Powering Up an Age Old Design

摘要

Verisurf Software helps power companies reverse engineer steam turbine rotor assemblies to support new and improved bladding. Southern California Edison, GE, Alstom, Siemens, Mitsubishi and Toshiba have all used Verisurf Software to create 'as built' CAD models of existing rotor assemblies. Why go to all that trouble you might ask? After 130 years, steam turbines are still a wonderful and powerful design generating approximately 90 percent of the electrical power in the United States. Most of the steam turbine power plants in use today around the world were built over 60 years ago, long before CAD and advanced surface and fluid analysis.