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AREVA Endowed Chair of Imaging Techniques in Energy and Process Engineering (Professorship)

Parent Units:
Technische Universität Dresden (TUD)
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)
German name: "AREVA-Stiftungsprofessur für bildgebende Messverfahren für die Energie- und Verfahrenstechnik".

Contact

web: http://tu-dresden.de/die_tu_dresden/fakultaeten/fakultaet_maschinenwesen/iet/asp
email:
phone: +49 351 260-3283
fax: +49 351 260-13283
postal address: Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) / Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), AREVA Endowed Chair of Imaging Techniques in Energy and Process Engineering, 01062 Dresden
office address: Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) / Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), AREVA Endowed Chair of Imaging Techniques in Energy and Process Engineering, George-Bähr-Str. 3b (Building Walther-Pauer-Bau), 01069 Dresden
partner: Technische Universität Dresden
partner: Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf

Expertise

Objectivs:

  • Development of imaging techniques with high spatial and temporal resolution to determine phase distributions, temperatures and species concentrations in multiphase flows
    Focus: electron beam X-ray CT, radioactive tracer techniques, wire-mesh sensor technique, electrical and optical spectroscopy
     
  • Methods for image data analysis and data fusion for process and multiphase imaging; utilization of high performance computing
     
  • Close interlink to flow and process modelling by generating validation data in generic experiments
     

Topics:

Development of multiphase flow measurement techniques

  • Ultrafast X-ray tomography system (ROFEX)
  • Ultrafast limited angle X-ray computed tomography
  • Fast 3D X-ray computed tomography
  • Gamma-ray computed tomography
  • Measurements with wire-mesh sensors
  • Autonomous sensor particle for parameter tracking in large vessels
  • Industrial measurement techniques in multiphase flows


Generic experiments on fundamental phenomena in two-phase flows

  • Investigation of stationary and transient two-phase flows in vertical pipes (TOPFLOW) using wire mesh sensors and ultrafast X-ray computed tomography
  • Experimental investigations of stratified two-phase flows using optical computed tomography
  • X-ray tomography of Taylor bubbles in capillary two-phase flow


Chemical multi-phase processes and reactors

  • Energy efficiency of chemical multi-phase processes
  • Development of alternative reactor concepts
  • Investigation on hydrodynamics in multi-phase processes(bubble columns, fixed-bed reactors, flotation equipment, fluidized beds)
  • Validation of multiscale processes with CFD models


Thermohydraulics und measurement equipment for nuclear reactors

  • Thermohydraulics of the Pressurized Thermal Shock(PTS)
  • Heat transfer in passively operated emergency condensers
  • Boiling processe in rod bundles
  • Bubble entrainment on valves and centrifugal pumps
  • Insulation material and corrosion
  • Transport, deposition and resuspension behaviour of carbonaceous dust
  • Monte Carlo simulations of the gamma ray distribution outside the reactor pressure vessel in case of nuclear accidents

Affiliations

Parent Units

name
type
actions
Experimental Thermal Fluid Dynamics Division view
Institute of Power Engineering (IET) Institute view

Last Update

Last updated at: 2015-02-25 16:53