Journal
WEAR
Volume 263, Issue -, Pages 458-462Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2006.12.060
Keywords
greaseless bearing materials; water turbines; guide vanes; wear rate measurement; durability prediction
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During last decades the interest in self-lubricating materials was increased because of ecological reasons. An example is the tendency to replace grease-lubricated bearings with self-lubricated ones in guide vanes of water turbines. However, in some cases, greaseless materials did not meet durability requirements. In order to explain operation of greaseless bearings in this particular application, a research program was carried out. Tests performed in the power plants let the authors determine the operating conditions of guide vane bearings. A special testing device was designed and built at Gdansk University of Technology to measure wear rate of self-lubricating materials in conditions of high loads and small oscillatory movement, which turned out to be dominant component of movements in guide vane bearings. Evaluated wear rates differ much from wear rates evaluated for unidirectional movement. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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