Fundamentals in research and teaching

Chair of Hydrogen and Nuclear EnergY

Test plants:

• High-power laser lab
• Training reactor AKR2
• High temperature test plant OSIRIS
• Test plant ADELA
• High-pressure test plant – Autoklav
• Test plant BORAN
• Test plant Ulbricht-Kugeln
• DRESDEN-TANK
• DRESDEN-TUBE
• GENEVA
• LUKA
• ALADIN

Chair of Buildings Power Engineering and Heat Supply

Test plants:

•  Cogeneration
• District heating (Gases)
• Use of secondary and renewable energy resources (waste heat, geothermal heat, solar energy) (Kamenz)
• Use of heat pumps and fuel cells (IMSA)

Bitzer-Chair of Refrigeration, Cryogenics and Compressor Technology

• Hydrogen test site
• Central helium site

Chair of Thermal Power Machinery and Plants

Test plants:

• Hot Gas Test Rig
  Investigation of cooled and uncooled laboratory components in combustion gas atmosphere up to 1250 °C (creep, low cycle fatigue, thermo-mechanical fatigue and combined cycle fatigue, i.e. interaction of low and high cycle fatigue)
• Mini Specimen Test Rig
  Static and dynamic material test up to 1250 °C
• Side Space Test Rig „SiSTeR“
  Investigation of flow and heat transfer in channels and side spaces of turbines
• Education and Research Power Plant in the Centre for Energy Technology
  Investigation and demonstration of integrated gas-steam processes

​Chair of Technical Thermodynamics

Test plants:

• IR Spectrometer with Thermobalance
  Material analysis and structural clarification of solids and gases
• Frequency Response
  Investigation of diffusion and sorption of gases in porous solids
• Calvet Calorimeter
  Experimental investigation of heat capacity and phase transitions
• Heating Stage Microscope
  Experimental investigation of enthalpies of fusion and kinetics of phase transitions
• Vacuum tank
  Tank for experiments under vacuum with pressures < 0,1 Pa
• Fluid and Heat Transfer Test Field
  Multiple measurement options for a wide range of experiments
• Thermal Conductivity Measurment
  Experimental investigation of thermal conductivities mit Hot Plate Method according to DIN 52616
• Climate chamber
  for temperature range -70°C ... 100°C
• Macrokinetic Adsorption Setup
  Experimental investigation of adsorption kinetics of compound materials
• Adsorption Equilibrium Measurment
  Experimental investigation of Pressure-Temperature Equilibrium Curves for adsorption processes

Chair of Imaging Techniques in Energy and Process Engineering

Experimental facilities at HZDR

• TOPFLOW

• ROFEX

• Gamma-ray computed tomography

• Pebble Bed Loop