Laboratory for Energy Conversion

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Established 1892 Website [1] Phone +41 44 632 26 66		Campus Urban Type of business Public Founded 1892
Location Zurich, Canton of Zurich, Switzerland Address Sonneggstrasse 3, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland Similar ETH Zürich, ETH get hired, Energy Science Center (E, Universität Zürich, Nerves GmbH

The Laboratory for Energy Conversion (LEC) formerly known as Turbomachinery Laboratory (LSM) was founded in 1892 by Aurel Boleslav Stodola. As part of the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH). The laboratory has been headed by some of the most prominent mechanical engineers in the history of turbomachinery.

Areas of research

The current research projects at LEC cover the fields of:

energy economics and policy

performance and reliability of wind energy

minimizing high-cycle fatigue failure of compressors

efficiency improvements of turbomachines

aircraft noise suppression

cooling and thermal management

laser produced plasma source (EUV) and debris mitigation

development of a mobile power pack

novel measurement techniques

biomedical diagnostics

Awards

Amongst many noted achievements, LEC has recently developed the FENT probe. This probe, for the first time, enables measurement of entropy generation in Turbomachinery. The highly rated peer-review journal Measurement Science and Technology recognised the development of this probe as the most outstanding contribution in the field of fluid mechanics in 2008.