Facilities
The Combustion Laboratory has several lab scale burners for both fundamental research and teaching. An industrial gas turbine combustor (1 Megawatt) has been installed for testing and research. A high pressure test burner up to 10 bar will be commissioned soon. The burner has two quartz windows and two pure silicon windows, which are transparent to infrared and longer wavelength (e.g. Terahertz wave).
Besides the conventional diagnostic techniques the group is known for in house developed unique and innovative diagnostic techniques, which could be applied not only in flame dynamics studies but also in many fast moving dynamic system. The team has great strength on signal and image processing capabilities including multi-channel data acquisition, high speed imaging and stereo imaging.