Experimental Setups

Setups for Reacting Flows/Combustion

Atmosperic

• Tube burner with air preheater - flame flashback
• Duct burner - boundary layer flashback in unswirled flows for premixed combustion
• Swirl burner - flame flashback and emissions in externally and technically premixed flames under wet and dry conditions
• Hydrogen/ hot air mixer - injection and mixing investigations
• Full scale combustion chamber - hydrogen combustion investigations
• Large-scale test rig - reacting jet in vitiated cross flow

High pressure 

• Combustion test rig - autoignited combustion processes
• Laminar diffusion flame - high pressure flame radiation

Internal combustion engines

• Periodical chargeable combustion chamber - ignition and combustion processes in engines
• 2 rapid compression machines

Further setups   

• Explosion channel – flame dynamics and acceleration, deflagration-to-detonation transition (DDT) and detonation dynamics
• Hydrogen storage - continuous catalytic hydrogenation and dehydrogenation of liquid carriers
• Water channel - flow field and mixing quality of gas turbine burners
• Parabolic flight setup - NOx generation in spray flames under microgravity conditions

Setups for the Investigation of Thermoacoustic Instabilities

• Single burner test rig with acoustic excitation - thermoacoustics under dry and wet conditions
• Annular combustion chamber with acoustic excitation - thermoacoustics of multi-burner arrangements and characterisation of acoustic dampers
• Two-staged test rig - high-frequency transversal acoustics in sequential combustion chambers    
• Atmospheric swirl burner - self-excited transversal acoustic modes
• Setup for the identification of thermoacoustic regenerators
• Representative rocket engine test rig - aeroacoustic investigations on scattering and damping

Setups for Multiphase Experiments

• Boiling test rig - subcooled flow boiling close to critical heat flux
• Horizontal two-phase flow facility - flow regimes, such as plug and slug flows
• High-pressure cell - Diesel spray injection
• Test rig for DeNOx SCR technology  

SETUPS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY TESTING

• Renewable energy desalination - test rigs for humidification/dehumidification, reverse osmosis membranes and modules, membrane distillation and solar stills
• Solar cooling - absorption and compression chiller test rigs
• Air-conditioning of battery-run electric cars - test rig for micro-scale condensation and desublimation experiments
• Heat transfer in porous media - test facility for thermal conductivity measurements of porous media
• Solar energy systems - tracked photovoltaic plant (heliostat), 40 kW (peak) photovoltaic plant, solar thermal