Hamburg Marriott Hotel | Hamburg, Germany

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Dear Turbine Blade Tip Workshop and Symposium 2013 Participants,On behalf of the ASME IGTI Board, our Chairperson, Professor Karen Thole, and the entire ASME IGTI staff, I would like to welcome you to ASME TBTS 2013. While we recognize ASME Turbo Expo as the premier forum for exchanging the latest prog-ress in turbomachinery technology, the ASME IGTI Board has been seeking other means for the diversification and globalization of technical exchange and per-sonal networking. TBTS 2013 represents one such diversification in the form of a hybrid workshop and symposium centered on a fairly narrow topical area to cre-ate a small and very focused event. This forum is modeled after similar techni-cal paper symposiums held by the International Center for Heat and Mass Trans-fer, as well as the well-known von Karman Institute lecture series workshops.

By combining both a symposium and a workshop together, we hope to provide a choice of content that will serve everyone from those just beginning in the field to those that are experts. The two-day workshop will deliver interactive lectures concern-ing the design, operability, aerodynamics, heat transfer, computational predictions, and treatments specifically for high-pressure turbine blade tips. A two-day symposium will build upon the lecture series with current proposed or enacted solutions, studies to gain insight to the physics, and a panel session for open discussion at the end. Topics include turbine blade tip steady and unsteady aerodynamics, blade tip heat transfer, in-ternal, external, and film cooling, shrouded and non-shrouded blade tip design, clear-ance effects, surface treatments, and new or modified designs and innovations. The symposium has 26 full technical papers that will be presented in single session format through the two days.

In addition, at the end of the first day of the symposium, the AIAA-ASME Student De-sign Competition will be concluded with the final presentation group that was unable to attend Turbo Expo.

We are delighted to have chosen Hamburg as our host city for this event. Hamburg is a thriving industrial city, the largest port in Germany, and also home to many cultural and arts attractions. Like most German cities, getting out and about in the evenings after the workshop and symposium should be fairly convenient.

Thank you all for attending this first-of-a-kind TBTS workshop and symposium. I hope that you will find your time in Hamburg to be an enriching and memorable experience.

Ron S. BunkerChair of TBTS 2013

Past Member, ASME IGTI Board

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Monday, September 30 Workshop Session 8:30 AM - 12:00 PMLunch 12:00 - 2:00 PMWorkshop Session 2:00 - 5:30 PM

Group Discussion/Advisory Session by Dr. Boris Glezer 5:40 - 6:40 PM

Workshop Session 8:30 AM - 12:00 PMLunch 12:00 - 2:00 PMWorkshop Session 2:00 - 5:30 PM

Networking Coffee 7:30 - 8:00 AMIntroductory Remarks by Dr. Ron Bunker 8:00 - 8:30 AM Sessions 8:30 - 10:00 AM

Coffee Break 10:00 - 10:30 AMSessions 10:30 AM - 12:00 PMLunch 12:00 - 1:30 PMSessions 1:30 - 3:00 PMCoffee Break 3:00 - 3:30 PMSessions 3:30 - 5:30 PMStudent Design Competition 5:30 - 6:30 PM

Networking Coffee 7:30 - 8:00 AMIntroductory Remarks by Prof. Guillermo Paniagua 8:00 - 8:30 AM Sessions 8:30 - 10:00 AM

Coffee Break 10:00 - 10:30 AMSessions 10:30 AM - 12:00 PMLunch 12:00 - 1:30 PMSessions 1:30 - 3:00 PMCoffee Break 3:00 - 3:30 PMSessions 3:30 - 5:30 PMClosing Remarks/Panel 5:30 - 6:30 PM

Tuesday, October 1

Wednesday, October 2

Thursday, October 3

Schedule at a Glance

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Session I Engine Tip Clearance Design Issues and Possible Solutions Boris Glezer, Optimized Turbine Solutions

Maintaining minimal blade tip clearance is one of the most critical requirements for achieving high perfor-mance and reliable operation of every gas turbine engine. Presented lecture provides details of complex rotor-to-stator displacements during various modes of transient and steady state operation of an engine. The lecture underlines different tip clearance related design criteria for airborne and industrial engines, ad-dressing also specifics of aeroderivative industrial engines. Conventional and non-traditional design meth-ods of passive, active and semi-active tip clearance control are reviewed for potential applications in both aircraft and industrial engine environment. Examples of analytical predictions of transient tip clearances and their experimental validation using various tip clearance measurement techniques are also reviewed.

