• 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
• 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 in-house HBD and flow-path design SW
• Development of Life Care System
• Development of methodologies and tools
• Turbine digital twin development
• AI implementation
• sCO2 turbine technology
• Organic Rankine Cycle technology
• Energy storage technology (Liquid air energy storage (LAES), Compressed air energy storage (CAES), Carnot batteries)
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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/
• 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)