First Commercial Engine with Additive Components The 3D-printed LEAP fuel nozzle went from 18 parts to one, making it five times as durable as a traditional nozzle and 25% lighter. A 3D-Printed Engine One third of the GE Catalyst turboprop engine is 3D-printed, reducing 855 conventional parts...
The AM fuel nozzle will be used in GE's LEAP engine, with every engine requiring 19 fuel nozzles. Once manufacturing begins, GE will ramp up production quickly, starting with 1000 fuel nozzles produced annually, to more than 40,000 by 2020. GE also reported that it is developing 3D-...
The GE9X hasmore than 300 additively-manufactured parts.Beyond the GE9X, GE Aviation (3) and its joint venture CFM* (1) currently have four other 3D-printed parts certified by the FAA. These parts are the T25 sensor for the GE90-94B, the CFM LEAP fuel nozzle tip, the GEnx-2B power ...
-Auburn Additive manufacturing:GE’s new Auburn, Alabama, facility focused on large-scale additive manufacturing with rows of additive machines are installed to produce thousands of fuel nozzle injectors for the LEAP engine each year. -Lafayette engine assembly:Opened in 2016, the new engine assembly...
new 300,000 square-foot facility in Auburn, AL. "Fuel nozzles are an intricate and highly sophisticated engine component that are key to delivering industry-leading fuel efficiency and lower emissions for next-generation jetengines," said the company. The nozzles will be on the LEAP jet ...
The next suite of engine technologies in development – including advanced architectures like the open fan, hybrid-electric capability, and advanced thermal management concepts – have the potential to achieve at least a 20% additional improvement in fuel efficiency compared to today’s state-of-the...
“We’re taking it from where it was as a prototyping industry to truly an additive manufacturing industry,” says GE Aviation chief executive David Joyce. The particular design of the Leap-1 fuel nozzle can only be built using a 3D printer, due to intricate channels within the p...
The next-generation of CFM engines (called LEAP) powering the 737 MAX and A320neo will incorporate advanced materials like carbon fiber composite fan blades in the front fan (pictured), ultra-durable additive manufactured fuel nozzles in the combustor, heat-resistant CMCs in the high-pressure tur...
Everything is almost ready for entry into service of all versions of the LEAP engine: the brand-new engine based on state-of-the-art technologies and materials (including the 3-D printed fuel nozzles and the carbon fiber fan blade and case, the twin-annular, pre-swirl combustor, and the...
GE Aviation's planned AM production of their LEAP engine's fuel nozzles (see "Additive manufacturing at GE Aviation" in the November/December 2013 issue of ILS) as well as EADS's evaluation of AM structural components for Airbus ... COREY DUNSKY - 《Industrial Laser Solutions》 被引量: 22...