Turbo Expo '02 is set to grapple with perplexing industry issues

Emily M. Smith
ASME NEWS

Turbo Expo — Land, Sea and Air, ASME's educational event for engineers, managers and users of gas turbine technology in all its applications, will again feature its Technical Congress and the Gas Turbine Users Symposium (GTUS) when it convenes June 3-6 in Amsterdam.

Topics for the Congress represent the industry's most perplexing technical issues. This year, the key industry issues to be discussed include: distributed generation — supplementing/displacing grid supplied power; turbo fuel cell hybrid technology; technologies to increase efficiency — automation software, optimization routines for existing applications, better measurement and control devices, and experiences with gas turbine performance enhancement technologies; the engineer shortage; and identifying key 21st-century technology trends.

The theme of this year's keynote session is "Gas Turbines for a Better Tomorrow." The keynote speakers are: Peter F. Hartman, managing director and chief operations officer of KLM; Ludo M. J. van Halderen, chief executive officer of Nuon, a leading Dutch energy and water company, and Nick Salmon, executive vice president of Alstom.
The exhibit floor — a great place to network with peers and discover innovative solutions to business problems — will feature gas turbine engines, peripheral equipment and industry services. A current list of exhibitors is available online at www.asme.org/igti.

Turbo Expo, which is organized by ASME's International Gas Turbine Institute, will also
feature presentations by world-renowned and up-and-coming authors whose papers have undergone a stringent peer review process before being eligible for noncommercial presentation.

For the first time at Turbo Expo, all published papers — more than 500 this year — will be distributed on a CD-ROM free of charge to all four-day paid registrants for the Congress and GTUS. CD-ROMs also may be purchased separately on-site at a special discounted show price.

The GTUS is designed especially for those actively involved with the installation, operation, repair and maintenance of gas turbines in land-based power generation applications. Sessions are organized into three tracks: operations and maintenance, repair technology, and engineering and business.

Major GTUS panel and discussion topics include: practical aspects of inlet filtration for control of compressor fouling; power augmentation through inlet cooling; present issues and future direction of dry low emissions; air pollution, hazardous emissions and greenhouse gas prevention opportunities; fuel systems and treatment; long-term service agreements; hot section repairs and life extension; and much more.

A large networking session by and for users will provide a forum for open discussion and practical problem solving of issues not covered in the other sessions.

Career-building tutorials will also be available. They include: gas turbine fundamentals and applications; effective technical presentation skills for engineers; gas turbine materials for the non-metallurgist; root cause failure analysis and problem mitigation; practical aspects of cogeneration and combined cycles; combustion and emissions tutorial; and vibration analysis and diagnostics.

This year's events will feature 176 sessions, with 143 in the Technical Congress and 33 in the GTUS. Registration for either of these programs permits access to the sessions of the other.

For more information about the Turbo Expo program or to register, visit www.asme.org/igti/, where registration and housing forms are available; or call IGTI at (404) 847-0072 or e-mail to: igti@asme.org.

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