Turbochargers

Advanced Integration and Designs for Internal Combustion Engines

Course Overview

This is the only course for industrial engineers that provides a comprehensive presentation of the design principles of turbochargers, engine-turbocharger matching, and the performance
of turbocharged engine systems.

Lectures will cover the characteristics, design, and performance of the principal turbocharger components, including methods of ensuring that the compressor and turbine are correctly matched to the engine are described. Emphasis is given to the utilization of exhaust gas energy by the turbocharger. Advanced turbocharger system concepts such as variable geometry and compounding are described. Special emphasis is placed on the problems confronting the engine industry today, including the need for fuel economy and reductions in exhaust emissions, and how turbocharging influences these demands.

Program Outline

• Introduction to turbocharging
• Exhaust gas energy utilization
• Turbocharger compressor technology and design
• Turbocharger turbine technology and design
• Mechanical design of turbochargers
• Engine – turbocharger matching
• Turbocharger system developments
• Testing and laboratory procedures
• Turbocharged engine modeling methods and developments

Who Should Attend

• Engineers in the automotive, locomotive, and marine drive system fields or the power generation industry will gain an extensive understanding of turbocharger design and engine-turbocharger system matching and performance.
• This course is an excellent briefing for engineers new to this field, while established engineers will gain fresh insight and be introduced to the latest ideas.
• Managers and sales personnel in these fields will gain insight into the design and analysis of turbocharged engine systems.

Materials

Participants receive a copy of Fundamentals of Turbocharging by Nicholas C. Baines. This book is the first comprehensive treatment of turbochargers and turbocharging to be made widely available in the last twenty years. It is intended to serve as both an introduction to the turbocharger itself and to the problems of matching a turbocharger with an internal combustion engine.

What You Will Learn

• Develop an understanding of design and operational principles of turbocharger turbines and compressors
• Understand how an engine-turbocharger system can be correctly matched for best performance and operating range, and what factors limit the performance
• Learn about the latest research into new engine systems and turbocharger developments which will influence the development of the industry in the next few years

Instructors

Dr. Nick Baines has a Bachelors degree in Engineering from Cambridge University, UK, and a Ph.D from Bath University, UK. His Ph.D thesis was in the field of radial inflow turbines for turbocharging. Subsequently he worked at Rolls-Royce plc on cooling air-feed system design for high-pressure turbine blades, and as Rolls-Royce Research Fellow at Oxford University on axial turbine aerodynamics.

In 1983 he joined Imperial College, London, as lecturer in Mechanical Engineering. His research interests returned to radial turbines, and he supervised an extensive research program aimed at understanding and predicting the performance of such turbines under the pulse flow conditions experienced in turbochargers. Another project was to develop the technology of small gas turbine engines for a hybrid gas turbine-electric car engine.

Since 1993 he has worked as a Consulting Engineer for Concepts NREC. In this role he has extensive experience in turbomachine design and analysis in axial and radial turbines for hydraulic, steam, and gas power generation, turbocharging, and propulsion turbines, as well as design of centrifugal compressor for refrigeration. Projects have been undertaken for aerospace and industrial turbomachinery designers and users worldwide. He has also developed and validated performance prediction methods for radial and axial turbines and axial compressor stages. As Director of Education and Publication Services at Concepts NREC, he has commissioned and managed a series of textbooks on turbomachinery design and related engineering textbooks.

Dr. Baines has published four books and numerous professional papers. He has received three prizes from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers for his publications.

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