Victor Kaplan Department of Fluid Engineering developed CaviPlasma – a new patented method of purifying wastewater from micropollutants (pharmaceuticals, contraceptives, pesticides, etc.). The technology uses the synergistic effect of hydrodynamic cavitation and plasma discharge. It is the result of multidisciplinary research by engineers, physicists, biologists and chemists.
The team specializes in, among others, wastewater treatment and circular water management, where we feel there is potential for further expansion of CaviPlasma.
In addition, the scarcity of water is putting pressure on new solutions for water transport and storage, preferably using renewable energy – all of which the multifunctional reservoir fulfils.
Equipment and Facilities
The Department of Fluid Engineering boasts the only actively operating academic hydraulics laboratory in the former Czechoslovakia. In addition to its unique capabilities for teaching (testing of hydraulic machines up to 300 kW power), measuring pressure pulsations, vibrations, flow visualization, exp. cavitation research, it also serves for cooperation with industry and our research activities.
For computational simulations, we have licenses for Ansys Fluent, Ansys CFX and the opensource tool OpenFOAM. For computations we use shared space on a massively parallel cluster with more than 1000 cores.
More information about the labs can be found on the Victor Kaplan Department of Fluid Engineering website (only in Czech).
Our achievements
Media and us
- News list: Brno scientists have patent for combined water purification by plasma (only in Czech)
- ČT – Events in the regions (only in Czech)
- BUT.cz- František Pochylý: Don't do your research in a drawer! (only in Czech)
Contact
doc.Ing. Pavel Rudolf, Ph.D.