Energetic and Thermodynamics laboratory - ULiège

• Facilities for testing heat pumps and refrigeration systems.

• Expertise in modeling thermal systems, energy conversion systems as well as for energy storage an transport.

• Optimization and experimental performance evaluation of heat pumps, HVAC, refrigeration, micro-CHP systems,biomass CHP systems, steam plants.

• Conventional and alternative fuels for internal combustion engines (gasoline and diesel) and for hot water boilers (natural gas, fuel oil and wood pellets), 

• Condensation (with high amount of noncondensable gases) in heat exchangers ,

• Measurements of thermophysical variables (temperature, pressure, flow rate, velocity, …)

Heating and cooling techniques:

• Heat pump systems

• Low enthalpy geothermal energy

Renewable power production:

• Integration of renewable sources of energy (solar, wind, biomass, ...) and cogeneration

Extraordinary engineering equipment:

• Test benches for internal combustion engines, 

• domestic and semi-industrial hot water boilers and heat exchangers

Services and training offer:

• Modelling and testing of the energetic and environmental performance of internal combustion engines (gasoline and diesel), hot water domestic boilers, heat exchangers

• A finishing work study has been performed by one of my student on the energetic and environmental performance of a hot water domestic boiler fired with wood pellets. 

Distributed power production:

• Small-scale and Organic Rankine cycles

• Positive displacement expanders

• Heat recovery in Industry and vehicles

• Micro-CHP

Centralized heat and power production

• Combined heat and power production

• Integration of renewable energies in power systems (district heating networks, energy storage)

• Performance monitoring of power plants

• Design, construction and use of experimental test benches.

• Modeling and simulation of thermal and thermodynamics systems

• Expertise in optimization of biomass cogeneration plant (economic, energetic and environmental)

Integration of renewable energies in energy systems:

• Thermal and electrical energy storage (CAES, hydraulic, high temperature storage)

• Geotabs project. Towards a better knowledge of geothermal heat pump systems connectec to TABS. Coordinator: K.U.Leuven. ERA-SME/ERA-net. Period: 2011-2013.

• Flexipac (Optimization of energy demand by controlling thermal systems (heat pumps, etc.) with a view to integrating into the grid intermittent energy sources and economic valorization of flexibility). Funding DGO4. Period 2012-2015.

References

• Oudkerk, J.F, S. Quoilin, S. Declaye, L. Guillaume et V. Lemort. Evaluation of the Energy Performance of an ORC-based micro-CHP System Involving a Hermetic Scroll Expander. ASME Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power. In press.

• Lemort, V., S. Declaye and S. Quoilin. 2012. Experimental characterization of a hermetic scroll expander for use in a micro-scale Rankine cycle. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A, Journal of Power and Energy, Volume 226 Issue 1, February 2012.

• Quoilin, S., V. Lemort, and J. Lebrun. 2008. Study of an Organic Rankine Cycle Associated to a Biomass-Fuelled Boiler for Cogeneration Application, Proceedings of the First International Conference and Workshop on Micro-Cogeneration, Technologies and Applications, Ottawa, Canada.