Improving thermal efficiency in modern steam turbines can only be achieved
by the application of new cooling systems, such as effusion cooling. On the
basis of the grid sheet, a new sandwich material with perforated cover she
ets and a hollow interlayer containing cavities, a new cooling component fo
r steam turbine casing and rotor parts that fulfills both the mechanical an
d the functional characteristics can be manufactured. For the low-pressure
turbine a process for open porosity powder metallurgical composites has bee
n developed.