New to Power Equipment Design Approaches with Additive Manufacturing prospects

Abstract

Direct three-dimensional printing is a new manufacturing method that can improve the efficiency of the energy equipment. Additive manufacturing allow reduce the weight of products, to increase the toughness, to improve the shape of parts, reduce the number of components, etc. An example of a new approach to the design is the improvement of heat exchanges for which it is possible to use new materials, increase in the area of heat transfer, make turbulators create items, create heat exchanger as a single part, etc. The actual problem is the improvement of pipeline systems through the reduction of local hydraulic resistance. Additive manufacturing are used for the development of new turbomachinery with complex cooling channels. Moreover, the advantage of additive manufacturing is full integration in PLM digital interface. However, the revolutionary new Design for Additive Manufacturing (DFAM) approach must be developed.