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Liberty Lines’ Advanced Hybrid Ferries Fitted with Thordon’s COMPAC For Optimum Efficiency

Thordon Bearings has completed the delivery and installation of propeller shaft and rudder bearings to a series of environmentally advanced high-speed ferries under construction for Italian operator Liberty Lines.

https://thordonbearings.com/news/2024/11/20/liberty-lines-advanced-hybrid-ferries-fitted-with-thordon-s-compac-for-optimum-efficiency

18 seawater-lubricated COMPAC propeller shaft bearings and nine grease-free SXL rudder bearings, that while the Spanish shipbuilding group has a number of years’ experience with Thordon’s SXL material, friendliness of seagoing ships. In addition to their COMPAC propeller shaft and SXL rudder bearings

Thordon Secures Contract to Retrofit Tailshaft Bearings Across Panama Fleet of 32 Tugs

Thordon Bearings has secured a significant contract to convert the rubber tailshaft bearings across an entire fleet of Panama-operating tugs, pilot vessels, and workboats to water-lubricated polymer bearings. The agreement with the unnamed operator follows the successful retrofitting of Thordon’s SXL tailshaft bearings to twelve of its twin-screw tugs last year during scheduled dry dockings.

https://thordonbearings.com/news/2024/05/21/thordon-secures-contract-to-retrofit-tailshaft-bearings-across-panama-fleet-of-32-tugs

of Thordon’s SXL tailshaft bearings to twelve of its twin-screw tugs last year during scheduled dry dockings, and SXL rudder bearings; which both operate without the use of grease. Egnard Bernal, Thordon, with SXL at scheduled dry dockings over the next few years. This is a significant order for Thordon

Thordon Bearings' Polymer Technology Power Success in Vietnam's Hydropower Sector

Thordon Bearings pioneering polymer bearing technology is gaining traction in Vietnam’s hydropower market, following the performance success of its self-lubricating bearings retrofitted to 5 turbines at the Sơn La Hydropower plant. Thordon’s wicket gate and linkage bearings have been in continuous use for four years and were installed when the company was asked to provide an alternative to a competing system, some parts of which had failed after just two years under the intensive conditions at the dam.

https://thordonbearings.com/news/2024/02/27/thordon-bearings'-polymer-technology-power-success-in-vietnam's-hydropower-sector

SXL operating ring wear pads, Thordon Thor-Flex wicket gate seals, and SXL upper and lower gate seal, .” Thordon’s solution to these problems involved using Thor-Flex and Thordon SXL for the lower and upper gate seals, and SXL for the operating ring wear pads. Thorseals were used in place

Thordon Tailshaft Package Selected After Competitor Solution Wears NIRSA Down

Ecuador’s foremost tuna fishing operator NIRSA has completed a project to convert the tailshaft seals and bearings aboard the 1973-built tuna vessel BP EL Marquez to a seawater-lubricated package from Thordon Bearings. In total, four Thordon SXL propeller shaft bearings and a pair of TG100 mechanical shaft seals, each of which features Thordon’s emergency-safe-return-to-port (SRTP) capability, replaced a competitor’s seawater-lubricated bearings and stuffing box after the shaft had suffered early wear due to gland packing. Bronze shaft liners were also included in the Thordon scope of supply in what marked a significant retrofit project that required the renewal of shafts, sterntubes, seals and bearings.

https://thordonbearings.com/news/2023/06/13/thordon-tailshaft-package-selected-after-competitor-solution-wears-nirsa-down

from Thordon Bearings. In total, four Thordon SXL propeller shaft bearings and a pair of TG100, a goal to reduce its environmental impact through improved vessel performance – the SXL and TG100, but “Inrioch’s team was able to easily re-machine the SXL material and adapt the TG100 seal to suit, vessels. In addition to converting their propeller shaft bearings to the SXL material, the greased

Thordon Pumped to Deliver Bearings in Record Time

When a well-known industrial pump manufacturer needed four fully finished vertical pump bearings within three days to meet an urgent delivery deadline, Thordon Bearings’ Customer Service team orchestrated a solution to deliver the 6in (152.3mm) diameter water lubricated SXL bearings on time.

https://thordonbearings.com/news/2021/04/05/thordon-pumped-to-deliver-bearings-in-record-time

orchestrated a solution to deliver the 6in (152.3mm) diameter water lubricated SXL bearings on time, . The customer received all four SXL bearings within the very tight deadline and was able to have, customers’ needs.” The SXL grade, the market leader in grease-free vertical pump bearings, , the SXL bearing has a working pressure to 10 MPa (1450 psi) and is highly resistant to abrasion

Rudder Bearings

https://thordonbearings.com/marine/naval-coast-guard/ice-breakers/rudder-bearings

Rudder Bearings SXL Thordon pintle, stock and carrier disc, and Coast Guard vessels. Thordon SXL rudder bearings operate without grease above and below the waterline approved for pressures up to 12 N/mm2 (1740 psi). SXL offers high abrasion resistance and can, Thordon SXL Grease-Free Rudder Bearings Brochure PDF, 1019.58 KB SXL Rudder Carrier Bearings Brochure

Rudder Bearings

https://thordonbearings.com/marine/naval-coast-guard/surface-fleet/rudder-bearings

Rudder Bearings SXL Thordon pintle, stock and carrier disc, and Coast Guard vessels. Thordon SXL rudder bearings operate without grease above and below the waterline approved for pressures up to 12 N/mm2 (1740 psi). SXL offers high abrasion resistance and can, Thordon SXL Grease-Free Rudder Bearings Brochure PDF, 1019.58 KB SXL Rudder Carrier Bearings Brochure PDF, 337.90 KB

Hydrodynamic Bearings Part 2: Reducing Friction

As mentioned previously, theoretically you can use any fluid to create a hydrodynamic bearing, but each fluid has limitations on the load and speed that it is capable of supporting.

https://thordonbearings.com/newsworks/blog-posts/2010/11/16/hydrodynamic-bearings-part-2-reducing-friction

As mentioned previously, theoretically you can use any fluid to create a hydrodynamic bearing, but each fluid has limitations on the load and speed that it is capable of supporting. For our water lubricated bearings, at zero speed the coefficient of friction between the shaft and bearing will equal the static friction coefficient (~0.25-0.35 for SXL). As the relative speed between the surfaces increases, we see the coefficient drop quickly until it reaches a minimum of approximately 0.01

Documents for Rudder Bearings for Workboat & Tug

https://thordonbearings.com/marine/workboat-tug/rudder-bearings/documents-for-rudder-bearings-for-workboat-tug

Thordon SXL Grease-Free Rudder Bearings Brochure PDF, 1019.58 KB SXL Rudder Carrier Bearings Brochure

Thordon Reduces Hydro Maintenance in Spain with Numerous Water Lubricated Bearing Conversions

As Spain looks to enhance and upgrade its renewable energy sources, the country’s utilities are looking once again to reliable and cost effective hydro-electric power. Canada’s Thordon Bearings is helping to lower operational costs and improve the environmental credentials of several older Spanish hydro power stations.

https://thordonbearings.com/news/2020/01/09/thordon-reduces-hydro-maintenance-in-spain-with-numerous-water-lubricated-bearing-conversions

replacing the existing oil bearing and seal with a Thordon SXL elastomeric bearing in a new split, radial segmented seals can be easily replaced with Thordon SXL seals, which offer a greatly, Argone installation. CH Argone had its axial carbon seal replaced with a Thordon SXL seal in 2016, successfully. We have upgraded two more similar plants for Iberdrola to Thordon SXL segmented shaft seals in the past year, and the operator is considering further carbon to SXL shaft seal upgrades