Steam Turbine and Generator User Group 2021

Craig Lester: Deputy Director, Advanced Nuclear Innovation Team, BEIS

Edward Thomas: Head of Performance Management, Viridor

Edward Thomas has been Head of Performance Management for Viridor’s Energy business since July 2015 and previously was Head of Project Delivery. Edward has 27 years’ experience in the process & power industries, including the circular economy, fine chemicals and power generation. This has covered all stages of the business cycle from devising and winning long-term PFI contracts, through construction of ERFs, power plants and smaller plants, and through to operations and maintenance. Edward holds a BSc honours degree in Engineering with Management and an MBA. Born in Yorkshire, Edward has worked across the UK and abroad and now lives in Sheffield with his wife, 2 children and variety of pets and livestock. He enjoys the outdoors, particularly walks, running and mountain and road cycling. Edward has a passion for adding value to the business through continuous improvement, spotting business opportunities and seeing them through to fruition. He has established a technical graduate programme in Viridor to develop the next generation of experts.

Liam Lawlor: Engineering and Major Projects, Electricity Supply Board Ireland

Liam Lawlor is the Turbine Asset Manager for the Electricity Supply Board in Ireland. The role provides specialist technical expertise in the areas of steam, gas and hydro turbines. Liam has worked as a Turbine Specialist for over 12 years. He previously held the position of Operations Engineer in Great Island oil fired power station and has also worked in the companies Energy Trading and Regulation department. Liam graduated from the University of Limerick in 2001 with an honours degree in Mechanical Engineering and is a Chartered Engineer with the Institute of Engineers Ireland.

Russell Chetwynd: Service Manager, National Electrical Coil

August Pandey: Fleet Lead Mechanical Engineer, EDF-Energy

Fabrizio D’Agostino: Business Development and Marketing - Global Service Shaftline Product Manager, Ansaldo

Fabrizio D'Agostino is a Global Shaftline Service Product Manager (Steam Turbines & Generators) He joined Ansaldo Energia in 1997, he gained his professional experience at AEN Generator design dpt. until 2001. From 2001 up to 2006 was head of generator fact finders engineers office, mainly involved in the field and maintenance activities.From the end of 2006 up to 2007 was in charge for AnsaldoThomassen(Holland)as 'Engineering integration leader'. From 2007 to 2014 was manly involved in the project management and R&D project development. from 2014 to 2016 was in charge as a R&D Head of Electrical Machinery .

Mike Jones: Principal Engineer, Steam Turbine Engineering, GE

Mike launched his career in the power generation business with GEC Turbine Generators in 1988. The company subsequently merged with Alstom, then ABB and recently joined General Electric. He is based in Rugby and has worked in the large steam turbine engineering department for 30 years, involved in the mechanical design of steam turbine plant and technical coordination of multi-national teams. He has acted as the lead Engineer on 20 retrofit projects. Mike’s recent projects involved close collaboration between the UK and USA Engineering offices in the GE organisation.

Richard Emery: Engineering Manager, Sulzer Electro Mechanical Services (UK) Limited

Richard is an electrical engineer with 30+ years experience of electrical machines. After completing a student apprentice at Brush Electrical Machines, he started his career as a design engineer at GEC Large Machines in Rugby which had a number of ownership changes to become Alstom, Converteam and eventually GE. During this time Richard developed to become Engineering Manager for new machines and when the manufacturing transferred to France became involved in service activities. Richard is now with Sulzer RES based in Birmingham and has been Head of Technical Services for 6 years involved with the maintenance and repair of generators up to 300MW Richard has a BEng from the University of Bradford and an MSc In Management from Warwick University.

Markus Lachner: Steam Turbine Product Manager, Siemens

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 service 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.

Cormac Myers: Engineering Manager, Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Europe Ltd

Thomas Ison: Electrical Engineer, Sulzer Electro Mechanical Services Ltd.

Ion Muyziere: Pressure Systems Engineer, SSE Thermal

Ion Muyizere is an engineer at SSE-Thermal Engineering & Innovation Centre. He has over 16 years of experience in chemical and power industry. For the past 7 years he has been with SSE, supporting the safe operation of the SSE thermal business through the delivery of statutory engineering requirements and gas asset integrity programme. He also supports the thermal business to deliver continuous improvement through identifying and implementing technology and engineering solutions. He has a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering and a master’s degree in gas engineering and management.

Richard Goodfellow: Advisory Engineer, Siemens

Richard is an advisory expert in Siemens with over thirty years' experience in the mechanical design of steam turbines and generators. He specialises in structural design and rotor dynamics being familiar with both classic analytical and finite element analysis techniques. He currently leads the Analysis group in Newcastle which is a team of technical experts specialising in the mechanical and thermodynamic design of steam turbines.

