Gas Turbine Blades & Shafts
Gas Turbine Blades & Shafts
(OP)
I have several gas turbine blades and three rotor shafts. Pretty sure the blades are titanium alloy. No idea what the shafts are made of - big & heavy. They came out of a natural gas refinery, pretty sure they are GE Frame Three Turbine components, at least twenty five years old.
My questions are: Are these recyclable? Might they have any value? Are there alternative uses for them?
Any info, ideas, sources, etc, greatly appreciated.
My questions are: Are these recyclable? Might they have any value? Are there alternative uses for them?
Any info, ideas, sources, etc, greatly appreciated.





RE: Gas Turbine Blades & Shafts
You have two options, which should be based on a business decision.
1. Solicit quotes from one or more metal scrap dealers to determine value.
2. If the CT has not been "run into the ground", you could obtain an independent condition assessment and determine if you could sell the items as "spare parts". There are independent combustion turbine repair organizations that like to refurbish and hold spare parts for other machines.
RE: Gas Turbine Blades & Shafts
The rebuilders/refurbishers might have interest, but most end users are trying to reduce inventories to keep from paying inventory tax on stuff. Lots of great stuff made its way to the scrap yards due to this.
rmw
RE: Gas Turbine Blades & Shafts
The market is very limited here - nobody buys scrap metal, instead they charge to haul it away. There are some pretty amazing things in the "boneyards" of the local refineries.
I plan to check local machine shops to see if they want the shafts. Didn't know if there might be a use or market for the titanium(?) blades.
Thanks much for the input.
JJ
RE: Gas Turbine Blades & Shafts
How you with what you have, and some one who has had one swarm in any of those applications would get together, is beyond me.
However, if you can find a copy of a Power or Power Engineering magazine, and they have websites, there are advertisers in those that deal in used turbines, and turbine parts. One of them might be interested in taking it off of your hands.
That is where I would go if I didn't want to have to pay someone to haul it off. Too bad you can't cash in on the international "gold rush" going on in scrap metals even as we write.
And, is it a two shaft frame 3, or a single shaft??
rmw
RE: Gas Turbine Blades & Shafts
The shafts were coated with grease - no rust - and put out in the "back forty" ten to fifteen years ago and sort of forgot about, along with a bunch of other oil field and refinery scrap. Some of which is pretty neat in a worthless sort of way.
Thanks again for your input. I am off to the North Slope for a couple of weeks and I won't be able to respond to any further postings til I return. JJ
RE: Gas Turbine Blades & Shafts