Combustion Dynamics in Gas Turbine Power Plants
Date: Monday, November 27, 2006
Time: 8:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Fee: $500*

Instructor: Tim Lieuwen, Georgia Institute of Technology

Who Should Attend
Attendees can have a broad range of educational experience, from high school diploma, to a Ph.D. degree in engineering, or with some practical background and experience. Plant Technicians, Maintenance Engineers and Engineer/Supervisor, including Engineering VP's. People, internal or external to power plants, whose functions/tasks relate directly or indirectly to gas turbine operability and reliability issues. In addition, those responsible for procuring combustion dynamics monitoring systems.

Course Overview and Objectives
This course introduces students to combustion dynamics. It begins with an overview of development and field experience with combustion instabilities, and will describe case studies from several DLN combustors development efforts. It then provides background on the physical processes responsible for the occurrence of combustion driven oscillations. Next, it discusses strategies for treating dynamics problems by combustor tuning. Finally, it discusses dynamics monitoring approaches, and various issues associated with instrumentation, data analysis and data reduction.

Course Highlights

• Field experience with combustion dynamics
• Combustion instability mechanisms
• Control/abatement approaches
• Instrumentation for dynamic pressure and heat release monitoring
• Combustor monitoring strategies using dynamic data analysis

Gas Turbine Repair & Metallurgy Techniques
Date: Monday, November 27, 2006
Time: 8:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Fee: $500*

Instructors: Lloyd Cooke & Paul Lowden, Liburdi Engineering Limited

Who Should Attend
The workshop is for Operations & Maintenance personnel who require an understanding of basic gas turbine metallurgy and repair technology to conduct business with repair shops and make repair verses replacement parts decisions. These personnel could include: Plant Operators, Operating Engineers, Field Service Personnel, Mariners, Plant Managers, Design Engineers, government agencies, Energy and Naval consultants, Institutions, EPC Contractors and Universities who are involved with petrochemical, industrial power, power generation and the oil and gas industries.

Course Overview and Objectives
The course presents the techniques used to assess component condition and provides an understanding of the conventional and advanced repair technologies used to extend component life. Case studies of actual repaired components will be presented and students will work in teams to determine the best course of action to repair sample components. Participants may submit questions in advance regarding repair issues faced in their jobs. Student understanding of the material is assessed through question and answer periods (including preformatted questions throughout), and workshop assignments at the end of the course.

Course Highlights

• Gas Turbine Nomenclature
• Materials and Metallurgy
• Gas Turbine Coatings
• Degradation Characteristics in Gas Turbine Components
• Component Evaluation
• Repair & Refurbishment Processes
• Quality Assurance
• Vendor Selection & Verification

* Please register for the pre-symposium workshops through PennWell at www.powergen.com.