Objective:
The upgrading of INCDT – COMOTI’s combustion research infrastructure as well as of the facilities assisting this infrastructure (the INCAS air blower station);
The upgrading of the research and experimentation facilities and of the measurement equipment required in order to meet, in the highest degree, the requirements of the european FP7 research programs.
The improvement, through the newly developed metods and research equipment, of the research capability in the field of combustion and biomass gasification (clean energies).
Objectives achivement:
During the project, work in the filed of design, execution, modernization and acquisition has been carried out, in the alotted budget and by attacting supplementary funding from INCDT COMOTI, in such a manner as to answer in good conditions to the requirements of the ongoing research programs, and with the goal of developing the research base in order to attract new, complex research contracts, financed both form national and European funding.
In general, there have been 4 major development directions:
- high pressure technolgical air line upgrading
New Equipments |
No. |
Equipment name |
1 |
NI Dn 300 Pn 25 vane, electrical actuation, 4-20 mA, servo 230V ca, with command block |
2 |
NI Dn 50 Pn 25 vane, electrical actuation, 4-20 mA, servo 230V ca, with command block |
3 |
Dn 200 Pn 25 fine tunning vane, electrical actuation, 4-20 mA, servo 230V ca, with command block |
4 |
Dn 100 Pn 25 fine tunning vane, electrical actuation, 4-20 mA, servo 230 V ca, with command block |
5 |
Vana reglaj fin Dn 50 Pn25 fine tunning vane, electrical actuation, 4-20 mA, servo 230V ca, with command block |
6 |
Ultrasonic flowmeter Dn 200 Pn25, with pressure and temperature transducer, with high pressure gaging Dn 200 |
7 |
Dn300 Pn 25 faucet |
8 |
Dn50 Pn 25 faucet |
9 |
Pressure transducer max. p. 25 bar, XD anti-deflagration casing |

- methane gas line upgrading:
New Equipments |
No. |
Equipment name |
1 |
Dn 50 Pn 25 NI vane, electrical actuation 24V |
2 |
Dn 15 Pn 25 NI vane, electrical actuation 24 V |
3 |
Dn 25 Pn 25 fine tunning vane, electrical actuation, 4-20 mA, 24V |
4 |
Ultrasonic flowmeter Dn 50 Pn 25, with pressure and temperature transducer, with low pressure air gaging |
5 |
Proces computer |
6 |
Dn 100 Pn16 fine tunning vane, with butterfly flap, maximum working temperature 1000 grd.C |
- command and control centralized installation upgrading
New Equipments |
No. |
Equipment name |
1 |
Central unit IC693CPU374 with math co-procesor, 2 Ethernet and 1 RS 485 ports on the power supply. Working speed 0.15ms/1 K programme |
2 |
Power supply: 240 Vca, 50Hz, on each rack. |
3 |
PLC rack for 10 modules |
4 |
Digital input modules: 2 x 32 = 64 digital inputs available |
5 |
Digital output modules: 1x 32 = 32 digital outputs available |
6 |
Analog input modules, 4...20 mA: 4x16 = 64 analog outputs available |
7 |
Analog input modules, 0-10V/4...20mA: 1x8 = 8 analog outputs available |

- modern measurement equipments acquisition
New Equipments |
No. |
Equipment name |
1 |
3D FlowMaster optical PIV system for measuring flow velocity |
2 |
ParticleMaster shadowgraph for measuring particle and droplet size |
3 |
DaVis computerized control system for optical measurement equipments |
4 |
iCCD rapid camera for flame visualization |
6 |
Nd:YAG LIF Laser |
7 |
FlameMaster Rayleigh Spectroscope |

Partners
INCDT COMOT
Contact:
Dr. ing. Cristian CÂRLǍNESCU
phone (40)21.434.02.41
email: cristian.carlanescu@comoti.ro
INCAS “Elie Carafoli”
Contact:
Dr. ing. Cornel Şerban OPRIŞIU
phone (40)21.434.00.83
email: coprisiu@aero.incas.ro
Purchased equipment valorization
The achieved upgrading allows the successful continuation of the international program TEENI and opens perspectives for approaching field related top problems, both with national partners, that will be able to acquire new knowledge through collaboration with INCDT – COMOTI, and with international partners, that are, most of them, in the same situation as the national partners, as the equipment and the gained knowledge are available only to a few current FP7 COMOTI pratners, (Turbomeca / Franţa, DLR/ The German Aviation Institute, and 2-3 institutes in USA and Japan.
Servicies available as a result of the upgrading
The TURBOCOMB is a thermo-gas dynamic complex offering conditions for the study and the experimantation of liquid or solid fuel combustion, biomass or derivative fuel (bio-fuel) combustion, heat transfer, thermal resisting coating and aviation or industrial gas turbine micro-engines, operating on classic fuels, biomass, or derivative fuel (bio-fuel).
The laboratorul offers testing beds supplied with high temperature and high pressure air or exhaust gas, as well as high accuracy and spatial precision measurement possibilities for the thermal and gas dynamic parameters of interest in the study of gas turbines.
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