Turbo Expo in Amsterdam to feature facility tours and leadership panels

Emily M. Smith
ASME NEWS

Facility tours and a panel of leaders in engineering societies and the gas turbine and energy industries are among the activities scheduled for ASME's Turbo Expo — Land, Sea and Air, which will take place June 3-6 in Amsterdam.

Industry and society leaders will discuss the role of engineering societies in developing "Gas Turbines for a Better Tomorrow." Panelists will examine gas turbine education, training and the dissemination of knowledge in developing affordable gas turbines for the 21st century.

The industry leaders will discuss issues such as globalization, increasing demand for affordable and environmentally friendly gas turbine products, and the worldwide shortage of gas turbine engineers.

Engineering society leaders will discuss the future of education and continuing training for gas turbine engineers, the impact of computers and the Internet, and cooperation among engineering societies to better disseminate all types of educational, research and developmental knowledge of gas turbines.

The society leaders include ASME President-elect Sue Skemp, who is the program manager of advanced engines at Pratt & Whitney; John McDougall, president-elect of the U.K.-based Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and Yukio Otsuki, past chair of the Gas Turbine Society of Japan. Otsuki is a senior technical advisor at Kawasaki Heavy Industries in Tokyo.

The gas turbine and energy industries will be represented by Phil Ruffles, director of engineering and technology at Rolls-Royce in Derby, England; Pedro de Sampaio Nunes, director general of energy programs for the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium; and M.J. Benzakein, general manager of the advanced engineering programs department for GE Aircraft Engines.

Several facility tours will be open to Turbo Expo participants this year. A tour of E.On Benelux is scheduled for June 6. Tour participants will visit the trigeneration plant RoCa-3, described as one of the most environment-friendly power stations in the world.

The power station generates electricity and supplies heat and carbon dioxide to glass house horticulture. Space is limited to 40 participants. To register, visit the Dutch pavilion on the exhibit floor.

A tour of the National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) is also scheduled for June 6. NLR is the central institute for aerospace research in the Netherlands. The lab works under national and international contracts on projects concerning aircraft development, aircraft operations and space technology. The lab also does research into aircraft and spacecraft structures and materials.

NLR participates in the operation of the Foundation German-Dutch Wind Tunnels, which runs the Large Low-speed Facility located in the Noordoostpolder.

To register, e-mail Astrid Bredt at asbr@nlr.nl or visit the NLR booth in the Dutch pavilion on the exhibit floor.

A third tour will be of the Amer Power Station, a plant where a 30-megawatt Alstom/ABB gas turbine has been retrofitted with SwirlFlash overspray injection of hot water, a technology that is reported to augment power by 10 percent and reduce NO_x by 40 percent. This tour is scheduled to take place June 7 and will be limited to 30 attendees.

To register, visit the Alpha Power Systems booth in the Dutch pavilion on the exhibit floor.
Turbo Expo 2002 will also feature a pre-conference workshop, "Basic Gas Turbine Metallurgy and Repair Technology." It will be the topic of an all-day user workshop on June 2.

A separate registration is required. To register, check the preconference workshop box on the Turbo Expo '02 registration form and include the registration fee in your total payment.
Visit www.asme.org/igti/ for more details of these programs as well as IGTI's world-renowned Technical Congress, complete Gas Turbine Users Symposium and extensive three-day Exposition.

To keep up-to-date on happenings at Turbo Expo as they are posted, visit www.asme.org/igti/ and sign up for the "E-Bulletin," an automatic e-mail update on Turbo Expo and other IGTI activities.

 

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