2018 PROCEEDINGS - UNIVERSITY TURBINE SYSTEMS RESEARCH PROJECT REVIEW MEETING

Meeting Agenda

Tuesday, Oct. 30

• Opening Remarks
  Richard Dennis, Turbine Technology Manager, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE),
  National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)
• Overview of DOE Advanced Turbines Program
  Richard Dennis, Turbine Technology Manager, DOE NETL
• Overview of Air Force Turbine Engine Research and Development
  Robert Hancock, Chief Scientist, Turbine Engine Division of the Aerospace Systems Directorate of the Air Force
  Research Laboratory (AFRL)
• Panel Discussion, Pressure Gain Combustion Research and Development
  Don Ferguson, DOE NETL
  Chris Greene, United Technologies Research Center (UTRC)
  Adam Holley, AFRL East
  Keith McManus, GE Global Research Center
  Guillermo Paniagua, Purdue University
  Eric Paulson, AFRL West
• Overview of the US NG Distribution System and Compressor Stations
  Klaus Brun, Machinery Program Director, Southwest Research Institute

Track A - Combustion & Pressure Gain Combustion

• Advanced Multi-Tube Mixer Combustion for 65% Efficiency
  Michael Hughes, General Electric (GE)
• High Frequency Transverse Combustion Instabilities in Low-NOX Gas Turbines
  Tim Lieuwen, Georgia Tech
• Understanding Transient Combustion Phenomena in Low-NOX Gas Turbines
  Jacqueline O’Connor, Pennsylvania State University
• Improving NOX Entitlement with Axial Staging
  Scott Martin, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Track B - Aero & Heat Transfer & Supercritical CO₂ 

• START Turbine Testing Review
  Karen Thole, Pennsylvania State University
• Integrated Transpiration and Lattice Cooling Systems Developed by Additive Manufacturing with Oxide Dispersion Strengthened Alloys
  Minking Chyu, University of Pittsburgh and Bruce Kang, West Virginia University
• Effects of High Heating Loads on Internal Cooling
  Tom Shih, Purdue University
• Film Cooling Experiments in the High Temperature High Pressure Test Facility
  Sridharan Ramesh, DOE NETL

Track C - Materials & Supercritical CO₂

• High Temperature Ceramic Matrix Composite (CMC) Nozzles for 65% Efficiency
  John Delvaux, GE
• Integrated TBC/EBC for SiC Fiber Reinforced SiC Matrix Composites for Next Generation Gas Turbines
  Rajendra Kumar Bordia, Clemson University
• Materials Issues for Advanced Supercritical CO2 Cycles and High Efficiency Gas Turbines
  Bruce Pint, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Development of High Performance Ni-Base Alloys for Gas Turbine Wheel Using a Coprecipitation Approach
  Michael Mills, The Ohio State University

Wednesday, Oct. 31

• History of Development and Commercialization of Structural Ceramics for Industrial Gas Turbines and Aircraft Engines at GE
  Krishan Luthra, Chief Materials Scientist, GE Global Research Center
• Panel Discussion: Ceramic Materials for Gas Turbines: CMC R&D Programs Across Federal Agencies
  Anindya Ghoshal, U.S. Army Research Laboratory
  Joseph Grady, NASA
  Glenn Allan P. Katz, AFRL
  Bruce Pint, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Track A - Combustion & Pressure Gain Combustion

• High Temperature, Low NOX Combustor Concept Development
  Tim Lieuwen, Georgia Tech
• A Joint Experimental Computational Study of Non-Idealities in Practical Rotating Detonation Engine Performance
  Mirko Gamba, University of Michigan
• Fuel Injection Dynamics and Composition Effects on Rotating Detonation Engine Performance
  Mirko Gamba, University of Michigan
• Rotating Detonation Combustion for Gas Turbines – Modeling and System Synthesis to Exceed 65% Efficiency Goal
  Scott Claflin, Aerojet Rocketdyne
• Advancing Pressure Gain Combustion in Terrestrial Turbine Systems
  Carson Slabaugh, Purdue University
• Overview of Rotating Detonation Combustion Study at NETL
  Don Ferguson, DOE NETL
• Pulse Detonation Engine for Advanced Oxy-Combustion of Coal-Based Fuel for Direct Power Extraction Applications
  David Blunck, Oregon State University

