This comprehensive five-day course is designed for skilled mechanical equipment engineers seeking to enhance their expertise in monitoring and problem analysis of Turbomachinery. It is specifically tailored for intermediate-level participants. The course emphasizes the identification and understanding of the systems and subsystems comprising Turbomachinery, along with the potential issues that can arise within these components. Participants will learn advanced monitoring techniques to detect problems at an early stage and gain insights into analyzing monitored variables to identify potential issues or reconstruct the causes of failures. This program aims to develop and expand the participants' capabilities in Turbomachinery monitoring and problem analysis.

Course Objectives:

How to evaluate turbine performance during startup and operation
How to identify turbomachinery system components
How to define and use appropriate monitoring techniques and tools
How to utilize effective operation and shutdown procedures
How to analyze common turbomachinery problems, such as vibration, temp/pressure operation and surge
How to solve instrumentation and control problems
Understand the inter-relationships of drivers, couplings, gearboxes, and driven equipment
Installation techniques, equipment failures and different maintenance practices

Who Should Attend?

This course is intended for those dealing with industrial equipment, machinery and rotating equipment such as engineers, supervisors, foremen and other technical staff.

Course Outlines:

Introduction

Gas turbine machinery - general description
Operating principles of gas turbines
Key performance variables and means to monitor

Components of Turbomachinery

Major components of axial flow compressors
Rotors blades, shafts, combustion chambers, nozzles
Auxiliary systems: lube oil, seal oil, fuel, start-up, etc

Evaluation of turbine performance parameters during start-up and normal operation
Troubleshooting control systems for gas turbines: start-up, speed and temperature controls, vibration

Principles of Operation

Principles of operation and general components of compressors: rotors, seals, diaphragms, etc
Operating characteristics curves
Surging phenomenon
Choking phenomenon

Shut Down

Shutdown procedures
Logging of monitoring checks

Troubleshooting of Turbo Machinery

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