1999 ATS Review Meeting

Table of Contents

• Disclaimer
• Conference Participants[PDF-128KB]
• Papers and Presentations
• SESSION 1: Perspectives on Advanced Turbine Systems
• SESSION 2: Program Review
• SESSION 3: Panel Session – Partnership Program Status
• SESSION 4: Material Technologies
• ATS Poster Session

Disclaimer
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Papers and Presentations

Session 1: Perspectives on Advanced Turbine Systems

1.1 Welcome [PDF-9KB]
Abbie Layne — FETC, U.S. Department of Energy

1.2 Power Generation in the 21st Century [PDF-885KB]
Rita Bajura — FETC, U.S. Department of Energy

1.3 Industrial Distributed Generation [PDF-26KB]
Patricia Hoffman — Office of Industrial Technologies, U.S. DOE

1.4 Global Power Trends [PDF-2004KB]
John Siegel — Bechtel Power Corporation

1.5 Trigen Energy Corporation: Industrial and District Energy Systems, Applications of Combined Heat and Power Facilities [PDF-9KB]
Herman R. Schopman — Trigen Energy Corporation

Session 2: Program Review

2.1 The Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation Advanced Turbine Systems Program [PDF-102KB]
Gregory Gaul and Ihor Diakunchak — Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation

2.2 ABB's Advanced Turbine Systems Program
Albrecht H. Mayer and Gerald Guenette — ABB Power Generation, Inc.

2.3 Public Policy and Energy Trends [PDF-72KB]
Beverly Jones — Consolidated Natural Gas Company

2.4 Overview of General Electric's Advanced Turbine Systems Program [PDF-1176KB]
Thomas F. Chance, Charles S. Cook, Edward C. Lowe, Thomas G. LeRoy, and John E. Pritchard — General Electric Company

2.5 Industrial Advanced Turbine Systems Program Overview [PDF-9362KB]
Stephen Gates and David Esbeck — Solar Turbines, Inc.; and Ray Schwartz — Rochelle Municipal Utilities

2.6 Advanced Turbine Systems Annual Program Review [PDF-2521KB]
Frank Macri — Rolls-Royce Allison

2.7 Federal Energy Technology Center ATS Research [PDF-334KB]
Kent H. Casleton, Randall S. Gemmen, Daniel J. Maloney, Geo. A. Richards, and Douglas L. Straub — FETC, U.S. Department of Energy

2.8 HAT Cycle Technology Development Program [PDF-182KB]
William H. Day, Donald Kendrick, Brian Knight, Amy B. Hargava, William Sowa, and Meridith Colket — Pratt & Whitney; and Kent Casleton and Daniel Maloney — FETC, U.S. Department of Energy

2.9 Establishing the Scientific Foundation for the 21st Century Gas Turbine [PDF-245KB]
Lawrence P. Golan — South Carolina Institute for Energy Studies

2.10 University Contributions to the Effective Use of Thermal Barrier Coatings in ATS Engines [PDF-6353KB]
Eric Jordan and Maurice Gell — University of Connecticut; and David Clarke — University of California at Santa Barbara

2.11 Mist/Steam Cooling for Advanced Turbine Systems [PDF-13KB] (abstract, full paper is P20 in the poster session): Ting Wang — University of New Orleans; Tao Guo — General Electric Power Corporation; and J. Leo Gaddis and Xianchang Li — Clemson University

2.12 Review of DOE Hybrid Systems Activities [PDF-9KB]
Norman T. Holcombe — FETC, U.S. Department of Energy

2.13 Low NO_X Catalytic Combustion for ATS Gas Turbine Engines [PDF-700KB]
Marco J. Castaldi, L. Smith, H. Karim, S. Etemad, and W. Pfefferle — Precision Combustion, Inc.

2.14 Validation of Catalytica Technology on the Grid at SVP [PDF-839KB]
Tom Morjig — Catalytica Combustion Systems, Inc.

Session 3: Panel Session — Partnership Program Status

3.1 Advanced Turbine Systems Annual Program Review [PDF-887KB]
William E. Liss — Gas Research Institute

3.2 Partnership Programs [PDF-77KB]
David Hatfield — California Energy Commission

3.3 Materials Technology Opportunities in the NIST Advanced Technology Program [PDF-679KB]
Donald A. Bansleben — National Institute of Standards and Technology

3.4 Propulsion Technology Partnerships for the New Millennium: A View From the Pentagon [PDF-3728KB]
Paul F. Piscopo — U.S. Department of Defense

