"Gas Turbine Combined Cycle Primer"

Monday, October 4, 2010 George R. Brown Convention Center Houston, Texas

Pre-Conference IGTI Workshop being held in conjunction with the 2010 Gas Turbine Users Symposium (IGTI) and the Turbomachinery Laboratorys 39th Turbomachinery Symposium (TAMU)

Overview and Objective The objective of the course is to provide the practicing engineers in power generation industry with fundamental thermodynamic principles that govern the design and performance of Gas Turbine Combined Cycle power plants. Earn 7 Professional Development Hours (PDHs) and receive a certificate of completion!

Learning Outcomes After successfully completing this course, what will the participants be able to do back in the workplace:
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Participants will be able to quickly and accurately gauge the impact on GT selection and design changes on CC performance Participants will be able to make technically and economically feasible CC design choices for given GT characteristics Participants will be able to apply principles of the second law of thermodynamics to GT and CC performance analysis and optimization Participants will have a working knowledge of existing and future novel GT and CC plant design options Participants will be able to use scant available data available in trade publications and academic journals for product performance evaluation Participants will be able to efficiently evaluate plant performance test data beyond standard methods and measures Participants will be able to do quick economic evaluation of technical design changes, innovative ideas, and design options

* All the aforementioned items will benefit the participants business via increased productivity, reliability, innovative potential, and quality via reduction in costly design errors. Another significant benefit is increased employee job satisfaction through a better understanding of the underlying engineering beauty in sometimes seemingly tedious tasks.

Benefit from attending this course: At the end of the course, the participants should be able to do simple but reasonably accurate CC calculations, which do not require more than a hand-held calculator and a sheet of paper, to evaluate new design ideas, to do performance comparisons, to interpret test data and other similar tasks. The materials learned in this course should help participants in day-to-day activities in several aspects by increasing their productivity: a. Those in supervisory positions will have a quick and reliable means to review and verify accuracy of work done by junior engineers using complex computer simulation tools and/or calculation procedures. b. Those involved in research and development will be better positioned to evaluate new ideas quickly without wasting limited resources. c. All participants should have a better grasp of fundamentals to participate more productively in brain-storming meetings, design reviews and similar group activities. d. Those who are heavily involved in plant modeling using complex computer simulation tools will have a better insight into the underlying fundamentals so that they can use their tools more efficiently.

Special Notation: Participants are required to bring a calculator and if they own a standard thermo textbook, it would be beneficial to bring it also.

Instructor S. Can (John) Gulen, Principal Engineer, Plant Systems Analysis (PSA)

Course Schedule

Monday, October 4, 2010 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Section I: Section II: 10:00 a.m. 10:15 a.m. Section III: 12:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. Section IV: Section V: 3:15 p.m. 3:30 p.m. Section VI: 5:00 p.m.

Basic Brayton Cycle Combined Cycle Concept As A Result of Second Law Coffee Break Basic Rankine Cycle Group Lunch Combined Cycle - Current Landscape Advanced "Highly Integrated" Cycles Coffee Break Wrap-up and Evaluation

Target audience: The target audience of the course is practicing engineers in electric power generation industry, who primarily work in design, development and optimization of gas turbine, steam turbine and combined cycle plant systems. The course is specifically geared to junior engineers, who develop and/or exercise commercial and/or proprietary software tools to do dayto-day design and development tasks. However, senior engineers, who are more involved in supervisory and/or consulting roles, should also benefit from the course, which will provide them with another perspective into the subjects that they have dealt with frequently throughout their careers. This course would be described as intermediate to advanced.

Biography of Instructor: S. Can (John) Gulen is the Principal Engineer in Plant Systems Analysis (PSA), in Plant & Accessories NPI (New Product Introduction) group, which is part of GE Energy's Thermal Systems & Power Plant Engineering organization, located in Schenectady, NY. In this role, John provides technical leadership and support for the PSA team and larger NPI organization in USA and Bangalore Engineering Center, India. He is a lead contributor to Combined Cycle and Simple Cycle Performance Fundamentals classes. He is currently involved in development studies for the GE Energy's various Combined Cycle products, Syngas-fired GT-base power plant systems, Integrated Gasification CC and H-System testing.

John worked in ESPC, Inc. in NJ, focusing on the transient modeling of the novel CHAT cycle and the data analysis of the CAES plant in McIntosh, AL. Between 1996 and 2000, John worked in Thermoflow, Inc. in MA on the development of industry-leading heat balance, plant cost and performance monitoring software such as GTPRO, Thermoflex, and PEACE. Upon joining GE in 2000, John worked in a variety of roles as Lead Engineer, Senior Engineer and Technical Leader in Power Generation Systems Engineering, Accessories Systems Engineering and Advanced Technology Organizations. He made significant contributions to NPI Tollgates (TG) 1-3 of 109FB-SS CC plant with A15 HEAT ST, Baglan Bay 109H-SS CC Power Plant Characterization Test in 2003, IGCC 207FB NPI TG1-3 and performance modeling. John's work in GE, among others, led to COBRA, CCALC, SymCoE tools and ATO-IP CC Performance Fundamentals course. John graduated from Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey in 1985 with a BSME. Following his MSME (1986) at Syracuse University and his MBA at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1987) and a brief stint in Turkey, John went back to RPI for his PhD in ME (1992).

A PE-license holder and a Green Belt-DFSS, John authored/co-authored numerous internal/external articles and US patents on CC performance, cost, optimization, data reconciliation & analysis and modeling.

John is a member of ASME (Beginning Engineer Award in 1995).