Solutions for a better combustion
You have the fuel, we have the spark!
Combustion Bay One is an engineering office specialised in advanced combustion management, situated in Graz, Austria.
Less fuel consumption, less pollutant emissions, more flexibility, more safety for your thermal facilities.
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The name Combustion Bay One highlights the idea of experimental facilities towards a better combustion. In short CBOne.
Research and Development is our key asset at CBOne. Some call it the Combustion Engineering. Some clients call it our Magic. We name it our job.
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Picture Gallery
It is always a pleasure when a longtime unseen friendly memory suddenly pops-up!
Pacman says hello in cubismus style in the middle of the "Eclipse" routine, a numeric free surface calculator of a nozzle periodically chocked by a cogged wheel, a new feature of CBOne's siren configurator, to fine-tune the pulsation's shape as a function of the client's expectations.
Simply Blue
Learning by doing: if the specs of borosilicate glass indicate temperatures of use up to 1500 degrees C, the softening temperature is actually 825 degrees C. This is the beginning of our career as glassblowers apparently :)
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)
Synchronous capture of GT combustor operating conditions and main combustion dynamics parameters combining quasi-static and fast-response measurements in a well-documented and compact manner L. Pfefferkorn*, C. Wieland*, F. Giuliani*, H. Reiss† *CBOne, Austria †Meggitt Sensing Systems, SwitzerlandDate 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.
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.
Read more: ASME Turbo Expo 2017: Make Combustion Great Again!!!!
The Strings of Fire
Combustion Bay One worked together with Meggitt Sensing Systems (MSS) on an Applied Research & Development programme for precision monitoring of gas turbine combustion.
An original methodology for gas turbine combustor characterisation and monitoring was developed, using MSS' instrumentation and CBOne's siren pulsator. Experiments with combustion were performed on CBOne's test bench at FH Joanneum, Graz, Austria. The results are published in a joint article to be presented at the ASME Turbo Expo in Seoul, South Korea, 13-17th of June 2016.