Track B - Aero & Heat Transfer & Supercritical CO₂ 

• Discrete Element Roughness Modeling for Design Optimization of Additively and Conventionally Manufactured Internal Turbine Cooling Passages
  Robert Kunz, Pennsylvania State University
• Revolutionizing Turbine Cooling with Micro-Architectures Enabled by Direct Metal Laser Sintering
  Jeffrey Bons, The Ohio State University
• Low-leakage Seals for Utility-scale sCO2 Turbines
  Rahul Bidkar, GE
• Development of a 1MWth Combustor for a Direct Fired Supercritical CO2 Power Cycle
  Jacob Delimont, Southwest Research Institute
• LES of Oxy-Fuel Combustion for sCO2 Power Systems
  Lee Shunn, Cascade Technologies
• Investigation of Autoignition and Combustion Stability of High Pressure Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Oxy-combustion
  Wenting Sun, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Chemical Kinetic Modeling Development and Validation Experiments for Direct Fired Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Combustor
  Subith Vasu, University of Central Florida Center for Advanced Turbine and Energy Research (UCF/CATER)

Track C - Materials & Supercritical CO₂ 

• Corrosion and Erosion Resistant Surface Features for High-Pressure Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Heat Exchangers
  John Kelly, Altex
• Development of Modular, Low-Cost, High-Temperature Recuperators for the sCO2 Power Cycle – Prototype Performance Review
  Marc Portnoff, Thar Energy, LLC
• RIC FWP – Materials Research for sCO2 Power Cycles
  Omer Dogan, DOE NETL
• In-Situ Optical Monitoring of Operating Gas Turbine Blade Coatings Under Extreme Environments
  Seetha Ragavan, University of Central Florida
• Real-Time Health Monitoring for Gas Turbine Components Using Online Learning and High Dimensional Data
  Nagi Gebraeel, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Superalloy MMC Components for Advanced Turbine Systems
  Dean Baker, Advanced Powder Solutions, Inc.
• Development of a Novel Ceramic-to-Metal Seal for High-Temperature High-Pressure Applications
  James Steppan, HiFunda LLC

Thursday, Nov. 1

Track A - Combustion & Pressure Gain Combustion

• Extension of Operating Envelope for an Extremely Low NOX Axial Stage Combustion System
  Andrew North, Siemens Energy, Inc.
• Advanced Modular Sub-Atmospheric Hybrid Heat Engine
  Yaroslav Chudnovsky, Gas Technology Institute
• Modular Heat Engine System for Co-Production of H2 Power and CO2
  Ganesan Subbaraman, Gas Technology Institute
• Turbocompound Reheat Gas Turbine Combined Cycle
  S.C. (John) Gülen, Bechtel Infrastructure & Power

Track B - Aero & Heat Transfer & Supercritical CO₂

• Turbine Aero-Thermal Technologies for 65% Combined Cycle Efficiency
  Joe Weber, General Electric
• Integrated Optimization and Control of a Hybrid Gas Turbine/sCO2 Power Systems
  Tim Held, Echogen Power Systems
• Novel Modular Heat Engines with sCO2 Bottoming Cycle Utilizing Advanced Oil-Free Turbomachinery
  Bugra Ertas, GE Research Center
• Advanced Gas Turbine and sCO2 Combined Cycle Power System
  Kevin Hoopes, Southwest Research Institute
• An Advanced Gas Foil Bearing Using sCO2 as the Working Fluid
  Peter Chapman, Mechanical Solution, Inc.

