Journal Bearing Case Study

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1.1. Problem Statement: Journal bearings are some of the most important machine elements used in industrial applications. They are widely used in IC engines, steam and gas turbines, pumps, compressors, etc. When well designed and maintained, they have benefits of supporting high load carrying capacity with a wide range of speeds and unlimited life in comparison with the expense and limited life of ball and roller bearings. Cylindrical journal bearing normally consists of a journal supported by a simple sleeve and sufficient supply of lubricant. The circular hydrodynamic journal bearing becomes noncircular when it was subjected to the wear due to successive starts and stops for a long period of work. This local variation in geometry of the …show more content…

Now a day, lubricants containing nanoparticles are widely used in lubricating journal bearing due to their improved Tribological properties. It has been found that adding nanoparticles to the oil leads to increase the oil viscosity and hence the load carrying capacity of the bearing. Hence these types of lubricants can be used as a wear correction and a temporary treatment for the bearings suffer from wear to extend their life. In the present work, the performance of worn journal bearing has been extensively discussed when it is lubricated with oil containing TiO2 nanoparticles added to the base oil with different particle concentrations by weight. A little work related to the using of nanolubricant as a bearing wear corrector or a temporary treatment to extend the worn journal bearing life is the motivation behind the present work. Thermal performance of the worn bearing has been always compared with that of intact bearing. For this purpose, the worn journal bearing has been numerically simulated using the modified Reynolds equation to include the effect of induced oil film temperature on the oil viscosity and the energy

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