Advanced seals: boosting bearing life
Contamination of bearing oil can be eliminated through the use of modern labyrinth design bearing protection seals, as Dr Chris Carmody, special products manager at AESSEAL explains
Contamination of bearing oil can be eliminated through the use of modern labyrinth design bearing protection seals, as Dr Chris Carmody, special products manager at AESSEAL explains
Suiker Unie used to rely on packing to seal juice circulation pumps at its Dinteloord sugar refinery in the Netherlands. Typically, after three campaigns the packing on these pumps had to be replaced and, as a result of wear caused by the packing, the shaft sleeves also needed replacing. AESSEAL provided a cost-saving solution
Machine Sentry is a new condition monitoring solution designed to help quickly identify issues in your equipment as a part of your regular maintenance program.
According to AESSEAL, it is possible to eliminate over 50% of bearing failures in rotating equipment by using bearing protection.
Following on from the success of the LabTecta 66 range of bearing protection, AESSEAL has announced the launch of two new products for the protection of bearings in electric motors and equipment with tilting pad bearings.
Companies are increasingly making a commitment to energy efficiency by appointing energy management or sustainability personnel, often at senior board level. Yet those same companies remain unaware that the potential for significant energy waste may be embedded in operational equipment and processes. Tom Grove, of AESSEAL, explains how a seal energy audit can help companies meet sustainability targets as well as improving pump reliability and reducing operational costs.
Plant reliability specialist AVT Reliability® will demonstrate its ground-breaking intelligent condition based maintenance (CBM) expertise at the UK’s foremost event for the maintenance engineering community in October.
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