Combustor Components

Improve Product Performance and Fuel Efficiency, Increase Reliability and Reduce Manufacturing Costs

20:1

component reduction

$2M

average annual fuel savings

increase in component lifetime

Decrease Component Count While Increasing Turbine Efficiency

Combustors are fundamental to turbomachinery performance, by achieving the greatest possible fuel efficiency and power output. This depends on internal structures that promote combustion and burn clean, which requires the highest quality components made of strong, heat-resistant superalloys.

All of this is now possible thanks to direct metal 3D printing solutions and turbomachinery expertise from 3D Systems. Manufacturers can design monolithic combustor components that burn cleaner than ever before. Fewer components reduce manufacturing costs and eliminating complex assemblies increases reliability. In addition, these optimized products can be developed in far less time to deliver more effective components to market faster.

Benefits For Combustor Components Manufacturers

Improve Fuel Efficiency

Additive manufacturing gives gas turbine engineers unprecedented design flexibility. They are able to develop novel orifice shapes and mixing chambers, thus optimizing fuel and air mixtures for maximum performance and efficiency.

Increase Reliability

Additive manufacturing delivers structurally optimized combustor components with reduced part counts and assemblies. This provides assured component integrity under the highest temperatures and operating pressures, greatly increasing gas turbine reliability.

Reduce Manufacturing Costs and Lead Time

In traditional manufacturing, heat-resistant superalloys used in turbomachinery combustors present challenges in machining, including short tool life and high material waste. Additive manufacturing has no difficulty with these materials, regardless of geometry or superalloy used. Further, replacing multipart assemblies (such as fuel injectors, swirlers, and mixers) with monolithic parts improves manufacturing yield and reduces labor costs.

3D Systems Delivers Increased Performance and Productivity to Gas Turbine Manufacturers

Application Development

Through our Application Innovation Group, we leverage years of turbomachinery and metal additive manufacturing expertise to help find optimized solutions for your applications. The support we provide enables an engineering and design approach that repeatedly meets strict requirements.
Metal Additive Expertise

With our combination of metal hardware, software, and materials, we offer solutions with unprecedented design flexibility, economics, and reliability that traditional manufacturing cannot match.
Production Capability

With our production facilities, we can be your agile manufacturing arm, helping you transition from prototype to production while offering increased supply chain capacity and flexibility. We also offer on-demand printing services available to you 24/7.

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Download this eBook to learn how to reduce total part count, streamline production and elevate part performance with metal additive manufacturing.

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Decrease Component Count While Increasing Turbine Efficiency

Benefits For Combustor Components Manufacturers

Improve Fuel Efficiency

Increase Reliability

Reduce Manufacturing Costs and Lead Time

3D Systems Delivers Increased Performance and Productivity to Gas Turbine Manufacturers

Application Development

Metal Additive Expertise

Production Capability