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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 (NOx, SOx, CO2, CO, and unburned carbon) [2] from power/steam [3] generation & incineration [4].

  • Improve inlet air cooling technology [5, 6, 7]for peak load gas turbine systems.

  • Apply IGCC (Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle) to coal [8, 9], petroleum coke, and biomass [10, 11].

  • 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) [12].

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

  • Conduct research for using renewable and sustainable energy sources.

  • Power generation on floating rigs [13].

  • Electrify isolated areas in the developing countries.

  • Mist/steam cooling of high temperature gas turbines [14, 15, 16, 17, 18].

  • Optimization for energy system efficiency with artificial neural networks[19].

  • Petroleum coke calcination [20].

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