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Wesley Doorsamy
through speed control, and have inbuilt softstart capabilities the conveyor geared reducer.
Geared Reducer
Reverse drivingaccelerating
Dynamic Braking
Reverse drivingbraking
shows that for a 50% decrease in peak torque, there is a 50% decrease in bending stress and a 70% decrease in the contact stress.
Bearing failure
Bearing failure due to VSD use
occurs as a result of induced voltages transmitted from the motor shaft through the input coupling. oil film within the bearing cause pitting, fluting and ultimately failure.
Bearing failure
To prevent the voltages from
being transmitted to the bearings, it is recommended that an insulating coupling be used as a high-speed coupling. spider type or pin and bush type couplings.
Lubrication failure
lubricated.
Lubrication failure
If the VSD is used for low speed operation, The use of troughs and oil ports must be
generally input speeds below 800rpm, the use of a shaft-driven oil pump is recommended. investigated to adequate feed oil supplied to the bearings.
Pump size 0,37kW 0,55kW Oil Flow [l/min] 9-14 18-22
Thermal failure
Thermal failure
Although the VSD does not
supply maximum load at slow speed operation, the heat generated is usually higher than that which the unit can dissipate through radiation alone. The AGMA defined heat transfer coefficient of a reducer is determined relative to airspeed over the unit, which is proportional to the motor speed.
Air speed Heat transfer over unit coefficient [m/s] [kW/(m2C)]
2,5 5,0
10,0 15,0
0,015 0,024
0,042 0,058
Thermal failure
1,5
1,0 @ 40C
100
75 50 25
84,0
60,8 35,2 17,9
76,5
56,2 37,5 18,8
If lubrication is considered:
1480 2,05 = = 326,60 42 19 8 = 42 = 342,29 cos 11 2 0,3423 5,85 = 326,60 = 60 2
Hence a shaft driven pump is required for VSD operation. This case study shows that thermal rating and lubrication
must be investigated for VSD operation.
The correct use of a VS can improve the life of While incorrect use can drastically reducer
reliability of the gear unit.