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Turbine Disk Restoration

with SermeTel Coating

Wear and corrosion can create


severe problems in the dovetail
area (or fir tree) of turbine disks
in large industrial gas turbines.
As surfaces wear away, blades or
buckets can wobble, leading to overstress, loss of sealing pins, radial
rub and, in worst-case scenarios,
blade ingestion. The phenomenon is
known as blade or bucket rock.
Corrosion also results from
condensation accumulating when
gas turbines are out of service.
Corrosion by-products form an
abrasive powder between blades and
the disk (or wheel), further abrading
surfaces when the unit is restarted.

Advantages

Sermatech performs a two-step


coating method to restore and
protect the dovetail area/fir tree
sections of turbine disks/wheels.
The first coat is a thermal-sprayed
deposit, applied to the non-pressure
dovetail surfaces parallel to the disk
circumference. After the surfaces
are dimensionally restored, we
apply a SermeTel coating to inhibit
corrosion. This coating is applied
over the fir trees to a thickness of
less than .001 inches and has no
effect on tolerances.

Restoration Services

Sermatech can perform its turbine


disk restoration service for GE and
Siemens-Westinghouse units in the
following equipment configurations:
On individual disks or
stacked rotors in one of our
facilities
On-site on a stacked rotor
that is out of the unit
On-site with the rotor in place
for GE Frame 5 and 7 and
Siemens-Westinghouse
251 and 501 turbines.
Our exclusive on-site turbine disk
restoration process with the rotor in
place requires that only the turbine
shell, wrapper, and compressor
discharge casing be removed. This
approach saves significant time and
cost relative to potential disassembly
of the disks.

Treated disks are expected to last for


the full period between overhaul of
gas turbines operating in either base
load or peak load service.
Praxair Surface Technologies, Inc.
1500 Polco Street
Indianapolis, IN 46222
www.praxairsurfacetechnologies.com
psti-info@praxair.com
Telephone:
+1 317 240 2500
Fax:
+1 317 240 2255

Inspection of a blade slot to determine


the proper thickness of the thermal
spray deposit to be applied for
dimensional restoration.

Dimensional restoration of turbine disk


dovetail surface being performed on a
stacked rotor.

On-site W501 turbine disk restoration


with the rotor in place.
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09-2010

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