Research & Development Topics

• Improve efficiency and reliability of gas turbines for both aeroengines and land-based engines.

• Develop new measuring techniques and improving accuracy [1] and reliabilities of existing measuring devices and sensors in energy and power industries.

• Reduce emissions (NO_x, SO_x, CO₂, CO, and unburned carbon) [2] from power/steam [3] generation & incineration [4].

• Improve inlet air cooling technology [5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12] for peak load gas turbine systems.

• Apply IGCC (Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle) to coal [13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21] petroleum coke, and biomass [22, 23].

• Investigate future high temperature hydrogen-fueled gas turbine systems.

• Investigate the applications of distributed generation (DG).

• Investigate fuel cell / gas turbine hybrid cycle.

• Micro-combined cooling heating & power (CCHP) [24].

• Conduct research to increase performance of personal turbines (PT).

• Conduct research for using renewable and sustainable energy sources.

• Power generation on floating rigs [25].

• Electrify isolated areas in the developing countries.

• Mist/steam cooling of high temperature gas turbines [26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34].

• Optimization for energy system efficiency with artificial neural networks [35].

• Petroleum coke calcination [36, 37].

• High-pressure and high-flow TurboPiston Pump (TPP) [38, 39].

• Vehicle drag Reduction [40].