Norway NTNU
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is represented in this Project by its Thermofluids group at the Department of Energy and Process Engineering. The NTNU Thermofluids group has leading expertise in turbulent flows and combustion. It has been awarded two ERC grants: one on combustion instabilities in annular systems and a second on high pressure, staged combustion of hydrogen and ammonia.
Role in the project
NTNU is the coordinator of the InsigH2t project. NTNU will lead WP1 and work in close
collaboration with RWTH, CERFACS and SINTEF to investigate the turbulence burning rate in combination
with DNS.
Germany ARTTIC
ARTTIC Innovation is a service provider specialized in funding, innovation, and project management services. Since 2020, ARTTIC has been part of the PNO Group, Europe’s leading consultancy for public funding and innovation, with a presence in 10 countries and a team of 600 professionals. ARTTIC is embedded in a global network of diverse and dynamic partners, including multinationals, SMEs, start-ups, research and technology organizations (RTOs), universities, sector associations, public institutions, and EU-funded consortia.
Role in the project
ARTTIC Innovation supports the Coordinator NTNU and the consortium in the administrative and financial management of the project (T6.2), ensuring the project’s compliance with EC rules. Additionally, ARTTIC Innovation will actively support the WP5 Leader ETN in the project’s stakeholder engagement strategies.
Germany Technische Universität Berlin (TUB)
The TUB is a major German technical university based in Berlin. The Chair of Fluid Dynamics at TUB is a leading research institute in the field of gas turbine combustion having been awarded two ERC grants with extensive expertise in combustion dynamics, H2 combustion, and flow control.
Role in the project
TUB will lead the investigation of combustion dynamics of premixed H2 flames at high pressure (WP2). Experiments will be conducted in TUB’s advanced combustion test rigs at atmospheric and high pressure, which are equipped with sirens for acoustic actuation, optical access allowing for flame imaging, and exhaust emission monitoring. WP2 will be conducted in close cooperation with ZHAW and CERFACS, to investigate H2 combustion dynamics with combined experimental and numerical methods.
Italy Baker Hughes
Baker Hughes is a world-class turbo-machinery manufacturer with operations in Florence, Italy, having technical expertise and capability to drive the design process to target the release of a combustion system and related auxiliary systems for high efficiency industrial gas turbine.
Role in the project
Baker Hughes is leader of Task 3.2 where the extension of methodologies to stratified flame will be done in close cooperation with UNIFI and Task 3.3, where BH will support the verification of numerical methodologies, together with ZHAW and UNIFI, providing available experimental data at high pressure.
Norway SINTEF Energy Research
SINTEF Energy Research is a major Norwegian research institution affiliated under the SINTEF Group, which is one of the largest independent research organisations in Northern Europe, and its research direction pertains to energy via a full range of technologies in related fields, including thermal energy and gas technology in a range from cryogenics to peak temperatures reached in hydrogen combustion.
Role in the project
SINTEF will exploit its expertise in advanced modelling of combustion processes, developed since the 1970s, regarding the structure and burning rate of turbulent premixed hydrogen flames, which requires high-fidelity direct numerical simulation (DNS) and other computational fluid-dynamic tools (cf. WP1, Task 1.2, and WP4, Task 4.3).
Germany Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH)
The Institute for Combustion Technology (ITV) of RWTH Aachen has strong expertise in modelling of hydrogen flames with T-D instabilities as well as conducting high-fidelity simulations of turbulent flames using DNS and LES. The Institute for Combustion Technology has presently 33 scientific researchers and has been awarded two ERC advanced grants for combustion research since 2016. RWTH has always had strong ties with industry, creating one of Germany’s hubs for university spin-off companies and engineering firms.
Role in the project
RWTH Aachen will perform DNS and LES of canonical hydrogen flames and will develop predictive, physics-based LES models. RWTH Aachen will lead Task 1.2.
France CERFACS
CERFACS is a French research institute and a world expert in the field of CFD simulations for reacting flows, especially for gas turbines. CERFACS has led multiple European projects and is the only CFD group which has been awarded four ERC advanced grants for combustion simulations since 2013 (see for example cerfacs.fr/scirocco.).
Role in the project
CERFACS will perform DNS and LES of hydrogen air flames.
Belgium ETN
ETN is a non-profit membership association, which brings together the entire value chain of turbomachinery technology worldwide.
ETN addresses the main challenges and concerns of gas turbine (GT) users in committees and individual projects, composed of experts across the entire value chain: power generation and oil & gas companies, OEMs, R&D institutes, suppliers, service providers and technology consultancies.
Role in the project
ETN is the leader for WP5 (Communication, dissemination, and exploitation).
Italy Università degli Studi di Firenze (UNIFI)
Università degli Studi di Firenze is one of the largest and most productive public research systems
in Italy. The Heat-Transfer and Combustion group (HTC-Group) at the Department of Industrial Engineering has a deep and recognized research experience in gas turbine combustor investigations, with several large EU projects funded and coordinated in the last 15 years. An established collaboration is active with BH in the field of GT combustion by the means of CFD modelling and experimental investigations.
Role in the project
UNIFI will contribute to the development of new TCI/TDI closures in collaboration with CERFACS and their migration into BH’s used commercial CFD tool, thereby supporting the use of the new models for the design and validation of an innovative hydrogen burner. LES calculations will be carried out on two dedicated HPC clusters reserved for the UNIFI Team (2,800 cores total).
Switzerland Ansaldo Energia Switzerland
Ansaldo Energia Switzerland, is one of the world’s leading players in the sector of power generation plants and components. Founded in 1853 it is full-cycle, integrated operator, with the capabilities to build turnkey power plants using its own technologies and its own independent design, production, construction, commissioning and service resources.
Role in the project
Ansaldo Energia Switzerland will lead the validation of enhanced numerical models on industrially relevant sequential burner geometry (WP4). The activities will include combustion and aerodynamic assessment to ensure successful validation of industrially relevant prototypes at engine relevant conditions.
This will be complemented by advanced numerical simulations to understand flame structure and stabilisation processes, pollutants emissions and its response to acoustic excitation.
Switzerland Zurcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (ZHAW)
ZHAW is a Swiss University focussing on applied sciences. ZHAW has extensive knowledge in the field of thermoacoustics including analytical low-order modelling, experimental techniques, and combustion dynamics control both on a fundamental as well as an applied level.
Role in the project
ZHAW will lead Tasks 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4 and will contribute by developing and validating physics-based FTF models analytically and by means of LES, performing stability analysis with network models, deriving mitigation strategies and facilitating transfer of fundamental research results into the industry setups.