2015 University Turbine Systems Research Workshop

2015 University Turbine Systems Research Workshop

The 2015 UTSR workshop was held November 3-5, 2015 at the Georgian Terrance Hotel, near the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta, Georgia. The theme was “The Advanced Manufacturing for Gas Turbines”. The workshop was well received with a total of 138 attendees from OEMs, universities, national labs, and small businesses. The opening session included welcoming remarks by Dr. Steve Cross, Executive Vice President for Research, Georgia Tech and an overview of the DOE Office of Fossil Energy’s Advanced Turbines Program by NETL Turbine Technology Manager Richard Dennis. The workshop included two panel discussions involving gas turbine OEMs, developers and practitioners, and covered topics such as advanced manufacturing technologies for turbine platforms and related R&D needs and challenges. Also included were tours of Georgia Tech’s gas turbine combustion research facilities and the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute. Dr. Thomas Kurfess, Professor and HUSCO/Ramirez Distinguished Chair in Fluid Power and Motion Control at Georgia Tech was the keynote speaker. Dr. Kurfess recently completed an assignment to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy where he advised policy makers on advanced manufacturing. David Garrison, Vice President – Engineering, Quality and Planning, of Delta Airlines gave a special after-dinner presentation. Various Turbines experts gave both oral and poster presentations, in three technology areas; Materials/Aerodynamics/Heat Transfer, Combustion, and Pressure Gain Combustion/Oxy-Fuel Combustion, for a total of seventy two in all.

Tuesday, November 3rd

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION

• Dr. Steve Cross, Executive Vice President for Research at Georgia Institute of Technology

OPENING REMARKS

• Richard Dennis, Turbine Technology Manager, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory

PANEL DISCUSSION: GAS TURBINE OEMS PERSPECTIVES ON ADVANCED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY

Moderator: Richard Dennis, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory

• Bryan Dods, General Electric Power & Water
• Allister James, Siemens Energy, Inc.
• Bob Provitola, Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Americas, Inc
• Bill Brindley, Pratt & Whitney
• Karl Wygant, Samsung Techwin America
• David G. Teraji, Solar Turbines, Incorporated

PANEL DISCUSSION: DEVELOPERS AND PRACTITIONERS OF ADVANCED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY

Moderator: Tim Lieuwen, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Mike Aller, Energy Florida/CAPE (Consortium for Advanced Production and Engineering of Gas Turbines and Rotating Machinery)
• Tim Simpson, Penn State University
• Bruce Pint, ORNL
• Suman Das, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Sanjay Sampath, Stony Brook University, Center for Thermal Spray Research

COMBUSTION

Moderator: Steve Richardson, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory

• DLN Technology for 65% Efficient Generation
  • Michael J. Hughes, GE Power & Water
• Low NOX Combustor Design for 65% CC Efficiency
  • J. Enrique Portillo, Siemens Energy, Inc.
• Advanced Industrial Gas Turbine Development at FTT
  • James P. Downs, Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc.
• Novel Microchannel Heat Exchangers
  • Lalit Chordia, Thar Energy, LLC

AERO/HEAT TRANSFER/MATERIALS

Moderator: Seth Lawson, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory

• Ceramic Matrix Composite Advanced Transition for 65% Combined Cycle Efficiency
  • Jay Morrison, Siemens Energy, Inc.
• GE CMC
  • John Delvaux, GE Power & Light
• SCO₂ Turbomachinery and Low-Leakage End Seals for SCO₂
  • Rahul A. Bidkar, General Electric Global Research
• Turbomachinery for SCO₂ Power Cycles
  • Anthony Eastland, Gas Technology Institute

PRESSURE GAIN COMBUSTION & OXY FUEL COMBUSTION

Moderator: Don Ferguson, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory

• Rotating Detonation Combustion for Gas Turbines
  • Scott Claflin, Aerojet Rocketdydne
• Combined Cycle Power Generation Employing Pressure Gain Combustion
  • Adam Holley, United Technologies Research Center
• Syngas Combustor for Oxy-Fuel SCO₂ Cycles
  • Jeremy Fetvedt, 8 Rivers Capital, LLC
• Oxy-Combustion for Direct Fired Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Power Cycles
  • Aaron McClung, Southwest Research Institute