Dr. Boris Glezer is an ASME Fellow and the former Chief of Turbine Cooling Design and Analysis at Solar Turbines. Over the years Boris has been awarded 18 patents, published over 40 professional articles and a few monographs, including a chapter on turbine cooling in the DOE Handbook of Turbomachinery. For many years he closely collaborated with a number of leading US universities addressing the most critical issues in turbine cooling design and blade tip clearance control. His background in the field included a 20 year career with Solar Turbines, where he was leading hot section cooling development with extensive heat transfer experimental and numerical studies, as well as design implementation of new cooling techniques. His pro-fessional career also includes three years of leadership in turbine design for propulsion of liquid rockets at Aerojet, and more recently consulting in his engineering firm Optimized Turbine Solutions.

Session II HP Turbine Blade Tip Aerodynamics John Coull, University of Cambridge

This lecture focuses on the key aerodynamic issues surrounding the tip design of high pressure turbine blades, with a view to the multidisciplinary problems facing the high pressure turbine designer. The leakage flow for a plain-tip blade is examined in detail to introduce the key underlying physics. Various strategies for reducing the leakage losses are then discussed: three-dimensional blade design, cavity tips, attached shrouds and winglets. The aerodynamic performance achievable with such strategies is discussed along with the thermal and mechanical issues that must be considered in the design process.

Dr. John Coull obtained his undergraduate and masters degrees in Engineering from Cambridge University, before completing his PhD at the Whittle Laboratory. He is now the Rolls-Royce Research Fellow at the Whittle Lab, covering turbine aerodynamics and heat transfer. His primary areas of research are unshrouded tip design, boundary layer transition and preliminary design methods.

Monday, September 308:30 AM to 5:30 PM

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Session III Blade Tip Cooling Requirements and Design Ron Bunker, GE Global Research

This lecture will review the competing requirements and constraints placed on turbine blade tips, describe several approaches used in actual designs to satisfy these conditions, provide in-depth summaries of the heat transfer and cooling associated with the major blade tip designs, and highlight aspects of durability that must be included in any successful turbine design.

Dr. Ron Bunker is a Principal Engineer at the GE Global Research Center in Niskayuna, NY. He is an inter-nationally recognized research engineer in the field of Gas Turbine Heat Transfer. He has been performing and directing research related to all aspects of turbine hot gas path heat transfer and cooling for the past 25 years. Dr. Bunker is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He has been awarded 60 US patents, with 50 more pending, all dealing with gas turbine and power technologies. He is also the author of over 100 technical publications and refereed papers, and more than 175 internal company reports.

Session IV Tip Clearance Effects in Transonic Turbine Guillermo Paniagua, Von Karman Institute of Fluid Dynamics

This talk will describe the overtip flow in a transonic turbine investigated at engine representative condi-tions. Experiments in rotation were performed in a short duration facility, allowing the determination of the unsteady heat flux and pressures in the casing. The aerodynamic and heat flux will be described for various tip clearances, considering low-frequency and high-frequency analysis. The experiments are coupled with a detailed CFD analysis of the tight clearance case.

Prof. Guillermo Paniagua is an Associate Professor at the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics and lectures at the University of Valencia. He has 15 years of experience on experimental and numerical aero-thermal study of high-speed flows. His main area of research is focused on high pressure turbines: shock wave interactions, cooling, rim seals, tip flows and flow control. Guillermo authored over a hundred techni-cal papers, has been awarded four international prizes and a patent.

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Monday, September 30 • 5:40 – 6:40 PM

A one-hour informal group/adviser discussion led by Dr. Boris Glezer to address particular design and design validation related questions and issues, which might include thermal rotor-to-stator transient behavior, use of cooling/heating, selec-tion of materials and design options to achieve tighter tip clearances for various engine applications. This discussion will be particularly beneficial for participants from the industry who are involved in design and analysis of turbine structure.

