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Oxsensis joins the European Turbine NetworkOxsensis Ltd has joined the European Turbine Network (ETN) as a full member.
The European Turbine Network is a non-profit organisation that was originally founded in January 2005 as the result of a European Union Framework Programme 5 (FP5) project, which established technology gaps within the Gas Turbine Industry. This was done via a wide-ranging survey with feedback from stakeholders across the whole gas turbine value chain including research institutes, gas turbines users, OEMs and service providers. Today ETN represents the gas turbine technology community for power generation, mechanical drive and marine applications. Through cooperative efforts and by optimising gas turbine Research and Technology Development (RTD), ETN promotes environmentally sound gas turbine technology with reliable and low cost operation.
Oxsensis has been working closely with Gas Turbine OEMs since its foundation in 2003, to develop its novel optical based dynamic pressure sensors. With ever increasing requirements on gas turbines to be more efficient, more flexible and to run with ultra-low levels of emissions, this pushes technology across the various systems that comprise the gas turbine. One such area is the combustion system which not only has to deal with a variable fuel diet, it may need to deal with part load flexibility driven by the increasing presence of renewables in the grid’s energy mix and also it has to maintain low levels of emissions throughout these changes. These requirements push the combustion systems to new limits of performance and can lead to instabilities, which if not detected and acted upon, can lead to damage. Oxsensis sensors have been developed to address the needs of monitoring and engine optimisation and therefore its aims align well with those of ETN.
Ian Macafee, the Sales Director of Oxsensis stated “We see ETN as a strong forum with members representing all areas of the value chain in gas turbine technology and therefore it is a natural home for a technology company like Oxsensis. We will aim to be active members contributing to both the Fuel Flexibility and Emissions technical committee and the Condition Monitoring, Instrumentation and Controls technical committee within the ETN. We also see some strong prospects that our technology can assist in the Project Group that was set up to improve exhaust system design.”
Christer Björkqvist the Managing Director of ETN stated, “We are pleased to welcome Oxsensis to ETN and we hope that they will play an active part in our Technology Committees and Project Groups . We are pleased to see that they are already bringing forward suggestions and topics for consideration”.
Oxsensis aims to be involved in future collaborative programmes that ETN initiates, such as the current EU-funded FP7 H2-IGCC project, which is advancing the technologies required to run gas turbines on high hydrogen content fuels such as syngas, generated by gasifying coal. This project which the ETN is coordinating, shows that it is at the cutting edge of research on gas turbine technology.
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