120 MSEK to KTH research on cleaner energy production
The Swedish Energy Agency has granted the KTH Dept. of Energy Technology the sum of 60 MSEK towards the research programme ”Turbo-power – electric current production from thermal turbo engines & processes”. The same amount will be contributed from industrial partners Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery and Volvo Aero, as they will also benefit from the findings of this new joint effort. The research will be performed in industry and universities with KTH as the co-ordinating body. The university research partners include Chalmers in Gothenburg and the technical universities of Lund and Linköping, also Mälardalen University. This research effort will be running until the end of December 2010.
This research programme will help to reduce the amounts of carbon and nitrogen dioxides, sulphur and particles now emitted. Technically, the project deals with applied research coupled directly to the operation of thermal power stations with either gas or steam turbine engines as their key components, and is aiming at three target areas: A higher energy ratio, better operating economy, and a higher degree of flexibility as regards fuels. This is to take renewable fuels into special consideration.