Solar Turbines Inc.

Branden R Elam

Michael D Fox

Karen A Thole

Drew Allen Dominique

Sudhakar Bollapragada

Xiaoqiang Zeng

Thomas M Corbett

Tyler Boveington

Timothy Evans

Greg Balow

Daniel Ryan

A tip shroud, comprising a plurality of tip shoes encircling a rotor assembly, in a turbine may deform due to thermal gradients experienced during operation of the turbine. Accordingly, a tip shoe is disclosed that utilizes an internal cooling cavity to supply coolant throughout the interior of the tip shoe, as well as to the slash faces of the tip shoe. In addition, features are described that increase the surface area exposed to the coolant, while remaining suitable for additive manufacturing.

Internally cooled turbine tip shroud component

A system and method for resource estimation of an additive manufacturing device is disclosed herein. The system includes at least one processor and one or more software modules. The processor executes the one or more software modules to determine a number of parts that can be manufactured per manufacturing run, estimate manufacturing time to manufacture a specified number of parts, and determine a total cost to manufacture the number of parts with the additive manufacturing device. The one or more software modules can compare the total cost to the cost of a current manufacturing method.

System and method for resource estimation of additive manufacturing

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Oroville, CA, United States of America

Branden R Elam