Lecture announcement - iSAM AG at the HUSUM WindEnergy Congress
Tuesday, 21st September 2010,
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Advanced welding technology for high wall thickness SAW -
Transferring high-volume processes from pipelines to wind towers
Transferring high-volume processes from pipelines to wind towers
The manufacturing of large diameter pipes and wind towers share a common process - the welding of large diameter, high wall thickness steel plates while maintaining the mechanical properties of the base material even in difficult climatic conditions.
However a typical large-diameter pipe mill produces 150 pipes a day, each of it 18 or 24 m long with wall thicknesses up to 50 mm. Therefore the pipe industry has focussed early on high-speed welding and advanced automation.
iSAM was instrumental in many of these developments including the 5-wire digital SAW welding controller and the multi-layer digital seam tracking with adaptive welding procedures. With the ever increasing demand for wind energy as well as the growing project sizes especially in the off-shore market some of these technogies become technically and economically suitable for an industrial wind tower production.
In this presentation we’ll show data from real-world projects including the manufacturing of the world’s first 44 mm single-pass ID/OD high pressure gas pipes and provide some ideas how the green energy of the future can benefit from technologies developed for the oil and gas industry.
However a typical large-diameter pipe mill produces 150 pipes a day, each of it 18 or 24 m long with wall thicknesses up to 50 mm. Therefore the pipe industry has focussed early on high-speed welding and advanced automation.
iSAM was instrumental in many of these developments including the 5-wire digital SAW welding controller and the multi-layer digital seam tracking with adaptive welding procedures. With the ever increasing demand for wind energy as well as the growing project sizes especially in the off-shore market some of these technogies become technically and economically suitable for an industrial wind tower production.
In this presentation we’ll show data from real-world projects including the manufacturing of the world’s first 44 mm single-pass ID/OD high pressure gas pipes and provide some ideas how the green energy of the future can benefit from technologies developed for the oil and gas industry.
