Cardiff School of Engineering’s Gas Turbine Research Centre (GTRC) was formally opened by Rhodri Morgan, First Minister for Wales, on October 2007 who commended it as an excellent example of the partnerships being built between industry and academia in Wales. The GTRC is one of very few of its kind in the world and facilitates novel research studies into the functionality of new combustion systems, components and fuels under elevated conditions of temperature and pressure, as would be experienced within a gas turbine engine during operation.