An innovative process to enable the automated manufacture of aluminium-tin alloy for machinery bearing elements

一种创新工艺，可实现机械轴承元件用铝锡合金的自动化制造

• 批准号: 10084682
• 金额: $ 17.94万
• 依托单位: OILTECH BEARINGS LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10084682
• 关键词: innovative; process; enable; automated; manufacture

Oiltech Bearings is a UK-based oil film bearings SME with a core project team of Dr Keith Chester (bearing business owner), Ronald Scott (metallurgist and owner, UKCAS- approved test house) and Patrick Chester (bearing designer/mechanical engineer). The international market for machinery bearings is over reliant on white metal lined bearings and for arduous applications reliant on copper-lead alloys that are environmentally damaging and are almost impossible to repair once worn. Aluminium-tin alloys offer an environmentally friendly, cost-effective alternative for use on both types of bearing but its processing systems are complex and do not allow for its use beyond thin shell bearings.Oiltech is developing an automated manufacturing system that will enable aluminium-tin alloys to be used for multiple new bearing designs and applications to the benefit of machinery-related industries worldwide. Precisely controlled aluminium-tin bulk bearing materials will enable higher operating temperatures and smaller, more energy-efficient machines and markedly faster delivery and production times at cost savings of up to 50%. The process will enable 10% energy savings in the parasitic losses for oil film bearings in machinery such as a large turbines and enable system-level OPEX savings for bearings in service.On successful completion of this project a range of other opportunities will be studied using this unique approach. Incorporation of graphene or graphite into metal matrix composites are considered to be potential applications for future development.

OilTech轴承是一家位于英国的石油膜轴承中小企业，由Keith Chester博士（轴承企业主），Ronald Scott（Metalallurgist兼UKCAS-批准的Test House）和Patrick Chester（轴承/机械工程师）的核心项目团队。国际机械轴承市场过于依赖白色金属衬里轴承，以及依赖于环境破坏且一旦磨损几乎无法修复的铜铅合金的艰巨应用。铝锡合金提供了一种环保，具有成本效益的替代方案，可用于两种类型的轴承，但其处理系统很复杂，不允许其使用薄壳轴承，而Ooiltech正在开发一种自动化的制造系统，该制造系统将使铝合金可用于多种新轴承设计和应用机械工业型铝合金，并将其用于多种新轴承设计和应用。精确控制的铝锡块轴承材料将启用更高的工作温度，更小，更节能的机器，并以高达50％的成本节省价格明显更快地交付和生产时间。该过程将在机械（例如大型涡轮机）中的油膜轴承中寄生损失中节省10％的能源，并为服务轴承提供了系统级的OPEX节省。在成功完成该项目的过程中，将使用这种独特的方法来研究其他机会。将石墨烯或石墨掺入金属基质复合材料中被认为是未来开发的潜在应用。