Hybrid Manufacturing and Remanufacturing for Turbine Components
Remanufacturing for restoring worn-out products to a ”like-new” condition is an exemplary sustainable practice, particularly valuable for advance turbine parts. Here, this will be via hybrid additive manufacturing (AM) subtractive machining (SM) for repair with minimal material waste, while assessing the related environmental benefits and economic value. This is a novel cutting-edge technology, exploiting in-situ sensors to monitor the process whilst novel digitalised driven value identification models are made to explain environmental and economic savings.
Initiaitive description
This initiative integrates KTH’s hybrid manufacturing solutions with RISE’s competence in manufacturing and circular economy frameworks. Dadbakhsh’s team will secure hybrid manufacturing innovation, while Grahn’s team ensures value-focused guidance, AI-driven optimisation, and circular solution integration towards industrial solutions.
These joint efforts will conduct:
- Creating a case survey on circularity aspects and needs for hybrid remanufacturing
- Analysing the necessary subtractive technologies in correlation with AM for enabling hybrid remanufacturing
- Investigating technological solutions (process parameters, monitoring…) to enable the remanufacturing
- Implementing monitoring technologies (such as AI assisted thermal/visual monitoring) to assist hybrid remanufacturing based on a commercial software
- Realising the dimensional restrictions and possibilities
- Assessing the remanufactured material performances
- Embedding circular economy practices (remanufacturing) into hybrid processes through creating a programmable tool for circular outcome optimisation.
Initiative goals
- Developing a technical solution of hybrid manufacturing for remanufacturing
- Integrating the monitoring possibilities (such as AI assisted thermal/visual monitoring) into developed hybrid remanufacturing technologies
- Enabling towards realising an AI tool platform for circularity/technology optimisation.
- Boosting our research-industrial attraction and shifting towards industrial validation
- Bringing KTH/Rise to the forefront of research in hybrid manufacturing for remanufacturing and circularity
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