Facilities
General purpose equipment
- Two automated meteorological stations
- Total solar irradiation on horizontal and on the slope of the PV arrays
- Diffuse solar irradiation
- Dry bulb temperature
- Relative humidity
- Wind speed
- Perspiration
- Hail
- Three temperature data loggers (pico tech TC-09)
- Two general purpose data loggers (pico tech ADC-24)
- Rugged and Reconfigurable Control and Monitoring System (NI CompactRIO)
Biomass
- Biofuels engine testing
- Engine testing bed for one-cylinder engines up to 7.5 kW
- Electronic data logging system
- Εxhaust gas analyser
- One-cylinder petrol engine 7.5 kW
- One-cylinder diesel engine 7.5 kW
- Oneengine cylinder pressure transducer adjusted with the spark
- Oneengine cylinder pressure transducer adjusted with the glow plug
- Calorimeter
- Diesel agricultural engine (CNH 100A, 73.5 kW)
- Εxhaust gas analyser (MRU 1600L)
- Engine testing bed for one-cylinder engines up to 7.5 kW
- Biofuels chemical and physical properties testing
- flash point
- density
- total contamination
- atomic absorption spectrometer
- rancimat
- Solid biofuels testing
Biomass boiler and thermal circuit (fuel: pellets, thermal capacity 10 kW) - Biogas production and quality testing
Fully equipped biogas production and quality testing lab - Field energy crop testing
Mechanical equipment for energy crop cultivation in the AUA owned agricultural land
Solar Technology
- Experimental Polygeneration Microgrid
- SMA Sunny Island topology
- 2.5 kWp PV array
- 1.8 kWp PV array
- 1 kW wind turbine
- 1.2 kW PEM fuel cell
- 350 W PEM electrolyser
- 800 W electrolyser
- 2.5 Nm3 H2 metal hydride tank
- 750 W desalination unit with energy recovery
- Labview based energy management and device controller
- 2.2 kW programmable electronic load
- 350 Wh hybrid ultracapacitor bank
- Various loads (heaters, motors, pumps, air to air heat pumps etc.)
- DC to DC converter (1.5 kW)
- Electronic Programmable power supply (1.5 kW)
- Grid connected PV arrays
- 3 kWp monocrystalline silicon
- 2.99 kWp multicrystalline silicon
- 2.178 kWp micro and amorphous silicon thin film
- 3.6 kWp CIS thin film
- 5.4 kWp CIS thin film (façade)
- 2 axis tracker with PV modules equipped with micro inverters
- Power quality tester
- I-V curve tracer
ORC technology
- Experimental organic Rankine cycle Engine (4 Items)
- Custom made equipped with appropriate measurement instruments
- net power production from 1 up to 10 kW
- heat supply from 77 up to 140 oC
- subcritical and supercritical cycle
- Vacuum tube solar thermal array (216m2)
- THERMOMAX SOLAMAX 300
- max. heat production: 100 kW
Desalination
- Desalination Unit (2,5m3/day)
Custom made (750 W) - Desalination Unit (4m3/day)
Custom made (750 W) - Desalination Unit (50m3/day)
Custom made 1.5 kW (composed of three identical sub-units and equipped with the Danfoss APP/APM energy recovery unit)