Turbine from the 3D printer

Together with the H+E-Produktentwicklung GmbH in Moritzburg, Germany the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials IFAM in Dresden, Germany has developed a true-to-scale gas turbine that impressively demonstrates the current potentials and limitations of powder bedbased additive technologies. The technology demonstrator “Siemens SGT6-8000 H”, a scaled model of a gas turbine for power generation on a scale of 1:25, was completely manufactured with additive processes except for the shaft.