FLITES : Fibre-Laser Imaging of gas Turbine Exhaust Species (ORC)

Lead Research Organisation: University of Southampton
Department Name: Optoelectronics Research Ctr (closed)

Abstract

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Description 1. Develop facilities for making high purity infrared transmitting materials.

2. Manufacture high purity infrared glass and fibre for low loss used in detection and transmission circuits to monitor hydrocarbons and NO2.
3. Manufacture rare earth doped chalcogenide glass and fibre to be used in fibre lasers for hydrocarbon and NO2 monitoring system.
4. New fibre laser sources and DFG sources for spectroscopy and laser-induced incandescence measurements for tomography on aero-engines
Exploitation Route By using the realized materials & fibres and proposing new ones.
By using installed lasers on test rigs
Sectors Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Energy,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology
URL http://www.orc.soton.ac.uk
 
Description Constructed lasers were installed at INTA's aero-engine test cells in Madrid. Following follow-on work, the system has now been implemented at TRL6 in EU Cleansky2 project. With support from Rolls-Royce and the above EU project, INTA has established a test-cell facility for the routine testing of large commercial aero-engines. Rolls-Royce has made provision for the implementation of the above in its new state-of-the-art Testbed 80 facility at Derby, which ran its first engine in January 2021. This is the largest and smartest indoor aerospace testbed in the world. Creation of the new EPSRC Programme Grant LITECS to further penetrate turbine combustion and the pollutants generated, in partnership with Rolls-Royce, Siemens, Gooch & Housego Ltd., Tracerco Ltd. and OptoSci Ltd.
First Year Of Impact 2019
Sector Aerospace, Defence and Marine
Impact Types Economic
 
Description Laser Imaging of Turbine Engine Combustion Species (LITECS)
Amount £5,813,733 (GBP)
Funding ID EP/T012595/1 
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 08/2020 
End 08/2024
 
Title Tomographic imaging of CO2 in aero-engine exhaust plume 
Description The system for tomographic imaging of CO2 in aero-engine exhaust plume is installed at the Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial (INTA) in Madrid. It is based on tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy and uses 126 laser beams to measure the absorption of CO2 in a plume of diameter up to 1.5 m. The overall aperture of the system is 7 m. An ealry version is described here: P. Wright, et al., "Implementation of non-intrusive jet exhaust species distribution measurements within a test facility", in IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, USA, March 5-12 2016, IEEEXplore Digital Library: IEEE, 2016. The system has seen many improvements since. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2016 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact This is described elsewhere in my Research Fish area for this project. 
 
Description DAS Photonics 
Organisation DAS Photonics S. L.
Country Spain 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Refining research outcomes to enable submission of new proposal
Collaborator Contribution Lead of, and input to, new proposal
Impact None, multi-disciplinary in related to aero-engines.
Start Year 2015
 
Description INTA jet engine testing 
Organisation National Institute for Aerospace Technology
Country United States 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Preparing for testing of Rolls-Royce aero engines
Collaborator Contribution Provision of test cell
Impact In progress
Start Year 2013