Research Results

Care for the Environment

• Chemistry in Combined Cycle Power plants: HRSG tube failure damage mechanisms and corrective actions
• Chemistry R&D Project: Use of CO2 recovered from flue gas for the conditioning of cooling water”
• Combustion efficiency and milling of coal and secondary fuels: Obtaining low milling costs and high combustion efficiency of solid fuels
• Electrostatic Precipitation: An efficient technology for dust removal in pulverized coal-fired plants
• Environment R&D project: Evaluation of the CORMIX software
• Environment R&D Project: Impact of pesticides on PCB determination
• Environment R&D Project: Non-toxic fouling release coatings to prevent the attachment of macro-organisms in cooling circuits
• Environment R&D Project: Biodegradable Polyaspartate, a New Alternative for the Conditioning of Cooling Waters
• Environment R&D Project: Impact of pesticides on PCB determination
• Environment R&D Project: Fish Friendly Hydropower
• Environment R&D Project - Combustion: Combustion optimisation using the Multipoint probe system
• Environment R&D project - Combustion: A mathematical and economical model to determine variable costs of coal combustion for pulverized coal-fired power plants”
• Environment R&D Project - Combustion: Optimisation of (co)combustion in boilers using computer simulation
• Environment R&D Project - Water: The elimination of Naegleria amoebas using monochloramine and peracetic acid
• Environment R&D Project - Water: The use of ozone for disinfecting cooling water
• Environment R&D Project - Water: An evaluation of «innovative» biocides for controlling bivalves
• Environment R&D Project - Water: Effects of peracetic acid and monochloramine on the inactivation of Naegleria lovaniensis
• Environment R&D Project - Water: The removal of phosphates from water flushed from SGT units
• Environment R&D Project - Water: PCR as a test for presence or absence of Legionella in (cooling) water
• Environment R&D Project - Water: Denitrification of the effluent produced by regenerating demineralisation stations
• Environment R&D Project - Water: Evaluating biodegradability tests of organic substances
• Environment R&D Project - Water: Modelling the formation of organohalide compounds formed during the chlorination of water
• Environment R&D Project - Water: The recovery of water from the steam of atmospheric cooling towers
• Environment R&D Project - Water: Monitoring the increase in population density of bivalve molluscs in the Meuse river and the Albert canal
• Environment R&D Project - Water: The toxicity of corrosion inhibitor formulations
• Environment R&D Project - Water: A detection method for Legionella spp. In (cooling) water : Fluorescent In Situ Hybridisation (FISH) on whole bacteria
• Environment R&D Project - Water: Environment R&D Project - Water
• Environment R&D Project - Water: Detection of Naegleria spp. and Naegleria fowleri : a comparison of flagellation test, ELISA and PCR
• Environment R&D Project - Water: Electricity generating stations at the heart of the industrial ecosystems of tomorrow
• Environment R&D Project - Water: Nitrogen elimination
• Environment R&D Project - Water: Controlling pathogenic organisms in cooling water
• Environment R&D Project - Water: Fight against corrosion and biofilm
• Environment R&D Project - Water: The elimination of oxygen by membrane techniques
• Environment R&D Project - Water: The biological degradation of PCB’s
• Environment R&D Project - Water: Which biocide to use in our cooling systems ?
• Environment R&D Project - Water: Evaluation of the impact of cooling water discharges
• Environment R&D Project - Water: Electrodeionisation is an effective process that can be used to reduce the concentration of ammonia in water flushed from steam generators
• Environment R&D Project - Water: Ecotoxicology
• Environment R&D Project Optim’H2O: Optim’H2O is a software developed for optimal design of a demineralized water production plant”
• Fish impingement control at Tihange nuclear power station: The combination of infrasound repulsion systems and echo sounder
• MATPAC: A tool to choose the cooling tower fills: Project Chemistry in Power Plants
• OLAND process : Biological removal of nitrogen: OLAND was tested on an effluent coming from the vacuum pump circuit of a power plant
• Prevention of Explosions and Fires: In solid fuel-fired Power Plants
• Project Environment: Predictive Emissions Monitoring System (PEMS)
• Project Environment: Nanotechnologies and the Environment”
• Public lighting & light pollution consequences. privacy. in full development... on energy consumption. surfaces. Main publications Contacts © LABORELEC: What kind of street lighting can be put in place to combat this new problem?
• Pulverised coal flow measurements: Measurement and control of combustion per burner
• Water Chemistry Project: Reference handbook on humid cooling circuits for power plants”
• Water Chemistry Project: The use of biodegradable products to fight against scale in cooling circuits”

