European Virtual Institute for Gas Turbine Instrumentation

The European Virtual Institute for Gas Turbine Instrumentation (EVI-GTI) arose through the European Union’s Competitive and Sustainable Growth (GROWTH) programme in 2002.

A definition of a ‘Virtual Institute’ can be found on the EU Cordis GROWTH web pages and is: “A network that links geographically dispersed complementary research and industrial capabilities with the potential to become a legal and self-supporting entity. The difference between Virtual Institutes and networks of other types is that a Virtual Institute needs to demonstrate the capability to become self-supporting”.

The idea behind the European Virtual Institute for Gas Turbine Instrumentation is to offer and maintain a platform for turbomachinery OEMs, vendors of sensors and instrumentation and academia.

The association organizes and provides workshops and conferences and forms multilateral or bilateral consortia.

Recent EU projects that have been generated, submitted and successfully completed within EVI-GTI are HEATTOP and STARGATE.

European conferences of the European Virtual Institute for Gas Turbine Instrumentation (short: EVI-GTI International Conferences) are organized bi-annual and alternating with Joint Conferences together with the Propulsion Instrumentation Working Group (PIWG) which are being held alternatingly in the U.S. or in the EU every two years.

Together with PIWG, the European Virtual Institute for Gas Turbine Instrumentation (short: EVI-GTI International Conferences) has developed and continuously updated the Instrumentation Lap Gap Matrix which sorts technologies for sensors, probes and instrumentation into several categories and shows which technologies are currently satisfactory (green label), which are not available but can be worked around (yellow label) and which are still not available today and thus prevent further development of gas turbine engines to higher efficiency (red label).

Table of Conferences:

Year Int. (EU) Joint (USA/EU) Conference Venue Country Time 2004 1st International Conference on Gas Turbine Instrumentation Barcelona Spain 28-29 September 2005 2nd International Conference on Gas Turbine Instrumentation Dubrovnik Croatia 12-13 October 2006 3rd International Conference on Gas Turbine Instrumentation Rome Italy 28-29 September 2007 1st JOINT EVI-GTI and PIWG Conference Rhode Island USA 29 October - 01 November 2008 2nd JOINT EVI-GTI and PIWG Conference Sevilla Spain 24-26 September 2009 4th International Conference on Gas Turbine Instrumentation Norrköping Sweden 23-25 September 2010 3rd JOINT EVI-GTI and PIWG Conference Newport, VA USA 26-29 October 2011 5th International Conference on Gas Turbine Instrumentation Munich Germany 10-14 October 2012 4th JOINT EVI-GTI and PIWG Conference Florence Italy 01-05 October 2013 6th International Conference on Gas Turbine Instrumentation Baden Switzerland 2014 5th JOINT EVI-GTI and PIWG Conference New Jersey USA 2015 7th International Conference on Gas Turbine Instrumentation London UK 3-5 November 2016 6th JOINT EVI-GTI and PIWG Conference Berlin Germany 27-29 September 2017 8th International Conference on Gas Turbine Instrumentation Amsterdam Netherland 27 - 30 November 2018 7th JOINT EVI-GTI and PIWG Conference Jupiter, FL USA 2019 9th International Conference on Gas Turbine Instrumentation Graz Austria 20-21 November 2020 8th JOINT EVI-GTI and PIWG Conference