KINGSBURY'S R&D MANAGER TO SPEAK ON BEARING PERFORMANCE AT TURBOMACHINERY SHOW

PHILADELPHIA, PA, June 15, 2001 - Scan DeCamillo, Manager of Research and Development at Kingsbury, Inc., will be lecturing on pivoted shoe journal bearing performance on September 18 at the Turbomachinery "30th Symposium and Short Courses", which will be held at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, TX. DeCamillo's presentation, "A Study of Parameters that Affect Pivoted Shoe Journal Bearing Performance in High-Speed Turbomachinery", is based on a paper he co-authored with Keith Brockwell, who is Senior Research Officer at the Institute for Aerospace Research which is affiliated with the National Research Council of Canada. For the study a special high-speed test rig was designed and built to measure the steady state performance characteristics of 6-inch diameter pivoted shoe journal bearings. The journal bearings were tested under light to moderately heavy loads, and at the high operating speeds that are being approached in new turbine and compressor designs. The collected data shows the effect of pivot offset, oil flow, load orientation, lubrication method and oil discharge configuration. These characteristics significantly influence bearing pad temperature and power loss. DeCamillo will explain how the availability of such data can be used to improve the capacity and performance of high-speed turbomachinery. DeCamillo, who's been employed at Kingsbury for over 26 years, is a registered PE in Pennsylvania and a member of STLE, ASME, ASM and the Vibration Institute. During his career he has authored or co-authored 12 technical papers. DeCamillo received his Bachelor of Science Degree from Drexel University.