Feb 09, 2024
Kick-off meeting for the IGF lead technology project KerKoWas
The working group for the IGF lead technology project "Development of innovative energy efficiency strategies based on novel and additively manufactured ceramic hydrogen burner components - KerKoWas" at the kick-off meeting in Jena
On 7 February 2024, the kick-off meeting for the IGF lead technology project "Development of innovative energy efficiency strategies based on novel and additively manufactured ceramic hydrogen burner components - KerKoWas" took place at ifw Jena, Günter-Köhler-Institut für Fügetechnik und Werkstoffprüfung GmbH. In addition to the three implementing research centres, namely ifw Jena, the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS and the Chair of Energy Process Engineering at TU Dresden, companies from various sectors took part in the meeting of the project support committee. These included industrial burner and plant manufacturers such as IBS Industrie Brenner Systeme GmbH, Max Weishaupt GmbH, Noxmat GmbH, Saacke GmbH, UTF GmbH and VKK Standardkessel GmbH. Ceramic manufacturers such as Kerafol Keramische Folien GmbH & CO. KG, Keramik Innovation Berthold and Rauschert Heinersdorf-Pressig GmbH were also present at the kick-off.
The aim of the interdisciplinary research project applied for by the two research associations Deutsche Vereinigung für Verbrennungsforschung e.V. (DVV) and Deutscher Verband für Schweißen und verwandte Verfahren e. V. (DVS) is to develop and test new ceramic materials that are to be used in the area of burner components subject to high thermal and material stresses in the future.
The background to this development is the substitution of traditional fuel gases such as natural gas with hydrogen. Due to significant differences in the fuel gas properties and the resulting combustion behaviour, higher combustion temperatures are typically achieved when using H2, which leads to greater thermal stress on the standard materials used.
Illustration the combustion chamber with fuel gas supply
As part of the research project, experimental tests will be carried out on the combustion chamber at TU Dresden. In addition to various material samples, ceramic burner components will also be tested in pilot burners (100 - 300 kW) under real conditions. The project will be flanked by CFD simulations of burner operation, which will be validated by the experimental data.
On the part of TU Dresden, the research project will be worked on from 1 March 2024 by Dipl.-Ing. Jerome Michel in the High Temperature Process Engineering working group of Dr.-Ing. Daniel Bernhardt.
We are very pleased to welcome Mr Michel to the EVT team from March.