Reliability Evaluation of Steam Turbine Blades for Process Drives
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Reliability Evaluation of Steam Turbine Blades for Process Drives
John Waggott
Reliability Evaluation of Steam Turbine Blades : Instructors : John Waggott
John Waggott is recently retired from his position as a Staff Engineer with Dresser-Rand in Wellsville, New York. He has over thirty years experience in the Aero-thermodynamic design and development of steam and gas turbines.
John’s engineering career started as an industry based co-op student in the UK aerospace industry. After graduation he did an 18 month stint with Foster Wheeler in London. Then John moved to the US and worked three years at Westinghouse’s Aerospace Electric Division in Ohio followed by three years at their Nuclear Energy Systems Division in Monroeville PA. In Pennsylvania he worked on the thermal and seismic protection of critical reactor control systems.
In 1973 John‘s Aero/thermodynamic career started at Pratt & Whitney where he worked on turbine flowpath design and some durability (LCF) issues. After three years he moved to Dresser-Rand, then Turbodyne, for 28 years of turbine flowpath design and innovation. While at Dresser-Rand he created major improvements in high pressure blading efficiency and generated a four fold increases in their low pressure blading flow capacity. He was also the leading innovator behind the design and construction of the 110 mW / 1760ºF CAES power train in Macintosh AL.
John is now an independent engineering consultant working on a variety of alternative and distributed energy projects.
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