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Training42Phase · Next generation turbomachinery with two-phase flow

Horizon Europe — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2023-12-01 → 2027-11-30
EU contribution
€2,707,801
Participants
12
Scheme
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN

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Results in brief

Next generation turbomachinery with two-phase flow

Training42Phase addresses critical technological challenges in the energy transition by advancing two-phase turbomachinery for next-generation energy-conversion systems. Two-phase turbomachines are flow devices operating with fluids that are partly liquid and partly vapor, and lie at the core of key emerging technologies, such as partial-evaporation organic Rankine cycles, supercritical carbon dioxide (CO2) Brayton cycles, liquid-air energy storage, and transcritical CO2 heat pumps. Currently, a significant portion of energy in these systems is lost through valves or inefficient heat transfer processes. Two-phase turbo-expanders, pumps, and ejectors offer the potential to recover part of this energy, improving system efficiency and flexibility. However, operating under two-phase conditions introduces challenges such as losses, component wear by erosion, and reduced reliability. Understanding and managing these effects is therefore essential to ensure safe, durable, and cost-effective energy systems. The main objective of Training42Phase is to develop improved design methods, modelling tools, and maintenance strategies for future two-phase turbomachinery, while simultaneously training a new generation of highly skilled researchers. The project supports 12 doctoral candidates (DCs), providing them with interdisciplinary expertise spanning thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, structural mechanics, reliability analysis, and data-driven methods, ultimately preparing them for careers in both academia and industry. Traning42Phase includes 4 academic partners each employing 2-4 DCs and one industrial beneficiary employing 1 DC, supported by 6 associated industrial partners.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

The green transition of energy systems requires the implementation of a number of novel emerging energy conversion technologies based on turbomachinery with two-phase flow. However, the current level of knowledge and understanding of two-phase flow in turbomachinery is at a very low level, urgently calling for the need of education of scientists that can support the development of such technologies. The aim of Training42Phase is to educate the future leading scientists within turbomachinery with two-phase flow, thereby providing the scientific and technological basis required for the development of the next generation of turbomachinery. The project consortium includes all the key partners needed to address these challenging tasks and provide our group of 10 doctoral candidates with the best foundation for solving these challenges – leading European universities, and industrial partners from large international companies and SMEs, representing technology suppliers and providers of digitalized solutions. Training42phase will provide a first of its kind excellent training for 10 doctoral candidates within the following fields:1) Innovative technological solutions that enable the design of cost-effective and reliable turbomachinery with two-phase flow.2) Cutting-edge multi-disciplinary training in all fields related to the modelling, design, optimization and performance prediction of turbomachinery with two-phase flow, including aero-thermal modelling and design, stress and fatigue analysis, structural dynamics, hybrid/data-driven failure mechanism models, advanced optimization methods and data-driven analytic techniques based on machine learning.3) Application of turbomachinery with two-phase flow to emerging novel technologies.4) Top-level training in transferable skills, such as research and data management, scientific integrity and ethics, intellectual property rights and entrepreneurship, business planning, career planning and grant proposal writing.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · Kongens LyngbyCoordinatorDenmark
  • CENTRALESUPELEC · GIF SUR YVETTEFrance
  • DANFOSS A/S · NordborgDenmark
  • ENOGIA · MarseilleFrance
  • EXERGY INTERNATIONAL SRL · Olgiate OlonaItaly
  • GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS SCS · BucFrance
  • IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE · LondonUnited Kingdom
  • Legendre Anthony Roger PierreFrance
  • NUOVO PIGNONE SRL · FirenzeItaly
  • POLITECNICO DI MILANO · MilanoItaly
  • ROLLS-ROYCE PLC · LondonUnited Kingdom
  • THE MATHWORKS · MEUDONFrance

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union