About the Author
A professional engineer registered in Alberta Canada, and a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Claire Soares has worked on rotating machinery for over 20 years. Claire's extensive experience includes the specification of new turbomachinery systems, retrofit design, installation, commissioning, troubleshooting, operational optimization, and failure analysis of all types of turbomachinery used in power generation, oil and gas, petrochemical and process plants, and aviation. The turbines (gas, steam, or combined cycle; land or aero applications) in question were typically made by General Electric, Siemens Westinghouse, Rolls, Rolls Allison, Solar, Alstom Power, or the companies they formerly were, before some of them merged.
Her career experience also includes intensive training programs for engineers and technologists employed by heavy industrial clients. Her specialty areas include turbomachinery diagnostic systems, failure analysis and troubleshooting as well as subsequent retrofit and re-engineering.
In her years spent with large aircraft engine overhaul and aircraft engine fleet programs in the United States and Canada, Claire worked on turbine metallurgy and repair procedures, fleet asset management, and aeroengine crash investigation. She also was engineering manager for the first overhaul program in the United States for the V2500 engine (commissioned in 1991).
Gas turbines, land, air, and sea, are Soares’ primary area within the turbomachinery field. Her perspective with respect to gas turbines is that of an operations troubleshooter with extensive design experience in gas turbine component retrofits and repair specification as well as retrofit system design development.
Claire has authored or co-authored six books for Butterworth-Heinemann and McGraw-Hill on rotating machinery. See the links below for book details. She also writes as a freelancer for various technical journals.
Claire has an MBA in International Business (University of Dallas, TX), and a B.Sc.Eng. (University of London, external). She is a commercial pilot. Her scuba diving certification and training were in high altitude conditions. She has lived and worked on four continents. Her “non-engineering” time is partly spent on cinematography and still photography, both of which have grown to complement her training courses and writing. She develops training packages presented in video or other audio-visual formats.
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