Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery
Polish Academy of Sciences

• Diagnostics and dynamic testing of machinery

• Selection, analysis and optimisation of bearing systems

• Design and testing of fluid-flow machines (e.g., microturbines)

• Design and testing of ORC cogeneration systems

• Machine optimisation – structural, thermal and flow analyses

• Experimental and computational modal analysis

• Temperature distribution measurement using a thermal imaging camera

• Design and construction of test rigs

• Fast prototyping (3D printing)

• The assessment of the dynamic behaviour of the 0.6 MW turbine set operating in the hydroelectric power plant in Tarnówka (2012)

• Development of the design of an ORC system with a thermal power of 250 kW and an electrical power of 25 kW (2015)

• The assessment of the dynamic behaviour of 315 kW turbine sets operating in the hydroelectric power plant in Hulebo, Sweden (2015)

• Testing of a 15 kW radial-axial microturbine prototype (2015)

• Testing of the biomass boiler prototype operating with an ORC cogeneration system (2015)

• Vibration measurements of the turbine set operating in the Bobrowice IV hydroelectric power plant (2015)

• Structural analysis of the keep plate of a 12 MW centrifugal compressor (2017)

• Analysis of causes of failure of a 15 MW syngas turbocompressor (2017)

• Vibrodiagnostic testing of a 3.3 MW impeller pump (2017)

• Experimental testing of foil bearing prototypes (2018)

• Measurements and vibration analysis of the turbine set operating in the Pilchowice I hydroelectric power plant (2018)

• Development of a test rig for high-speed machines (2018)

• Development of the design of a 1 kW energy microturbine (2018)

• Assessment of the technical condition of the plain bearings of 0.6 MW electric motors (2019)

• Measurements and vibration analysis of the turbine sets operating in the Świnna Poręba hydroelectric power plant (2020)

• Calculation of the service life of the turbine set with a 6 MW Kaplan turbine (2020)

• Determination of the dynamic characteristics of water-lubricated plain bearings (2021)