Group Discussion | Dr. Boris Glezer

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Session V Transonic Tip Heat Transfer and Aero Loss Li He, University of Oxford

The present lecture is largely based on the recent work on transonic blade top aerothermal performance, carried out at Osney Lab, University of Oxford. There have been many past efforts in researching turbine blade tip aerothermal behavior and characteristics, forming the basis of the conventional wisdom in rotor blade tip designs. The main issue of interest is: to what an extent would the conventional wisdom based on low speed tip aerothermal characteristics be applicable to a transonic blade tip? Furthermore, if a transonic tip does behave in a distinctive manner, can we potentially make use of this behavior in blade tip designs?

Prof. Li He holds the Rolls-Royce/Royal Academy of Engineering Chair of Computational Aero-thermal En-gineering, and had been the head of Osney Laboratory at Oxford University. His main research interests and experience are in modeling, design and optimization of unsteady aerodynamics, aero-elasticity and heat transfer in turbomachines. Li He has been a keynote speaker, vanguard chair for several international conferences, and a guest editor for the international journal of computational fluid dynamics. His work has been funded by the UK government, EU and gas turbine power generation industry, and he has acted as a consultant for several gas turbine steam turbine and aero-engine companies. He is a Fellow of American Society and Mechanical Engineers and Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.

Session VI Blade Tip and Shroud Surface Treatments John Bolger, Rolls Royce This lecture will describe the typical blade tip and casing liner surface treatments employed in modern gas turbines. For lower temperature applications, nickel-based honeycomb liners are a common choice and are often found in low pressure turbines. For more arduous applications, metallic and ceramic liner materials are a widely used, with blade tips often coated with hard particles to perform a smooth cut and reduce the likelihood of blade wear during rub events. Fundamental to the choice of a surface coating solution will be the choice of a design policy of ‘no rub’, ‘just kiss’ or ‘rub-in’. A fully abradable rub-in system has the potential to allow for tighter running clearances by reducing some of the tolerance effects seen in real engine geom-etries and so is an attractive option. Such systems require extensive materials development programmes to deliver the desired characteristics in the engine environment and these programmes will be described in the subsequent sections of this lecture. Dr. John Bolger is the Chief of Turbine Aerothermal Engineering at Rolls-Royce Plc and has global responsi-bility for turbine aerodynamics and cooling. He is a Rolls-Royce Engineering Associate Fellow in Compressor Aerodynamics and he has led and developed the aerothermal technology and design of fans, compressors and now turbines on many Rolls-Royce gas turbine products over the last 23 years. In 2011, he moved to the hot end of the engine and is leading the aerothermal research, design and development of the first produc-tion application of a shroudless HP turbine blade in a Rolls-Royce Trent engine.

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Tuesday, October 18:30 AM to 5:30 PM

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Session VII Computational Predictions for Blade Tips Ali Ameri, The Ohio State University

The presentation will outline the importance of tip clearance flows and their impact on the efficient opera-tion and the longevity of high pressure turbines. Computational means of flow analysis which include meth-ods of flow-domain discretization, application of numerical schemes, and effective utilization of turbulence models will be briefly surveyed. Computational modeling allows efficient analysis of tip treatments and evaluation of the losses and heat transfer rates. A survey of various types of tip treatments and their predicted effects will be presented. Additionally consideration will be given to supersonic flow effects in the turbine tip clearance passages as well as unsteady heat transfer effects on the tip and casing.

Dr. Ali Ameri is a research engineer with the Ohio State University. He has been working at the NASA Glenn Research Center where he has been performing computational work involving gas turbine heat transfer and aerodynamics for over 20 years. He is also engaged with OSU’s research efforts in gas turbines. He has authored many NASA reports and also has had many contributions to the ASME IGTI and the ASME Journal of Turbomachinery. Dr. Ameri is a Fellow of the ASME.

Session VIII Aerothermal Characteristics of the Blade Tip and Near-tip Regions of a Highly Loaded Transonic Turbine Blade

Wing Ng, Virginia Polytech and State University

The effect of tip leakage flow on the tip and near-tip heat transfer distribution has been studied on a flat tip turbine blade. The studies have been performed at various tip gap sizes (1% and 2%) and exit Mach numbers of 0.85 and 1.0. Using a combination of thin film gauges and IR technique, the spatial blade surface heat transfer coefficient distribution was obtained. In addition, numerical modeling (CFD) using commercial code ANSYS Fluent has been used to further characterize the tip region aero-thermal characteristics. The results, which are discussed in detail in this presentation, indicate that increasing the exit Mach number/Reynolds number significantly increases heat transfer on the blade tip and near-tip region. The flow within the tip gap flow reaches supersonic levels causing a shock system in the tip gap that influences the heat transfer on the tip surface. The upstream tip surface x/Cx < 0.4 is more sensitive to tip clearance effects compared to downstream tip surface. On the near tip surfaces, the stream-wise as well as span-wise influence of the leakage flow has been analyzed with results showing that the Mach number/Reynolds number effects can cause nearly 15% increase in heat transfer on the near tip surface

