Steve Hiner and Tim Nicholas

Steve Hiner is the chief engineer for Parker Hannifin’s Gas Turbine Filtration Division. With 27 years developing air filters and filtration systems solely for gas turbines, he is well known in the industry with technical relationships with most of the GT OEMs and generally recognized as one of the industry’s leading experts in the field of gas turbine air filtration. With many granted patents to his name, Steve has contributed significantly to many GT OEM specs, including GE Greenville, BH, GE Belfort, GE Aero, Solar Turbines, Rolls Royce, etc., as well as many end users such as Shell, Total, U.S. Navy, etc. He has published many papers and articles and participated extensively at panel sessions at conferences and is a paper reviewer for ASME, as well as a contributor to API standard API616 and currently a US TAG Expert for TC142 ISO 29461. Steve can be reached at steve.hiner@parker.com.

Tim Nicholas has spent nearly 15 years in the gas turbine filtration industry in a variety of engineering, product and commercial roles. He’s been a product development engineer and ran services and applications teams focused on delivering the right product for each gas turbine customer based on true outcomes. He is currently Parker Hannifin’s market manager for Powergen developing product and application solutions for the ever-evolving world of advanced gas turbines. Tim can be reached at timothy.nicholas@parker.com.