Gas Turbine Failures

Gas Turbine Training

Discover The Latest Technology and Best Practical Experience from a Gas Turbine Failure Expert.

Masterclass Overview

Failure investigations are tough rigorous challenges form the best in engineering. This course will teach delegates the range of thinking and subjects, which need to be considered in driving to find the real root cause of a failure. The class will be based around some of the most difficult challenges faced by the professions in the industry and challenge the analytical and creative ability of the best students.

Our Tutor has resolved many major gas turbine failures that can not be solved by many consultants before him.These cases will be presented on the course and there will be a lot of exercises to let the delegates have a deep understanding in solving major gas turbine failure.

Each attendee must bring a laptop computer with Microsoft operating system with Microsoft Excel and power point installed.

Masterclass Objectives

• Learn from real experience on some of the most challenging gas turbine failure investigations
• Learn how to avoid failureshappening again
• Learn about the pressure of failure investigation and how to stay cool whilst work
• What sort of methods OEMs use to avoid responsibility for failures.
• How to analyze data effectively to identify the root cause quickly and cost effectively
• Learn from an expert investigator with international reputation

Specially Designed for:

The course is designed for professionals who want to know practical knowledge which will sharpen analytical skill in resolving major gas tu bine failures.

• Reliability Engineer
• Rotating Mechanical Engineer
• Maintenance Engineer
• Electrical Engineer
• Instrument Engineer

DAY 1

Delegates will be reminded in how a gas turbine works, learn how to think through failure sequences and learn how to avoid misleading failure information

• How a Gas Turbines works, flows, controls, combustors, noise
• Group Task with Case Study – Delegates will identify gas turbine failure and chart sequence of events before and after failure. Discussion on need for creativity in failure investigation based on Trainer’s experience.
• The importance of careful recording and how to record.
• Case Study
• Misinformation and how it occures
• Group Task – How to improve recording data

DAY 2

Delegates will learn about formal failure methods, how and why metal fails when and how best to use specialist expertise

• Fishbone, RCA, Ishikawa
• Group Task – Redo chart of DAY 1 using formal method. Discuss and Compare the benefits
• Using Specialist expertise in GT Failure investigations: mellurgy, noise, vibration, controls
• When and how to use them in validation and discovery of evidence
• How to break metal: fatigue, creep, fracture, vibration
• The differences, and why its vital to understanding failures
• Case Study
• Group Task – identify if fatigue or creep from reports / photos provided. Judge if high cycle or low cycle fatigue

DAY 3 & Day 4

Delegates will learn about a common cause of failure (fatigue) and work through case study work using methods taught and thus how to avoid a repeat failure

• Case Study
• Thermal Fatigue – What is it, how does it arrive and how leads to cracking and failure.
• Case Study
• Group task – calculate if thermal fatigue likely from data supplied
• Pattern of failures and why patterns matter
• Group task – identify patterns from data supplied. What does the pattern tell you?
• Group task – Delegates will be presented with failure evidence (based on real and serious failures) and asked to explain the failure using methods learnt. They will work in teams of 3 or 4. Trainer will act as engine operator and OEM. They need investigate and identify root cause followed by presenting the results to senior management.

Tutor:

Our tutor has:

• 35 years experience designing & developing gas turbines
• Chief Engineer Gas Turbines, Rolls-Royce
• more than 20 years experience gas turbine failure investigations
• Established and runs own consultancy specializing in GT failures since 2003
• Published international papers on gas turbine variable area nozzle, gas turbine recuperators and wind turbine grid deployment.

Major Gas Turbine Failures Investigations

• OEM aero derivative turbine blade failures 
• Published paper on design of Variable Area Nozzle
• CCGT combustor transitionduct major failures resolved WR-21 Turbin
• Aero derivate oil and vibration investigation
• CCGT combustor transitionduct major failures resolved

Gas Turbine Failure Training Inverness, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dunfermline and other sites throughout the UK including onsite closed company courses are available.

Gas Turbine Failure Training in Ghana, Nigeria and Qatar is also available.