R&D

Doosan Škoda Power has strong in-house Research and Development:

• Experienced team of 50+ professionals
• Intensive cooperation with universities, research institutes, academy of sciences and research community
• Active participation and leadership in both national and international public-funded research projects

R&D Mission

  • Turbine technology development

    • Improving efficiency, flexibility and reliability of turbomachinery
    • Development of steam turbines in the range 5 MW – 1,500 MW
    • Development of turbines for CCPP, WtE, SMR, Biomass, CSP, Nuclear, Geothermal

  • Development of digital solutions and design tools

    • Development of in-house HBD and flow-path design SW
    • Development of Life Care System
    • Development of methodologies and tools
    • Turbine digital twin development
    • AI implementation

  • New products development

    • sCO2 turbine technology
    • Organic Rankine Cycle technology
    • Energy storage technology (Liquid air energy storage (LAES), Compressed air energy storage (CAES), Carnot batteries)

  • Experimental research

    • In-house experimental lab
    • 10 MW and 1 MW in-house test steam turbines
    • Wind and steam tunnels
    • On-site experimental research and diagnostics
    • Blade tip-timing measurement of blade vibrations
    • Material, welding and erosion protection research

  • sCO2 turbine development

    • Solution for CSP, WHR, AMR or discharging of TES
    • High efficiency and flexibility, compact dimensions, low CAPEX
    • Demo unit – project „Sofia“ - under construction (1,5 MWe, 560 °C, 250 bar)
    • Cooperation with Research Centre Řež

  • Last Stage Blades development

    • Development and testing of robust high efficiency LSBs – both dynamic Campbell testing and steam testing
    • Aerodynamic and structural design incl. experimental validation
    • LSB water droplet erosion protection development and testing
    • Flutter research incl. experimental testing

  • Development of combined CAES + CSP energy storage

    • High-efficiency solar thermal power plant concept with an integrated electricity storage (CAES type)
    • CAES turbine development
    • Horizon Europe Project ASTERIX-CAESAR

    https://asterix-caesar.eu/

  • Organic Rankine Cycle technology development

    • Simple and flexible solution for waste heat recovery (WHR) or small biomass CHP units
    • Closed energy cycle using organic media instead of steam
    • Development of solution using R1233zd(E) or hexamethyldisiloxane (MM)
    • Construction of in-house testing unit (250 kWe, 25 bar, 200 °C)

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