Milestones

  • July 2024: First passive control of thermoacoustic instabilities for hydrogen technically premixed flames using the acoustic metaburner based on slow sound.
  • June 2024: First measurement of sequential flame transfer function at atmospheric conditions.
  • March 2024: First non-reactive tests with acoustic metamaterial burner for passive thermoacoustic instability control.
  • January 2024:  Numerical prediction of thermoacoustic stabilization of a sequential combustor via NRP discharges at atmospheric condition, with experimental validation.
  • November 2023: First demonstration of the active control of thermoacoustic instabilities of a high-pressure sequential combustor under transient operation using ultra-low power cold plasma.
  • July 2023: First measurements of flame transfer function of hydrogen flames at elevated pressure in the Pele test rig.
  • April 2023: The high-pressure test rig "Pele" developped from scratch to achieve the goals of the ERC project has been commissioned and is fully operational.
  • December 2022: Design of a slow sound burner channel and demonstration of its control capabilities on aeroacoustic instabilities.
  • November 2022: Optical measurement campaign for acoustic metamaterials to passively suppress thermoacoustic instabilities.
  • November 2022: The control of thermoacoustic instabilities using NRP discharges has been successfully performed.
  • December 2021: First numerical simulation of plasma assisted combustion at atmospheric condition has been achieved.
  • September 2021: First experiment on plasma-assisted ignition of sequential lean mixtures at atmospheric condition.