ERC CoG: CABUM
Understanding the fundamental physical background of cavitation in interaction with contaminants will have a ground-breaking implications in various scientific fields (engineering, chemistry and biology) and will, in the future, enable the exploitation of cavitation in water and soil treatment processes…
Duration: 2018 – 2023
DEVELOPMENT OF NEW, ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY APPROACHES TO INACTIVATION OF PLANT AND HUMANE VIRUSES IN WATER
We will evaluate the potential effect of the water treated with both cavitation and plasma…
Partners: National Institute of Biology, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Duration: 2018 – 2021
EXPERIMENTS AND SIMUALTION ON CAVITATION EROSION IN CRYOGENIC LIQUIDS – CRYOCAV
Optimal operation of turbopumps is crucial for all liquid fuel rocket engines. To reduce weight, these pumps often operate at critical conditions, where dynamic instability and cavitation are unavoidable…
Partners: Abelium, Slovenia
Duration: 2015 – 2017
DETAILED MEASUREMENTS AND SIMULATIONS FOR THE PREDICTION OF CAVITATION EROSION
Empirical methods for cavitation erosion prediction are very numerous and widely used in industry, together with long industrial experience on prototype machines, allow designers to choose the appropriate material for each industrial situation and to gain a global view on the influence of the main governing parameters on the cavitation erosion process…
Partners: University of Maribor, Slovenia
Duration: 2014 – 2017
CAVITATION IN THERMOSENSIBLE FLUIDS – CATHEF
Optimal operation of turbopumps is crucial for all liquid fuel rocket engines. To reduce weight, these pumps often operate at critical conditions, where dynamic instability and cavitation are unavoidable. In cryogenic engines, the fuel and oxidizer used are liquid usually hydrogen and liquid oxygen at very low temperatures (about 14 and 90 K, respectively)…
Duration: 2011 – 2015
ADVANCED WATER TREATMENT WITH ULTRASOUND AND CAVITATION
The goal of biological waste-water treatment is a stepwise oxidation of organic pollutants aiming to achieve complete mineralization. Yet, numerous wastewater constituents are persistent to biodegradation or they are only subjected to minor structural changes instead of complete transformation into carbon dioxide and water….
Partners: Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Faculty of Civil Engineering, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Faculty of Health Sciences, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Duration: 2011 – 2014
OPTIMIZATION OF OPERATION OF WATER TURBINES WITH HORIZONTAL SHAFT AND LOW SUBMERGENCE
Largest remaining hydro potential in Europe lies in low head < 15m plants. However, very low head hydro power plants exhibit unsteady characteristics due to variation of static pressure load to the blades. Among them the most important is cavitation, which causes drop in efficiency, vibration, noise and erosion…
Partners: Litostroj Power d.d., Ljubljana, Slovenia
Duration: 2010 – 2013
OPTIMIZED COMPOUNDS – Application of Computational Fluid Dynamics for co-rotating Twin-Screw-Extruder to achieve optimized thermoplastic materials
The aim of the project is usage of Computational Fluid Dynamics combined with experimental studies for the development of innovative thermoplastic materials and the optimization of the compounding process by using an intermeshing co-rotating twin-screw-extruder…
Partners: Deutsches Kunststoff Institut (DKI), TU-Darmstadt, Germany
Duration: 2010 – 2012
STUDY OF THERMODYNAMIC EFFECTS OF CAVITATION
Different problems from cavitation are encountered in practice. Effects are mostly related to vibration, noise, erosion, changes in flow hydrodynamics, increase of hydrodynamic drag, light and thermal effects…
Partners: Hidria Institute, Godovic, Slovenia
Duration: 2007 – 2009