Recent Upgrading and Life Extension Technologies for Existing Steam Turbines

Steam Turbines for Biomass Plants

Half-life extension technologies for haemostatic agents.

The use of plasma-derived and recombinant coagulation factors for the treatment of haemophilia A and B is well established and permits patients to live a relatively normal life. In order to improve treatment options, several products are in development, which have a prolonged duration of action, thus enabling less frequent prophylactic dosing and aiming to reduce the burden of treatment. Severa...

Avoiding Stressed-Out Steam Turbines

assembly, Pro/ENGINEER CAD geometry was imported into ANSYS Mechanical software and meshed using SOLID185 elements. Frictionless surface-tosurface contact pairs with augmented Lagrangian algorithms were created between mating surfaces. A matching node pattern was maintained at the root and slot pressure faces, where load transfers take place between the two components. As an in-house design pra...

Power Plants, Steam and Gas Turbines WebQuest

A WebQuest is an Internet-based and inquiry-oriented learning activity. The aim of this work is to outline the creation of a WebQuest entitled “Power Generation Plants: Steam and Gas Turbines.” This is one of the topics covered in the course “Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer,” which is offered in the second year of Mechanical Engineering at the Defense University Center at the Naval Academy in ...

Assessment of existing offshore structures for life extension

In decision making under uncertainty there are two main questions that need to be evaluated:i) What are the future consequences and associated uncertainties of an action, and ii) what isa good (or right) decision or action. Philosophically these issues are categorised as epistemicquestions (i.e. questions of knowledge) and ethical questions (i.e. questions of moral andnorms)...