Wednesday, November 4th

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

• Advanced Manufacturing, Policy, and Technology Opportunities for American Innovation
  • Dr. Thomas R. Kurfess, Georgia Institute of Technology

COMBUSTION

Moderator: Patcharin Burke, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory

• Combustion-Modeling and Fuel-Effects in Gas Turbine Combustors and Experimental Facilities
  • Matthias Ihme, Stanford University
• Experiments and Large-Eddy Simulation of Flashback in a Model Swirl Combustor
  • Noel Clemens, The University of Texas at Austin
• Robust, Reliable Low Emission Gas Turbine Combustion of High Hydrogen Content Fuels
  • Pinaki Pal and Margaret Wooldridge, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• High-Pressure Turbulent Flame Speeds and Chemical Kinetics
  • Eric Petersen, Texas A&M University
• Effects of Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) on Turbulent Combustion and Emissions in Advanced Gas Turbine Combustors with High Hydrogen Content (HHC)
  • Yiguang Ju, Princeton University and Robert P. Lucht, Purdue University
• Effects of Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) on Turbulent Combustion and Emissions in Advanced Gas Turbine Combustors with High Hydrogen Content (HHC)
  • Michael E. Mueller
• An Experimental and Modeling Study of NOX-CO Formation in High Hydrogen Content (HHC) Fuels Combustion in Gas Turbine Applications
  • Tanvir Farouk, University of South Carolina
• Development of Criteria for Flashback Propensity in Jet Flames for High Hydrogen Content and Natural Gas Type Fuels
  • Vincent McDonell, University of California, Irvine

Moderator: Steve Richardson, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory

• Flame Flashback in Hydrogen-Rich Gas Turbines
  • Venkat Raman, University of Michigan
• Understanding Transient Combustion Phenomena in Low-NOX Gas Turbines
  • Jacqueline O’Connor, Pennsylvania State University
• High Temperature, Low NOX Combustor Concept Development
  • Timothy Lieuwen, Georgia Institute of Technology

AERO/HEAT TRANSFER/MATERIALS

Moderator: Briggs White, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory

• Abradable Sealing Materials for Emerging IGCC-Based Turbine Systems
  • Daniel R. Mumm, University of California, Irvine
• Thermally Effective and Efficient Cooling Schemes for Advanced Gas Turbines
  • Forrest Ames, University of North Dakota and Sumanta Acharya, University of Memphis
• Towards Models for Creep-Fatigue Interaction for Gas Turbine Components
  • Thomas Siegmund, Purdue University
• Long-Term Creep-Fatigue Interactions In Ni-Base Superalloys
  • Rick Neu, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Sealing Measurements for a Vane-Only Configuration
  • Karen Thole, Pennsylvania State University
• Evaporative Metal Bonding of APMT to Nickel Superalloys
  • John Hurley, University of North Dakota, Energy & Environmental Research Center
• Lean Pre-Mixed Combustor Flow and Heat Transfer: Isothermal Studies and Start of Reacting Flow Conditions
  • Srinath Ekkad and David Gomez Ramirez, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State College

Moderator: Robin Ames, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory

• Recent High Temperature Film Cooling Testing at NETL
  • James Black, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory
• Challenges in Measuring the HTC for Turbine Cooling
  • Tom I-P. Shih, Purdue University
• Design, Fabrication, and Performance Characterization of Near-Surface Embedded Cooling Channels with an Oxide Dispersion Strengthened (ODS) Coating Layer
  • Minking Chyu, University of Pittsburgh
• Revolutionizing Turbine Cooling with Micro-Architectures Enabled by Direct Metal Laser Sintering
  • Jeffrey Bons, The Ohio State University

PRESSURE GAIN COMBUSTION & OXY FUEL COMBUSTION

Moderator: Robin Ames, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory

• The Effect of Mixture Concentration Inhomogeneity on Detonation Properties in Pressure Gain Combustors
  • Stephen Peluso, The Pennsylvania State University
• A Joint Experimental/Computational Study of Non-Idealities in Practical Rotating Detonation Engines
  • Mirko Gamba, University of Michigan
• Experimental and Computational Study of Rotating Detonation Wave Technologies at the National Energy Technology Laboratory
  • Don Ferguson, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory
• Advancing Pressure Gain Combustion in Terrestrial Turbine Systems
  • Carson Slabaugh, Purdue University

