Energy process and fuel engineering - V

Research fields in energy process and fuel engineering  
Supervised by the Chair of Energy Process Engineering 

Goals
The Chair of Energy Process Engineering in the Institute of Process Engineering and Environmental Technology is closely connected to the high temperature processes of energy conversion in power plant technology and the raw materials industry. Approximately 30 staff are employed in four departments under the Chair.

Research fields
Employees work on research and development projects in the fields of efficient energy conversion and use, fuel characterization, corrosion reduction, especially in steam generators, and contaminant reduction by primary and secondary measures in pyrolysis, gasification and combustion processes.
As part of the research and development projects, lectures in the core curriculum are dedicated to thermodynamics/heat and material transmission and, at later stages in the main course of study, to combustion and power station engineering.

Technical equipment and research facilities 
Laboratories, technical facility centers and pilot facilities are available for research. In addition to experiments, mathematical modelling of pyrolysis, gasification and combustion processes are carried out on various devices, from material and heat transmission processes as well as gas cleaning systems.

Through close cooperation with facility construction companies and operators, there is a constant transformation of results into practice. Worth mentioning here, for example, are the experiments on oxyfuel technology for coal power plants, online balancing and heat flow measurements at biomass thermal power plants and waste incineration facilities.