Program

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Time Event  
08:00 - 08:40 Registration - Registration at reception desk.  
08:40 - 09:00 General introduction by EDF and Pprime Institute (Amphi IFMI)  
09:00 - 09:50 Keynote (Amphi IFMI) - Michel Fillon  
09:00 - 09:40 › Should we seek further improvement of fluid film bearings - what for and how? - Michał Wasilczuk, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Gdańsk University of Technology  
09:50 - 10:10 Poster presentation (Amphi IFMI) - Jean Bouyer  
10:10 - 10:45 Coffee break (Hall IFMI)  
10:15 - 10:45 Posters (Hall IFMI)  
10:15 - 10:45 › Analysis of the risk of thermally induced seizure in narrow circumferential groove journal bearings using a robust simple theoretical approach - Alex-Florian Cristea, Tecnitas, Mircea D. Pascovici, University Politehnica Bucharest, Jean Bouyer and Michel Fillon, Institut Pprime  
10:15 - 10:45 › Compressor rub verified by rotating phase symptoms - Nicolas Péton, Guillaume Christin, Charles Grislin, GE Energy Measurement & Control  
10:15 - 10:45 › Improvement of dynamic performance of hybrid gas bearings via adjustable lubrication - Fabian Pierart Vasquez, Ilmar Santos, Technical University of Denmark  
10:15 - 10:45 › Influence de la température et de la conicité sur les performances d'un palier hydrodynamique conique - Ajay Kumar Gangrade, Vikas M. Phalle, VJTI, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mumbai  
10:15 - 10:45 › Instrumentation Routing Design on Journal Bearings & Thrust Bearings - Anil Kumar Chippa, GE India Technology Center, Salvatore Costaglioa, GE Oil & Gas NuovoPignone, Ramesh Kammalapalli, GE India Technology Center  
10:15 - 10:45 › Numerical modeling of dynamic behavior of a tilting pads thrust bearing and a journal bearing with helical grooves - Sébastien DENIS, EDF - Division Technique Générale, Mihai Arghir, Institut Pprime  
10:15 - 10:45 › ON INCIPIENCE OF CAVITATION AND ITS INHERENT TIME DEPENDENCE - Bhavesh Kachhia, INSA de Lyon LaMCoS, Coda Pan, Global Technology, Daniel Nelias, INSA de Lyon LaMCoS  
10:15 - 10:45 › Testing of Bearing Materials for Large Two-stroke Marine Diesel Engines - Peder Klit, DTU, Sebastian Persson, Anders Vølund, MAN Diesel & Turbo  
10:15 - 10:45 › The role of lubricant feeding conditions on the performance improvement and friction reduction of journal bearings - Francisco P. Brito, CT2M, Universidade do Minho, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto - Michel Fillon, Institut Pprime, Lucrecio M. Costa, Ministry of Energy and Water/DNAAS, Luanda - José Carlos P. Claro and Antonio S. Miranda, CT2M, Universidade do Minho  
10:45 - 12:15 Journal bearings - I (Amphi IFMI) - Ilmar Santos  
10:45 - 11:15 › Decrease axial vibration generator with balancing - Guillaume Christin, Nicolas Péton, GE Measurement & Control Solutions  
11:15 - 11:45 › Experimental study of improved fluid-film bearing design for a high-speed turbocharger - Gordon Kirk, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University  
11:45 - 12:15 › Réduction de la température d'huile dans les paliers de turbomachines opérant à grandes vitesses - Thilo Koch, Abdelhakim Laabid, Zollern BHW  
12:30 - 14:15 Lunch (Restaurant - Le Relais Plaza)  
14:30 - 16:00 Journal bearings - II (Amphi IFMI) - Nicolas Péton  
14:30 - 15:00 › Highly Loaded Bearings Equipping Gears of Turbo-compressors: Behavior in Oil & Gas Operations Through Different Applications and Different Designs. Does the Smart Bearing Design Meet the Production Requirements? - Dominique Orhon, TOTAL Exploration & Production  
15:00 - 15:30 › Performance Characteristics of Artificially Textured Water Lubricated Journal Bearings - Dimitrios Bompos, Pantelis Nikolakopoulos, University of Patras, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics  
15:30 - 16:00 › Effect of Oil-Circuit Contamination on the Functioning of Surface-Textured Journal Bearings – An Experimental Investigation - Azzedine Dadouche, Martin J. Conlon, National Research Council Canada  
16:00 - 16:45 Posters (Hall IFMI)  
16:00 - 16:45 Coffee break (Hall IFMI)  
16:45 - 18:15 Journal and thrust bearings (Amphi IFMI) - Scan DeCamillo  
16:45 - 17:15 › Simplified approach to predict sensitivity factors for small end conrod of sport car engines - Adrien Stievenard, EPFL Dept of Mechanics and Jean-Louis Ligier, HEIG-VD Comatec-co  
17:15 - 17:45 › Computational Investigation of Thermoelastohydrodynamic (TEHD) Lubrication in a Textured Sector-Pad Thrust Bearing - Anastasis Charitopoulos, Dimitris Fouflias, Christos Papadopoulos, Lambros Kaiktsis, National Technical University of Athens and Michel Fillon, Institut Pprime  
17:45 - 18:15 › Effect of Coating Material Properties on Tilting-pad Thrust Bearing Performance - Michał Wodtke, Michal Wasilczuk, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Gdańsk University of Technology  

