Engineering research equipment hire

The Advanced Engineering Centre at the University of 麻豆果冻传媒 is able to provide external loans of state-of-the-art engineering test equipment.

The Sir Harry Ricardo Laboratories offer one of the most advanced engineering research environments in Europe. Based at the University of 麻豆果冻传媒 and operated by the Advanced Engineering Centre, they are home to a sizeable UK research team dedicated to internal combustion engines and the development of laser-based diagnostic measurement techniques, which are fundamental to modelling and computational simulation.

Contact our team by email for more information

KnowledgeExchange@brighton.ac.uk

Engineering research equipment for hire

We have a range of optically accessible engines to support fundamental diesel and gasoline combustion research using laser-based methods. For fuel spray investigation and characterisation research, we utilise a high-pressure rig where we employ optical measurement techniques, including high-speed imaging and phase-Doppler anemometry. Our steady flow rig enables the evaluation of fuel spray interactions with variable lift intake systems.

Optical equipment includes

1 high-speed Copper Vapour Laser (50 kHz)
1 compact dual-cavity Nd:YAG laser
1 Phantom v12.1 high-speed video camera (680k fps)
2 Nd:YAG Lasers (one dual-cavity T-YAG/PIV)
1 Dye laser pumped by 1 Nd:YAG
1 Argon Ion laser
1 Helium Neon laser
3 Gated CCD cameras
2 Gated intensifiers
1 high-speed video camera (140k fps)
2-component LDA/PDA system with advanced transmitting optics for dense spray analysis
Heavy duty programmable 3D traverse
Schlieren system

Analysers and other equipment

Full gas analysers (Horiba 7000)
Smoke/PM analyser
3 dedicated screw compressors (delivering 1.25 kg/s, up to 10 bar o/p)
High flow roots type blower (delivering 0.5 kg/s)
Scanning Electron Microscope (resolution: 2.5 nm; magnification up to x40,000)
Machining shop, bespoke in-house design and fabrication

In all our test cells we have

Provision for independent control of heating and boosting of intake air.
Industry standard testbed equipment
Configurable high speed control data acquisition (AVL Indiset, Indimodul, MTS CAS)
Combustion analysis (Horiba 7000, AVL Smoke, Noise)
Independent FIE rigs

For more information about specific engine equipment, please click on the links below.

High speed video camera setup on the optical Proteus