James Stagnitti: Steam Turbine System Integration Leader, GE

Gareth Hughes: Senior Consultant Engineer, FM Global

Mehran Zanjani: Structural & Flow Analysis Team, Uniper

Mehran Zanjani is a structural analyst at Uniper Technologies. He has over 30 years of experience in engineering, most of which is in design, assessment and lifing of power generation and aerospace industry components. He specialises in computer modelling and Finite Element analyses. He has extensive knowledge of major engine manufacture’s procedures and methodologies in the design of turbine components of aero engines and industrial turbines. He previously worked for Alstom Power and ERA Technology. He has been involved in assessing gas and steam turbine components, in particular failure investigations, design-assessment and re-design of steam turbine blades.

Dave Carr: Technical Head, Steam Turbines and Auxiliaries

Johannes Beyer: Principal Generator Engineer, Siemens

Johannes Beyer is a Generator Lifetime Performance Engineer at Siemens. He started in the Engineering department of the Siemens Generator Plant in Erfurt while completing his diploma Dipl.-Ing. (TU Dresden). After graduating in 2007, he was active in coordinating the LEAN/Six Sigma program for the Erfurt plant. Subsequently, he managed the After Sales and Customer Support Department of Erfurt for two and a half years. Since the beginning of 2013, he has returned to Engineering to focus on service related topics.

Ian Mander: Technical Sales Engineer, Nord-Lock Group

Ian Mander is a qualified mechanical design engineer having direct design and manufacture experience of key bolted joints in overhead cranes and steel processing equipment. In 2000 he was engaged by a major UK energy services company in delivering controlled bolting services on large capital power and process plant. Subsequently he has been engaged with a number of specialist UK controlled bolt tooling OEM’s involved in advising on customer bolting equipment requirements and solving customer bolting issues. Since 2016 he has been engaged with Nord-Lock, the Swedish bolting technologies group, responsible for their bolt tensioning product lines.

Steve Brown: Product Manager, Bolt Tensioning Systems, Nord Lock

Steve Holdcroft: Engineering Manager – Systems Engineering, GE

Ed Hughes: Senior Operations Manager, GE

Tony Croucher: Technical Services Manager, Quartzelec

A highly qualified professional who has been with Quartzelec for over 20 years, specialising in electrical machine electro-mechanical design, repair and overhaul; from small industrial motors up to the largest industrial generators such as hydro-pump storage schemes and 300MW hydrogen cooled turbo generators. Continuous professional development has included; a Master’s degree in design rotation machinery at Cranfield University with a thesis on the cracking of 18-18 generator retaining rings. Significant expertise in fault analysis, electro-mechanical testing (rotor-dynamic vibrations, electrical testing and non-destructive testing) as well the physical repair and overhaul of all electrical rotating machines.

Howard Sedding: Insulation Engineer, Qualitrol-Iris Power

Lee Beresford: Condition Monitoring Team Leader, Uniper

Thomas Walker: Electrical Engineer, Drax

Doug Gass: Material Inspection and Test Engineering Manager, Siemens

Adam Storey: Power Plant Metallurgist, RWE Generation UK

Jared Kitchen: Product Development Engineer, Pilgrim International Ltd.

Jared achieved a 1st class degree in mechanical engineering from The University of Salford in 2013, and then transferred to The University of Sheffield where he achieved a PhD in Metallurgy in 2017. In 2018 he joined Manchester Metropolitan University through the Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP), and is currently working a 3 year secondment at Pilgrim International Limited. At Pilgrim Jared is a Product Development Engineer, and is leading 3 year project in collaboration with Manchester Metropolitan University. The project aims to develop new advanced bolting technologies for high power turbines, and is currently 2 years into the project. Jared is an associate member of the IMechE

Donovan Dos Santos: Donovan Dos Santos: Account Engineer, FM Global

Donovan is an account engineer at international commercial property and industrial insurer FM Global. Prior to moving into the insurance industry he worked at the world’s largest synthetic fuel refinery in a variety of engineering and operations management roles including maintenance manager of the 800MW captive power station. In his current role at FM Global Donovan works with a wide variety of clients across the UK, Europe and Middle East to ensure that their equipment, including batteries and DC backup power supplies, is appropriately designed, installed and managed to prevent failures and significant losses. Donovan specialises in the power generation and waste to energy industries helping his clients to maximise their operational resilience.

Federico Albertoni: Service Engineering and Field Operations, Ansaldo Energia

Federico Albertoni is responsible for the Service Engineering and field operations on Electrical Machines at Ansaldo Energia. He joined Ansaldo Energia in 1992 at Generator design dpt.. From 1999 till 2002 he was deputy manager for the technological transfer for the manufacturing of generators to an Iranian company. At the end of this experience he was appointed as head of generator electromagnetic design group. He moved to the Service dept. on 2005; after one year spent in Switzerland as Technical Integration Leader c/o ESG company, he took the responsibility of the Service Engineering Dept., at first and then as manager of the whole service group on the generators.