ASME Turbo Expo in Amsterdam attracts more than 3,000 attendees

David Lindsay
International Gas Turbine Institute

More than 3,000 people from industry, academia and government attended ASME Turbo Expo — Land, Sea & Air in Amsterdam, in June. The annual event is sponsored by ASME's International Gas Turbine Institute.

The exposition featured 239 booths of gas turbine products and services; the technical Congress had a record 620 refereed papers. The Gas Turbine Users Symposium had 28 tutorials and panel discussions in its well-attended program.

Papers on regenerators and associated equipment for microturbines were of great interest, as was United Technology Research Center's paper on producing a 400-kW microturbine that could achieve 40 percent cycle efficiency.

Thousands attended ASME's Turbo Expo in Amsterdam.

 

 

Participating organizations were the Dutch Gas Turbine Association, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers of the UK, the German Aerospace Center and the von Karman Institute of Fluid Dynamics. The conference was preceded by a workshop on "Basic Gas Turbine Metallurgy & Repair Technology."

The City of Amsterdam and Shell Global Solutions International B.V. co-sponsored the opening reception at the Rijksmuseum.

Keynote speakers represented diverse parts of the gas turbine industry: Peter Hartman, managing director and COO of KLM; Ludo van Halderen, CEO of Nuon, and Alexis Fries, Power Sector president of Alstom Power.

Opening remarks were made by Annemarie Jorritsma, Minister of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands. Introductions were made by Ron van den Handel of Shell Global Solutions International, the TE '02 conference chair.

More than 1,000 ASME volunteers on 17 technical committees, the Gas Turbine Users Symposium Advisory Group and the Distributed Generation Task Force worked for more than a year putting Turbo Expo together.

Next year, the event will be held in Atlanta in June. For information about participating or exhibiting, call IGTI at (404) 847-0072 or visit www.asme.org/igti/.

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