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Training Seminars
Encotech offers In-house and Open Enrollment training seminars. All of Encotech's training seminars are available for In-house presentations, designed to meet your individual needs in a cost effective manner. We encourage clients to allow open enrollment at their facilitite when hosting a training seminar in an effort to increase attendance and thus reduce the cost per attendee. If your organization would like to discuss hosting a seminar, please contact Encotech at (518) 374-0924
Open Enrollment Training
K. C. Cotton's Steam Turbine Performance Improvement Seminar
For Fossil and Nuclear Power Engineers
Presented by Sam Gibson, P. E.
Formerly presented and originated by Ken C. Cotton, and based on his book Evaluating and Improving Steam Turbine Performance, this continually updated seminar is a four and a half-day study of the topics listed in the accompanying outline. This seminar is now presented by Sam Gibson, Principal Engineer and Founding Partner of Performance Engineering, LLC. The knowledge and on-going experience Mr. Gibson brings to this seminar is unsurpassed by other seminars on the subject of steam turbine performance. The Encotech Steam Turbine Seminar offers an open-floor atmosphere allowing attendees to bring forth questions to problems they may be currently experiencing, and in most cases, walking away with the answers they have been looking for.
This intensive four and a half-day training seminar will enable you to:
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Determine the effect of power plant operation on turbine efficiency, heat rate, and power output
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Learn diagnostic techniques to pinpoint location and types of damage
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Develop testing programs to determine location and extent of deterioration
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Interpret diagnostic test data using case histories as examples
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Develop a better appreciation for optimum turbine design evaluation of proposed efficiency improvements
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Utilize steam path audit techniques to reduce repair and replacement costs
Who Should Attend
Plant Engineers, Performance Engineers, Turbine Engineers, Turbine Systems Engineers, Operations and Maintenance Superintendents and Managers, and Plant Managers
The Next Steam Turbine Performance Improvement seminar
July 19-23, 2010 Courtyard by Marriott Colorado Springs South, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Courtyard by Marriott Colorado Springs South
Colorado Springs, Colorado
In-House Training (by request)