BRG Machinery Consulting- Turbomachinery Flows Training

Training in Turbomachinery flows is vital for those responsible for performance of pumps, compressors, and turbines. These courses will provide the fundamental understanding required to design, select, witness, audit, maintain, and operate a wide variety of turbomachines. Specific courses are tailored to the interest and depth requested by the participants.

TRAINING TOPICS

Historical Perspective
Basic Turbomachine Types and Geometries
Axial and Centrifugal Flow Machines
Flow Analysis using Velocity Polygons
Governing Fluid Mechanic, Gas Dynamic & Thermodynamic Equations
Single Stage Energy Exchange
Geometric Design Parameters
Performance Predictions and Maps
Similarity
System Matching
Applications to Pumping, Power Generation and Jet Propulsion

BASIC LEVEL COURSE OBJECTIVES

Be conversant with terms such as velocity triangle, head, flow, efficiency, streamline.
Understand the basic governing equations.
Review and understand performance data and make qualitative decisions about a particular design.
Understand common performance problems such as surge, choke, and stall.
Be familiar with performance maps and similarity for a variety of machines.
Perform basic meanline design of pump, compressor, and turbine stages.

ADVANCED LEVEL COURSE OBJECTIVES

Audit the design of compressors, pumps, and turbines.
Troubleshoot complex performance problems.
Better understand the effects of multi-directional flows in pump, compressor, and turbine stages.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Courses in basic turbomachinery flows are intended to supplement limited exposure to these topics in most undergraduate engineering fluid mechanics courses. These courses are also intended to provide training in fundamentals for operations engineers and machinery engineers.

INSTRUCTORS

Hunter Cloud
Ron Flack
Walt Neibel

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