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 Turbo Life Care System (TLCS)

    • 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

R&D projects

  • 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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