CO-LOCATED EVENT 2015 -Water-Lubricated Bearings: How They Can Extend the Life of Your Power Plant and Save Your Company Money

Posted on Tuesday, June 27th, 2017 and is filed under News

At HydroVision in Oregon at the Oregon Convention Center

www.HydroEvent.com

Monday, July 13 | 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Registration: US$95

Attendance limited to the first 50 registrants

Who Should Attend:

Power Company Executives

Plant Owners

Plant Operators

Plant Maintenance Specialists

Anyone who needs a Water Lubricated Bearing!

Lignum Vitae water lubricated bearings (Compromise elsewhere)

This event will discuss the using of Lignum Vitae as a water lubricated bearing including past present and future applications.

1) Description of Lignum vitae as a bearing including hardness, density, lubricity, woven grain composition, no silica, resin lubricant, polishes shaft, non-aggressive, non-smearing, non-wiping. No need for shaft treatments, added lubricants, or filtered water.

2)A brief history will be discussed to provide a background to the historic use of Lignum Vitae over the past 500 years including “firsts”.

3) Availability, a discussion of 480 cubic meters raw material status, stock availability, historical milestones that lead to current state WW1, WW2 and typical delivery times.

4) Environmental statement using no solvents, grease, oils, hazmat requirements, safety meetings, no DEQ or EPA requirements, no seal leaks, no oil storage issues, no insurance for oil leaks, no seal and oil line maintenance issues, or landfill issues. CITES impact of resource and regulations of moving materials across borders will be discussed. Only Renewable industrial bearing for true green operation. Non detriment finding of the harvest of LV.

5) Cost, Value, and ROI. Examples of actual plants will be presented reflecting the longevity and true cost. Case studies of actual bearing costs over the life of the plant.

6) Operating parameters in hydro servicing plants from 100KW on 4” shafts to 100MW on 32” shafts. Over 200 plants continue to use lv or converting back from composites with over 10,000MW currently in use. Observations will be shared of plants using LV with no problems shifting to composites having issues then back to LV and all is well, Osage.

7) Types of bearings mushroom style, thrust bearings, Kingsbury style thrust bearings, stacked blocks, staved slots, horizontal, shell, no moving parts.

8)Installation and handling, special handling is necessary for successful installation that will ensure longevity for decades. Discussions will include storage, temperature range, adjusting and maintaining the bearings. Water conditions and shaft conditions lignum vitae can operate in will be discussed.

9) Bearing Design, Engineering, value engineering, reverse engineering and antidotal engineering, MOE, PV, COF, speeds, working loads, grades of material, shock absorbing quality, toughness, edge loading, case studies of value engineering will be presented. Machining LV and tools required, speed rates and hook angles will be discussed.

10)Conversions from oil film Babbitt, composites and plastics to LV, how to add more bearing surface when converting certain types of composites such as Ryertex.

11)Hone in place and when to use.

12)Testimonials of operators.

We will also have golf tees, guitar picks, pads, and block samples to take away.

Seminar Overview:

Have you ever wondered about the benefits of water-lubricated bearings?
Have you considered Lignum Vitae bearings, but don’t really understand why they last so long, can work in virtually any size plant, and can’t believe they can out-perform other bearing types in certain applications?
If you answered yes to these two questions, then this educational seminar is for you!

You’ll spend the afternoon with a team of experts, who will be on hand to explain the different applications for lignum vitae water-lubricated bearings, their design, applications and types.

Do you have problems with inordinate run out, or an aging shaft that seems to eat bearings? Maybe your power plant has vibration issues or you’re just not getting the life out of a set of bearings that you think you should. The team of experts will address these and other issues by explaining the unique properties of lignum vitae.

Lignum vitae is the oldest water-lubricated bearing in operation today. Prior to 1920, 100% of the hydro plants in the United States spun on lignum vitae. Thomas Edison specified lignum vitae bearings in 1882 for the Appleton, Wisconsin, Hydro Plant that was the first hydro plant in North America.

There is a long list of customers in North America that currently have about 10,000 MW using lignum vitae as the bearing of choice. During the seminar, you will hear from some of these experts who have decades of experience in hydro. This educational seminar will be designed to give you an overview of water-lubricated bearings and why they trend to replace oil filmed bearings to water-lubricated bearings. Lignum vitae is the oldest water-lubricated bearing and has a rich history with documented cases of the bearings lasting 67 years by the Army Corps of Engineers.

This seminar will explain why Lignum Vitae has unique properties that provide superior longevity and can keep an aging plant running like the Osage Plant owned by Ameren in Missouri.

What you will you learn and see!

1. Why Lignum Vitae Water Lubricated Bearings can extend the life of your aging Power Plant

2. Why Lignum Vitae Bearings are the Longest Lasting Water Lubricated Bearing available

3. Why Water Lubricated Bearings are important to the future of Hydro

4. How to convert from oil film or composites to water-lubricated bearings

Speakers:

Bob Shortridge, President, Lignum Vitae North America, LLC , Powhatan, Virginia

Mike Dupuis, President, Hydrotech, Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada

Bruno Cestra, General Manager, Hydrotech, Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada

John Andrews, Owner, Powerhouse Mechanical, North Carolina
Presentation Topics

1. Bearing Type Identification

Thrust, Horizontal, Stave, Stack Block, Shell
2. Bearing Grades:

Clear/ Knotty
Where? Why?
3. Applications: Main Guides, Thrust, Intermediate, 1-100MW

4. General Conditions

Shaft Quality, Water Quality, Unstable Unit, Turbine (shaft imbalance)
5. Mechanical Properties

Water Lubricated -Zero Tolerance (How? Why?)
6. Generally Accepted Engineering Specifications – MOE, COF, PV values