Reliability Evaluation of Steam Turbine Blades for Process Drives

Agenda

The Instructors

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Short Courses Available:

Centrifugal Compressor Operations for 21st Century Users

Dry Gas Sealing Systems for Centrifugal Compression Equipment

Compressors-Construction, Performance, Testing, Selection and Sizing

Reliability Evaluation of Steam Turbine Blades for Process Drives

Machinery Failure Analysis

Agenda
Reliability Evaluation of Steam Turbine Blades : Agenda

Steam Turbine Process Driver Reliability

1. Introduction and Purpose

2. Technical Challenges for Steam Turbine Process Drivers
2.1 Variable Speed
2.2 High Speed
2.3 High Power Density
2.4 Low Pressure Blades
2.5 Rotordynamics
2.6 High Pressures and Temperatures
2.7 Crowded Layout

3. Flowpath Design and Reliability
3.1 High Pressure Blading
3.2 Low Pressure Blading
3.3 Control Stages
3.4 Mechanical Constraints
3.5 Unsteady Forces

4. Other Reliability Topics
4.1 Rotordynamics
4.2 Bearings
4.3 Valves
4.4 Seals
4.5 Casing Leaks
4.6 Erosion and Corrosion

5. Steam Turbine Blade Manufacture
5.1. Different type of
5.1.1. blades (Impulse, Reaction),
5.1.2. attachments,
5.1.3. shrouding
5.2. Method of construction,
5.2.1. machined from bar stock,
5.2.2. drawn,
5.2.3. forged, envelop forged,
5.2.4. cast,
5.2.5. hipped, coated etc.

6. Materials of construction (and properties etc)

7. Assembly – Blade to Wheel, Shroud, Tenons

8. Quality Assurance and Inspection

9. Blade Reliability
9.1. Strength of Materials
9.2. Fundamentals of Vibration
9.3. Vibration of Bladed Discs
9.4. Reliability Evaluation

Daily sessions are scheduled from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Continental Breakfast and Lunch will be provided daily (dinner on your own).

Refreshment breaks (complimentary) are scheduled twice daily.

The course will end at 3:00 p.m. on Friday for traveling convenience.