Track C - Materials & Supercritical CO₂

• Design and Development of Low Weight, Titanium Aluminide Airfoils for High Performance Industrial Gas Turbines Meeting 65% Combined Cycles Efficiency
  Sam Miller, Siemens
• High Temperature. High AN2 Last Stage Blade for 65% Combined Cycle Efficiency
  John Delvaux, GE
• Hybrid Ceramic-CMC Vane with EBC for Future Coal Derived Syngas Fired Highly Efficient Turbine Based Combined Cycle
  John Holowczak, United Technologies Research Center
• Additive Manufactured Metallic 3D Ox-Ox CMC Integrated Structures for 65% Combined Cycle Efficiency
  Ramesh Subramanian, Siemens Energy, Inc.
• High Temperature Additive Architectures for 65% Efficiency
  Joe Weber, General Electric

Poster Presentations

• Multiphase Effects in Supercritical CO2 Compressors: Off Design Conditions and Water Contamination Modeling
  Tim Weathers, Combustion Research and Flow Technology, Inc. (CRAFT Tech)
• An Analysis of Supercritical CO2 Counter-Flow Diffusion Flame Structure
  R V Manikantachari (Raghu) Kancherla, University of Central Florida
• Innovative, Multifunctional Layered Coatings for High Temperature Ceramic Matrix Composites
  Wanhuk Brian Choi, ReliaCoat Technologies LLC
• Durable All-Oxide Thermal Environmental Barrier Coatings (T-EBCs) Capable of High Temperature Operation
  Michael Schmitt, HAMR Industries LLC
• High Speed Imaging of the Dynamics of H2 /O2 Ignition
  Samuel Barak, University of Central Florida
• Ultra-Fast Laser Diagnostics for RDE Devices
  Kyle Thurmond, University of Central Florida
• Mechanical Properties of Coatings by Electron-Beam Physical Vapor Deposition and Plasma-Spray Physical Vapor Deposition Compared Using Synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction
  Matthew Northam, University of Central Florida
• Configurations for Luminescence-Based Temperature Sensing of Thermal Barrier Coatings
  Quentin Fouliard, University of Central Florida
• Synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction Measurements of Thermal Barrier Coating Configurations with Rare Earth Elements for Phosphor Thermometry
  Sandip Haldar, University of Central Florida
• Computational Study of Combustion Reaction C2 H6 =CH3 +CH3 in Supercritical CO2 Environment
  Chun-Hung Wang, University of Central Florida
• Turbulence Effects on Chemical Flame Structure for Lean Premixed Flames
  Debolina Dasgupta (Presenter Tim Lieuwen), Georgia Institute of Technology
• High Frequency Transverse Combustion Instabilities in Low NOX Gas Turbines
  Jeong Won Kim, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Flame Response to Transverse Acoustic Forcing
  Raghul Manosh Kumar (Presenter Tim Lieuwen), Georgia Institute of Technology
• Testing of Thermal Barrier Coatings
  Ian Potts, UTSR, GE & BYU
• Deposition Research at the Ohio State University
  Ian Potts, The Ohio State University
• Revolutionizing Turbine Cooling with Micro-Architectures Enabled by Direct Metal Laser Sintering
  Arif Hossain, The Ohio State University
• Additively Manufactured Advanced Transpiration and Lattice Geometries for Enhanced Cooling
  Zheng Min, University of Pittsburgh
• Coal Fueled PDE for Direct Power Extraction
  David L. Blunck, Oregon State University
• High-Fidelity Numerical Analysis of the Detonation Wave Structure
  Supraj Prakash, University of Michigan
• High-Fidelity Simulations of Rotating Detonation Engines
  Takuma Sato, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Nitrogen Oxide Emissions from Premixed Reacting Jets in a Vitiated Crossflow
  Matthew Sirignano (Presenter Tim Lieuwen), Georgia Institute of Technology
• Integrated TBC/EBC for SiC Fiber Reinforced SiC Matrix Composites for Next Generation Gas Turbines
  Rajendra K. Bordia, Clemson University
• Effect of Injection Geometry on Operation Mode in a Round RDE and Race Track RDE
  Mirko Gamba, University of Michigan