Time: 8:30, June14, 2024
Venue: Room 308, SMSE Building
Organizer: SESE (School of Materials Science and Engineering)
Content: With the widely adopted renewable power generation (solar and wind) in the power grid, the readily available power generation of gas turbines fleet is an effective tool to address the intermittency problems of solar and wind power generation.To mitigate the combustion emissions and greenhouse gas, CO2, generation, improving gas turbine thermal efficiency is a long-term goal. The most effective approach to improve thermal efficiency is to raise the combustion temperature and/or reduce the use of the cooling air. For high temperature operation gas turbine metallic components (combustors, transition ducts, nozzles, turbine blades, etc.) must be protected from high temperatures. To that end, the thermal barrier coating is essential. Yttrium stabilized zirconia (YSZ) is widely used in thermal barrier coatings for the protection of high-temperature gas turbine components.
Speaker: Hsu Peifeng is a professor of engineering and co-director of the Center for Advanced Coatings at Florida Institute of Technology(Florida Tech). He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and has served as Vice President of Florida Tech. He is the recipient of the BoeingWelliver Faculty Fellowship and NASAASEE Fellowship. He is an ASME Fellow and an AIAAAssociate Fellow and a senior member of ASHRAE. His research focuses on high-temperature thermal barrier coatings, applicationof radiation heat transfer in semiconductor manufacturing, and optical imaging.
