Here you can read more about one of our scientists at Chalmers power plant.
Scientist Anders Lyngfelt
New technologies are being developed with knowledge accumulated from the Chalmers Power Central
Anders Lyngfelt is a world-leading researcher in chemical looping combustion, a technology geared towards carbon dioxide-free combustion of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels. He commented: “I have learnt a lot by working in the Chalmers power central (CPC). It also gives me an enormous boost when I talk to industry people”.
Anders Lyngfelt came in contact with the CPC for the first time as a graduate student in 1985, when his professor, Bo Leckner, considered that he would start studying desulfurization.
“We began by purchasing 500 tons of petroleum coke and made large-scale experiments that provided a whole new understanding of desulphurization in fluidized beds”, says Anders Lyngfelt, who is Professor of Energy Technology.
Since then, Anders Lyngfelt has been involved in several projects at the CPC. Altogether, he has been involved in ten EU-funded projects.
“There are many fluidized bed boilers in use around the world, but no boiler of this size is being used at an institute where you can combine industrial experience with a scientific approach to research”, says Anders Lyngfelt.
The CPC is equipped and built with research in mind. The second boiler, which is the circulating fluid bed boiler built in the early 1990s, has a very flexible format, with lots of different openings into which one can insert the various probes.
“Thus, when we came up with new ideas we could implement them. We could, for example, adjust the input of combustion air at different heights in the boiler, as well as control the temperature”, says Anders.
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