Prof. Wing Ng is the Chris Kraft Endowed Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech, where he has conducted research for nearly 30 years. Dr. Ng’s research expertise is in heat transfer in aero-propulsion sys-tems and gas turbine engines. He has given many invited lectures on his research, both in the US and abroad. As faculty, Wing Ng has also received several awards for teaching and research. He has over 200 publications in the areas of turbo-machinery and propulsion, and has received several best paper awards from ASME and AIAA. He has served as Technical Editors for several Journals for both of these professional societies, and he is a Fellow of the ASME and an Associate Fellow of AIAA. Ng is also active in serving the US government, and had given expert testimony to the US Congress relating to US aerospace industries, as well as served on vari-ous advisory committees for NASA and the Department of Defense.

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Düsseldorf

The Most Important Conferencefor Turbomachinery Professionals

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Wednesday, October 2Turbine Blade Tip AerodynamicsSession Chair: Seung Jin Song, Seoul National University, Seoul, South KoreaSession Co-Chair: Anestis Kalfas, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece

8:30 AM

9:00 AM

9:30 AM

10:30 AM

11:00 AM

Introductory remarks from Ron Bunker, GE‘The Blade Tip Solution’This introductory presentation will summarize where gas turbine practice stands on the design of HPT blade tips, how we have come to the present point, and what the future may be relative to long life tips that avoid burnout.

Optimizing the Tip Section Profiles of a Steam Turbine BladingTBTS2013-2027Rudolf Dvorak, Martin Luxa, David Simurda, Institute of Thermomechanics AS CR, v.v.i, Pavel Safarik, CTU Prague

Direct Numerical Simulations of a Transonic Tip Flow With Free-Stream DisturbancesTBTS2013-2037Andrew Wheeler, Richard Sandberg, University of Southampton

The Influence of Boundary Conditions on Tip Leakage Flow TBTS2013-2057John Coull, Nicholas Atkins, University of Cambridge

Coffee Break

Aerodynamic Optimization of Axial Turbine Rotor Tip Cavity With Approximation ModelTBTS2013-2079Young-Seok Kang, Dong-Ho Rhee, Chun-Taek Kim, Bong-Jun Cha, Korea Aerospace Research Institute

Effects of Blade Degradation on Turbine PerformanceTBTS2013-2039Andrey Granovskiy, Igor Manaev, Vladimir Vassiliev, Harald Kissel, ALSTOM

Symposium Sessions

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10:00 - 10:30 AM

8:00 AM

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Wednesday, October 2Blade Tip External Heat TransferSession Chair: Wing Ng, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA, USA Session Co-Chair: Song Xue, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA, USA

11:30 AM

12:00 - 1:30 PM

1:30 PM

2:00 PM

Numerical Study of Heat Transfer and Cooling Effectiveness on a Flat-Tip Turbine BladeTBTS2013-2053Qihe Huang, Jiao Wang, Lei He, Qiang Xu, Shanghai Electric Power Generation R&D Center

Lunch Break

Effect of the Tip Clearance on End Wall Heat-Transfer in a HP TurbineTBTS2013-2069Marc Heinz-Otto Biester, Dimitri Karapetrow, Joerg Seume, Leibniz Univer-sität Hannover

Measurement of Blade Tip Heat Transfer and Leakage Flow in a Turbine Cascade with Multi-Cavity Squealer TipTBTS2013-2072Jae Su Kwak, Jung Shin Park, Sang Hoon Lee, Korea Aerospace University, Won Suk Lee, Jin Taek Chung, Korea University

Blade Tip Aero-Thermal and Configuration EffectsSession Chair: Guillermo Paniagua, von Karman Instiute for Fluid Dynamics, Sint Genesius-Rode, BelgiumSession Co-Chair: Gustavo Ledezma, GE, Niskayuna, NY, USA

Effect of Wall-Gas Temperature Ratio on Turbine Blade Tip Aero-thermal PerformanceTBTS2013-2018Qiang Zhang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Li He, University of Oxford

