High-Pressure Combustor Test Facility 1
High-Pressure Combustor Test Facility 1
The High-Pressure Combustor Test Facility 1 (HBK1) is a fully optically accessible combustion test bed for the examination of combustion chambers and burners for aircraft engines and stationary gas turbines. The HBK1 forms the supply and operating environment for various measuring sections for the investigation of different combustion chamber concepts such as lean and RQL combustion chambers under realistic operating conditions
The large-scale high-pressure combustor test facility 1 (HBK1) system forms the supply and operating environment for various measuring sections. These are designed to be able to test full-size gas turbine burners under realistic operating conditions. Thus, the HBK1 is operated with single-burner combustion chambers as well as with multi-burner sectors. All combustion chambers not only have a geometrical similarity to the original operating environment, but also the distribution of cooling, mixed and secondary air analogous to the engine combustion chamber.
In addition, the combustion chambers have full optical accessibility. This makes it possible to use optical measurement technology to record the processes and interactions in all zones and areas of the combustion chamber without influencing the reacting flow field.
Due to the possibility in the HBK1 to control all air and fuel mass flows, as well as the pressure independently of each other, a wide, comprehensive operating field including off-design points can be covered and controlled. New technical innovations to reduce pollution in aviation can be investigated very quickly in a TRL-4 environment in HBK1. This is made possible by the use of modular combustion chambers manufactured using the laser melting process (SLM).
Characteristics of the test bed
- Technology Readiness Level 4
- Full optical accessibility in all combustion chamber zones
- Investigation of application-oriented combustion systems under realistic operating conditions
- The following burners are used: single-burner combustion chambers, multi-sector combustion chambers
- Use of SLM - manufactured combustion chamber components and burners
- Liquid and gaseous fuels including hydrogen
- Variable distribution of preheated air
Research topics
- Fuel treatment, atomization, evaporation, dispersion
- Pilot/main burner interaction, flow field, stabilization, heat release
- Pollutant formation / soot production
- Mixing of secondary and mixed air
- Burner-Burner Interactions
- Investigation of combustion chamber exit parameters (= turbine inlet)
Measurement Technology
- Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV)
- Laser Doppler Anemometry (LDA)
- Phase Doppler Anemometry (PDA)
- Laser-induced incandescence (LII)
Technical Data
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Static pressure | 25 bar |
Preheating temperature of the compressed air | up to 900 K |
Air mass flow | up to 4,5 kg/s preheated up to10 kg/s cooling air total |
Liquid fuels | Kersoene, SAF |
Gaseous fuels | Hydrogen, methane |
