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.
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Areas of research
The current research projects at LEC cover the fields of:
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.
Professors since 1892
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