An Engineering Office for Advanced Combustion Management

ASME Turbo Expo 2017: Make Combustion Great Again!!!!

We are honoured to be part of the renowned ASME Turbo Expo 2017. This year's ASME conference will be held from June 26 - 30 in Charlotte, North Carolina. CBOne will present its latest research about a novel probe concept for advanced combustion monitoring and about a method for the improvement of impaired combustion conditions at off-design operation points.

For more information about the articles & presentations click on the references below

• Kraft, G. E., Giuliani, F., Pfefferkorn, L., Paulitsch, N., and Andracher, L., 2017. 
  Heat resistant probe combining optic and acoustic sensors for advanced combustion monitoring including detection of flame instabilities. 
  In Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
  GT2017-63626: Download the presentation

• Giuliani, F., Pfefferkorn, L., and Kraft, G. E., 2017. 
  Improvement of impaired combustion conditions at some off-design operation by driving a precisely controlled modulation of the burner air feed. 
  In Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
  GT2017-64429: Download the presentation

• We made the Headlines! Read the press article at ORF.at (German)

• Further information regarding the ASME Turbo Expo 2017 can be found here

Charlotte likes it hot !!!

For the improvement of impaired combustion conditions a robust acoustic driver (called siren) is used, being able to perform well and last long in an industrial environment. The previous figure suggests how the siren could be implemented on a real power gas turbine.

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The air we breathe

A breathtaking picture in the Parisian outskirts during the pollution peak with particulate matter in Dec. 2016

Normally, at this time we publish our Season’s Greetings. However, this December’s headlines are about remarkable pollution peaks observed during week 49 (6-9.12.2016) in Mailand, Brussels, London and Paris. This time, the concentration in particulate matter was alarming. The exceptionally nice weather and its absence of wind just made things worse.

The alert for most large cities in Europe is given when a concentration in particle matter with size smaller than 10 microns (PM10) above 50µg/m3 is achieved. A sub-category of it is the group of particles smaller than 2.5 µg/m3. These are known to deposit in our breathing cavities and organs, and possibly interact with our blood. The WHO recommends a maximum concentration of PM2,5 of 10µg/m3. 

Quoting the European Environment Agency (EEA), "air pollution remains the single largest environmental health hazard in Europe, resulting in a lower quality of life due to illnesses and an estimated 467 000 premature deaths per year".

Roughly one third of these particles come from industrial combustion processes. And this is a figure one can reduce, namely with better combustion. This is what we do at Combustion Bay One.

Support CBOne by helping us to promote and deploy our MethaNull technology. We can bend these numbers. We can breathe a cleaner air. Complete combustion will reduce drastically the production of particulate matter. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

More about MethaNull:

• MethaNull at EnInnov 2016: same power, 2% less consumption and CO2, 15% less other pollutants
• Good Vibes Beat Bad Gas
• Vanessa Moosbrugger wins the Schmiedl Research Price for MethaNull!

Five Stars

Combustion Bay One is five years old!

CBOne was officially opened on the 27th of March 2012. At that time we were rushing a bit to get the first contract officially signed with the official stamp of an engineering office!

Five years. Fifteen people directly involved. Eleven publications. Twelve presentations in renowned international congresses and conferences. Two proprietary technologies... See all counts for all what can be counted in the detailed section.

Many students. Many slides. Many km. Many many contacts and a happy few… who turned eventually into our dear Clients! The small "r" in cont(r)act is not trivial. A lot of sweat. A lot of humor, sometimes bittersweet, often good. A lot of smiles. A lot of laughs. 

We thank good luck. We appreciate the wide spectrum of things done. 

I rise my glass. Not only to these five years, but also to a bright future. 

To CBOne. To the people who made it. Cheers!

Fabrice Giuliani, CEO

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GTI2016: Filling in the missing link on combustion monitoring between laboratory and real gas turbine

Meggitt Sensing Systems and Combustion Bay One work together on monitoring of combustion dynamics in gas turbines. The latest progress will be presented at the conference GTI2016 in Berlin (presentation no. 026). This presentation focuses on the latest efforts made to automate the recording and documentation of even small changes of the burner operation conditions, and correlate these to the dynamic measurements.

Key elements of the combined static-dynamic synchronous acquisition (click to download the presentation)

Date and location: GTI2016, Berlin, Thursday 29th September 2016 at 11:30 

The focus is put on the precise combustion control using CBOne's burner test rig and methods, and detailed description of the latter using MSS' measurement chain including fast-pressure sensors and accelerometers, as well as associated data acquisition systems.

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