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
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.

Transportation and lunch will be provided. The Tour is restricted to 30 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 11 May 2010 to: Attn: Ashleigh Dickson, Communications advisor/Community Liaison Officer, Torness Power Station, British Energy - Part of the EDF Energy, email: ashleigh.dickson@british-energy.com, fax: +44 (0) 1368 873 602. Inquiries regarding this tour may be directed to ashleigh.dickson@british-energy.com.

BAE Systems Surface Ships Facility Tour
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.

The tour is restricted to 25 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 27 April 2010 to Attn: Rolls-Royce BAE Facility Tour, c/o ASME International Gas Turbine Institute, email: igtiexpo@asme.org or fax: +1-404-847-0151.

CLYDEUNION
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.
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.

GSE Systems Power Station Simulation Training Centre at Strathclyde University
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
Rolls-Royce plc is hosting this combined tour to both the Rolls-Royce Inchinnan Centre of Excellence for Compression System Component Manufacture and the adjacent Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC) which is due to open in the Spring of 2010.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.

Whitelee Windfarm
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.