Turbolink is a leading manufacturer of fluid film bearings for high-speed rotating machinery such as turbines, generators, compressors, pumps, and motors. It offers a comprehensive portfolio of bearing products including tilting pad journal bearings, thrust bearings, and combined bearing assemblies. Turbolink also provides technical support services including bearing design, analysis, testing, repair, and retrofitting to optimize customer applications. The company has over a decade of experience serving major global OEMs and strives to develop high-quality, customized solutions through its research and testing facilities.
Turbolink is a leading manufacturer of fluid film bearings for high-speed rotating machinery such as turbines, generators, compressors, pumps, and motors. It offers a comprehensive portfolio of bearing products including tilting pad journal bearings, thrust bearings, and combined bearing assemblies. Turbolink also provides technical support services including bearing design, analysis, testing, repair, and retrofitting to optimize customer applications. The company has over a decade of experience serving major global OEMs and strives to develop high-quality, customized solutions through its research and testing facilities.
Turbolink is a leading manufacturer of fluid film bearings for high-speed rotating machinery such as turbines, generators, compressors, pumps, and motors. It offers a comprehensive portfolio of bearing products including tilting pad journal bearings, thrust bearings, and combined bearing assemblies. Turbolink also provides technical support services including bearing design, analysis, testing, repair, and retrofitting to optimize customer applications. The company has over a decade of experience serving major global OEMs and strives to develop high-quality, customized solutions through its research and testing facilities.
Turbolink is a leading manufacturer of fluid film bearings for high-speed rotating machinery such as turbines, generators, compressors, pumps, and motors. It offers a comprehensive portfolio of bearing products including tilting pad journal bearings, thrust bearings, and combined bearing assemblies. Turbolink also provides technical support services including bearing design, analysis, testing, repair, and retrofitting to optimize customer applications. The company has over a decade of experience serving major global OEMs and strives to develop high-quality, customized solutions through its research and testing facilities.
Manufcturing Engineering Consulting Service & Retrofit
F L U I D F I L M B E A R I N G S : 2012. 10
#111 5th Standard Factory, 41-3 Paryongdong, Changwon, 641-847 Korea
Tel : +82-55-267-3715 Fax : +82-55-267-3765 E-mail : [email protected]
aBouT TurBolinK CHO O SE TU BO RL IN K, I F Y OU WO ULD D EFIN E THE FUTUR E T
excellent quality - Proven by reliability testing lab - use the famous white metal of ecka granules
Can do assist technical supports
- Provide rotordynamic analysis as well as bearing characteristics
Short lead time
- Standard lead time is no longer than 15 weeks
approved to iSo 9001, iSo 14001
-The scope of the registration is detailed as the design, development and manufacture of fluid film bearing
Can do design and manufacture any kinds of
bearings - Very flexible to special order - Can improve the bearing shape for special requirements
urbolink is a leading manufacturer of fluid film bearings for high
speed rotating machinery.
Turbolink products include a complete line of vertical bearing assembly,
tilting pad journal bearing, self equalizing tilting pad thrust bearings, flatland and taper-land thrust bearings, horizontal bearing assembly, as well as medium & thin wall journal bearings. Turbolink is also well-equipped to deliver aftermarket service that optimizes the performance of critical application bearings. our dedicated special engineers diagnose, analyze, test, repair and replace worn bearings quickly and efficiently, then return them to you as good as or better than new.
THe HiSTorY oF TurBolinK Bearing
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- establishment of Turbolink
- SaMSung TeCHWin(Korea) for Turbo compressor bearings - dooSan H.i(Korea) for Steam turbine & generator bearings - Korea PoWer PlanT(Korea) for Steam turbine & generator bearings
- establishment of r&d center
- award of iSo 9001:2000
Certificate - HYundai H. i.(Korea) for CoPT bearings - HYundai H. i.(Korea) for Motor VCB(Vertical combined bearing) bearings
- award of neP(new excellent Product) Certificate on Tilting pad journal bearing - HYundai H. i.(Korea) for Pump VCB bearings - MHi (Japan) for CoPT bearings - award of iSo 14001:2004 Certificate
- HYoSung(Korea) for Horizontal motor bearings
- ToriSHiMa PuMP (Japan)
for BFP bearings - FloWSerVe(Spain) for VCB bearings - HYundai ideal(uSa) for VCB bearings - HYoSung eBara(Korea) for Pump VCB bearings
- aBB(Finland) for Motor
VCB bearings - KuBoTa (Japan) for Pump VCB bearings
- KoBelCo(Japan) for Turbo compressor bearings - SieMenS(China) for Steam turbine bearings - Wuxi-TeCo(China) for Motor bearings - MelCo(Japan) for generator bearings
- award certificate for
outstanding export performance($1-Million export tower) - JYoTi(india) for Pump VCB bearings - HiTaCHi niCo(Japan) for gear box bearings
- eBara(Japan) for Pump
VCB bearings - dMW(Japan) for Pump bearings
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TILTING PAD JOURNAL BEARING
Turbolink tilting pad journal bearings are numerous to ensure that the requirements of each
Turbolink received the certificate of new excellent product(NEP) from Ministry of Knowledge Economy, the
rotating machine can be met in well. Our design skills supply a variety of pad pivot types to
Republic of Korea with tilting pad journal bearing for turbine and generators(5pad type).
provide varying degrees of alignment capability, hydrostatic jacking, double
tilting and electrical insulation. Turbolink can provide you the bearing characteristics of load capacity, minimum film thickness, maximum bearing metal temperature as well as stiffness and damping coefficients in order to design the bearings which are more compatible with your rotating machinery.
