COMOTI - Romanian Research and Development Institute for Gas Turbines

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MAIN FACILITIES, TESTING AND EXPERIMENTAL LINES

General Diagram

Air Sources	Fuel Sources
1. Flow Rate: max. 10 kg/s Pressure: max. 1,14 bar Temperature: atmosferic	1. Kerosen, Diesel Flow Rate: max. 0,5 kg/s Pressure: max. 90 bar
2. Flow Rate: max. 10 kg/s Pressure: max. 1,14 bar Temperature: max. 600 K (mixing pre-heater)	2. Natural Gas Flow Rate: max. 3000 Nm3/h Pressure: max. 15 bar
3. Flow Rate: max. 8 kg/s Pressure: max. 16 bar Temperature: max. 800 K (humidity control pre-heater)	3. Gasification, biomass, wood materials
	4. Biofuels (camelina, ecodiesel, etc.)

Main Experimental Lines:

R.1 - High Pressure Line (max air:14 bar; 6 kg/s; t 200 C; burned gases temperature max 1600C)
R.2 - Low Pressure Line (max air 1.12 bar; 4 kg/s ; atmospheric temperature)
R.3 - High Pressure Line with optical acces (air max:14 bar-0.5 kg/s, t 600 C; electrical pre-heater)
R.4 - High Pressure Line with optical acces (air max:6 bar-1.0 kg/s, t 2500 C; gas burner pre-heater)
R.5 - Experiemental Line - Burners for biomass, gasification (200 KW)

	Maximum Capacity					Instrumentation
	Air flowrate	Air pressure, absolute	Inlet air temperature	Natural gas	Liquid fuels (Kerosen, Diesel, other)	Instrumentation
C 1	6 kg/s	1600 kPA	atmospheric	0.23 kg/s	0.27 kg/s	Optically-Accessible Pressure sensors, thermocouples, strain gauges, noise, flow meters, Emission analyzers
C 2	2 kg/s	1600 kPA	773 K	0.07 kg/s	0.08 kg/s	Optically-Accessible Pressure sensors, thermocouples, strain gauges, noise, flow meters, Emission analyzers, air-gas air heather
C 3	0.5 kg/s	1600 kPA	1073 K	0.02 kg/s	0.02 kg/s	Optically-Accessible Pressure sensors, thermocouples, strain gauges, noise, flow meters, Emission analyzers, electric air heather

Main Instrumentation and Facilities:

PIV (Particle Image Velocimetry) LaVision - nonintrusive measurment line
LIF (Laser Induced Fluorescence) LaVision - nonintrusive measurment line
SIKC-MAIHAK ultrasonic flowmeter for gaseous measurments (0.5% precision)
Flow measurments with diaphragm and Venturi tube
KIMO Pitot tube(1 %, for a ± 10 ° alignment,ap to 1000 °C)
MRU VARIO Plus - portable burned gases analizer (CnHn,CO,CO2, NOx,H2)
IMR2000 - burned gases analizer (O2/CO/NO/CO2/CxHy)
Micro turbine engine Garret GTP 30-67 (25 KW)
Micro turbine engine Capstone C30 (30 KW)
72 CPUs Core Intel XEON Supercomputer - for CFD analysis
Automatic Multifuel Oil Burner - model KG/UB 100
Laser Pirometer - laser LaVision
Control valves for high pressure and temperature
Electrical valves for air flow control, for liquid and gaseous fueles flow control
PLC data aquisition system (0.15s/1 K program)