Evaluating & Improving Steam Turbine Performance
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About the Presenter

Deborah H. Cioffi ("chaw-fee") received both her Bachelor and Master degrees in Mechanical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). She is a registered Professional Engineer in New York State and a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the National Society of Professional Engineers and the Albany Engineering Society. Her expertise lies in thermodynamics, heat transfer and fluid mechanics.

Deborah is employed as a Consulting Engineer at Mechanical Dynamics & Analysis, Ltd. located in Latham, New York. She provides fossil, industrial and nuclear engineers with consultation on power plant performance, steampath audits, steam turbine performance analyses, power plant testing, and heat balance analysis.

After working closely for more than 10 years with author KC Cotton, in 1999 Ms. Cioffi developed the 4 ½ day seminar entitled, "Evaluating and Improving Steam Turbine Performance." This seminar is based on the authoritative textbook of the same title authored by Mr. Cotton. During her 21 years as a consulting engineer Deborah has become recognized as one of the top authorities on the subject of steam turbine performance and turbine testing. Ms. Cioffi has published eleven technical papers on steam turbine performance and has spent over 1,000 hours lecturing on the subject of turbine testing and performance issues to the industry's top professionals. Her expertise, presentation style and enthusiasm for the subject of turbine performance have made her seminar notably popular, frequently sold out and recognized as "the benchmark" in turbine performance education in the United States.

Papers authored and co-authored by Deborah Cioffi:

• "Increasing Steam Turbine Capacity," D.D. Cioffi
• "Turbine Steam Path Audits at SONGS", D.H. Cioffi, S.F. Gibson, M.J. Scwaebe.
• "Extending Steam Generator Life at Maximum Electrical Power Output", D.H. Cioffi, K.A. Colgan, F.H. Kindl.
• "Using Steam Path Audits in a Performance Guarantee Program", D.H. Cioffi.
• "Solid Particle Erosion - A Rapid Meaningful Evaluation of its Significance", D.H. Cioffi, K.C. Cotton, F.H. Kindl.
• "Reducing Emissions by Addressing Steam Turbine Inefficiencies", D.H. Cioffi, J.C. Harris.
• "Steam Turbine Performance Survey as Compiled from Steam Path Audits", D.H. Cioffi, N.E. Cowden, J.L. Ellis, S.F. Gibson, J.C. Harris, C. Rice.
• "Measurement of HP-IP Turbine Leakage Flow", D.H. Cioffi, E.T. Cook, C.J. Haynes, C.A. Medina.
• "Steam Path Audits", D.H. Cioffi, L. Rylander.
• "Economic Analysis for Steam Path Repairs", D.H. Cioffi, S.F. Gibson.
• "Improving Steam Turbine Efficiency", D.H. Cioffi, D.R. Mitchell, S.C. Whitecar

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