Moderator: Seth Lawson, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory

• Investigation of Autoignition and Combustion Stability of High Pressure Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Oxy-Combustion
  • Wenting Sun, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Chemical Kinetic Modeling Development and Validation Experiments for Direct-Fired SCO₂ Systems
  • Subith Vasu, University of Central Florida
• Materials Issues for Advanced Supercritical CO₂ Cycles and high Efficiency Gas Turbines
  • Bruce Pint, U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Moderator: Don Ferguson, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory

• Ultra-High Temperature Thermal Barrier Coatings
  • Eric Jordan, University of Connecticut
• High Temperature Unique Low Thermal Conductivity TBC Architectures
  • Amarendra K. Rai, UES, Inc.
• ICME Design of High Performance Turbine Alloys
  • James Saal, Questek Innovations

DINNER SPEAKER

David Garrison, Delta Airlines; Vice President, Engineering, Quality and Planning

Thursday, November 5th

UTSR FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

• Bill Day, Leonardo Technologies, Inc.

UTSR FELLOWS

• Felipe Alberto Betancor Bernasconi, General Electric/University of Central Florida – Direct Metal Laser Melting – Analyzing Surface Roughness
• Christopher Reuter, Princeton University – Dynamic Instability Limitations in the Testing of an Advanced Premixed Combustor

Poster Presentation
 

• Prediction of Auto-Ignition Regimes in Turbulent Reacting Flows with Thermal Inhomogeneities
  • Pinaki Pal, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• New Mechanistic Models of Creep-Fatigue Interactions in IN 718
  • Thomas Siegmund, Purdue University
• Nozzle Guide Vane Deposition in a New Turbine Cascade Rig
  • Ryan Lundgreen, The Ohio State University
• Crystal Viscoplasticity Creep-Fatigue Interaction Model for CMSX-8
  • Ernesto A. Estrada Rodas, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Measurement of Convective and Radiative Heat Transfer in Flame Impingement
  • David Gomez Ramirez, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Advanced Bond Coats for Thermal Barrier Coating Systems Based on High Entropy Alloys
  • Derek Hass, DVTI
• Autoignition of a Jet-A Spray in a Hot, Vitiated Air Flow
  • Aimee Williams, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Mapping Fuel Temperatures and Concentrations in Gas-Turbine Combustor by Planar Laser-Induced Phosphorescene
  • Zu Puayen Tan, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Precession Effects on the Relationship Between Time-Averaged and Instantaneous Swirl Flow and Flame Characteristics
  • Ianko Chterev, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Spatially Resolved PIV and CH-PLIF Measurements and Stretch Calculations of Flame Stabilization in a High Shear Swirling Environment
  • Ianko Chterev, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Forced Ignition of Fuel-Stratified Flows
  • Sheng Wei, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Dynamics of Premixed Flames Subjected to Helical Flow Disturbances
  • Vishal Acharya, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Response of Non-Premixed Flames to Flow Perturbations
  • Nicholas A. Magina, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Modeling the Response of Turbulent Flames to Harmonic Forcing
  • Luke Humphrey, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Transverse Acoustic Response of Swirl Stabilized Flames
  • Travis Smith, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Experimental Design for RDE Inlet Testing
  • Andrew Sisler, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory
• Criteria for Instability of Helical Disturbances in Inviscid Swirling Flows
  • Christopher Douglas, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Parallel On-The-Fly Adaptive Kinetics in the Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Premixed Flame
  • Suo Yang, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Measurement of Turbulent Flame Speeds for Syngas Mixtures
  • Alexander Steinbrenner, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Effects of Nozzle Design on Emissions in a Natural Gas Combustor
  • Scott K. Sheppard, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Structure of Turbulent Lean H2/Air Flames
  • Debolina Dasgupta, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Ozone-Assisted Combustion
  • Xiang Gao, Georgia Institute of Technology
• A Global Pathway Selection Method for the Reduction of Detailed Mechanism
  • Xiang Gao, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Fundamental Study of Key Issues Related to Advanced S-CO2 Brayton Cycle
  • Sandeep R. Pidaparti, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Bluff Body Flames Near the Global Stability Boundary
  • Benjamin Emerson, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Stability Analysis of Reacting Wakes: Flow and Density Asymmetry Effects
  • Benjamin Emerson, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Experimental and Computational Research on Rotating Detonation Engine for Land Based Power Generation
  • Arnab Roy, AECOM