Contact person
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Epple

Simulations in the field of process and power plant technology

• Dynamic
• Stationary

CFD simulations

• Furnaces (biomass, coal)
• Fluidized beds
• Fluid mechanics
• Unit calculation (mill, cyclone etc.)

Experimental investigations

• Combustion experiments in pulverized firing (up to 1 MWₜₕ)
• Combustion experiments in fluidized beds (up to 1 MWₜₕ)
• Combustion experimentes in an entrained flow reactor
• Gasification experiments in fluidized beds (up to 0.5 MWₜₕ)
• Fluidized beds (cold models)
• Processes based on coupled fluidized beds
  
  • Chemical Looping Combustion
  • Chemical Looping Gasification
  • Carbonate Looping
• Laboratory fluidized beds
• Determination of minimum fluidization velocity
• Corrosion investigations in a laboratory furnace

Fuel, dust, ash and residue analysis

• Particle size distribution
• Ultimate analysis (elemental analysis)
• Proximate analysis (moisture, volatile matter, ash)
• TGA
• Incineration
• Loss on ignition
• Ash melting behaviour
• Calorimetry
• Characterization of attrition

Emission measurement

• Gaseous species
• Corrosive gases

Measurement of high temperature corrosion in power plants and in a 1 MWₜₕ pulverized firing

• Superheater
• Membrane wall

Measurements in fluidized beds

• Particle loading
• Velocity