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.

EVI-GTI has more Wiki pages for Workgroups on:

• the Instrumentation Lab Gap Matrix and
• a draft specification on A Standard for Dynamic Pressure Measurements in Gas Turbines.

The association organizes and provides workshops and conferences, forms multilateral or bilateral consortia and workgroups e.g. for instrumentation standardization, Blade Tip Timing (BTT), Telemetry etc.

Recent EU projects that have been generated, submitted and successfully completed within the European Virtual Institute for Gas Turbine Instrumentation are HEATTOP and STARGATE.

European conferences of the European Virtual Institute for Gas Turbine Instrumentation (short: EVI-GTI International Conferences) are organized bi-annually 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 Joint PIWG & EVI-GTI 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. Conf. (EU)	Joint Conf. (US/EU)	Conference name	Location	Country	Date
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	Newport, RI	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	27 - 29 November
2014		5th	Joint EVI-GTI and PIWG Conference	Hasbrouck Heights, NJ	USA	20 -24 October
2015	7th		International Conference on Gas Turbine Instrumentation	London	United Kingdom	03 - 05 November
2016		6th	Joint EVI-GTI and PIWG Conference	Berlin	Germany	27 - 29 September
2017	8th		International Conference on Gas Turbine Instrumentation	Amsterdam	The Netherlands	27 - 30 November
2018		7th	Joint EVI-GTI and PIWG Conference	Jupiter, FL	USA	29 October - 01 November
2019	9th		International Conference on Gas Turbine Instrumentation	Graz	Austria	20 - 21 November
2020		8th	Joint EVI-GTI and PIWG Conference	TBD
2021	10th		International Conference on Gas Turbine Instrumentation

Table of Workshops

This section is still incomplete.

Year	Topic	Location	Country	Date
2006	Tip-Timing & Tip Clearance	Whetstone	United Kingdom	08 - 09 February
2007	Tip-Timing & Tip Clearance	Brussels	Belgium	08 - 09 February
2009	Telemetry, Slip-Ring and Wireless Sensors	Seine Port	France	22 - 24 June
2011	Dynamic Pressure Measurement	Munich	Germany	13 - 14 October
2017	Enablers for Wireless Technology on Gas Turbines	Amsterdam	Netherlands	27 November