2017 University Turbine Systems Research Project Review Meeting

2017 UNIVERSITY TURBINE SYSTEMS RESEARCH PROJECT REVIEW MEETING
November 1-2, 2017
Pittsburgh, PA

Agenda

The 2017 University Turbine Systems Research (UTSR) Project Review Meeting was held on November 1-2, 2017, at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel & Suites Pittsburgh Downtown, near the University of Pittsburgh campus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The theme was “Impact of Additive Manufacturing on Gas Turbines.” The workshop was well received, with a total of 121 attendees from original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), universities, national labs, and small businesses. The opening session included welcoming remarks by Dr. Gregory Reed, Director of the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Energy and the Energy GRID Institute, and an overview of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy’s (FE) Advanced Turbines Program by National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) Advanced Turbines Technology Manager, Richard Dennis. The workshop included a panel discussion on additive manufacturing involving gas turbine OEMs, developers, and practitioners. Rob Gorham, Executive Director of America Makes, was one of the keynote speakers, with more than a decade of solid defense research and advanced manufacturing experience. Prior to joining America Makes, Dr. Gorham was the Senior Manager of the Manufacturing Exploration and Development (MXD) group within the Advanced Manufacturing Systems and Prototyping (AMS&P) directorate of Lockheed Martin (LM) Aeronautics – Advanced Development Programs (ADP). Dave Conover, Chief Technologist at ANSYS, Inc., was the other keynote speaker. Dr. Conover has more than 35 years of experience in mechanical computer-aided engineering (CAE) software development with ANSYS, during which time he has been involved in the development of elements, nonlinear material models, solution strategies, and solvers. Turbine experts from various fields presented a total of 42 technical presentations on their research. The University of Pittsburgh sponsored a poster composition at the workshop, and two poster sessions allowed for exhibition of 24 technical posters as part of the competition.

Wednesday, November 1

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION

• Gregory Reed, Director, Center for Energy, University of Pittsburgh

OVERVIEW OF THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY’S ADVANCED TURBINES PROGRAM

• Richard Dennis, Turbine Technology Manager, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy
  Technology Laboratory

PANEL DISCUSSION: IMPACT OF ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING ON GAS TURBINES

Moderators: Richard Dennis, U.S.Department of Energy, National Energy Technology
Laboratory, and Minking Chyu, University of Pittsburgh

• Additive Manufacturing and Gas Turbines
  John Barnes, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
• Additive Manufacturing Challenges for the Gas Turbine Industry
  Jack Beuth, Carnegie Mellon University
• Impact of Additive Manufacturing on Gas Turbines
  Richard Grylls, SLM Solutions
• GE Additive & CeC Pittsburgh
  Kirk Rogers – GE Additive
• Ramesh Subramanian – Siemens Energy, Inc.
• Support Structure Optimization via Fast Process Simulation for Additive Manufacturing
  Albert To – University of Pittsburgh

• Supercritical CO2 Pilot Plant Test Facility Project
  Scott Macadam, Gas Technology Institute

Combustion (Track 1) – Philadelphia Room

Moderator: Mark Freeman and Don Ferguson, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy
Technology Laboratory

• Advanced Multi-Tube Mixer Combustion for 65% Efficiency
  Michael Hughes, GE Power
• High Temperature, Low NOx Combustor Concept Development
  Jerry Seitzman, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Project Update: Flow and Heat Transfer Characterization of Lean Pre-mixed Combustor Systems
  Suhyeon Park and Siddhartha Gadiraju, Virginia Tech, and Srinath Ekkad, North Carolina State University
• Final Report: An Experimental and Modeling Study of NOx-CO Formation in High Hydrogen
  Content Fuels Combustion in Gas Turbine Applications
  Tanvir Farouk, University of South Carolina
• Turbulent Flame Propagation Modeling in Premixed/Stratified Combustors - Application to Flame Flashback
  Venkat Raman, University of Michigan
• High Pressure Turbulent Flame Speeds and Chemical Kinetics of Syngas Blends with
  and without Impurities
  Eric Petersen, Texas A&M University

Aero/Heat Transfer (Track 2) – Pittsburgh Room

Moderator: Robin Ames and Seth Lawson, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy
Technology Laboratory

