ERDF project funding at h_da
Application Laboratory "Optical Diagnostics for Flow and High-Temperature Processes" (ODFH)
Funding period: 01.11.2019 - 31.03.2023
Funding Note: This project is funded by the European Regional Development Fund as part of the Union's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Motivation
The application laboratory "Optical Diagnostics for Flow and High-Temperature Processes" (ODFH) unites researchers from the three departments of Mechanical and Plastics Engineering (MK), Civil and Environmental Engineering (B), and Mathematics and Natural Sciences (MN) at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. In interdisciplinary cooperation, new diagnostic methods for flow applications and high-temperature processes are to be developed, the exchange between research and industry is to be increased, and the research location Darmstadt is to be further developed.
Goal
The aim of the project is to establish and expand an application-oriented, interdisciplinary application laboratory in order to eliminate the gaps in diagnostic and measurement technology that existed at the start of the project with specifically improved and further developed laboratory equipment and infrastructure. The focus is on setting up, developing and testing measurement systems based on optical diagnostic methods. The diagnostic methods used are Raman spectroscopy for determining gas species and gas concentrations in mixtures, particle image velocimetry (PIV) for detecting velocity fields in flow applications, and laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) for simultaneous detection of reaction products. These measurement systems will be specifically targeted at selected issues in the flow field and high-temperature processes and will provide new insights into complex processes with the help of specially tailored test benches. Ultimately, the application laboratory should open up improved opportunities to address current research topics in flow applications and high-temperature processes in the future and thus stimulate knowledge transfer.
Procedure
The ODiSH application laboratory will receive funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) from 01.11.2019 to 31.03.2023. These funds will be used to expand and develop research and innovation infrastructures by extending existing laboratory test benches, procuring new technologies and enabling interdisciplinary cooperation between the departments through joint projects. The intention is to improve the transfer of optical diagnostic technologies, which are currently located primarily at universities, to companies, especially in the Hessian region, by combining innovative optical diagnostic methods with suitable test benches.
Application Laboratory "Conversion of Hydrogen-based Energy Carriers" (CHEC)
Funding period: 01.01.2022 - 31.12.2022
Funding Note: This project is funded by the European Regional Development Fund as part of the Union's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Motivation
The realization of a decarbonized, climate-neutral energy supply requires the increasing use of electric power as a primary energy source. A central building block for successful decarbonization is the efficient energetic conversion of hydrogen-based energy carriers, which are becoming increasingly relevant as chemical storage units for regenerative energy production. In the new application laboratory "Conversion of Hydrogen-based Energy Carriers" (CHEC), the thermochemical energy conversion of hydrogen-based energy carriers with the application fields green hydrogen, green ammonia and particulate energy carriers will therefore be researched in the future.
Goal
During the project, test rigs for investigating and researching thermochemical conversions will be expanded with new apparatus to improve future research work on hydrogen-based energy carriers. The predominantly optical diagnostics will be set up across application fields and applied to the newly equipped test rigs. The synergies of the diagnostic systems will be used in the best possible way by applying them across several application fields. The project is intended to contribute to innovation in the region and to further strengthen the structural profile focus on sustainable development at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (h_da). Overridingly, the conversion of hydrogen-based energy sources will strengthen progress in the comprehensive expansion of renewable energies in all sectors and accelerate decarbonization.
Procedure
The CHEC application laboratory will receive funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) from 01.01.2022 to 31.12.2022. These funds will be used to plan and tender the upgrading of the test rigs for investigating and researching thermochemical conversions using laser diagnostic methods, and ultimately to have them installed and commissioned by specialist companies.
Application Laboratory "Laser Diagnostics and Renewable Energies" (LDRE)
Funding period: 05.10.2022 - 31.03.2023
Funding Note: This project is funded by the European Regional Development Fund as part of the Union's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Motivation
Green hydrogen and carbon-free energy carriers based on it are central components of an overall decarbonization of our energy systems. In order to convert these carriers energetically efficiently, it is necessary to develop and research in some cases entirely new processes that run over dynamically varying operating ranges in a broad temporal/spatial scale range. For research, the processes have to be diagnosed and analyzed at technically relevant conditions, non-intrusively and with high resolution. This requires a combination of special test benches and specially adapted optical diagnostic methods, which are being developed in the project. In the future, this combination will also open up options for research into a material circular economy as a further component of decarbonization.
Goal
During the project, test benches and, in particular, laser-based, optical diagnostics will be set up to study and research the energetic conversion of decarbonized, renewable energy carriers. In a broader context, research into the energy conversion of green hydrogen and other renewable-based energy carriers, such as metallic particles, opens up new options for the comprehensive expansion of renewable energies in all sectors. The demand for such energy carriers will continue to grow rapidly as the expansion of renewable energies progresses, requiring test rigs and laboratories where they can be researched using current diagnostic methods and processes can be improved. The project is intended to contribute to innovation in the region and to further strengthen the structural profile focus on sustainable development at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (h_da). The overarching goal is to contribute to the broad expansion of renewable energies and the acceleration of decarbonization.
Procedure
The LDRE application laboratory will receive funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) from 05.10.2022 - 31.03.2023. These funds will be used to upgrade the test benches for investigation and research in energy and chemical transformations in decarbonized processes. Specially adapted laser diagnostic methods will be procured, set up, adapted and put into operation.
