Combustion Laboratory

KEMA's combustion laboratory offers analyses of pollutants in gas-fired combustion equipment like engines, industrial burners and domestic appliances

Combustion research
Based on more than 40 years experience in the field of applied combustion research, KEMA serves customers in both the industrial and the domestic market with research related to gas quality and pollutant information in gas-fired combustion equipment. In our state-of-the-art combustion laboratory we have several test facilities to perform combustion research on practical gas fired combustion equipment, like gas engines, industrial burners and domestic appliances.

KEMA also performs fundamental research on the formation/destruction of pollutants, such as CO, NOx and soot in hydrogen, natural gas and biogas flames by using our state-of-the-art laser laboratory. Based on the insights gained through fundamental and empirical research in our combustion laboratory KEMA provides engineering models and guidelines related to gas interchangeability issues.

KEMA advises designers and manufactures on improving or developing new combustion equipment. For example, KEMA helps customers determine to which extent the introduction of new gases, like LNG and biogases, results in unwanted effects like flash back, flame lift, engine knock and increasing pollutant emissions in end-use equipment.

Moreover KEMA helps customers to measure in-situ components in natural gases and in flue gases by using a broad range of optical methods.

Test facilities

• optical accessible furnace to test the performance of industrial burners
• industrial furnaces for high temperature processes to test the performance of industrial burners and improve the efficiency
• facility to test the performance of domestic equipment
• spark ignited gas engine (model MAN, 220kW and1500rpm engine speed)
• rapid compression machine, to study the autoignition behavior of combustible gases experimentally
• laser laboratory to measure in-situ components and temperatures, in for example flue gases and flames (i.e. HCN, NOX, CO, soot etc), by using Raman, CARS, Laser Induced Candescence (LIF) and Tunable Diode Laser Absorption (TDLAS) techniques