Dr. Rakesh Bhargava is the Founder and President of Innovative Turbomachinery Technologies Corp. His expertise includes applications of gas turbines, rotating and reciprocating machines and packaged process equipment in off-shore platforms and FPSOs, refinery, power generation, chemical, and pipeline industries. His more than 35 years of experience includes selection and sizing, inspection and design reviews of rotating machinery and packaged equipment, field problems resolution, on-site plant equipment performance testing, rotating equipment failure analysis, technical evaluation of used gas turbines, technical expertise in commercial disputes involving rotating machines and the global energy market analysis. He has given numerous invited lectures on gas turbine technologies and energy market around the world, has written numerous technical papers on rotating machinery related issues and provides customized training courses on rotating machinery and related topics. In 2017, he published world's first "Technical Dictionary on the Gas Turbine Technology". He is an active member of API Committee on Standards on Mechanical Equipment (SOME) and has participated in upgrades of number of API specifications. He has been active participant at the International Gas Turbine Institute of ASME where he has chaired two technical committees (Industrial & Cogeneration and Oil & Gas Applications). He is recipient of various awards including, 2009 Dean W. R. Woolrich Engineer of the Year Award (ASME South Texas Section (STS)), ASME Dedication Service Award (2012), 2014 Alan J. Chapman Award (ASME STS), and 2015 ASME/IGTI John P. Davis Award. He is Fellow and Associate Fellow of ASME and AIAA, respectively and an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power.
