Research areas
 

• Turbo machinery and power plant components
  Modeling, computation, component optimization

• High temperature stressing of component and service life
  • Experimental investigation of specimens with component features (laboratory components) and mini specimens
  • Modeling, computational simulation, advancement of deformation  and lifing models for thermo-mechanical loading

• Low emission and load flexible power generation technologies
  • Process layout, thermodynamic process simulation, process layout optimization
  • Experimental investigation of the semi-open integrated combined gas-steam process for heat load tolerant combined heat and power generation (CHP) on the basis of the small-capacity research plant of the Centre for Energy Technology of TU Dresden
  • Operating behaviour and system integration of turbo machinery and plant components
  • Systems analysis, monitoring