November 2023 – The turbine has been successfully tested under motor operation
With Laboratory Instrumentation and Electronics Department – SIEL and Mechanical Studies and Production Department – SERM of LRGP the first tests on the turbine have been successfully realised.
February 2023 – Starting molecular Monte Carlo simulations on reactive fluids
A new collaboration has been established between the REACHER team and the team of Thijs Vlugt at the Process & Energy Department of TU Delft. Most sincere acknowledgments to Thijs Vlugt, Mert Polat and Parsa Habibi for the fructuous teachings on Monte Carlo simulations (with Brick-CFCMC software).
November 2022 – The micro-turbine is being installed
Together with Laboratory Instrumentation and Electronics Department – SIEL and Mechanical Studies and Production Department – SERM of LRGP we prepare the test rig for the first running of the (at this stage, motor-driven) micro-turbine.
30 September 2022 – We speak about REACHER at the « European Researchers’ Night » at Université de Lorraine
June 2022 – The Raman spectrometer Kaiser Rx2 has been installed in REACHER laboratory
The Raman spectrometer Kaiser Rx2 has been installed in REACHER laboratory at LRGP and first Raman measurements on available reactive fluids are performed. We try to observe the modification of the Raman spectra of reactive fluids with temperature and pressure change, and to validate the experimental results with Quantum Chemistry calculations.
April 2022 – REACHER is presented in a conference organised in Belfort
REACHER is presented in a conference organised in Belfort by APSIIS, Vallée de l’Energie et Réseau EDEN.i. Thank you for the organisation of the event and for giving rise to the beginning of a fruitful collaboration with APSIIS !
1 April 2022 : REACHER starts, Welcome Konstantin !
Konstatin has started his thesis on the development of algorithms and codes to enable the modelling of reactive systems being at chemical equilibrium and possibly containing multiple phases. This code will be used to determine the thermodynamic properties of reactive fluids in different applications.