Combined this knowledge and experience with a broad range of magnetic bearing software and hardware configurations, engineers at HERMANN KEMPER Magnetic Levitation Bearings work collaboratively with world’s leading original equipment manufacturers and end users in oil & gas, power generation and defense markets to better understand their challenges and apply our technology to enhance the performance of their equipment.
Features and Benefits
- Increasing reliability and availability
- Reducing the need for on-site maintenance
- Energy efficient, robust technology with demonstrated availability of 99.9%
- Controllable rotordynamics
- Leading auxiliary bearing technology for superior investment protection
- Environmentally friendly with reduced infrastructure requirements
- Elimination of many auxiliaries, including lubrication systems
- Lowest total cost of ownership over the life of the equipment
- Reduced size
- Fault tolerance
- Subsea
- Split thrust bearings
- Hazardous areas
Applications
- High-speed compressors for refrigerant and air
- Gas compression equipment
- Motors as prime mover
- Fans
- Pumps
- High-speed blowers
- Turboexpanders
- Gas turbine engines
- High speed
- High efficiency
- No oil lubrication
- No mechanical friction
To simplify integration into a system, the control electronics for the magnetic bearings are seamlessly incorporated into the drive train housing, greatly reducing the field wiring. These design innovations decrease the size and complexity of the machine, improve the dynamic performance, and increase the economic value of the system.
Applications:
- HVAC
- Oil & Gas
- Petrochemical
- Air Separation
- Aerospace & Defense
- Renewable & Recoverable Energy
Feature:
- Rated at 700 kW at 60,000 rpm
- Peak efficiency: ≥98%
- MTBF: ≥100,000 hrs
- Impeller can be mounted on shaft
- Internal components cooled with air
- Remote health monitoring via Ethernet port
- Permanent magnet rotor with low-loss, steel retention band
- Shaft supported on magnetic bearings with controls embedded in the machine housing
- Elimination of gearbox
- Elimination of oil lubrication system
- Elimination of hazardous, flammable, and contaminating lubricants
- Reduced integration and installation costs
- Improved electrical-mechanical conversion efficiency
- Improved reliability and reduced maintenance
- Reduced life cycle cost
- Quiet, vibration-free operation