3.5 Gas Turbine Engine R&D for Shipboard Applications [PDF-726KB]
Joseph Lawton — U.S. Department of Defense

3.6 Gas Turbine Technology Direction at NASA-GRC [PDF-598KB]
Arun K. Sehra — National Aeronautics and Space Administration

3.7 EPRI-DOE Partnership Opportunities [PDF-759KB]
John Scheibel — Electric Power Research Institute

3.8 12 Megawatt Cascaded Humidified Advanced Turbine (CHAT) Plant General Overview [PDF-337KB]
Ronald Wolk — Wolk Integrated Technical Services; and Michael Nakhamkim — Power Consultants, Inc.

Session 4: Materials Technologies

4.1 ATS-85: Advanced Manufacturing Technology for Single Crystal IGT Components [PDF-254KB]
Allen R. Price, Mei Ling Henne, and Max Yang — Howmet Research Corporation

4.2 GE Casting Project [PDF-722KB]
M.F.X. Gigliotti, S-C. Huang, F.J. Klug, and A.M. Ritter — General Electric Company

4.3 Cost-Effective Manufacturing of High Performance Power Generation Combustion Turbine Components Using the Fabricated Component Method [PDF-1754KB]
Paula Freyer — Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation

4.4 Turbine Airfoil Manufacturing Technology [PDF-705KB]
Charles S. Kortovich, Craig Hayes, Peter O'Neill, and B. (Rad) Radhakrishnan — PCC Airfoils, Inc.

4.5 Pratt & Whitney ATS TBC Development Program
Mladen Trubelja — Pratt & Whitney

4.6 Thermal Barrier Coating Systems for the ATS Engine [PDF-614KB]
Ramesh Subramanian, Stephen M. Sabol, John Goedjen, and Maria Arana — Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation

4.7 ORNL Thermal Barrier Coatings, TBC Research Activities Conducted Under the Materials/Manufacturing Program [PDF-1273KB]
M.K. Ferber — Oak Ridge National Laboratory

4.8 Ceramic Stationary Gas Turbine Development Program [PDF-4205KB]
Jeffrey R. Price — Solar Turbines Incorporated

4.9 Rolls-Royce Allison Ceramic Vane Project [PDF-119KB]
Richard Wenglarz — Rolls-Royce Allison

ATS Poster Session

Combustion

P1 Efficient Combustion Chemistry Algorithm for Gas Turbine Simulations [PDF-89KB]
Stephen B. Pope and Sunil James — Cornell University; and M.S. Anand — Rolls-Royce Allison

P2 Recent Advances in Both Measurement of, and Large Eddy Simulation of, Fuel into Air Mixing in Premixed Gas Turbine Engines [PDF-921KB]
R.W. Dibble and J.Y. Chen — University of California at Berkeley

P3 Dual Fuel Issues Related to Performance, Emissions and Combustion Instability in Gas Turbine Systems [PDF-10349KB]
C. Brossard, J.C. Broda, C. Mordaunt, S-Y. Lee, and R.J. Santoro — Pennsylvania State University

P4 Effect of Natural Gas Composition on the Performance of a Model Gas Turbine Combustor [PDF-491KB]
R.M. Flores, J.H. Chen, V.G. McDonell, and G.S. Samuelsen — University of California at Irvine

P5 Primary Zone Equivalence Ratio Sensors [PDF-165KB]
Domenic Santavicca, Jong Guen Lee, Ramaro Bandaru, and Sean Miller — Pennsylvania State University

P6 Development of Modular, Reduced Order Models for Prediction of Combustion Instabilities [PDF-1092KB]
William Bauman, William Saunders, and Uri Vandsburger — Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; and Harsha Chelliah — University of Virginia

P7 Extending the Lean Blowout Limits of Low NO_X Gas Turbines by Control of Combustion Instabilities [PDF-384KB]
Ben T. Zinn, Yedidia Neumeier, Brady R. Daniel, Tim C. Lieuwen, and Cliff Johnson — Georgia Institute of Technology

P8 Infrared Emissison Based Temperature Sensor [PDF-415KB]
J.P. Gore and Jun Ji — Purdue University; and Y.R. Sivathanu — En'Urga Inc.

