Power & Flow
Power & Flow focuses on clean and efficient combustion and process technology, to cater for fast-growing energy demands.
Studying tomorrow’s fuels
Today, we need to shift towards ultra-clean, highly efficient ‘low-temperature’ combustion methods. We are also seeing increased use of biofuels, and eventually the emergence of fuels derived from sustainable sources, such as solar and metal fuels. Optimizing combustion and process devices, in combination with different fuel formulations to minimize undesired emissions and maximize thermal efficiency, is essential to supporting both of these developments.
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Combustion systems and their fuels
This theme is connected to the development of smart injection and combustion strategies of future ultra-clean and efficient combustion systems as well as with the after treatment, with a focus on future diesel engines. Our studies on fuels include: i) enhanced oil recovery, ii) use of bio-based fuels based on biomass components such as lignin, and iii) using micro-structuring gas-liquid bubbly flow processes to intensify biogas-to-liquid conversion.
Metal fuels as dense CO2-free energy carriers
This research is concerned with a novel type of fuels: metal powders that have a tremendously high energy density and can act as a major CO2-free energy carrier for the long term. Within the group we develop the combustion technology of metal powder, solid handling including separation and regeneration through chemical reduction with renewable hydrogen.
Complex multiphase flows
The research theme is related to various applications in the field of process technology, all involving complex multiphase flow phenomena. This includes equipment with phase transitions, such as evaporation of sessile multi-component ink droplets, cooling of steel by water jets and water-steam flow in evaporator tubes.
Meet some of our Researchers
Student Opportunities
A wide variety of BEP, MSc graduation, and MSc internship projects can be executed within the Power & Flow group. Click on the link below to find out more about us and the projects we offer.
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L. Beckedorff,R. Nieuwenhuizen,T.M.A.J. Bolwerk,A.S. Monteiro,K.V. de Paiva,J.G.M. Kuerten,C.W.M. van der Geld,J.L.G. Oliveira
Flow statistics in plate and shell heat exchangers measured with PTV
International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow (2019) -
Fernando Luiz Sacomano Filho,Guenther Carlos Krieger Filho,Jeroen Adrianus van Oijen,Amsini Sadiki,Johannes Janicka
A novel strategy to accurately represent the carrier gas properties of droplets evaporating in a combustion environment
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (2019) -
R.C. Willems,P.C. Bakker,N.J. Dam
Laser-induced incandescence versus photo-acoustics
Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics (2019) -
E.M.A. Frederix,T.L.W. Cox,J.G.M. Kuerten,E.M.J. Komen
Poly-dispersed modeling of bubbly flow using the log-normal size distribution
Chemical Engineering Science (2019) -
Lu Xia,Robbert Willems,Bram de Jager,Frank Willems
Constrained optimization of fuel efficiency for RCCI engines
9th IFAC International Symposium on Advances in Automotive Control (2019)
Contact
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Visiting address
Gemini South 2.131 (building 15)De Zaale5612 AJ EindhovenNetherlands -
Postal address
Department of Mechanical EngineeringP.O. Box 5135600 MB EindhovenNetherlands -
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