Combustion Repair
Combustion Design
Qualifications
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GTE’s Combustion and Fuels Manufacturing and Engineering Group, is a leader in design, repair and refurbishment of combustion systems, components and assemblies for most major models of gas turbine combustion and fuel systems.
At the heart of the GTE growth engine is proven industry manufacturing and technology talent. GTE’s combustion and fuels technology team is comprised of proven, recognized, sought-after experts in modeling, fluids and structural mechanics design, and combustion repair specialists. The team is routinely called upon by leading OEMs and End Users to solve issues concerning performance, availability, parts life and emissions. GTE relies heavily on experience and modeling capabilities to predict expected performance in lieu of costly hardware prototyping and testing.
GTE recognizes that the Energy industry will be increasingly shaped by the combination of rapidly escalating fuel costs, environmental regulations and energy demand. This combination creates challenges for the global installed base as they must adapt to alternate and varying qualities of fuels, cyclic operation, and tougher emissions targets, all with a potentially significant impact on the assets economic pro forma. GTE has built a Fuels and Combustion platform capable of addressing these emerging dynamics and is ready to serve all of your Combustion needs.
You can learn more about our Fuels Management Solutions here: Fuels Management
Combustion Repair
• Competitive Rapid Response on Fuel Nozzles and End Covers
• OEM Approved First Article Qualification & Manufacturing Process
• OEM Level Combustion Design Modeling & Root Cause Capability
State-of-the-Art Flow
• Test, NDT, Welding & Braze Equipment
• Inventory for DLN 1 & DLN 2.6 Repairs
GTE offers high quality operationally validated repair services and root cause analysis for fuel nozzles and end covers. These components are critical as they control combustion performance for emissions, thermal spreads, and life expectancy. The Manufacturing and repair team at GTE has a primary focus on the refurbishment and calibration of gas and liquid fired turbine fuel systems.
Systems and components are inspected, refurbished and flow tested routinely resulting
in tolerances that exceed industry expectations. Even severely damaged parts
can be reconditioned and returned to service, offering operators a cost effective alternative to new parts.
Capabilities
Parts Tracking- Report/ Database- Metallurgical Evaluation
- Cleaning (Chemical & Thermal)
- NDT (FPI, X-Ray, Mag Particle, UT & ET)
- Receipt Inspection
- Flow Testing (Air & Liquid)
- Machining (CNC & Manual)
- Vacuum Braze/ Heat Treat
- EB Welding
- Orbital Welding
- Tig Welding
- CMM and/or Dimensional Inspection
- EDM
- Pressure Test
- Thermal Barrier Coatings
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Combustion Design
GTE products and systems are designed using a combination of analytical and experimental tools. GTE products are geometrically modeled with SolidWorks. Finite Element Structural analysis is performed with ANSYS for prediction of component temperature, stress, displacements and vibration. The aero, pressure drop, heat transfer
and emissions performance of these systems is modeled with the Computational Fluid Dynamics Code STAR-CD.
Turbine and power plant cycle performance is modeled using GATECYCLE. In addition to these computational tools, GTE makes use of laboratory wind tunnel and field testing with advanced instrumentation to measure and validate the performance of combustion systems and components as well as other GTE products.
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Qualifications
GTE’s technology team considers the entire cycle in the design of products and systems. Repairs of combustion hardware are qualified on a flow bench and by destructive metallographic analysis and nondestructive testing analysis of critical joints.
- ISO Quality System (Certification 2009)
- Welding: GTAW- Gas Tungsten Arc/ Electron Beam (EB) / Orbital GTAW
- ASME- American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- ANSI- American National Standards Institute
- National Institute of Standards & Technology
- National Aerospace and Defense Contractors
- Accreditation Program for Braze, Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) &
Non-Destructive Test (NDT)
- Processes Certified to:
- ASNT- American Society of Non-destructive Testing
- ASTM- American Standard Test Method
- AMS 2680, 2681 (EB Weld), 2685 Tungsten Arc Inert Gas, 2675 Brazing, 2759 (HT Stress Relieve & Precipitation Age Hardening)
- FPI ASTM E1417 Level 3,
- X Ray, ASTM 1742 Level 3
- NIST Standards Flow Testing (Air & Liquid)
Downlaodable Marketing Materials
Combustion Dynamics Monitoring Systems Flyer
Combustion Repair Flyer
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