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CATER 10 faculty members; 50 Graduate & 40 UG Students

Aerodynamics &

Heat Transfer

Design &

Manufacturing

Alternative

Fuels

Cycle

Innovation

Combustion &

Emissions

Plant & Grid

Transients

Dynamic

Integrity

Mechanical

Integrity

Extreme Temp

Materials

Polymer/Ceramic

Composites

A Center for Research & Student Training to Focus on

Turbo-machineries and Associated Technologies for

Power Generation, Aviation and Space Propulsion

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Outline

Background

Benefits – why we need this

(of course, Partnership is one of the 5 Goals of UCF)

How – where we make mistakes

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OEM’s for Turbines for Power and Aviation:

Large frames for Power

1. Alstom

2. General Electric

3. Mitsubishi

4. Siemens Florida Turbine Technology, Belcan, Agilis,

Chromalloy

Aviation turbines

2. General Electric

5. Pratt & Whitney

6. Rolls Royce / Allison

Medium frames for Power

(besides above)

7. Honeywell

8. Solar Turbines

Microturbine for Power

9. Bowman 10. Capstone

11. Elliott / GE 12. Honda

13. Ingersoll Rand

Top Utility Companies:

A. Duke/PE (#1 - $29B) B. Exelon (#2 – $19B)

C. Southern (#3 – $17B) D. NextEra (#4 – $15B)

E. TECO Power

Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) based on Clean

Coal technology - Out of 12 in USA,

E. The first commercial IGCC plant @ TECO Power

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A, C, D, E

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Florida entities

are in red 4, A

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Florida’s Role in Turbine/Power Generation Industry For how many other industries, Florida has 3 of the 4 global multi-$B OEM’s?

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A Brief Historical Background

Westinghouse came to Orlando around 1982 – one of the

three reasons for its relocation from PA was proximity to a

university with a College of Engineering.

Mitsubishi Power (part of MHI) has been in Orlando since

early 90’s.

Pratt & Whitney had large turbine-related activities in WPB

area until ‘88 or ‘89. When they decided to relocate to CT, a

large number of start-up design companies were formed.

Some of which led to FTT, PSM (Alstom), etc.

In other words, these companies (or their predecessors) have

been in our neighborhood for quite some time.

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Then why didn’t we have strong working partnership with these companies for many decades? Before answering, let us first look at some of the benefits.

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Laboratory of Turbine Aerodynamics, Heat Transfer & Durability Doctoral Graduates and PostDoctoral Associates

Drs. Johan Westin, Humberto Zuniga, Vaidy Krishnan, Quan Liu, Eric Pu – Siemens

Dr. John Ling – Alstom

MS Graduates

Jared Pent, Jan Marsh, William McDonald, Monica Hansel, Anil Peravalli, Yan Yin,

Melissa Harris, Mark Miller, Michael Torrance, June Qiu & Matt Golsen – Siemens

An Le, Bryan Bernier & Michelle Valentino – FTT

Michael Durham – Mitsubishi

Roberto Claretti – GE

Current and Incoming Students @ Siemens

Doctoral: Jared Pent, Ankur Deshmukh, David Canon, Jan Marsh,

(incoming) Marcel Otto, Matt Golsen

Masters: Joshua Schmitt

HIM: John Harrington

Current Student @ Mitsubishi

Masters: Anthony Bravato

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Success on Jobs and Internships (as 2013 only) Compiled in September, 2013

JOBS: Research at UCF

Matt Golsen Siemens Energy (highly competitive EDP) Midframe Aerodyn.

Dr. Mark Ricklick Embry Riddle Aero Univ (faculty) Turbine Cooling

Dr. Scott Keller Alstom Power Mech Integrity

Dr. Calvin Stewart UTexas El Paso (faculty) Creep/Fatigue

Dr. Justin Karl Siemens Energy Creep/Fatigue

Roberto Claretti (MS, Dec13) GE (highly competitive EEDP) Turbine Cooling

Cassandra Carpenter (MS, Aug14) CD-Adapco Supersonic Film C.

List of Students who got selected for Industrial Internships in 2013

(Getting opportunities 18 months before graduation !!

– doesn’t happen everyday) Internships: Company Internship Graduation Research at UCF

Duration Date (expected) Greg Natsui GE GRC 6 months Ph.D., Aug 2015 Film Cooling

(winner of ASME Warren M Rohsenow award based on a Film Cooling paper at Summer Heat Transfer Conference)

Josh Bernstein Siemens Energy Ongoing MS, Dec 2014 Near Wall Impingement

Anthony Bravato Mitsubishi Power Ongoing MS, Dec 2014 Exhaust Diffuser

Josh Schmitt Siemens Energy Ongoing MS, Aug 2014 Super-critical CO2 Cyc

John Harrington Siemens Energy Ongoing MS, Dec 2014 Near Wall Impingement

Constantine Wolski Siemens Energy Ongoing MS, Aug 2014 Full Coverage Film C.

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CATER Doctoral Fellowships @$42K per year

GE-CATER Doctoral Fellowship

Alstom-CATER Doctoral Fellowship

Siemens-CATER Doctoral Fellowship

FTT-CATER Doctoral Fellowship

Mitsubishi-CATER Doctoral Fellowship

Expected Criteria for admission:

Benefits: (1) $30,000 per year or $2500 per month for fellowship

(2) FULL tuition+feespaid for 4 years

(3) Industrial internship (paid) experience: A minimum of 6 months

(4) Conference travel for networking and presentation

Areas of Research: Major emphasis on one of the 10 topics divided in three groups: A. Fuels, Flow & Combustion: (1)

Aero & Heat Transfer, (2) Combustion, (3) Fuels & Carbon, (4) Cycles & plant integration, B.