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Time Event  
07:45 - 08:00 Registration - Registration at reception desk  
08:00 - 10:00 Journal bearings - III (Amphi IFMI) - Mathieu Hélène  
08:00 - 08:30 › Adjustable ETHD lubrication applied to the improvement of dynamic performance of flexible rotors supported by active TPJB - Jorge Gonzales, Alejandro Cerda, Ilmar Santos, Technical University of Denmark  
08:30 - 09:00 › Measured Displacement Coefficients of an Adjustable Hydrodynamic Journal Rotor Bearing - Keith Martin, Open University  
09:00 - 09:30 › Application of large hydrodynamic R1T pocket bearings Ø 900 mm in a large half-speed steam turbine generator - Josef Huster, Ph. Peel, D. Demailly, ALSTOM Power AG  
09:30 - 10:00 › A parametric study of a porous self-circulating hydrodynamic bearing - Minel Jack Braun, University of Akron, Dept of Mechanical Engineering  
10:00 - 10:30 Posters (Hall IFMI)  
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break (Hall IFMI)  
10:30 - 12:30 Thrust bearings (Amphi IFMI) - Michal Wasilczuk  
10:30 - 11:00 › Implementation of the tapered tilting pad thrust bearing design in a high speed PSP hydro generator - Piotr Pajaczkowski, Andreas Schubert, ALSTOM Hydro  
10:55 - 11:30 › Mass-conserving simulation of friction reduction in a hydrodynamic textured thrust bearing - Hugo Checo, Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação, Mohammed Jai, INSA de Lyon, Jean-Paul Cadalen, Franck Choukroun, Gustavo Buscaglia, Renault  
11:30 - 12:00 › Contribution of textures to the hydrodynamic effect on parallel surface thrust bearings during the start-up period - Yann Henry, Jean Bouyer, Michel Fillon, Institut Pprime  
12:00 - 12:30 › Solutions for increasing the bearing capacity of thrust bearings - Vasyl Martsynkovskyy, Volodymyr Yurko, TRIZ  
12:45 - 14:15 Lunch (Restaurant - Le Relais Plaza)  
14:30 - 16:00 Journal bearings - IV (Amphi IFMI) - Azzedine Dadouche  
14:30 - 15:00 › Investigation of unusual performance fluctuations in a tilting pad journal bearing application - Scan DeCamillo, Kingsbury, Inc.  
15:00 - 15:30 › Categories of Impact of Bearing Damage on Hydrodynamic Film Operation - Lyke Branagan, Pioneer Motor Bearing Company  
15:30 - 16:00 › Impact de la présence de rayures dans les paliers à patins oscillants - Influence des caractéristiques géométriques des rayures - Mathieu Hélène, Jérôme Beaurain, Xavier Raud, EDF R&D and Michel Fillon, Institut Pprime  
16:00 - 16:30 French Sect. ASME Best poster award delivered by Benyebka Bou-Said --------------------- Closure of the Workshop (Amphi IFMI)  
17:00 - 18:00 Visit - Demonstration on test benches (journal & thrust bearings) by Jean Bouyer  
  
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