Symposium will offer practical advice to gas turbine owners and users

Engineers who are responsible for operating, testing and maintaining industrial gas turbines and aero-engine systems can have all of their technical questions answered at one place this December: the ASME Gas Turbine Users Symposium.

The symposium, slated for Dec. 6-8 in Las Vegas, will also address the concerns of companies that supply products and services to gas turbine end users. The ASME International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI) is sponsor of the three-day program, which will be co-located with the 2005 Power-Gen International Conference.

According to John Platt, senior adviser for machinery at BP Exploration and Production Technology Group, the Gas Turbine Users Symposium will provide owners, managers and hands-on operators with practical information and solutions to day-to-day challenges. Platt serves as chair of the symposium, which will offer ideas on optimizing system life cycles and achieving cost efficiencies, among other topics related to operations and maintenance.

Gas turbine users at all levels will be able to benefit from attending the Gas Turbine Users Symposium. The three-day program of panel sessions and tutorials offers best practices and practical problem solving for owners and managers as well as hands-on operators. The speakers in the tutorials and panels are leading experts and authorities in gas turbine technology.

This year's technical program has been organized into four tracks, each designed to help attendees answer the question, "What do you plan to do with that gas turbine?" Topics to be highlighted during these sessions will include basic rotor dynamics, advanced thermal barrier coating, advanced gas turbine reliability, combustion turbines for oil and gas applications, power augmentation, combustion turbine compressor washing, root cause failure analysis and problem mitigation, and environmental regulations.

In addition to the symposium, ASME will hold three pre-conference workshops: "Combined Cycle Power Plants," on Dec. 4 and 5; "Heat Rate Awareness for Combined Cycles," on Dec. 4 and 5, and "Combustion Humming in Gas Turbine-Based Power Plants," on Dec. 5.

The pre-conference workshops and symposium will be held at the Sands Expo Center, the site of Power-Gen. According to the International Gas Turbine Institute, paid registration at the Gas Turbine Users Symposium includes free admission to the Power-Gen equipment exhibit.

For information on the events, contact IGTI at (404) 847-0072 or visit the Web site, www.asme.org/igti. To register for the events online, visit www.power-gen.com and select the GTUS online registration option under "Co-located Events."

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