An Assessment Of The Forces Acting Upon A Centrifugal Impeller Using Full Load, Full Pressure Hydrocarbon Testing.

Cyril J. Borer is a Senior Development Engineer for Dresser-Rand in Olean, New York. His responsibilities include the mechanical design of turbocompressors and team leadership of single stage testing. He has previously held staff engineering positions in test and in gas turbine design during his 22 years at Dresser-Rand. Mr. Borer received a Master of Engineering degree from Cornell University (1970), followed by a mechanical engineering assignment to the U.S. Army nuclear test facility at Aberdeen, Maryland. He is an ASME member and has coauthored a paper for the Process Compressor Subcommittee of ICCAMC on the "Influence of the Reynolds Number on the Performance of Centrifugal Compressors." T homas McMahon is currently employed with Mobil Technology Company, a part of Mobil Oil Corporation. He works out of the Dallas, Texas office in the Surface Engineering Onshore Group. Mr. McMahon has worked for Mobil for 15 years in the field of acoustics, solving flow induced and noise problems. He previously worked for Consolidated Edison of New York in the area of noise control. Mr. McMahon has a Bachelor in Engineering (Chemical) degree from Manhattan College (1974). He is a member of ASME and the Institute of Noise Control Engineering.