Dr. John Gülen, ASME Fellow, a senior engineer in Bechtel’s Infrastructure & Power global business unit, is an internationally recognized expert in steam and gas turbine combined cycle systems and thermal power plant engineering with numerous patents and publications, including five monographs, to his credit. Dr. Gülen’s contributions include development of heat balance software at Thermoflow, Inc., design, optimization, and testing of combined cycle systems with FB and H class gas turbines at General Electric and technical assessment and studies of novel technologies for sustainable power generatioin at Bechtel.

He was named a Bechtel Fellow in 2018.

Dr. Gülen received his PhD degree in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and is a licensed professional engineer.

Friday, September 5th
09:00 – 10:30 | Ballroom III

Moderator: Tom Povey (University of Oxford, UK)

Panelists: John Gülen (Bechtel, USA), Dr. Bin Ru (Shanghai Electric Group Central Academy, China), Satoshi Mizukami (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Hyogo, Japan), Zuozhi Zhao (Siemens Energy, China)

Title: Dynamics of Power Generation Decarbonization