Influence of process gas sort and pressure on laser percussion drilling

Publikationstyp
Conference Paper
Date Issued
2008-10
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Walther, Kurt  
Holtkoetter, C.  
Kelbassa, Ingomar  
Poprawe, Reinhart  
TORE-URI
http://hdl.handle.net/11420/12508
Start Page
117
End Page
123
Citation
ICALEO 2008 - 27th International Congress on Applications of Lasers and Electro-Optics, Congress Proceedings: 117-123 (2008)
Contribution to Conference
27th International Congress on Applications of Lasers and Electro-Optics, ICALEO 2008  
Publisher DOI
10.2351/1.5061302
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-75149192239
Publisher
Laser Inst. of America
Providing the technology to achieve an efficiency of 65 % in natural gas-fired combined cycle power plants is the aim of the German Collaborative Research Center 561 "Thermally highly loaded, porous and cooled multi-layer systems for combined-cycle power plants" at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. For this purpose the fluid temperatures in the gas turbine cycle have to be raised considerably. Therefore a more effective cooling of the thermo-mechanically highly-loaded parts has to be realized, which is achieved by a newly developed effusion cooling requiring cooling holes with a diameter of 0.2 mm at an acute inclination angle of up to 30 °. Within this paper the influences of the process gas sort and pressure on the drilling are investigated concerning drilling velocity, hole quality (recast layer thickness and closures within the hole), and hole geometry (diameter and taper). For the experiments the process gases oxygen, argon, nitrogen, and compressed-air are used with the pressure being varied from 5 to 20 bar. At fixed laser parameters the process gas is determined to have a significant influence on the drilling result.
Subjects
Aspect ratio
Cooling holes
Laser drilling
Process gas
Turbine
DDC Class
530: Physik