ENERGY PRODUCTION

Turbines and engines producing energy (Diesel, Gas, Steam, Wind Turbine) are all composed of metal parts exposed to severe environmental conditions (rotation or movement, speed, heat, vibrations, stresses). These components are subject to mechanical fatigue phenomena and so need to be treated in order to increase their lifetime and to prevent breakdowns.

The downtimes generated by failures or preventive maintenance operations of these turbines and engines generate production stoppages and resulting significant operating losses. Reliability and reduction of downtime in the maintenance phase are major issues.

Our sister company SONATS has developed unique patented solutions for such applications. STRESSONIC® technology is clean, repeatable, quick to set-up and 100% controllable in order to ensure improved performance and availability of equipment.

Indeed, SONATS designs and manufactures manual portable shot peening equipment equipped with STRESSONIC® technology that can be used when manufacturing parts but also during maintenance operations, without requiring complete disassembly of the equipment, which makes it the ideal solution, both technically and economically.

Complete control and mastery of the shot peening process is necessary to ensure and maximise the fatigue resistance of components, generally complex in their geometry.

Conventional shot peening methods do not offer the same level of control as the STRESSONIC® process which is perfectly suitable (reproducibility, highly constant, quality surface condition) to treat high value parts such as:

• High and low pressure blades, foot, airfoil, fan blade, fan root fixation
• Discs, blade attachments
• Impellers
• Rotor, Stator
• Ball bearings
• Gears

Non-exhaustive list.

SONATS solutions have been adopted by most prime contractors and equipment manufacturers in the sector.

STRESSONIC® reinforced rack for shot peening in difficult environments