Power Generation Gas Turbine User Group 2018

George Norrie: Lead Assessor Technical Director, Scotia Energy

George is the Technical Director of Scotia Energy Limited. They run a small energy consultancy and solutions provider and have our own cost effective M&T platform monitoring over 100 sites in the UK providing daily/weekly and monthly reports automatically as required. They also carry out real time product costing for our clients. We provide traditional energy consultancy services and have ESOS accreditation. We have carried out numerous energy efficiency projects for our clients most providing a payback of under 3 years. George am a professionally trained and accredited time served electrical, mechanical and controls engineer with over 40 years of experience. Previous employers include British Steel, British Oxygen, the NHS, NIFES consulting engineers and George S Hall.

James Hill: Senior Application Engineer, AAF

James graduated with a BSc in Acoustics from Salford University in 2008 and is currently the Senior Acoustic Engineer at AAF Ltd. He has a decade of experience in the design of acoustic solutions for the power generation and oil and gas markets, specialising in gas turbine noise control. He has published 15 papers, primarily on silencer design and related topics and is currently Vice President Engineering at the Institute of Acoustics.

Damon Robinson: European Regional Application Engineering Leader, GE Power

Currently leading the GE Power Services European Region Application Engineering team that comprises fifteen engineers tasked to support combined cycle plant upgrades to the European GE heavy duty gas turbine installed base. Work activities over the past six years have involve coordinating the field deployment of GE’s Operational Flexibility, Advanced Gas Path products and Gas Turbine Flange to Flange Retrofit products. This with experience from over 60+ plant assessments in the Europe, Asia, Middle East and America regions with previous combined cycle operations and maintenance management roles provides a valuable perspective for developing combine cycle plant upgrade solutions.

David Graham: Technical Consultant, Uniper Technologies

David Graham is a Technical Consultant with Uniper, working at their Technology Centre near Nottingham, England. He provides support to the UK power industry in relation to continuous emissions monitoring, emissions reporting and compliance issues for all plant types. This includes the development of guidance for reporting under the EU’s Emissions Trading System. Before joining Uniper, he was a gas turbine combustion engineer with Alstom for six years and, prior to that, he worked on various aspects of combustion and environmental science with British Gas. He is a past chair of the UK Source Testing Association and the VGB Technical Group: Emissions Monitoring. David is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and an Associate Member of the Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment.

John Booth: Maintenance Section Head, RWE Staythorpe Power Station, RWE

John is a Mechanical Engineer who has spent over 20 years in CCGT maintenance, commissioning and management. He is presently Section Head of Maintenance for RWE Generation UK plc at Staythorpe 1750MW CCGT power station, which was commissioned in 2010. The site comprises four Alstom GT26 single shaft units and is the sister station to the RWE Generations UK plc Pembroke 2000 MW CCGT, with 5 GT26 single shaft units. John has worked for RWE since 2006, and prior to that for two other major utility companies at several CCGTS and CHPs. His work has covered areas including new build, mobilisation, commissioning, major overhauls and improvement projects as well as maintenance and operations. John started his career as a student apprentice with British Coal prior to joining the power industry as part of the first ‘dash for gas’ in 1993 and is a Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers and a Fellow of the Institute of Materials Minerals and Mining.

Hans Thermann: Program Manager of Advanced Product Development, Siemens AG

Dr. Hans Thermann has more than 15 years of industry experience, mostly in different gas turbine engineering departments within Siemens. This includes various positions as project and group manager within turbine design for large gas turbines focusing on turbine aerodynamics, heat transfer and structural integrity.

In 2011, Hans took over the position as Department Head and Gas Turbine Frame Owner for the Siemens SGT-2000E series being globally responsible for its development for the new unit business including sales, field and manufacturing support.

In 2016, Hans became program manager of advanced product development being responsible for project management, configuration and change management of the HL-class gas turbine series development program as well as for technical offer support.

Hans graduated with a diploma degree and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from RWTH Aachen University (Germany).

Matthew MacDonald: Rotating Plant Engineer, SSE

Matthew joined SSE in August 2014, following an MEng degree in mechanical engineering at Durham University. He spent two years on SSE’s graduate scheme, working on a variety of projects involving coal, gas and wind power, both on-site and office based. Following this he then moved into a permanent role within the Engineering Department’s Rotating Plant Team, working on the asset integrity of gas and steam turbines within SSE’s fleet. Recent gas turbine projects have involved working with both aero-derivative (GE LM6000, Rolls Royce Avon and Pratt & Whitney FT8) and large frame (GE 9FA and Siemens SGT5-4000F) gas turbines.

Andrew Derbyshire: Principal Safety Engineer, DNV

Andrew Derbyshire started his career in the Royal Air Force as a propulsions engineer before joining BAE Systems after a 9 year tour of duty where he worked as a Systems Safety Engineer in the Airworthiness division on the Eurofighter project. During his time at BAE systems Andrew was involved in several projects as an airworthiness systems safety engineer his last of which was overseeing the development of a safety case for the Nimrod MR2 and R1 post the Haddon Cave enquiry into the loss of XV230 over Afghanistan. Andrew moved into the oil and gas industry over 8 years ago CSA International before moving to DNV GL where he is now a Principal Safety Consultant and the Technical Manager for DNV GL UK. Andrew is a member of the management committee for the ‘IEC 61508 Association’ and a convener of a Working Group for the association. He is also a member of the Board of Directors at ‘The CASS Scheme’ which is a non for profit assessment scheme aimed at promoting the Functional Safety set of standards. Andrew is currently the Independent Functional Safety Assessor (FSA) for a number of global projects and is widely regarding within DNV GL as the Functional Safety subject matter expert for UK.

