Equipment

Measurement Equipment for Flow Fields
  • Particle Image Velocimetry 2D-2C (up to 15 Hz, immersed)

  • High-Speed Particle Image Velocimetry 2D-3C (up to 5000 Hz)

  • LDV-Profile sensor (resolution down to 1-10 µm to measure strong velocity gradients in boundary layers, which conventional LDV is not able to resolve)

  • Ultrasonic Doppler Velocimetry (non-invasive)

  • Endoscopic Particle Image Velocimetry (up to 15 % gas content)

  • Microscale Particle Image Velocimetry (resolution down to 7 μm)

  • 4D Particle Tracking Velocimetry (measurement of Lifelines)

Measurement Equipment for Concentration Fields
  • High-Speed Laser-Induced Fluorescence (LIF) technique with a tunable dye laser (up to 5000 Hz)

  • Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy (resolution down to approx. 1 μm, three-dimensional)

  • Multi-Channel Fiber Optic Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Concentration Measurement (non-invasive)

  • Micro-Laser-Induced Fluorescence (resolution down to 7 μm and 5000 fps)

  • Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscope (LSFM)

 

Measurement Equipment for Dispersed Phases
  • Laser-Optical Micro-Probe for measurement of bubble size distribution,bubble velocity and gas holdup (A2 Photonics)

  • Nanoparticle detection (Nanosight)

  • Endoscopic Probe for measurement of bubble and droplet size distribution (for microbubbles 10 µm<dB<150 µm) (SOPAT)

  • Endoscopic Probe for measurement of bubble and droplet size distribution (for microbubbles 150 µm<dB<1000 µm) (SOPAT)

  • Endoscopic Probe for measurement of bubble and droplet size distribution (for microbubbles 1 mm <dB< 7 mm) (SOPAT)

  • Endoscopic Measurement of Bubble and Droplet Size Distributions (up to 150 bar, 250°C) (SOPAT)

Measurement Equipment for Fluid Properties
  • Rotational Rheometer constant stress

  • Rotational Rheometer with glass bottom

  • Drop Volume Tensiometer

  • Bubble Pressure Tensiometer

  • Calorimeter (up to 250 bar, 200 °C)

  • Measurement system for Thermal Conductivity

Lasers for Flow- and Concentration Field Measurements
  • Nd:YAG-Laser

  • Dye Laser

  • High-Speed Laser

  • UV-Laser