Our laboratories
The laboratories, equipment and facilities where the Hydrogen Group carries out its research are located on the Pamplona Campus of the Public University of Navarra and are supervised by the Industrial Safety Directorate of the Government of Navarra.
Laboratory of Thermal Engines «Carlos Sopena»
Equipped with a test cell for alternative internal combustion engines that contains an 80kW AVL bench with eddy current brake, equipped with a hydrogen supply system with its safety measures.
The cell is highly instrumented. Data collection and processing is carried out with a National Instruments CompactDAQ acquisition system with analog and digital signal collection, with its corresponding programming in labVIEW.
The programming of the combustion of hydrogen and other combustible gasses is carried out in a Motec M400 competition electronic control unit.
For the analysis of emission, there are sensors for nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, hydrocarbons and oxygen located in the exhaust.
To Carlos Sopena Serna, in memoriam (1951-2009)
Computational Calculation Center
This laboratory is equipped with computer aided engineering programs: ANSYS, CATIA, SolidWorks,… and AVL. It is located in the Computing Cluster of the Public University of Navarra.
The specific software modules for engine design and simulation that we have, thanks to the courtesy of AVL, are: AVL BOOSTTM, AVL CRUISETM, AVL FIRETM M.
Hydrogen Production Laboratory
Equipped with a 5kW alkaline electrolyzed manufactured by Vandenborre Energy Systems company. It has numerous auxiliary equipment, sensors, meters and controllers.
In the same laboratory there is a storage tank for the hydrogen produced in the electrolyzed. Likewise, there is a compressor capable of raising the pressure of hydrogen up to 200 bar to introduce it at this pressure into 18-liter steel bottles that allow hydrogen to be transported.
There is also a unit for controlled hydrogen leaks, sensors for detecting hydrogen in air, equipment for the combustion of hydrogen, flow controllers, hydrogen burners, etc.