Hydropower
With increasing environmental and legislative pressure to control release of oils and greases into rivers, our materials offer an excellent solution – able to run dry in certain hydropower applications and with water lubrication in others.
Applications
- Main turbine bearings
- Guide vanes (wicket gates)
- Hub bearings
- Trash racks
- Sluice gate slides
- Control linkages
- Segmented shaft seals
- Valve bearings
Pump bearings
Advantages
- High load capability
- Very low swell
- Low wear characteristics – long life
- High edge loading capability
- Can operate dry/grease/oil/water lubricated
- EAL compatible
- Resistance to particle embedding
- Shaft friendly
- Can be freeze fitted
- Dimensionally stable
- Competitive price
Hydropower Materials
- ACM TriboTex 7M (formerly ACM L7M)
- Water lubricated applications
- ACM TriboGlide 15M+ (formerly ACM L15MP)
- Dry running applications
- Very low friction
- Low wear
- ACM TriboSeal (formerly ACM L10KG10)
- Segmented shaft seals
- Split axial seals
Case Studies
Our range covers many different hydropower applications but where a current material cannot meet a specification we are able to tailor the ingredients to improve certain desirable properties and are able to develop completely new materials where needed.
Healey Falls, Ontario, Canada
- 6.3 MW
- Andritz CAT
Maentwrog Hydroelectric Power Station, Wales
- Wicket gate bushes
- Replacing bronze
- Four turbines
- Total 24 MW
Let's Work Together!
Our materials are a range of advanced resin bonded, fibre reinforced bearing materials combining engineering fabrics, thermosetting resins and solid lubricants.
Choose Our Fit And Forget Bearing Solutions Today.
Location
5407 Bridge Street
Niagara Falls, Ontario
L2E 2T5