Objective Cost-effective, fuel-flexible, efficient and clean premix burners will be developed for domestic heating systems via fully-validated advanced modelling and design tools. Low cost and fuel flexibility are essential to gain wide market penetration in the Wes tern Balkans, where natural gas composition changes remarkably from site to site and in time. The major FlexHEAT targets are: - Development of 1:3 power modulating atmospheric premix metal burners with no water cooling, optimised material composition and p ollutants emissions < 50 mg/kWh (state-of-art burners enable 1:2.5 power modulation only with burner-mantle water cooling for flame stabilisation). - Development of 1:5 power modulating fully-premixed metal burners, optimised material composition and po llutants emissions < 40 mg/kWh (state-of-art reliable burners with these characteristics are mainly manufactured with very high cost materials). - Achievement of enhanced fuel flexibility, i.e. capability of handling different feed gases (from natural g as, LPG, renewables as biogas - several kinds of biogas will be considered for both burners -, low heating value gas from Western Balkans,...) and reliability (30,000 h and 200,000 thermal cycles). - A fully-validated modelling/design platform, based on c ombined CFD modelling of flames and finiteelements modelling of burner stress & strain, mainly aimed at tailoring the burner geometry and the slitsand-holes shape and pattern. Pollutants emission, flame stability and noise generation will also be anal ysed. - Model validation will be performed in specific test rigs and in real appliances (validators), assembled and tested by the end-users, where the above targets will be demonstrated. Fields of science engineering and technologymechanical engineeringthermodynamic engineeringnatural scienceschemical scienceselectrochemistryelectrolysisengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsfossil energynatural gasnatural sciencesmathematicspure mathematicsgeometrysocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemployment Keywords CFD/finite elements modelling/design Natural gas biogas domestic heating low-cost premix burners Programme(s) FP6-INCO - Specific measures in support of international cooperation: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) INCO-C.1 - Environment Call for proposal FP6-2002-INCO-WBC-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme STIP - Specific Targeted Innovation Project Coordinator FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER UNIVERSITAET ERLANGEN-NUERNBERG EU contribution No data Address Schlossplatz 4 ERLANGEN Germany See on map Total cost No data Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all A.D. METALNA INDUSTRIJA ALFA-PLAM VRANJE EU contribution No data Address Radnicka 1 VRANJE See on map Total cost No data EUROTEH-GAS DOO EU contribution No data Address Prva Proleterska B.B. ZRENJANIN See on map Total cost No data FACULTY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING BELGRADE - UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE EU contribution No data Address 27 Marta 80 BELGRADE See on map Total cost No data UNIVERZITET U BANJOJ LUCI MASINSKI-FAKULTET BANJA LUKA Bosnia and Herzegovina EU contribution No data Address Stepe Stepanovica 71 BANJA LUKA See on map Total cost No data BEKAERT COMBUSTION TECHNOLOGY BV Netherlands EU contribution No data Address JC Van Markenstraat 19 ASSEN See on map Total cost No data INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TECNICO Portugal EU contribution No data Address Avenida Rovisco Pais 1 LISBOA See on map Total cost No data POLITECNICO DI TORINO Italy EU contribution No data Address Corso Duca Degli Abruzzi 24 TORINO See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data
