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LECTURES

Lecture 1: Surveying Tilting Pad Journal Bearing and Gas Labyrinth Seal Coefficients and Their Effect on Rotor Stability
John A. Kocur, John C. Nicholas, and Chester C. Lee

Lecture 2: Rotor Bearing Loads with Honeycomb Seals and Volute Forces in Reinjection Compressors
Leonardo Baldassare and John W. Fulton

Lecture 3: Improving the Reliability of a High Speed Refrigeration Compressor
Ray D. Kelm and Malcolm E. Leader

Lecture 4: Study of a Rotordynamic Analysis Method That Considers Torsional and Lateral Coupled Vibrations in Compressor Trains with a Gearbox
Masayuki Kita, Takeshi Hataya, and Yasunori Tokimasa

Lecture 5: Redesign of a High Speed Compressor Drive Steam Turbine to Overcome Capacity, Efficiency, and Reliability Issues
Richard Olivier and Hayden Brown

Lecture 6: Pipeline Stage Design for Increased Operating Range
Gilles Nawrocki, Denis Guénard, and Vittorio Michelassi

Lecture 7: Development of a System for Lean, Prevaporized, Premixed Combustion
Richard J. Roby, Michael S. Klassen, Leo Eskin, Michael Ramotowski, and Glenn Gaines

Lecture 8: Electric Systems for High Power Compressor Trains in Oil and Gas Applications—System Design, Validation Approach, and Performances
Roberto Baccani, Richard Zhang, Tommaso Toma, Andrea Iuretig, and Mauro Perna

Lecture 9: Analysis of Vibratory Stress of Integral Shroud Blade for Mechanical Drive Steam Turbine
Yasutomo Kaneko, Kazushi Mori, Toshihiro Miyawaki, and Satoshi Hata, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., Hyogo, Japan

Lecture 10: On the Potential of Metal and Ceramic-Based Abradables in Turbine Seal Applications
Dieter Sporer, Arno Refke, Iacopo Giovannetti, Scott Wilson, and Massimo Giannozzi

Lecture 11: ASME PTC-10 Modified Test for Mechanical Assessment of Centrifugal Compressors
Marcelo Accorsi Miranda and Roberto Firmento de Noronha

Lecture 12: Application of Dynamic Simulation in the Design, Operation, and Troubleshooting of Compressor Systems
Vinod Patel, Jeffery Feng, Surajit Dasgupta, Prakash Ramdoss, and Jihong Wu

TUTORIALS

Tutorial 1: Reciprocating Compressor Condition Monitoring
Steve Schultheis, Chuck Lickteig, and Robert Parchewsky

Tutorial 2: Gas Turbines and Turbocompressors for LNG Service
Cyrus B. Meher-Homji, Terryl Matthews, Antonio Pelagotti, and Hans P. Weyermann

Tutorial 3: A Practical Guideline for a Successful Root Cause Failure Analysis
David L. Ransom

Tutorial 4: Advances in Gas Turbine Couplings
Joseph P. Corcoran, Douglas Lyle, Patrick McCormack, and Tim Ortel

Tutorial 5: Maintenance and Operating Practices Effects on Degradation and Life
Rainer Kurz and Klaus Brun

Tutorial 6: Refining Fundamentals
Michael D. Morris
Note: this paper was not submitted in time to be included on the CD

ASME IGTI LECTURES

GT Lecture 1: Turbine Inlet Ice Related Failures and Predicting Inlet Ice Formation
David Maas

GT Lecture 2: Nonmetallic Brush Seals in Heavy Duty GT Units, GE-Made Frame No. 7, Model EA
Steve Ingistov

GT Lecture 3: Pipeline Aeroderivative Engine Experience
Robert Orr
(no paper submitted)

GT Lecture 4: Identifying Areas Prone to Dusty Winds for Gas Turbine Inlet Specification
Charles Brake
(no paper submitted)