Laboratory of Building Physics, Solar Energy and Hydropower Technology

The Laboratory of Building Physics, Solar Energy and Hydropower Technology of the Kielce University of Technology is an expert entity equipped with state-of-the-art technologies, offering services in the design of RES devices and installations and in the development of new low-carbon technologies to improve air quality.

Head of the laboratory

About

Energy transformation is our competence: we are an expert actor in the prototyping and operation of Renewable Energy technologies and installations.

Benefits of collaboration

  • faster implementation of new solutions into production and gaining a competitive advantage;
  • facilitating the testing of a broad spectrum of different design possibilities;
  • possibility of implementing new module and photovoltaic cell solutions;
  • possibility of implementing new active building partition solutions;
  • maximising the hydropower potential of surface flowing waters;
  • reducing the risks associated with experimental work in the field of small hydro turbine testing;
  • reducing electricity bills and saving on building operating costs;
  • determining indoor air quality;
  • determining the efficiency of the ventilation and air-conditioning system;
  • savings on building operating costs;
  • possibility of implementing new solutions to create an indoor microclimate.

Laboratory equipment

  • CFD computer simulation software
  • emitter with full radiation ranges
  • water flow system with measuring unit
  • measuring instrumentation for continuous recording of turbine parameters
  • measuring system for electrical parameters of turbines.

Economic offers

Research into energy generation by radiation absorbers, including photovoltaic materials as accessories for façades and building enclosures

Offer The service includes: tests for determining the current and voltage characteristics of photovoltaic panels, modules and cells; tests within the scope of the exposure of building partitions in a ...

Testing of hydroelectric power generation facilities using free fall (no damming)

Offer The service includes: 1:1 scale testing of 1kW water turbines; modelling of small water turbine blades; testing the current and voltage harmonic content of the returned energy. Contact prof. ...

Simulation studies on IT tools and design of gas and liquid flow phenomena in RES devices and installations, using the Computational Fluid Dynamics method

Offer The service includes: creation of a virtual model of the device / plant in the form of mathematical equations describing the physics of the flow, using the laws of ...

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