Technology Platform Decentralised Energies (TPDE)

Laboratory Technology Platform Decentralised Energies (TPDE)
The Technology Platform for Decentralised Energy (TPDE) laboratory offers the opportunity to investigate and further develop several gas turbines of different performance classes and applications simultaneously.
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Setup room of the Technology Platform Decentralised Energies (TPDE) laboratory
The Decentralised Energy Technology Platform (TPDE) has its own set-up room for the construction and conversion of systems and test benches for scientific experiments.
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Gas panel of the Technology Platform Decentralised Energies (TPDE) laboratory
The synthesis gas panel of the Technology Platform Decentralised Energies (TPDE) laboratory is used to operate systems and test benches with different fuels and their mixtures.
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The Technology Platform Decentralised Energies (TPDE) was created to test and further develop fuel- and load-flexible micro gas turbines for combined heat and power plants. 

The infrastructural possibilities of the laboratory are also utilised for research work on aircraft engines.

The TPDE offers space for several micro gas turbines or complex test benches such as the Rolls Royce M250 engine. An extensive infrastructure is available throughout the laboratory: Fresh air can be drawn in from outside and preconditioned, hot combustion exhaust gases are guided outside via several chimneys, generated electrical power ranging from a few kW to several 100 kW can be fed into the site's energy supply and various gaseous fuels and a liquid fuel supply are available.

The research work ranges from investigating individual components, such as innovative burner systems, to analysing complete power plant and gas turbine systems, including all the necessary operating and control strategies.

Links

Department Microturbines

Microturbine systems, M250

Contact

Dr. Peter Kutne

Head of Department
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Institute of Combustion Technology
Microturbines
Pfaffenwaldring 38-40, 70569 Stuttgart