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Turbomachinery

Experimental Technique for Turbomachinery Development

Course Overview

The ability to test and diagnose a new turbomachinery stage or system is often the difference between success and failure of a new product; various disciplines must be mastered for the process to work well and achieve a sensible economical outcome.

This course provides the reasons and means for test project organization, execution, and wrap-up:

• Organization includes planning, scoping studies, and various checkouts.
• Execution requires detailed understanding of measurements for flow rate, speed, power, pressure, temperature, and traversing. Also, various means of setting up laboratories are given.
• The wrap-up includes documentation, data processing, and model building. Students are led through a live exercise of flow field traversing and will have ample opportunity to discuss questions with lecturers.

The Concepts NREC test lab is one of the country's most sophisticated and active turbomachine test facilities,utilized by Fortune 500 companies and government agencies(like NASA) alike. Each instructor for this course is a practicing engineer at Concepts NREC, and is actively involved in the management and day-to-day activities of the Concepts NREC test lab.Together, this group provides unrivaled range and depth of experience in fluid dynamics and structural evaluations of pumps, fans, compressors and turbines.

Instructors

Dr. David Japikse received his masters and doctoral degrees at Purdue University. He founded Concepts ETI in 1980 and guided the company as President until 2000 when he led the acquisition of NREC’s consulting and engineering software business. He currently serves as Concepts NREC’s Chairman of the Board. He has been responsible for many activities in centrifugal pump design, consulting, and research, and has developed a number of innovative design techniques. Dr. Japikse has also published extensively and teaches regularly. He has received many awards including the James Harry Potter Gold Medal from ASME for “…innovative, pioneering contributions in the field of thermodynamics as applied to turbomachinery design.” He is a Fellow in the ASME and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Mr. Robert Pelton is a Senior Engineer at Concepts NREC and has extensive aerodynamic design experience in a broad range of centrifugal flow pump and compressor applications, including blowers and turbopumps. He also has experience in meanline, quasi-3D, and CFD analysis.

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