MARIO DECORSO
Power Tech Associates, Inc.

EXPERIENCE

• Vice-President of Power Tech Associates, Inc., a supplier of consulting engineering services.

• Over 35 years experience in power generation component design and development.

• In charge of combustor design, development, and testing for the Westinghouse Gas Turbine Division.  This activity included fuel injector design, fuel specification, combustor can design and supervision of laboratory testing for all turbine components.

Some of the specific activities included the following:

• Manager of Combustion Design and Development for Westinghouse industrial turbines.

• Design and development of fuel spray nozzles including techniques for measurement of spray drop size and spray angle.

• Design and development of fuel handling and combustion systems for burning residual fuels.

• Supervised the activity to control turbine blade and combustor corrosion in gas turbine operation, including tests which were able to provide specifications for allowable contaminant levels in gas turbine fuels.

• Project manager on programs for design and testing of combustors using coal gas and other coal derived fuels. These combustor and fuel injector designs were installed in Westinghouse gas turbines at Dow Chemical which are now operating on coal gas.

• In charge of the development effort which led to the field test of a water-injected gas turbine, for the purpose of NOx control.  The field test took place at Goldsboro, NC on a W251 turbine.

• Project Manager of the DOE/NASA low emission program for developing advanced low emission combustor designs for a wide range of fuels.

• Development of NOx prediction models and the design of low emission combustor systems. First development tests of hybrid and catalytic combustors for NOx control.

• Project manager of the combustor design work for the DOE High Temperature Turbine Project.  This dealt with the use of liquid and gaseous fuels at turbine inlet temperatures in excess of 2500 degrees F.

EDUCATION

M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut
Westinghouse Design School

AWARDS AND PUBLICATIONS

• 34 Patents involving power generation apparatus

• More than 25 technical papers and publications

• Charter Member and first President of Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honorary Society at the University of Connecticut

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Fellow
Member - ASME, ASTM, Combustion Institute
Member - Fuels and Combustion Committee
International Gas Turbine Institute of ASME
Member and Past Chairman - ASME/ANSI Committee on Gas
Turbine Procurement Standards
Member - Coal, Biomass & Alternative Fuels Committee International Gas & Turbine Institute of ASME

LISTING OF PUBLICATIONS

Co-editor of the book "Stationary Gas Turbine Alternative Fuels" published in 1983 by The American Society for Testing and Materials.(ASTM)

"Seed Reactions in MHD Power Generation" with D.Q. Hoover, W.T. Lindsay, R.J. Kolano. Fifth Symposium on Engineering Aspects of MHD, April 1-2, 1964.

"Measurement of the Total Transmittance of Rock Salt Samples" with J.W. Coltman. ASME Journal Engrg. for Power, October, 1964.

"Erosion Tests of Steam Turbine Blade Materials" ASTM Proceedings Vol. 64, 1965 p. 782-796.

"Smokeless Combustion in Oil-Burning Gas Turbines," with C.E. Hussey, M. Ambrose.
ASME Paper No. 67-PWR-5. September, 1967.

"Recent Developments in the Use of Heavy Fuels in Industrial Gas Turbines" CIMAC, 9th Intl. Congress on Combustion Engines, May, 1971.

"Laboratory Procedures for Evaluating High Temperature Corrosion Resistance of Gas Turbine Alloys." with S.Y. Lee, W.E. Young, ASME. Journal Engrg. for Power July, 1971.

"Crude Oil Firing in the Utility Gas Turbine," with R. Symonds, G. Vermes.  ASME Paper No. 71 WA/GT-11.

"Ceramics in Industrial Gas Turbines" with D.E. Harrison.   ASME Paper No. 72-GT-94.

"Catalysts for Gas Turbine Combustors - Experimental Test Results", S.M. DeCorso, et al. ASME Journal of Engineering for Power, Vol. 99, No. 2, April, 1977.

"Preliminary Design Analysis of a Catalytic Ceramic Structure in a Turbine Combustor, S.M. DeCorso, et al. ASME Paper No. 78-WA/GT-10.

"Experimentally Determined Catalytic Reactor Behavior and Analysis for Gas Turbine Combustors", with H.G. Lew, W.H. Dickson. ASME Paper No. 79-GT-150.

"Alternate Fuels Capability of Gas Turbine for Pipeline and Industrial Applications", by S.M. DeCorso and C.E. Seglem, presented at the Seventh Annual Energy Technology Conference and Exposition (ET7), Washington, D.C. March 24-26, 1980.

"Combustion Turbine Design Guidelines Based on Deposition/Corrosion Considerations", S.M. DeCorso, et al. ASME Paper No. 80-GT-72.

"ANSI B133.7 Survey of Gas Turbine Synthetic Liquid Fuels," S.M. DeCorso. ASME Paper No. 81-JPGC-GT-8.

"Low NOx and Fuel Flexible Gas Turbine Combustors", S.M. DeCorso, et al. Journal of Engineering for Power, April 1982, Vol. 104.

"Matching Combustor Design to Future Fuel and Emission Requirements - Experimental Results to Date", S.M. DeCorso. 15th Annual International Congress on Combustion Engines (CIMAC) Paris, France, June 1983.

"The Potential for Ceramics in Industrial Gas Turbines", with D. Anson, K. Ramesh, and J. Eustis, PVP Vol. 203, AMD Vol.110 Thermal Effects on Structures and Materials. ASME Winter Annual Meeting, 1990.

"Ceramics Technology for Advanced Industrial Gas Turbines", with D. Anson, W.J. Sheppard and W.P. Parks, Jr. IECEC, Boston, August 1991.

“Low Emissions Combustion Technology for Industrial Gas Turbines Using Ceramic Materials”, with D. Anson, W.P. Parks, Jr. Presented at the CoGen Turbo Power Conference, September 1992.

“The Future World Market for Industrial Gas Turbines”, with D. Anson, D. Horazak, W.P. Parks, Jr. ASME Paper No. 95-CTP-68.

"Evolution of Heavy-Duty Power Generation and Industrial Combustion Turbines in the United States", with A.J. Scalzo, Ronald Bannister, and G.S. Howard. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, Vol. 118, April, 1996.(ASME Paper No. 94-GT-488).

“Coal/Biomass Fuels and the Gas Turbine: Utilization of Solid Fuels and Their Derivatives,” with D. Anson, R. Newby, R. Wenglarz, I. Wright. ASME Paper No. 96-GT-76.

“Alabama Electric Cooperative, Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) Plant Improvements”, with P. Holden, D. Moen, J.Howard. ASME Paper 2000-GT-595.

“CAES - Reduced to Practice” with John Daly, R.M.. Loughlin, David Moen, Lee Davis.Presented at the ASME Turbo Expo, June 2001. ASME Paper 2001-GT-0397.

“Effect of Exhaust Cleanup Systems on Gas Turbine Conbustor Selection”, Mario DeCorso, David L. Moen, Paul W. Pillsbury. ASME Paper 2003-38088

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