Gas Turbine Engineering Laboratory

The Gas Turbine Engineering Laboratories are ideal for testing many aspects of turbo-machinery R&D. Off campus, the site consists of twelve self contained test houses. The facility has a new 2 MW compressed air plant as well as a unique regenerative air heater giving it the capacity of providing clean air at high pressure, temperature and flow. A number of high speed drives trains are available with various output speeds up to 40,000 rpm at 850kW. A low speed facility provides large scale compressor rigs for instrumentation development with an 8 inch diameter transonic suction tunnel for instrument calibration. Currently there are a number of industrial research projects ongoing including wave and tidal energy, materials, seals and coatings and supersonic nozzle research.