Laboratory for Thermal Engineering and Energy

The Laboratory for Thermal Engineering and Energy is one of the twelve and one of the greatest laboratories in the VINCA Institute, founded in 1954. In the Laboratory there are permanent 51 employees. 38 of them are researchers with diploma: mechanical engineers, chemical engineers, electrical engineers, physicists and chemists. High scientific level of the Laboratory is ensured with:

• 15 PhD. holders
• 12 M. Sc. holders
• 12 researcher scientists with diploma (B.Sc.)
• 8 technicians
• 4 in administration and supporting service

Besides permanently employed researchers there is almost constant presence of graduate and post-graduate students conducting their studies and participating in projects of the Laboratory.

MAIN SCIENTIFIC FIELDS of the Laboratory for Thermal Engineering and Energy are:

• heat and mass transfer
• turbulent flow
• combustion
• sustainable development
• boiling and two-phase flow
• high temperature processes (plasma) in multy-component and multy-phase systems
• metrology of thermophysical properties

Instrumentation and Measurements The Laboratory for Thermal Engineering and Energy is accredited for testing and giving certificate for:

• temperature measurement devices
• pressure measurement devices
• velocity measurement devices
• air flow meters

The Laboratory for Thermal Engineering and Energy is equipped for measurements and giving certificate for

• heat exchangers
• measurement of emissions on boilers and furnaces
• dryers

The Laboratory for Thermal Engineering and Energy is equipped for temperature, pressure, flow, velocity, gas and particle concentrations measurements at industrial and power plant. Research activities are usually conducted in two parallel ways: experimental work and mathematical modeling.

• Heat and mass transfer
• Turbulence
• Combustion
• Boiling in 2-phase flow
• High temperature processes (plasma) and multi-component and multi-phase systems
• Thermophysical characterization of materials

• EXPERIMENTAL AND PILOT FACILITIES PC burners
• FBC
• plazma instalations
• MODELING 2-D and 3-D models of flow and combustion
• hidrodynamic processes in furnaces
• multi-component and multi-phase systems specific processes related to combustion

• FBC boilers and furnaces
• PC burners
• start-up with plasma
• dryers
• pneumatic transport and storage