Laser Imaging of Turbine Engine Combustion Species (LITECS)

拟议研究计划的最终目标是减少航空和发电燃气涡轮发动机对环境的影响。只有更好地理解和模拟燃烧和排放产生过程以及不同燃料的作用，才能真正减少排放。几个破坏性的化学和颗粒种类的测量方法将开发详细的燃烧区域和排气特性。这些变革性的新测量能力将首次应用于确定发动机内燃烧物质和有害排放的时空演变。这些测量结果将为燃烧和排放产生过程提供新的理解，并为最终提供改进的发动机和燃料技术以减少排放提供新的技术策略。

The ultimate ambition of the proposed research programme is reduced environmental impact of aviation and power generating gas turbine engines. Serious emissions reduction can only come from better understanding and modelling of the combustion and emissions generation processes and the roles of different fuels. Several disruptive chemical and particulate species measurement methods will be developed for detailed combustion zone and exhaust characterisation. These transformational new measurement capabilities will be applied to establishing, for the first, time the spatial and temporal evolution of combustion species and unwanted emissions within the engines. Such measurements will inform new understanding of the combustion and emissions generation processes and enable new technical strategies to ultimately deliver improved engine and fuel technologies for reduced emissions.