Materials

P9 Combustion CVD Coatings for TBC Improvement [PDF-413KB]
W.B. Carter, J.M. Hampikian, and D.W. Stollberg — Georgia Institute of Technology

P10 Non-Destructive Evaluation of Thermal Barrier Coatings by Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy [PDF-508KB]
Jianqi J. Zhang, D.C. Tamboli, S.K. Jha, and Vimal H. Desai — University of Central Florida

P11 Interaction of Steam/Air Mixtures with Turbine Airfoil Alloys and Coatings [PDF-151KB]
G.H. Meier, F.S. Pettit, and Kivilcim Onal — University of Pittsburgh; and Jack L. Beuth — Carnegie Mellon University

P12 Measurement of Interfacial Toughness in Thermal Barrier Coating Systems by Indentation [PDF-1206KB]
M.J. Stiger, L.A. Ortman, F.S. Pettit, and G.H. Meier — University of Pittsburgh; Maurice Gell and Eric H. Jordan — University of Connecticut; and R. Handoko, A. Vasinonta, and J.L. Beuth — Carnegie Mellon University

P13 Development of Laser Fluorescence as a Non-Destructive Inspection Technique of Thermal Barrier Coatings [PDF-1183KB]
E. Jordan, M. Gell, D.R. Clarke, Y.H. Sohn, V. Vaidyanathan, K. Schlichting, and D. Mecklenburg — University of Connecticut

P14 Small-Particle Plasma Spray Thermal Barrier Coatings [PDF-18007KB]
K. Faber, J. Mawdsley, J. Su, R. Trice, and T. Bernecki — Northwestern University

P15 Development of Refractory Silicate-YSZ Dual Layer TBCs [PDF-1825KB]
H. He, and K. Lee — Cleveland State University

P16 A Mechanism-Based Approach to Life Prediction and Non-Destructive Evaluation for Thermal Barrier Coatings [PDF-2568KB]
Anthony G. Evans, David R. Clarke, and Carlos G. Levi — University of California at Santa Barbara

Aerodynamics and Heat Transfer

P17 Detailed Flow and Thermal Field Measurements on a Scaled-Up Stator Vane [PDF-685KB]
Karen A. Thole — Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; and David G. Bogard — University of Texas at Austin

P18 Airfoil Trailing [PDF-1203KB]
Satish Ramadhyani, Michael W. Pelesniak, Patrick B. Lawless, Aaron L. Brundage, and Neal E. Venters — Purdue University

P19 Turbine Blade Tip, Endwall, and Platform Heat Transfer Including Rotational Effects [PDF-690KB]
Sanford Fleeter, Patrick B. Lawless, and Kirk D. Gallier — Purdue University

P20 Mist/Steam Cooling for Advanced Turbine Systems [PDF-110KB]
Ting Wang — University of New Orleans; and J. Leo Gaddis and Xianchang Li — Clemson University

P21 Edge Cooling Heat Transfer on Turbine Blades with Rotation [PDF-943KB]
Richard J. Goldstein, Steven J. Olson, E.R.G. Eckert, S.V. Patankar, and S.C. Garrick — University of Minnesota; and C. Camci — Pennsylvania State University

P22 Impact of Endwall Flow and Wakes on Multistage Compressor Performance [PDF-235KB]
Yang-Sheng Tzeng and Choon-Sooi Tan — Massachusetts Institute of Technology

P23 Improved Modeling Techniques for Turbomachinery Flow Fields [PDF-16KB] B. Lakshiminarayana and Edward Hall — Pennsylvania State University

P24 Real Surface Effects on Turbine Heat Transfer and Aerodynamic Performance [PDF-1087KB]
Robert P. Taylor and B.K. Hodge — Mississippi State University; Jeffrey Bons — Air Force Institute of Technology; and Richard Rivir and Rolf Sandergaard — Air Force Research Laboratory

P25 Aerodynamics, Heat Transfer, and Shape Optimization of Turbine Endwalls [PDF-2827KB]
Minking K. Chyu — Carnegie Mellon University; Tom I.P. Shih — Michigan State University; and Terrence W. Simon — University of Minnesota

P26 Flow Field and Heat Transfer in a Model Gas Turbine Disk Cavity [PDF-3054KB]
Ramendra P. Roy, Guoping Xu, and Jun Feng — Arizona State University

P27 Tip Clearance Heat Transfer and Desensitization in High Pressure Turbines [PDF-360KB]
Michael Durham, Jay Kapat, Alain Kassab, and Joseph Tapley — University of Central Florida; and Charles MacArthur and Doug Rabe — Air Force Research Laboratory