Coffee Break

2:30 PM

3:00 - 3:30 PM

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Wednesday, October 2

3:30 PM

4:00 PM

4:30 PM

5:00 PM

Effects of Inlet Freestream Turbulence and End-wall Boundary Layer on Aero-thermal perfor-mance of a Transonic Turbine Blade TipTBTS2013-2019Qiang Zhang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Li He, University of Oxford, Anton Rawlinson, Rolls-Royce

Aerothermal Performance of Shroudless Tur-bine Blade Tips With Effects of Relative Casing MotionTBTS2013-2021Amandeep Virdi, Li He, University of Oxford, Qiang Zhang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Haidong Li, Richard Hunsley, Rolls-Royce

Shrouding the First Blade of High Temperature TurbinesTBTS2013-2001Boris Mamaev, Mikhail Petukhovsky, Alexander Pozdnyakov, Siemens

An Experimental and Numerical Investigation Into the Effects of Squealer Blade Tip Modifica-tions on Aerodynamic PerformanceTBTS2013-2004Ronald Bunker, Gustavo Ledezma, Jason Allen, GE

Shrouded and Unshrouded Blade Tip Design IssuesSession Chair: Ali Ameri, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

ASME AIAA Student Design Competition Wednesday, October 2 | 5:30 - 6:30 PM

Hear the final team present their design to a second panel of judges in this special session. Scores will be combined with those from the proposals to determine the team placings and awards.

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Thursday, October 3

8:30 AM

9:00 AM

10:00-10:30 AM

9:30 AM

Introductory remarks from Prof. Guillermo Paniagua, Von Karman Institute of Fluid Dynamics‘Unsteady Flows In High-Speed Turbines’The aero-thermal performance of highly loaded high-pressure turbines is abated by the unsteady impact of the vane shocks on the rotor. This lecture presents the physical analysis of the stator–rotor interactions in transonic turbine stages based on experimental and numerical research conducted in the past years. Based on the presented research passive and active control techniques are proposed to develop high performance transonic turbines.

Building Up Suitable Contact Forces in Integral-ly Shrouded Blade Rows for Reducing Vibration AmplitudesTBTS2013-2005Nicolò Bachschmid, Politecnico di Milano, Simone Bistolfi, Emanuel Pesatori, Massimiliano Sanvito, Franco Tosi Meccanica

Vibration Analysis of Shrouded Turbine Blades for a 30 MW Gas TurbineTBTS2013-2014Ryoji Tamai, Ryozo Tanaka, Yoshichika Sato, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Karsten Kusterer, Gang Lin, Martin Kemper, B&B-AGEMA GmbH, Lars Pan-ning-Von Scheidt, Leibniz Universität Hannover

Effect of Common Blade Tip Squealer Designs in Terms of Tip Clearance Loss ControlTBTS2013-2040Nikolay Lomakin, Andrey Granovskiy, Veniamin Belkanov, Jaroslaw Szwe-dowicz, ALSTOM

Coffee Break

Shrouded and Unshrouded Blade Tip Design IssuesSession Chair: Ali Ameri, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

Blade Tip Clearance and Flow ControlSession Chair: John Coull, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

8:00 AM

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Thursday, October 3Leakage Flow Impact on High Aspect Ratio Steam Turbine Reaction BladesTBTS2013-2042Leonardo Nettis, Luca Lombardi, GE

Experimental and Unsteady Numerical Investi-gation of the Tip Clearance Noise of an Axial FanTBTS2013-2034Tao Zhu, Thomas Carolus, University of Siegen

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Effect of Bending and Mushrooming Damages on Heat Transfer Characteristic in Labyrinth SealsTBTS2013-2012Xin Yan, Lijie Lei, Jun Li, Zhenping Feng, Xi’an Jiaotong University

Lunch BreakAdvanced Coating Systems for Future Shroud-less TurbinesTBTS2013-2017Susanne Gebhard, Tanja Wobst, Dan Roth-Fagaraseanu, Matt Hancock, Rolls-Royce

Redistribution of HPT-shroud Cooling Channels Including Turbine Blade Tip EffectsTBTS2013-2060Edward Rademaker, Bambang Soemarwoto, Rob Huls, NLR, Ron van Ges-tel, Chromalloy Holland

