The bowed blade design has reduced secondary flow losses, improving HP and IP stage efficiencies by approximately two percent, according to Siemens. Without altering its geometric outline, the seal ...

The row of last-stage blades (LSBs) in a steam turbine’s low-pressure (LP) section is a key element of the turbine’s design because it defines the machine’s overall performance, dimensions, and number ...

Steam turbine blades are critical components in power generation, and their failure can have profound economic and safety implications. Recent studies have underscored the importance of understanding ...

The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has successfully employed 3D printing to create large rotating steam turbine blades for power plants, in collaboration with Siemens ...

Operating experience, better design tools and better materials have made turbine upgrades an integral part of the nuclear power plant uprate trend. Steam turbines have undergone many changes in the ...

An increasing number of low-pressure steam turbines—especially at supercritical fossil units—have experienced stress corrosion cracking in the blade attachment region of their low-pressure rotors.

CHENGDU, SICHUAN, CHINA, January 19, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- In a recent milestone demonstrating the practical ...

The term “hydroelectric power” often brings to mind immense operations driven by purpose-built infrastructure such as dam systems and large turbines with traditionally metallic, propeller-based ...

Hardide plc (AIM: HDD), the provider of advanced surface coating technology, is pleased to announce that preliminary tests indicate that Hardide nanostructured chemical vapour deposition (CVD) coating ...