2024 PSM ASSET MANAGERS CONFERENCE: Additive manufacturing delivers exciting results
Advanced GTs / By Team CCJ
This is the second segment of CCJ’s three-part report on PSM’s 2024 Asset Management Conference, conducted at the Westin Beach Resort in Fort Lauderdale, Fla, January 29-February 1. The first segment was published earlier this year, the third installment will appear in CCJ later this year.
The focus here is fourfold:
- FlameSheet™ keeps getting better.
- Benefits of additive manufacturing (AM) in the production of R1 vanes (below).
- Technical presentations by industry partners on (1) generator field rewinds, (2) impacts of GT upgrades on heat-recovery steam generators (HRSGs), (3) exhaust-frame mods and improvements.
- Shop tour at the Jupiter center of excellence.
AM enables better R1 vane cooling
Most CCJ readers are familiar with additive manufacturing (AM), also called 3-D printing, at least in principle, but may not be aware of how AM has improved component designs. Greg Vogel, senior manager of PSM’s technology program, and Mark Zangara, senior manufacturing engineer, explained during the Asset Managers Conference how AM has affected the R1 vane in the hot gas path.
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