Method for welding rotors for power generation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9429021-B2
Application number	US-201414230147-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 31, 2014
Priority date	Apr 4, 2013
Publication date	Aug 30, 2016
Grant date	Aug 30, 2016

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for welding rotors for power generation such as gas turbines, steam turbines, and generators having a plurality of rotor discs arranged along a rotor axis. The method includes providing said discs with a weld seam preparation. The weld seam preparation includes a root, a first, gap-like welding section adjoining the root in radial direction, and a second, gap-like welding section adjoining the first welding section in radial direction. The method further includes melting the root by means of a first welding process; making a weld in the first welding section by means of a second welding process; and filling up the second welding section by means of a third welding process.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for welding rotors for power generation which comprise a plurality of rotor discs arranged along a rotor axis, said method comprising:
providing said discs with a weld seam preparation, said weld seam preparation comprising a root, a first, gap-like welding section adjoining said root in radial direction, and a second, gap-like welding section adjoining said first welding section in radial direction;
melting the root by means of a first welding process;
making a weld in said first welding section by means of a second welding process; and
filling up said second welding section by means of a third welding process wherein;
said first welding process is one of Laser Welding (LW), Electron Beam welding (EB), friction welding and laser hybrid welding and/or
said second welding process is one of Laser Welding (LW) and laser hybrid welding.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first welding process is one of Laser Welding (LW), Electron Beam welding (EB), friction welding and laser hybrid welding, and that the second welding process is Tungsten Inert Gas welding (TIG).

3. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the second welding process is one of Laser Welding and laser hybrid welding and that first welding process is Tungsten Inert Gas welding (TIG).

4. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said third welding process is fully automatic Metal Active Gas welding (MAG).

5. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said third welding process is Cold Metal Transfer welding (CMT).

6. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said third welding process is laser hybrid welding.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said second welding process is Laser Welding (LW), and that this process is done with powder or wire filler metal.

Assignees

• Alstom Technology Ltd
• General Electric Technology Gmbh

Inventors

• Keller Sorin
• Balbach Werner Martin
• Gerdes Claus Paul

Classifications

• B23K9/0213 Primary

  Narrow gap welding · CPC title

• B23K33/006

  for cylindrical workpieces · CPC title

• B23K9/16

  making use of shielding gas · CPC title

• B23K10/02

  Plasma welding · CPC title

• F01D5/025

  Fixing blade carrying members on shafts (attachment of a member on a shaft in general F16D1/06; for non-positive displacement pumps F04D29/00) · CPC title