• START: Turbine Sealing of Underplatform Flows
  Karen Thole, The Pennsylvania State University
• RANS and LES of Internal and Film Cooling
  Tom Shih, Purdue University
• Thermally Effective and Efficient Cooling Technologies for Advanced Gas Turbines
  Forrest Ames, University of North Dakota and Sumanta Acharya, Illinois Institute of Technology
• Cooled Gas Turbine Model with Advanced Cooling Calculations
  Selcuk Can Uysal, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory,
  and Sridharan Ramesh, West Virginia University Research Corporation (WVURC)
• Design, Fabrication and Performance Characterization of Near-Surface Embedded Cooling
  Channels with an Oxide Dispersion Strengthened (ODS) Coating Layer
  Minking Chyu, University of Pittsburgh, and Bruce Kang, West Virginia University
• Revolutionizing Turbine Cooling with Micro-Architectures Enabled by Direct Metal Laser Sintering
  Jeffrey Bons, The Ohio State University

Materials (Track 3) – Harrisburg/Lancaster Room

Moderator: Patcharin Burke, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory, and Richard Dalton, KeyLogic

• Ceramic Matrix Composite Advanced Transition for 65% Combined Cycle Efficiency
  Jay Morrison, Siemens Energy, Inc.
• High Temp. CMC Nozzles for 65% Efficiency
  John Delvaux, GE Power
• New Mechanistic Models of Creep-Fatigue Interactions for Gas Turbine Components
  Thomas Siegmund, Purdue University
• Microstructure-Sensitive Crystal Viscoplasticity for Ni-Base Superalloys
  Richard (Rick) W. Neu, Georgia Institute of Technology
• ICME for Creep of Ni-Base Superalloys in Advanced Ultra-Supercritical
  Steam Turbines
  Pengyang Zhao, The Ohio State University
• Materials Issues for Advanced Supercritical CO2 Cycles and High Efficiency
  Gas Turbines
  Bruce Pint, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Energy Innovation Center, Keynote Presentation

Keynote Speech

• A New Paradigm in U.S. Innovation
  Rob Gorham, America Makes

Thursday, November 2

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

• New Simulation Frontiers In Gas Turbine Development
  Dave Conover, ANSYS

Combustion (Track 1) – Philadelphia Room

Moderator: Mark Freeman and Don Ferguson, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy
Technology Laboratory

• Effects of Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) on Turbulent Combustion Emissions in Advanced Gas Turbine Combustors with High Hydrogen Content (HHC) Fuels
  Jay Gore, Purdue University
• Understanding Transient Combustion Phenomena in Low-NOx Gas Turbines
  Jacqueline O’Connor, The Pennsylvania State University

Pressure Gain Combustion (Track 1) – Philadelphia Room

• Pulse Detonation Engine for Power Extraction from Oxy-Combustion of Coal-Based Fuels
  David L. Blunck, Oregon State University
• An Experimental/Computational Study of Non-Idealities in Practical Rotating
  Detonation Engines
  Mirko Gamba, University of Michigan
• Effect of Mixture Concentration Inhomogeneity on Detonation Properties in
  Pressure Gain Combustors
  Stephen Peluso, The Pennsylvania State University
• Advancing Pressure Gain Combustion in Terrestrial Turbine Systems
  Steve Heister, Purdue University
• Pressure Gain Combustion for Land Based Power Generation
  Don Ferguson, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory
• Rotating Detonation Combustion for Gas Turbines – Modeling and System Synthesis to Exceed 65% Efficiency Goal
  Ken Sprouse, Aerojet Rocketdyne

Supercritical CO2 (Track 2) – Pittsburgh Room

Moderator: Robin Ames and Seth Lawson, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy
Technology Laboratory

• Low-Leakage Seals for Utility-Scale sCO2 Turbines
  Rahul Bidkar, General Electric Global Research
• Development of Modular, Low-Cost, High-Temperature Recuperators for the sCO2 Power
  Cycle - Project Update
  Marc Portnoff, Thar Energy, LLC
• Predicting the Oxidation/Corrosion Performance of Structural Alloys
  in Supercritical CO2
  Steven C. Kung, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
• Chemical Kinetic Modeling Development and Validation Experiments for Direct Fired
  Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Combustor
  Subith Vasu, University of Central Florida
• Investigation of Autoignition and Combustion Stability of High Pressure Supercritical
  Carbon Dioxide Oxy-combustion
  Wenting Sun, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Direct Fired Oxy-Combustor for sCO2 Power Cycles
  Jacob Delimont, Southwest Research Institute
• Oxy-Combustion Fundamentals for Direct Fired Cycles
  Peter Strakey, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory
• sCO2 R&D Status Facilitated Discussion
  Seth Lawson and Robin Ames, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory

Materials (Track 3) – Harrisburg/Lancaster Room

Moderator: Patcharin Burke, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory, and Richard Dalton, KeyLogic

