Magnetic Bearings
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Location Hilton Westchase 9999 Westheimer Road Houston, TX 77042-3802 PH: (713) 974-1000 |
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Who Should Attend? The course is a comprehensive blend of theory, design, equipment, applications, hardware, packaging and economics related to magnetic bearings MB. The course will be most useful for all levels of engineering involved with the potential application, design, integration, operation and maintenance of magnetic bearings in rotating machinery.
Why Should I Attend? An increasing number of machinery manufacturers are replacing conventional bearings with magnetic bearings MB in pumps, compressors, turboexpanders, and motors. The advantages of magnetic bearings include higher speed, lower loss, more environmentally friendly, lower maintenance, and adaptive performance operation. OEM R&D engineers will receive instruction on all aspects of MB design and integration into a complete rotordynamic system. Applications and systems engineers will receive an overview of packaging requirements, new and retrofit application examples and costing analysis. Operations and maintenance engineers will be provided with acceptance requirements, and troubleshooting, commissioning and monitoring procedures.
Instructor Bio:
Dr. Alan Palazzolo is a Full Professor and Systems and Controls Division Leader in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He has performed over $8M of funded research while at TAMU, and has performed magnetic bearing R&D for NASA, US Army Research Lab, Office of Naval Research, U of Texas at Austin Center for Electromechanics, US Flywheels, Optimal Energy Flywheels, Accumentrics, Beacon Power, Electron Energy Corp., Korean Institute for Machinery and Metals, Dynatech Engineering, Qatar National Research Foundation and the Association of American Railroads. He has 2 US Full patents and 1 US provisional patent related to magnetic bearings, and was co-awarded a R&D 100 award for his work on high temperature magnetic bearings. He has instructed Vibrations, Rotordynamics, Finite Elements and Machine Design as an Instructor at TAMU and has co-instructed short courses on Rotordynamics. He has over 100 publications in the areas of magnetic bearings, energy storage flywheels, active vibration control, fluid film bearing analysis, couplings, shaft currents and nonlinear dynamics.
Mr. Richard Shultz
Mr. Shultz is a Design Engineering Manager for magnetic bearing systems at Waukesha Magnetic Bearings. He has 20 years of industrial experience designing magnetic bearing systems and auxiliary bearing systems, specializing in rotordynamics and control system design. He has direct experience with applying magnetic bearings to turboexpanders, compressors, high speed motors, pumps, gas turbines, steel industry equipment, gas cooled nuclear reactor equipment, military equipment, hermetically sealed motor compressors, flywheels, and high speed test rigs.
He has recently instructed at the Magnetic Bearing Short Course at the Middle East Turbomachinery Symposium in Qatar.
Mr. Shultz received his rotordynamic and control system education at Texas A&M University. While at the Texas A&M Turbomachinery Laboratory, he co-invented the TAMSeal damping seal with Dr. John Vance.
Course Outline (daily course agenda)
Day One
Part I: Theory, Modeling, Simulation and Component Demonstrations
-A Historical Perspective
-Comparison to Other Bearing Types
-Rotordynamics Basics
-Magnetics Basics
-Electronics Basics
-Controls Basics
-Magnetic Bearing MB Actuators
(types, principle of operation, construction, modeling, losses, thermal considerations)
-MB Sensors
-MB Control Systems
-MB Power Amplifiers
-MB Auxiliary Bearings
-Control Algorithms (feedback control and auto-balancing)
-System Rotordynamic Modeling Methods for Design, Design Audits and Troubleshooting
-Applications
-Demonstration
Day Two
Part II (1.25 days): Applications, Hardware, Integration, Practice and Economics
-Economic justification for magnetic bearings
-Oil and Gas applications
-Magnetic bearings for electric drive applications
-Subsea applications
-Design considerations for Certification for hazardous areas
-Application design process
-New API and ISO standards
-Sealed bearings and canned bearings
-Case studies, including rotordynamic and control algorithm design
-Reliability and availability expectations
-Different forms of electronics packaging
-SIL rating and monitoring considerations
-Software options and communications
-Integrating AMB into plant automation
Hilton Houston Westchase
9999 Westheimer Road
Houston, Texas
USA 77042-3802
Tel: +1-713-735-5252