Cummins Turbo Technologies mounted an impressive display of Holset product and related technology at this year’s Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) international conference and exhibition on ‘Turbochargers and Turbocharging’, held in London in May. The event covered all current aspects of design, development and application of pressure charging devices and their associated technologies. The conference was the latest in a line of successful and prestigious events organised by the IMechE every four years since 1978.
Cummins Turbo Technologies’ Henry Tennant, Chief Engineer, Air Handling, chaired the first session of the conference covering ‘Compressors and Novel Intake Systems’. Later Owen Ryder, Senior Engineer, Air Handling made a presentation on ‘The Design and Testing of an Electrically Assisted Turbocharger for Heavy Duty Diesel Engines’.
On the second day of the event, Xiaozhen Sheng, Senior Engineer, Applied Mechanics presented a paper on the ‘Dynamics of Mistuned Radial Turbine Wheels’ followed by Stuart Kitson, Chief Engineer, Turbocharger Technology whose presentation was entitled ‘Improving Analysis Capability in Order to Reduce Turbine High Cycle Fatigue (HCF)’.
Following on from this, Cummins Turbo Technologies are pleased to announce that Henry Tennant and John Allport, Technical Advisor have been elected Fellows of the IMechE. This is the highest elected grade of membership within the Institute and is awarded in recognition of exceptional engineering achievements and contributions to the engineering profession.
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