• Properties of Advanced Ni-Based Alloys for Ultra Supercritical Steam Turbines
  Philip J. Maziasz, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Materials and Manufacturing for Supercritical C02 Power Cycles
  Ömer Doğan, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory
• Abradable Sealing Materials for Emerging IGCC-Based Turbine Systems
  Daniel Mumm, University of California, Irvine
• Gas Turbine Materials Life Assessment and Nondestructive Evaluation
  Jiangang Sun, Argonne National Laboratory
• Advanced Ultra-Supercritical Component Testing
  Horst Hack, Electric Power Research Institute
• Microstructure and Properties of Hastelloy X Fabricated by Additive Manufacturing
  Sebastien Dryepondt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Exploration of High-Entropy Alloys for Turbine Applications
  Ricardo Komai, QuesTek Innovations, LLC.
• Advanced Bond Coats for Thermal Barrier Coating Systems Based on High Entropy Alloys
  Derek Hass, Direct Vapor Technologies International
• Workshop Summary, Closing Comments, and Wrap-Up
  Richard Dennis, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory

Poster Presentations

• The Effect of Transient Fuel Staging on Self-Excited Instabilities In A Multi-Nozzle Gas Turbine Combustor
  Wyatt Culler, The Pennsylvania State University
• Improving NOx Entitlement with Axial Staging
  Scott Martin, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Topology Optimization of Variable-Density Lattice Structure for Highly Efficient Convective
  Heat Transfer
  Lin Cheng, University of Pittsburgh
• Modified Method of Inherent Strain for Prediction of Residual Distortion in Metal
  Additive Manufacturing
  Xuan Liang, University of Pittsburgh
• Discrete Element Roughness Modeling for Design Optimization of Additively and Conventionally
  Manufactured Internal Turbine Cooling Passages
  Robert Kunz, The Pennsylvania State University
• Turbulence Effects on Chemical Pathways for N-Dodecane
  Debolina Dasgupta, (presenter Tim Lieuwen), Georgia Institute of Technology
• ICME Design of High-Temperature Turbine Materials
  James Saal, QuesTek Innovations
• In-situ optical monitoring of gas turbine blade coatings
  under operational extreme environments
  Ranajay Ghosh, University of Central Florida
• Enhancing Heat Transfer Performance and Oxidation Resistance of Near Surface Cooling Channels
  Using Additive Manufacturing Technologies
  Sarwesh Narayan Parbat, University of Pittsburgh
• Thermal-Fluid and Mechanical Investigation of Additive Manufactured Geometries for Enhanced
  Transpiration Cooling
  Zheng Min, University of Pittsburgh
• Injector Design for an sCO2 Cycle, Oxy-Fuel Combustor
  Timothy Cook, UTSR Gas Turbine Fellowship Program
• Durable High Temperature Thermal Barrier Coatings
  Amarendra K. Rai, UES Inc.
• Real-time Health monitoring of Gas Turbine Components Using Online Learning and High-dimensional Data
  Nagi Gebraeel, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Fuel Injection Dynamics and Composition Effects on RDE Performance
  Mirko Gamba, University of Michigan
• ANSYS 17.2 Thermal Verification
  Selvin Reyes, University of Central Florida
• High Frequency Transverse Combustion Instabilities in Low-NOx Gas Turbines
  Vishal Acharya, Georgia Institute of Technology
• High-Fidelity Simulation of Turbulent Mixing and Combustion for Supercritical CO2 Power Systems
  Reza Sheikhi, Dena Scientific
• High Temperature, Low NOx Combustor Concepts
  Matthew Sirignano, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Feasibility of Micro Heat Flux Gauges on Polyimide
  Shawn Siroka, The Pennsylvania State University
• Effectiveness & Additively Manufactured 777 & Tripod Film Cooling Holes
  Jacob Snyder, The Pennsylvania State University
• Large Eddy Simulations for Direct-Fired Supercritical CO2 Combustor
  D.T. Banuti, D. Kim, S. Bose and L. Shunn, Cascade Technologies, Inc.
• Surface patterning and the effects on dynamic characteristics of annular hole-pattern seals
  Alexandrina Untaroiu, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  
• Superalloy MMC Components for Advanced Turbine Systems
  D. Baker and A. Biswas, Advanced Powder Solutions, Inc. and
  G. Dinda, Wayne State University and S. Kottlingham, General Electric
• Integrated TBC/EBC for SiC Fiber Reinforced SiC Matrix Composites for Next Generation Gas Turbines
  Rajendra K. Bordia, Clemson University