Development of New Abradable/Abrasive Seal-ing Systems for Clearance Control in Gas Tur-binesTBTS2013-2065Erica Scrinzi, Iacopo Giovannetti, Nuo Sheng, Luc Leblanc, GE

Coffee Break

Blade Tip / Shroud Surface Treatments and SealingSession Chair: Andrew Wheeler, University of Southampton, Southampton, UKSession Co-Chair: Nicholas Atkins, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

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10:30 AM

11:00 AM

11:30 AM

1:30 PM

12:00-1:30 PM

2:00 PM

3:00 - 3:30 PM

2:30 PM

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Thursday, October 3

3:30 PM

4:00 PM

Turbine Split Rings Thermal Design Using Con-jugate Numerical SimulationTBTS2013-2003Aleksei Tikhonov, Andrey Shvyrev, Nikolay Samokhvalov, JSC Aviadvigatel

Blade Tip Carving Effects on the Aero-Thermal Performance of a Transonic TurbineTBTS2013-2028Cis De Maesschalck, Sergio Lavagnoli, Guillermo Paniagua, von Karman In-stitute for Fluid Dynamics

Impact of Passive Blade Tip-Injection on the Per-formance of Partially Shrouded Turbines: Basic Concept and Preliminary ResultsTBTS2013-2038Pouya Ghaffari, Reinhard Willinger, Vienna University of Technology

Influence of Design Modifications on a Passive Tip-Leakage Flow Control Method for Axial Tur-binesTBTS2013-2056Albert Benoni, Reinhard Willinger, Vienna University of Technology

Blade Tip Design / Performance InnovationsSession Chair: Boris Glezer, Optimized Turbine Solutions, San Diego, CA, USA

4:30 PM

5:00 PM

CLOSING REMARKS/PanelThursday, October 3 • 5:30 - 6:30 PM

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ASME Organic Rankine Cycle 2013 October 7-8, 2013 | Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Organic Rankine Cycles (ORCs) power plants are gaining ever increasing interest as cost-e�ective sustainable energy systems. By using an appropriate organic working �uid in a Rankine thermodynamic cycle, ORC power plants are able to e�ciently convert renewable energy sources into electricity. Their power capacity spans from few kWe to few MWe for a single unit, but multiple units in parallel can make up a multi megawatt power station. Among the multitude of applications of this technology, several stand out: ORC systems can be used to obtain electricity from geothermal reservoirs, biomass combustion and gasi�cation, solar radiation, waste heat recovery from internal combustion engines and gas turbines, as well as a large variety of industrial processes discarding heat at low and moderate tempera-tures. The ORC market is growing at an impressive pace, with currently many hundreds of units of various sizes operating reliably for many years all over the world.

http://www.asme-orc2013.nl/

ASME Gas Turbine India Conference December 5-6, 2013 | Bangalore, IndiaPRESENTED BY THE ASME INTERNATIONAL GAS TURBINE INSTITUTE AND CSIR NATIONAL AEROSPACE LABORATORIES

ASME Gas Turbine Chapter of India, supported by ASME International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI), announces the ASME 2013 Gas Turbine India Conference to be in Bangalore, Karnataka, India on December 5-6, 2013. If you are involved in the area of GT Design & Research, this conference will give you the unique opportunity to interact with experts in the gas turbine industry, as well as �nd out the latest methods and cutting-edge technology that can improve how gas turbines operate in the future.

http://www.asmeconferences.org/GTIndia2013/

ASME Turbo Expo 2014June 16 - 20, 2014 | Düsseldorf, Germany

ASME Turbo Expo is recognized as the must attend event for turbomachinery professionals. The technical conference has a well-earned reputation for bringing together the best and brightest experts from around the world to share the latest in turbine technology, research and development, and application in the following topic areas: gas turbines, steam turbines, wind turbines, fans & blowers, solar brayton & rankine cycle and supercritical CO2. The 3-day exhibition attracts the industry's leading professionals and key decision makers, whose innovation and expertise are helping to shape the future of the turbomachinery industry.

http://www.asmeconferences.org/TE2014//

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The Turbine Blade Tip Symposium & Course Week (TBTS) is presented by the Inter-national Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI), an institute of the American Society of Me-chanical Engineers (ASME). ASME is one of the world’s oldest and most respected technical societies serving over 130,000 mechanical engineers in 134 countries.

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