Materials, Properties & Manufacturing: (5) High Temperature Materials and Coating, (6) Mechanical

properties and integrity, (7) Design for Manufacturing, (8) Composites, C: Dynamic Systems &

Control: (9) Vibrations & Dynamic Integrity, and (10) Transients in power conversion,

with minor emphasis on one topic from each of the other two groups.

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> “Siemens Energy Center” building and significant research funding (>$3M mostly over the last 5 years) from Siemens. + 1M from FHTC 30 Siemens engineers are involved in interaction with the faculty and students. Siemens/FTT contribute to Monthly Industry Networking Day at the building.

> More than 450 of the 3000+ employees at Siemens Energy (Orlando), and more than 10 of the 200 employees at Mitsubishi Power (Orlando) have degrees from UCF.

> Significant numbers of CECS students gain valuable experience through internship at the local turbo-machinery companies – typically, per year, 30 to 50 at Siemens 30 to 40 at Mitsubishi 5 to 10 at Alstom, FTT, PWR and others in Jupiter / WPB area

Notable Statistics:

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Lead: Jay Kapat

Strength: Heat transfer, cooling techniques – film,

impingement, transpiration, internal; rotating wake, high-

Mach subsonic cascade, dump & annular diffusers,

testing capability, Optical diagnostics, predictive ability,

durability.

In-Progress: Rotating, high-speed aero rig; cavity and

purge flow; secondary flow system & seals; compressor

cascade; rotating rig.

Academic Peers:

PennState, Stanford, MIT, UT Austin, Virginia Tech,

Texas A&M, Minnesota, LSU, U Pitt, Purdue, Ohio State,

U Cincinnati; RWTH Aachen, TU Dresden, U Stuttgart,

Karlsruhe, Leibnitz U; Oxford, Cambridge, U Bath; VKI;

ETH Zurich, EPF Lausanne; Chalmers U, Lund U;

Chinese Ac Sci, Harbin Inst Tech, Beijing UAA, Tsinghua,

Northwest Poly; IITBombay, IITMadras; Osaka U, U

Tokyo; Seoul National U., Yonsei U.

External Research= $3.8M (FY)

Conference publications= 57 (CY)

Journal publications= 10 (CY)

Patents Issued/Applied: 2/4 (CY)

Graduation: PhD= 5 (AY)

Graduation: MS/HIM= 8/5 (AY) Over

last

3

full

years

Siemens Energy Center

Neptune Drive, UCF Campus

Research Scientists = 2

PhD Students = 10

MS Students = 11

BS/MS HIM Students = 3

BS Apprentices = 5

Curr

ent

Sta

ff

Doubling of internal heat transfer coefficient for a specific design

Providing a method to screen manufacturing or repair methods for film cooling holes based on eventual

performance

Creating missing understanding and correlations for film, impingement, and coupled cooling schemes

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Some Other Successes

UCF is one of 5 universities under Siemens E P ULM

program, others being UC Berkeley, Purdue, Georgia

Tech and UNC Charlotte(**).

Modern Power Systems

(Sep 1, 2007)

“SGT5-8000H – on its way to breaking the 60% barrier”

Sources: papers by Phil Ratliff, Paul Garbett, Willibald

Fischer and Lothar Balling of Siemens

UCF is the only university mentioned.

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Why then don’t we always succeed?

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Why then don’t we always succeed?

Because we do not invest our time in the

partnership.

We are not always mindful that we are

partnering with a business (e.g. schedule, IP,

ECC etc.)

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Faculty Residency in Industry

Faculty spends one month’s equivalent time in a local company

(e.g. Siemens or Mitsubishi), as embedded in a design team as if

an industry employee.

This can be achieved, for example, by spending one day per

week over 5 months, OR by spending three days per week week

during one summer month, and then one day per week during

two other months, etc.

The experience will not only make the faculty member be more

aware of the pressing issued faced by the company, and hence

write more relevant proposals, also create better networking and

funding opportunities.

Examples: Ali Gordon (Summer 12), Subith Vasu (Fall 12), Jeff

Kauffman (Summer 13). Expected: Tuhin Das (Fall 13), Yuanli

Bai (Fall 13 / Spring 14).

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Siemens Energy Center

UCF

QIII QII

QI

Unique access for Siemens (and FTT) engineers

Limited access for UCF personnel as well

Security audit and surveillance from Siemens Security

“Sandia”-style access restriction for everyone else:

Code Red and Code Yellow classfications

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> Often there is no coordination among faculty and administration in discussion with the industry or with agencies, thus confusing those external entities. > Often individual faculty members or members of administration approach the companies or agencies with incomplete or inaccurate subject-matter-knowledge, thus impairing the probability of success for all members of the faculty. > The needs or holes in collective faculty expertise are not systematically conveyed to the academic units for targeted faculty hiring. > For large team proposals to agencies, there is not an identifiable entity to organize and represent the UCF efforts. > For the job or internship openings, not necessarily the most qualified (or experienced or trained students) get to interview first, thus adversely affecting reputation of UCF. > Alumni at those companies are not well-organized as a group to help CATER (or similar centers) to raise funds for targeted efforts (e.g. seminar series, scholarships).

Notable Challenges (which the Center will address and intend to solve: