GPPS Turbomachinery Seminar24

Turbomachinery Seminar 2024

January 15th - 16th, 2024

Hosted in Zurich Switzerland this seminar will give attendees an overview of working principles of turbomachinery used in industrial applications. These machines include gas compressors, gas turbines, and steam turbines. The thermodynamic, aerodynamic, and rotordynamic principles, as well as control concepts are explained with the goal to understand the constraints and opportunities that arise for these machines, and by extension, the applications they are used for. Among these applications are power generation, gas compression for upstream, midstream, and downstream applications, including LNG but in particular applications in the field of carbon reduction, the hydrogen economy, and  CO2 capture, transport and sequestration.

Panel session discussing latest developments in energy and aviation

The seminar will provide a fundamental class on turbomachinery function and application, and attempts to complement the GPPS Forum topics.

Meet the Seminar Presenters

Klaus Brun Director, Research & Development at Elliott Group, Ebara Corp

Klaus Brun

Director, Research & Development at Elliott Group, Ebara Corp, USA

Tim Allison Director Machinery Department, Southwest Research Institute®

Tim Allison

Director Machinery Department, Southwest Research Institute®

Rainer Kurz panelist at the 2024 Forum in Zurich

Rainer Kurz

Manager, Gas Compressor Engineering,  Solar Turbines Incorporated

Outline of Topics

– Overview of Machinery

  • Steam Turbines and Expanders
  • Centrifugal and Axial Gas
  • Compressors
  • Gas Turbines

– Thermodynamics for Gas Turbines

– Thermodynamics of Gas Compression

– Aerodynamics for Axial and Centrifugal Turbomachinery

– Rotor dynamics for Turbomachinery

– Aeromechanical Design and Analysis

 

– Shaft seals

– Control Concepts for Turbomachinery Trains

– Select Applications:

  • LNG
  • Hydrogen
  • CCUS
  • Combined Cycle Power Generation
  • Supercritical CO2 Applications

– Future Outlook

Our location

With team members spread across the globe, the core team is based in Zurich Switzerland.

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Landis + Gyr-Strasse 1, 6300 Zug