Facility Tour Registration - All tours will be on Friday, June 18. Space is limited for all tours and some companies will require pre-screening. Registration for tours without prescreening will begin when the Exposition opens on Tuesday, June 15. Each host company is conducting registration for its own tour in the Facility Tour Registration booth. All tours are conducted at the discretion of the host company and under the conditions the company establishes. All tours are subject to cancellation.

Alstom – Torness Power Station, Friday, June 18, 10h30 (10:30 a.m.)
Torness nuclear power station was the last of the UK’s second generation nuclear power plants to be commissioned. The station consists of two Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors (AGR) capable of producing a peak rating of 1364 MWe. Torness nuclear power station is located approximately 30 miles east of the city of Edinburgh at Torness Point near Dunbar in East Lothian, Scotland.

Pre-screening security applications were required for this tour. The deadline for applying was May 11. No additional applications will be accepted.

BAE Systems Surface Ships Facility Tour, Friday, June 18, 09h45 (9:45 a.m.)
BAE Systems Surface Ships will host a tour, sponsored by Rolls-Royce, at their Shipyard in Scotstoun. Delegates will tour the 3rd in class Type 45 Anti-Air Warfare Destroyer, HMS Diamond. The Type 45 Destroyer is the most advanced ship of its type in the world to date and will provide the backbone of the Royal Navy’s air defences for much of the first half of the 21st century.

Pre-screening security applications were required for this tour. The deadline for applying was April 27. No additional applications will be accepted.

CLYDEUNION, Friday, June 18, one morning & one afternoon tour, times TBA
CLYDEUNION Pumps provides pumping solutions through pump technology, hydraulic design and engineering as well as global aftermarket support. The tour will be at the company’s largest facility in Glasgow that has been manufacturing there for over 120 years. The Glasgow site provides centrifugal pumps for all six of its business sectors, including conventional power, and specializes in products for the upstream oil and nuclear power industries.

Doosan Babcock Energy Ltd., Friday, June 18, 10h00 (10:00 a.m.)
Doosan Babock is offering a tour at its headquarters near Glasgow, focusing on the Research and Development Centre. You will have the opportunity to see work on the development of advanced clean energy technologies and to visit the combustion test facilities, where Doosan Babcock is currently carrying out work on carbon dioxide capture and, in particular, is running the world’s largest demonstration of Oxyfuel combustion.

To confirm arrangements, each delegate who would like to participate is requested to e-mail s.jones@doosanbabcock.com with your name, company and any discipline of particular interest. Places will be allocated on a first come first serve basis. The Tour is limited to 45 participants.

GSE Systems Power Station Simulation Training Centre at Strathclyde University, Friday, June 18, 14h30 (2:30 p.m.)
The university’s Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering is home to the only academic, fully flexible GSE Power Station simulator suite designed for training in Europe. This $4 million simulation training and education centre offers a unique facility that provides the basis for research and education in the areas of real-time simulation, power station control and advanced diagnostics. The simulator replicates actual control rooms with instrumentation and controls driven by computer models that replicate a plant’s actual response to normal operating conditions.

Inchinnan Manufacturing Facilities, Friday, June 18, 13h00 (1:00 p.m.)
Rolls-Royce, supported by the University of Strathclyde will host a tour to both the Rolls-Royce Inchinnan Centre of Excellence for Compression System Component Manufacture and the adjacent Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC). AFRC is a partnership between the University of Strathclyde and global industrial manufacturing companies including Rolls-Royce, Boeing and Mettis Aerospace and specialist suppliers such as GKN, Bodycote, EKES and Fanuc.

The tour is restricted to 40 participants. Each delegate wishing to take the tour must complete the security information form and return it with a copy of your passport no later than June 1, 2010 to Attn: RR Inchinnan & AFRC Tour, c/o ASME International Gas Turbine Institute, email: igtiexpo@asme.org or fax: +1-404-847-0151. (Please note that Inchinnan requires safety shoes to be worn, which will be provided if shoe size information is included on the security form. Shoe size will be converted)

Whitelee Windfarm, Friday, June 18, 14h30 (2:30 p.m.)
Whitelee Windfarm is Europe’s largest windfarm and is located on Eaglesham Moor just 20 minutes from central Glasgow. Over the past ten years Whitelee has been carefully planned and designed to work in harmony with the existing environment and after three years of construction the windfarm is fully operational and producing clean, green energy. The windfarm has 140 turbines which can generate 322MW of electricity, enough to power 180,000 homes. The tour is sponsored by Scottish Power Renewables.