LITECS aims to reduce environmental impact of gas turbine engines

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Strathclyde University is leading LITECS, an £8m research programme aiming to reduce the environmental impact of aviation and power generating gas turbine engines (GTEs).

LITECS

The Laser Imaging of Turbine Engine Combustion Species (LITECS) programme aims to deliver transformational combustion measurement and modelling tools to enable the development of low emission engine designs and evaluation of new low emission fuels.

Project uses laser sensing to measure gas turbine emissions

Funded by the EPSRC and industry, the consortium of the universities of Strathclyde, Edinburgh, Manchester, Southampton, Loughborough and Sheffield, builds on a previous £2.8m programme which used newly developed laser techniques to demonstrate two dimensional imaging of carbon dioxide in the exhaust plume of a full-scale commercial gas turbine aero-engine.

Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) is expected to make contributions to the LITECS programme in the areas of fibre lasers and amplifiers, and delivery fibres at wavelengths longer than 2μm.

Researchers, backed by Rolls-Royce, Siemens Energy, OptoSci, M Squared Lasers and Tracerco, are working to establish several new non-intrusive multi-beam laser measurement systems for simultaneous imaging of the concentration of multiple gases, soot and temperature in the exhausts and combustion zones of GTEs.

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