Equipment Assessment

• Chemistry R&D Project: The effect of the application of a high voltage field on the condensation process
• Combined Cycle Gas Turbines Project: Examination of GE Frame 9 cracked combustion liners
• Combined Cycle Gas Turbines Project TGV-02-0042/R-CBU-cbu: Coating degradation of first stage vanes of gas turbines
• Combined Cycle Power Plants Project: Monitoring the compressor efficiency of gas turbines
• Combined Cycle Power Plants Project: Air filtration in gas turbines : background, experience and best practices
• Combustion for Power Generation: Heat Rate Improvement by Gas Fuel Heating”
• Combustion for Power Generation: Combustion dynamics measurement FlameBeat system
• Combustion for Power Generation: Inlet Air Cooling for Gas Turbines
• Combustion for Power Generation: Study of Ice-Formation Problems in Gas Turbines
• Condition Monitoring for Gas Turbines:
• Condition Monitoring in the E-sector in the 21st Century: A future vision on the use of CM within Electrabel’s generation business
• Library of standards: Since December 2002, the standards are available (accessible) for 5 Electrabel Netmanagement users, trough the Labdoc system
• Light, Customer Safety, Low and Medium Voltage Equipment: Dispersion cabins, withstanding internal arc.”
• Lighting Test of T5 fluorescent lamps: Test of fluorescent lamps with a diameter of 16 mm”
• Materials for high temperature applications: Blade life management: Modelling
• On site verification of a metering installation: To ensure an effective use of measurement results, the source of the data has to be indisputable”
• Optimising the maintenance of LM 6000 gas turbines: Detecting and describing cracks in combustion chamber premixers without dismantling the machine
• Process Control: Artist and Artist OPC Viewer
• Process Control: Optimisation of the costs of cooling circuits with a cooling tower: feasibility study of the fossil fuel power plant
• Process Control: Training courses in process control
• Process Control: Simulation tests of modern optimal control methods
• Process Control: Test of a Model-based Predictive Controller on a 300 MW fossilfired power plant simulator
• Process Control: Cross Calibration of PT200 RTDs on a nuclear power plant?
• Process Control: OPC Communication with the Process”
• The SwirlFlash system: The wet compression system installed at the Herdersbrug power plant
• Vibrations & Noise control: Transfer and conversion of data of legacy vibration monitoring systems
• Vibrations & Noise control: LVMS 2.2
• Vibrations & Noise control: Vibrations analysis center
• Vibrations and Noise Control: Electrical Condition Monitoring and Electrical Predictive Maintenance for HV motors and generators Part II : Best practice on HV motors
• Vibrations and Noise Control: Electrical Condition Monitoring and Electrical Predictive Maintenance for HV motors and generators Part I: Catalogue of Techniques and Suppliers
• Vibrations and Noise Control: Optimisation of PDM on reduction boxes
• Water Chemistry Project: The philosophy for conditioning cooling circuits at Electrabel
• Water Chemistry Project: Weighing cells to monitor the increase in weight of packings in cooling towers
• Water Chemistry Project: Anti-scaling systems for the treatment of semi-closed cooling circuits
• Water Chemistry Project: A program to calculate scale formation indices - SCALE

Quality of Supply

• DARWIN: Integrated and universal platform for measurement, analysis and simulations in the Power Quality area”
• Power Interruption Logger (PIL): Easy system for the detection of interruptions in low voltage networks”
• Power Quality Task Force: Methodology and connection procedure development for disturbing loads”
• Problems related to sensitive earth fault protection relays:

Rational Use of Energy

• Development of a new Air Knife installation:
• Energy Systems Review Steam: A new service for rational use of energy
• Industrial Applications: Development of a testbench for cooling systems
• Industrial Applications: Development of a methodology for energy systems review cooling”
• Industrial Applications: Development of a Cooling Process Simulator”
• Industrial Applications: Development of a testbench for cooling systems”
• Lighting The compact fluorescent lamps: Analyse of performances of compact fluorescent lamps with integrated electronic ballast”