Oxy-combustion and Heat Transfer for new energy technologies – OXYTEC

Oxy-combustion for Air Liquide is a strategic growth that addresses the issues of energy and the environment of the ALMA program in 2015. It is seen as a promising route for the production of steam and carbon-free electricity. The industrial chair is designed to improve knowledge and mastery of these technologies for gaseous fuels (natural gas, synthesis gas) and for liquid fuels (heavy fuel oil, waste oil distillation) and in the future fuel solid (coal, biomass) for systems operating under pressure. Advances in these areas, methods and tools produced within the framework of the chair will develop the expertise of Air Liquide of the oxy-combustion processes applied to the production of carbon-free electricity but also on production synthesis gas for the chemical industry, production of synthetic gasoline, biofuels, etc.. Given the limited data and studies of the oxy-combustion under pressure, the program is based on an approach that combines experimentation, modeling and simulation around an experimental platform for the instrumented detailed analysis of the flow and heat transfer in flames stabilized on swirling flows operating at high pressure when the oxidizer is enriched with oxygen and the gases are diluted by CO2 and water vapor .