On June 23, TASS reported, according to the press service of Tomsk Polytechnic University, that a facility for rapid testing of solid and liquid fuels has been put into operation at the university. The facility can increase testing speed by three times while keeping costs to a minimum.

The press service introduced that the device includes a 50-liter combustion chamber, as well as systems for visualizing the fuel combustion process, measuring temperature, and collecting gaseous combustion products, fly ash, and soot.

The device has a wide range of uses: it can be used to study the pulverized combustion process of solid fuels (such as coal) and to conduct flow combustion tests of liquid fuels (such as diesel, waste oil, waste biofuel, etc.). In addition to full-scale tests, the test bench can also be used to study nozzle devices, combustion modes, and the efficiency of the combustion process.

Kirill Larionov, associate professor at the I. N. Butakov Scientific and Educational Center of Tomsk Polytechnic University, stated that similar systems are already in use in many scientific institutions and organizations, but the unique feature of the university's test bench is its compactness. This makes rapid testing possible without spending a lot of time and money to heat the combustion chamber and other thermomechanical equipment. A single experiment on this device takes only two hours, whereas similar research on full-scale equipment may take six hours to several days.

It is reported that the project is supported by the "Youth and Children" project in the "Priority - 2030" federal project of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science, and the pilot project was launched at the I. N. Butakov Scientific and Educational Center of the School of Energy & Power Engineering