Browsing Category Bearings

• Auxiliaries

  New bearing isolator to be unveiled at Houston symposia

  Flowserve Corporation, a provider of flow control products and services for the global infrastructure markets, announced plans to debut its new Bearing Gard bearing isolator at the 2014 ...

  On September 5, 2014 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  Auxiliaries

  Hot spot analysis helps reduce spiral vibration of a hydrogen-cooled generator

  An Alstom 450MVA hydrogen-cooled generator operating at 3,600 rev/min and equipped with a brush gear unit showed spiral vibration with a forward rotating unbalance vector.  (Alstom’s hydrogen-cooled turbogenerator) ...

  On July 8, 2014 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Bearings

  Kingsbury to set up manufacturing plant in Germany

  Following the opening of the Kingsbury GmbH sales office in Göttingen Germany in 2012, officials at Kingsbury have announced plans to expand into manufacturing. According to managing director, ...

  On May 14, 2014 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Bearings

  Machine Improvements from Directed-Lube Journal Bearings

  This paper, co-authored by Kingsbury’s R&D Manager, Scan DeCamillo, presents experimental temperature data on the LEG (Leading Edge Groove) journal bearing for both “on pad” and “between pad” ...

  On January 29, 2014 / By Kingsbury Engineering Staff
• Bearings

  Performance Comparison of LEG and Flooded Bearings

  Advantages of Leading Edge Groove (LEG) lubrication technology Kingsbury’s equalized LEG thrust bearings are fitted with leveling plates to ensure optimum load distribution and trouble free operation, while ...

  On January 29, 2014 / By Kingsbury Engineering Staff
• Bearings

  More Causes and Remedies of Fluid Film Bearing Failure

  Kingsbury’s very popular brochure, “General Guide To Hydrodynamic Bearings,” covers the background and invention of the tilting pad fluid film bearing, the types of fluid film bearings in ...

  On January 29, 2014 / By Kingsbury Engineering Staff
• Bearings

  Thrust & Journal Bearing System

  Kingsbury’s CH Bearing System consists of a NDE unit featuring a flange-mounted housing with an equalized thrust bearing and a journal bearing shell, and a DE unit without ...

  On January 29, 2014 / By Kingsbury Engineering Staff
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  Bearings

  Olean firm can now supply backup bearings

  Napoleon Engineering Services (Olean, US) are now able to supply back-up bearings for use with active magnetic bearings (AMB), where they serve as highly reliable secondary failsafe systems. ...

  On January 20, 2014 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Bearings

  Kingsbury breaks ground to build new western USA repair facility

  On January 8, 2014, Kingsbury, Inc. broke ground to officially begin construction of a new 33,000-square-foot bearing repair and service facility in Yuba City, California. The project by ...

  On January 16, 2014 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Bearings

  Fluid Film Shoe Temperature Patterns

  A temperature sensor mounted at the 75/75 position can provide the critical shoe temperature for that one, fixed location, but cannot indicate the temperature pattern over the entire ...

  On December 30, 2013 / By Kingsbury Engineering Staff