2011/2012 Chapter Officers:
President
Lee Newman,
P.E.
E-Mail:
newmal@bellsouth.net
Vice President
Roger Grabman, P.E.
E-Mail:
rwg_gaeng_mc@mindspring.com
Treasurer
Luther Cox, P.E.
E-Mail:
loceng@bellsouth.net
Secretary
Ron Scinta
E-Mail:
ronscinta@hotmail.com
State Director
Joe D’Alesandro, P.E.
Gale Sights, P.E.
Farley Wolford,
P.E.
Chapter Directors
Bob Kurz, P.E.
Dale Bartlett, P.E.
Doug Weaver, P.E.
Gordon Terwilliger, P.E.
Jim Remich, P.E.
Stuart McRae, P.E.
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Atlanta Metro
Chapter News & Events:
The Atlanta Metro Chapter meetings are
open to engineering professionals, students, and
other interested public and are held monthly,
September through June, on the second Monday of
each month. The
meetings start with networking at 6:00 pm,
followed by dinner and the speaker.
Innovative
Combustion Chamber
High
Efficiency & Low Emissions
Monthly Meeting
of the
Atlanta Metro
Chapter
Time: 6:00 PM
Date:
Monday,
February 13th
Location:
Piccadilly
Cafeteria, Northlake.
Presentation:
Innovative Combustion Chamber
High Efficiency & Low Emissions
Speaker:
Dr. Ben T. Zinn
Regents' Professor emeritus at Georgia Tech
Dr. Ben T. Zinn,
holder of the David S. Lewis, Jr. Chair in the
School of Aerospace Engineering and Regents'
Professor emeritus at Georgia Tech, will address
the 6:00 PM, Monday, February 13th, 2012, monthly
dinner meeting of the Georgia Society of
Professional Engineers at the Piccadilly
Cafeteria, Northlake. He will present on The
Innovative Stagnation Point Reverse Flow (SPRF)
Combustor. This talk will describe its
features and its development at Georgia Tech’s
Combustion Laboratory under NASA support.
Unlike conventional
combustors in which the reactants enter at one end
and the products leave at the opposite end, the
reactants and products enter and leave the SPRF
combustor at the same plane. This design is simple
and, thus, low cost and offers efficient and
stable operation over a wide range of operating
conditions. Additionally, the SPRF combustor
produces ultra-low emissions while operating in
premixed and non-premixed mode of combustion. It
will be shown that the SPRF generates nearly zero
NOx, CO and soot emissions because of its ability
to operate stably at lower temperatures compared
to conventional combustors.
The talk will
describe the design and performance of the SPRF
combustor and results of laser based diagnostics
and numerical simulations that shed light on some
of the fundamental processes that control the
operation of the SPRF combustor. The talk will
also discuss ongoing developments of applications
of the SPRF combustor technology in water heating,
refinery furnaces and gas turbines.
Dr. Zinn received a
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from
New York University in 1961 and master degrees
from Stanford University and Princeton University.
He received a doctorate from Princeton University
in 1965. Dr. Zinn joined the Georgia Institute of
Technology in 1965 and attained the rank of
Regents' Professor in 1973. His fields of research
include: control of combustion processes,
combustion instabilities in rocket motors,
ramjets, jet engine and gas turbines, oscillatory
flame phenomena, reacting flows, acoustics and
pulse combustion. Georgia Tech’s Combustion
laboratory was named “The Ben T. Zinn Combustion
Laboratory” in 2006. He has published 117 refereed
papers and 213 reports and unrefereed papers,
edited two AIAA Progress Series books on
combustion diagnostics, wrote the section on
"Pulsating Combustion" for a book entitled
Advanced Combustion Methods, which was published
by Academic Press, and he has given 354
seminars/lectures at various universities and
conferences throughout the world. Dr. Zinn is
Member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE),
and a Fellow of The American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and a Fellow
of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
He is also a co-holder of seven patents and has
received many prestigious professional and
academic honors.
About The Meeting
The GSPE Atlanta Metro
Chapter meetings are open to engineering
professionals, students, and other interested
public and take place on the second Monday of each
month, September through June. The October 10th
meeting will be at The North Lake area Piccadilly
Cafeteria, 2000 Crescent Centre Blvd., Tucker, Ga.
30084. Many engineers enjoy the presentations as
well as earn a required Professional Development
Hour. The meetings start with networking at 6:00
pm, followed by dinner and the speaker. RSVP to
404- 919-3640,
ronscinta@hotmail.com is appreciated.
About the Atlanta Metro Chapter
The 500 member Atlanta Metro Section of the
Georgia Society of Professional Engineers serves
registered professional engineers and developing
engineers by providing networking opportunities
and continuing education opportunities for
members.
The local section also serves the wider metro
Atlanta community as an information resource and
contact for the engineering profession. Members,
locally and across the state actively support
MATHCOUNTS, a nationwide competitive program
that has promoted excellence in middle school
studies of mathematics for over twenty years.
The Atlanta Metro Section has also produced a
full-color brochure explaining the field of
engineering to students in lay terms, which is
available free of charge to interested students.
The GSPE also awards engineering college
scholarships each year. GSPE members are often
asked to address school classes to talk about
applications of science and technology.
The Georgia Society of Professional Engineers is
a state affiliate of the National Society of
Professional Engineers (NSPE), and a participant
in the Georgia Engineering Alliance. The
National Society of Professional Engineers is
the recognized voice and advocate of licensed
Professional Engineers. Founded in 1934, NSPE
strengthens the engineering profession by
promoting engineering licensure and ethics to
assure the public’s safety, enhancing the
engineer image, advocating and protecting PE’s
legal rights at the national and state levels,
publishing news of the profession, providing
continuing education opportunities, and much
more. NSPE serves some 50,000 members and the
public through 53 state and territorial
societies and more than 500 local chapters.
To assure the public safety, all of 50 states
and the United States territories have laws
requiring registration of all individuals and
firms engaged in providing engineering services.
Prior to becoming a Registered Professional
Engineer a candidate must have the required
educational background, gain professional
experience and pass a rigorous exam. The Georgia
State Board of Registration of Engineers and
Land Surveyors is part of the Secretary of State
office.
Please see these websites for additional
information:
Georgia Society of Professional Engineers: www.gspe.org
National Society of Professional Engineers:
www.nspe.org
MATHCOUNTS: www.mathcounts.org
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