Dr Adriana Encinas-Oropesa

Research Fellow in Energy Technology
Location: Building 56b, Cranfield campus
E: a.encinas-oropesa@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 750111 x2535
Sustainable Systems

Current activities

evaluation of materials performance for gas turbines
evaluating the hot corrosion/oxidation resistant of new and current coatings.

Clients

Rolls-Royce plc
Siemens Industrial Turbo-machinery
Siemens Power Generation Inc
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)
Supergen PLE
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

Background

Dr Adriana Encinas-Oropesa gained an Industrial Design degree in Guadalajara Mexico in 1992. After some years working in industry, she completed a masters degree in Industrial Design and New Product Creation in Barcelona, Spain. She studied the hot corrosion of single crystal superalloys and platinum-aluminide coatings for her PhD and graduated in 2006 at Cranfield.

Since then, Adriana has been a Research Officer at Cranfield’s Energy Technology Centre, working on the study/understanding of the performance of materials in gas turbines engines for power generation and/or aircraft application; as well as testing methods related to materials and coating performance in specific corrosive/oxidation environments.

Selected publications

N J Simms, A Encinas-Oropesa and J R Nicholls, ‘Development of Hot Corrosion on Coated Single Crystal Superalloys’, Materials Science Forum, Vols 461-464 (2004) pp941-948
M-P Bacos, P Josso, N Vialas, D Poquillon, B Pieraggi, D Monceau, J R Nicholls, N Simms, A Encinas-Oropesa, T Ericsson and S Stekovic, ‘ALLBATROS advanced long life blade turbine coating systems’, Applied Thermal Engineering, Vol 24, Issues 11-12, August 2004, pp1745-1753
N J Simms, L Heikinheimo, A Encinas-Oropesa, S Tuurna, P J Kilgallon, J R Nicholls and J E Oakey, 'Predicting Type II Hot Corrosion in Industrial Gas Turbines', in Journal of Corrosion Science and Engineering, Vol 6, Paper H046 (2003)

Further publications