ASME Turbo Expo

SwRI’s Natalie Smith is chairing the conference this year. Visit us in booth 424.

Please join us for the following presentations, tutorials, and panels:

(14) Technical Papers

• Development of a 300 Mwe Utility Scale Oxy-Fuel sCO2 Turbine (Jeff Moore)
• Development of a 250,000 lb Thrust Bearing Test Rig with Experimental Results (Jason Wilkes)
• Stability of a Lateral Contact Between a Rotor and Stator When Rubbing (Wilkes)
• Analysis and Prediction of the Machine Capacity Required to Meet Net Zero by 2050 (Wilkes)
• Capital and Operational Cost Estimations for a Net-Zero Carbon Emissions Microgrid Application (Fernando Karg Bulnes)
• Techno-Economic Performance of Liquid Air Combined Cycle (Owen Pryor)
• Techno-Economic Performance of the Allam-Fetvedt Cycle with Oxygen Storage (Pryor)
• Validation of a Numerical Approach for Hydrogen Combustion in Gas Turbine Engines (Brian Connolly)
• Manufacturing and Hydro Testing of a 10 Mwe sCO2 Axial Turbine (John Klaerner)
• Direct-Fired Liquid Air Energy Storage with Carbon Capture (Pryor)
• Part Load Combustion Testing of a Low NOx Combustor with Hydrogen-Methane Fuel Mixtures (Griffin Beck)
• Performance Characterization of a Small-Scale Pumped Thermal Energy Storage System (Natalie Smith)
• Review of Technologies Used in Gas Journal Bearing Test Rigs (Aaron Rimpel)
• Turbomachinery for Laboratory-Scale Demonstration of Pumped Thermal Energy Storage System (Rimpel)

(6) Tutorials

• Overview of Long-Duration Energy Storage Systems and Technologies: Part 1 (Tim Allison, Rimpel, N. Smith)
• Overview of Long-Duration Energy Storage Systems and Technologies: Part 2 (Allison, Rimpel, Smith)
• Turbomachinery Design and Operation for Supercritical Co2 Applications (Allison, Moore)
• Hydrogen for Power and Energy Storage (Connolly, Beck)
• Heat Exchangers for Supercritical CO2 Power Cycle Applications (Aaron McClung)
• Closed Thermodynamic Cycle Analysis and Optimization (Pryor, Smith, McClung)

(4) Panels

• Keynote Panel Moderator (Smith)
• 31-32 Panel - SCO2 Development in the US (Wilkes)
• 31-33 Panel - sCO2 Commercial/pilot systems (Allison)
• 31-34 Panel - SCO2 Oxy-combustion (Moore)

(2) Session Organizers

• Allison
• Karg Bulnes

Conference Chair: Natalie Smith

• Welcome Address
• Awards Ceremony Moderator

SwRI is a premier independent, nonprofit research and development organization. We offer multidisciplinary services leveraging advanced science and applied technologies. We operate diverse laboratory facilities with unparalleled capabilities, including facilities that can accommodate up to 10 MWe and 80 MWth. Since 1947, SwRI has provided solutions for some of the world’s most challenging scientific and engineering problems.

For more information, please contact Tim Allison.