Grants and Contributions:

Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year (2017-2018 to 2018-2019).

Ensuring a reliable, efficient energy supply through the provision to the market of of heavy duty gas turbines,x000D
aero derivative gas turbines and industrial gas turbines is the aim of Siemens Canada Limited (Powerx000D
Generation , Distributed Generation, Aeroderivative Gas turbine). The next generation of engines will need tox000D
comply with increasingly stringent pollutant emissions legislation not only for high methane natural gas butx000D
also for a wide range of fuel compositions encompassing higher hydrocarbons and inert gases. The capabilityx000D
to operate on liquid fuel either for emergency backup of for full baseload operation is also mandatory for manyx000D
applications. These requirements impose significant technical and modeling challenges for the combustionx000D
system development.x000D
This project aims to enhance our ability to develop clean combustion technology. Improvements in pollutantx000D
emissions requires improved mixing to ensure a more complete combustion of the fuel and air mixture.x000D
Effective mixing of the fuel with air has the potential for reducing NOx emissions, yet current understanding ofx000D
the mixing process is incomplete and the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling is not yet able tox000D
model the complete physical process. This project is a continuation of the original project studying a simplifiedx000D
model of the mixing chamber to improve understanding of the physical mixing processes and improvex000D
understanding of the limitations in the current CFD models of the mixing processes.