THE FUTURE OF GAS TURBINE TECHNOLOGY - ETN

Colin Etheridge is Product Manager focused
on Combustion and fuels at Solar Turbines Inc.
He has worked in the field of combustion for 36
years with 23 years at Solar. During his tenure,
he has led the development of the Mars and Titan
SoLoNOx combustion systems and is currently
Team lead for Hydrogen & Syngas development
activities in the Product Development
organisation. Colin has a Bachelor’s degree in
Aeronautics and Astronautics from Southampton University, England
and an MBA from the University of Redlands, California.
Peter Jansohn is the Head of the Combustion
Research Laboratory at the Paul Scherrer
Institute (PSI). Prior to joining PSI, he
was the Department Head of the ALSTOM
Power Technology Center in Baden-Dättwil,
Switzerland and initiated and led the corporatewide
ALSTOM Power Research Program
„New Technologies“comprising all long-term
research activities on power generation. In 2006
Peter Jansohn was appointed Program leader of the Research Program
“Kraftwerk 2020” (Power Plant 2020) – an initiative of the Swiss Federal
Office of Energy in order to strengthen research on gas turbine combined
cycle technologies.
Dr Manfred Aigner is the Director of the
Institute of Combustion Technology at the
German Aerospace Center (DLR) and has been
professor at the University of Stuttgart since
1998. Prior to joining DLR he worked at ABB
in the department of gas turbine development,
most recently as the Vice President for Gas
Turbine Basic Development. He graduated from
the University of Karlsruhe as a mechanical
engineer and a PhD with a thesis on airblast atomization.
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Dick van der Vecht is a Mechanical Engineer
of the University Twente in Enschede, the
Netherlands. He began his career in Applied
Research & Development and Consultancy
at TNO, and in 1984 joined utility company
PGEM. Since 1987 he has worked for EPON
and Electrabel as Manager of Operations and
Maintenance of several different power stations
with Combined Cycle Gas Turbine units. Mr. van
der Vecht is a founder and vice-chairman of the 9FA/FB Userconferences,
a member of R&D steering groups within KEMA and Laborelec on CCGTs,
and sits on the Advisory Board for Power-Gen Europe.
Dr Matthias Oechsner is a Professor of
Mechanical Engineering and Materials
Technology at Technical University of Darmstadt.
He is also Director of ‘Institut für Werkstoffkunde’
(Institute for Materials Technology) and of
‘Staatliche Materialprüfanstalt’ (State Materials
Testing Laboratory). His main research fields
are development of material systems, life
prediction models and advanced manufacturing
processes for high temperature. Previously he held senior engineering
positions at Siemens AG in Germany, USA and China. He holds degrees
from Mechanical Engineering TU Karlsruhe and University of California,
a PhD from Max-Planck Research Society ‘Mechanics of Heterogeneous
Solids’, and became Dr.-Ing. at TU Karlsruhe in 2000.
Dr Choonsooi Tan is Senior Research Engineer,
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics of
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, focusing
on gas turbine engines, fluid mechanics and
aircraft propulsion systems. He works on
the aerothermal aspects of gas turbine for
power generation, aerospace propulsion,
aerodynamics and aeromechanics of centrifugal
compressors. He has over 50 publications in
journals worldwide. He is co-author of the book “Internal Flow: Concepts
and Applications” (2004). He holds a Bachelors from Manchester
University England, Masters from Caltech and PhD from MIT. He is
Associate Editor for the AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power, and is
ASME fellow and senior member of AIAA.