Research for the Planet earned Ondřej Cejpek a reward and a study stay in France
Ondřej Cejpek, who researches CO2 capture at the Energy Institute, attracted attention with his work in the field of atomizer development.
EnergyInstitute
Research activities at the Energy Institute cover areas of non-nuclear and nuclear energy, heat transfer, fluid flow, thermal and fluid machines, efficient energy management, and desirable indoor environmental modifications. Advanced computational tools and experimental laboratories are used in research activities, enabling the study of individual components of related technologies and the evaluation of energy systems as a whole. The institute participates in national and international R&D projects and organizes scientific conferences. The Energy Institute is organizationally divided into three specialized research departments.
Department of Power Engineering
The department engages in scientific research in the fields of thermal and nuclear power plants, heating plants, renewable energy sources, energy storage, biomass and waste gasification, low-emission biomass combustion, heat exchangers and condensers, numerical simulations of heat transfer in power plant components, steam turbines, absorption cycles, district heating, fine particle emissions, and flue gas filtration.
Department of Thermodynamics and Environmental Engineering
The department conducts research in the design, projection, and operation of ventilation, air conditioning, and heating systems (HVAC systems), including all other components and technologies for creating an optimal indoor environment. It conducts partial research in the areas of multiphase flow, aerosols, thermal energy storage using phase change materials, CO2 capture, and human thermal comfort.
Viktor Kaplan Department of Fluid Engineering
The department focuses on research in the design and testing of hydraulic turbines and pumps, flow instability, fluid system dynamics, multiphase flow, waterworks design, computational flow simulation, and experimental modeling of fluid machines and technologies.
Main Current Projects
- CaviPlasma: wide-spectrum large-volume decontamination plasma technology for IRS
- Emission-free technologies for local energy sources replacement
- H-HOPE - Hidden Hydro Oscillating Power for Europe
- Pump as Turbine: improving the design and operation through digitalisation
- National Hydrogen Mobility Center
Main Results
- Optimization of turbine operation while the temperature of the heating medium is reduced
- Optimization of steam turbine operation
- CaviPlasma - new technology for advanced oxidation based on hydrodynamic cavitation and low-temperature plasma
- Swirl turbine:solution for small power plants
- Experimental and numerical investigation of fibre deposition in human respiratory airways
Research Activities
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