Roger Fairclough: Principal Project Leader, TWI Technology Centre

From leaving school Roger worked in the mining industry for 16 years starting as an engineering apprentice and becoming a production engineer in a repair centre for mining equipment. During this time Roger attended university gaining an honours degree in mechanical engineering. He then worked as plant mechanical engineer in a coal fired power station and PFBC research facility for 12 years, before moving to an alloy steel manufacturer as mechanical engineer. Roger became chief engineer for the steelworks before moving to TWI as principal project leader in 2004. For TWI he has been involved in the development of technology, processes and equipment relating to additive manufacture for the production and repair of high strength materials.

Bill Smith: Bluebird Project Leader, The Bluebird Project

Following seventeen years designing security products for the world’s automotive industry, Bill doesn’t have a proper job anymore, preferring to be in the workshop mending broken metal. Skipper of project work boat Predator and an experienced mixed gas diver, (though currently enjoying a hiatus) his work and diving explorations have taken him all over the world. An engineer by profession, expert welder and fabricator in steel, aluminium and stainless, Bill has a habit of building the things that most people have to buy, and of taking on repair jobs that most people would throw away. Bill has often appeared on television as a sonar/wreck location expert and is a fellow of the Explorer’s Club of New York Bill is ably supported by his wife Rachel, who has run the Bluebird Project shop since its inception.

Daiki Shishido: Senior Director, Technical Engineering, Business Development, Mitsubishi Hitach Power Systems Europe LTD

Started his career in the the industrial power plant basic engineering section of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, LTD. 20 years experience in power generation working on the basic engineering of industrial power plant, biomass fired boiler, CHP, gas turbine based power plant and cogeneration plant. Since 2010, he has been focusing on gas turbine based power plant.

Jared Kitchen: Product Development Engineer, Pilgrim International Ltd.

Dr Jared Kitchen is a Product Development Engineer at Pilgrim International Limited. He is currently working on a 3 year knowledge transfer project with Manchester Metropolitan University, that is targeted at developing new advanced bolting products for the gas turbine market. Jared achieved a 1st class degree in mechanical engineering from The University of Salford in 2013. He then transferred to The University of Sheffield where he studied for a PhD in metallurgy, graduating in 2017. He then joined Manchester Metropolitan University through the Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP), working a 3 year secondment at Pilgrim International Limited.

Robert Masling: Outage Improvement Manager, RWE Generation UK

Rob is a Process Engineer who has spent over 15 years in the power industry since graduating from Nottingham University with a degree in Chemical Engineering in 2003. He is presently Outage Improvement Manager, working across the RWE Generation UK portfolio to improve the delivery of outages. He is part of the Generation Maintenance & Outage Support (GMOS) Team, who are responsible for delivering RWE Generation UK’s in house outage capability. Rob has worked for RWE since 2006, starting as a Graduate Engineer in the performance team at Tilbury Power Station before moving into Boiler Engineering at Tilbury, followed by a move to Staythorpe Power Station in 2009. He has been in his current role since March 2016. Rob is an Associate Member of the IChemE.

Roy Beardshaw: Head of Engineering, BRUSH Electrical Machines

Roy Beardshaw studied Mechanical Engineering at Nottingham University and received his MEng degree in 1998, following which he started his career with Brush. He is now Head of Engineering, responsible for Generator Engineering, including the development and aftermarket engineering teams. He is leading the design and development of Brush 2-pole generators as well as providing extensive support for the condition analysis of generators in the field.

Irfan Siddiqui: Senior Fluids and Thermal Engineer, Frazer Nash

Irfan is an experienced Senior Engineer within the Fluids and Thermal Analysis Group at Frazer-Nash Consultancy who has managed and delivered projects across the power generation, aerospace, civil nuclear and defence sectors. He regularly undertakes analysis from hand calculations to full Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis across disciplines including aerodynamics, hydrodynamics and heat and mass transfer to support the design and continued safe operation of turbomachinery, auxiliary equipment and process plant.

Clifford Smith: Consultant, Consultant

Starting at Rolls Royce I&M Division, Ansty, near Coventry, Clifford has had more years experience than he cares to mention (approaching 40 years) in the design, maintenance, overhaul and component repair of aero derivative, lightweight and heavy weight industrial gas turbines. Throughout this period he has worked for OEMs, primary sub contractors, end users and as a consultant. Clifford's product experience includes Rolls Royce industrial Avon, RB211 and Olympus, ABB GTX 100, Siemens SGT5 2000E (V94.2), Alstom GT26, Mitsubishi 701F and GE Frame 7 and 9 FA. A key feature of Clifford's work throughout this period has been the development and application of component repair techniques in order extend component life, thus reducing the cost of gas turbine ownership.

Bryan Holden: General Manager, C.C. Jenson

Qualified Mechanical Engineer with an initial background in Mining Machinery. Spent 10 years working in South Africa 6 as Engineer on Gold Mines and 4 in Private Sector . Has spent almost 24 years working for C.C. Jensen UK and Global responsibility in all aspects of the business. Became the General Manager of the UK branch since 2004 and Global Power Segment and Wind Business Manager since 2014

Paul Verrill: Director, EnAppSys

Siavash Pahlavanyali: Principal Turbine Consultant, RINA Consulting

Colin Caldow: Senior Engineer, Scottish Power

Ian Webb: Head of IGT Product Support, Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery Ltd

Siavash Pahlavanyali: Principal Turbine Consultant, RINA Consulting (formally Edif ERA)

John Booth: Maintenance Section Head, RWE

Kyle Martin: Deputy Director, Power, Energy UK