Characteristics Double tilting pad journal bearings - Less sensitive to shaft alignment - Pivot type : Point pivot, Ball socket pivot - Direction of load : LOP(Load On Pads), LBP(Load Between Pads) Anti spragging bearings - Preloaded bearings - Optimum pivot bearings Hydrodynamically stable at high speed Applications Turbine, Generator, Compressor, Gear Box, Pump, Motor
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TILTING PAD THRUST BEARING
Turbolink has designed and manufactured customized tilting
excellent force-balancing function which allows each shoe to
pad thrust bearings for many rotating machinery based on
carry an equal amount of the total thrust load.
broad experience. Self-equalizing thrust bearings have
Characteristics Self-equalizing Less sensitive to misaligned thrust load Optimum pad number design Optimum pivot Direct lubrication Applications Turbine, Generator, Compressor, Pump, Motor
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JOURNAL & THRUST COMBINED BEARING
FIXED PROFILE BEARING
Turbolink Journal & Thrust combined bearings are developed
bearings are commonly used. With tilting pads, directed
Fixed profile bearing is a kind of bearing that has been used
bearing that has thrust surface on both ends of journal
for turbo-machines at high speed. High speed turbo-machines
lubrication is always used to reduce pad metal temperature.
for the longest period and its efficiency has been approved
bearing is also produced. Even though multi-lobe type of
with flexible shafts demand journal bearings in terms of their
by using for long period. Fixed bearing is generally applied
journal bearing among fixed profile bearings can be used
required dynamic properties ; 4 or 5 pad tilting pad journal
to the rotary machine that is loaded by heavy weight with
sometimes as high speed purpose, however tilting pad
low speed and high speed and it is widely used due to its
journal bearing is mainly used in case of very high speed in
simple design. Fixed profile bearing is applied to journal
consideration of safety.
Characteristics Compact design - The minimum practical axial length Optimum pivot bearings Bearings are combined as follows - Tilting pad journal bearing & Tilting pad thrust bearing - Multi axial groove journal bearing & Tilting pad thrust bearing - Tilting pad journal bearing & Flat land thrust bearing - Tilting pad journal bearing & Taper land thrust bearing Applications Turbo-compressor Turbo-chiller
bearing and thrust bearing as well. Combined type of
Characteristics Simplicity Compact Journal bearing : Cylindrical type, Elliptical type, Multi-lobe type Thrust bearing : Land type, Taper land type Applications Turbine, Generator, Compressor, Motor, Pump
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VERTICAL GUIDE & THRUST BEARING
Turbolink vertical bearings are a standard range of vertical
combined bearings are usually self contained with water
bearings, which are robust, lightweight (dependant on size)
coolers which can be modified for different methods (i.e. air
and self lubricating. These bearings can be fitted with a
cooled and circulated oil variations) only by minor
variety of resistance temperature devices to measure the
modification of casing.
temperature of the lubricating oil or pads. Turbolink vertical
Characteristics Guide & thrust combined bearings - Tilting pad guide bearing + Tilting pad thrust bearing - Cooling type : Air cooling, Fan cooling, Water cooling - Hydrostatic lubrication Applications Vertical pump, Vertical motor, Generator
Vertical guide & thrust bearing
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HORIZONTAL MOTOR BEARING
Turbolink HM center flange bearings are specifically
consist of cast iron housings with or without insulation and
designed for motor and generators. HM bearings are
bearing shell lined with tin based whitemetal. The spherical
functionally and dimensionally interchangeable with DIN
seating assists alignment at assembly. All standard parts
31694 and ISO 11687-3 bearings. HM bearing assemblies
are fully split.
Components Bearing shell - Circular or elliptical type - Thrust face Bearing housing Seal - Floating labyrinth seal Oil ring for lubricating
Hot Oil
cold oil
Cooling type Natural air cooling Forced air cooling Water cooling Recirculating oil lubrication with external cooling of oil
Medium&Thin Wall Journal Bearing
Turbolink medium & thin wall journal bearings are
Turbolink can provide high stable bearings developed based
specifically designed for high speed and light load rotating
on experience, bearing analysis and rotor dynamic analysis.
machinery which needs high stable characteristics.
Characteristics Cost down through compact design and adaptability Less radial space Made as interchangeable halves Spares easy to handle and transport Lower stock holding costs for spares Applications COPT (Cargo Oil Pump Turbine)
Air Cooling
Horizontal Bearing Assemblies with Air Cooling
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R&D CENTER
TEST FACILITIES
Turbolink Research & Development center has been
is greater capacity, higher operating speed, or any special
studying and developing high quality bearings by theoretical
requirement, each improvement Turbolink makes means
analysis as well as experimental analysis. Whether the goal
more performance for you.
Turbolink has an on-site laboratory for operational testing.
This allows us to modify our designs and verify the performance of our enhancements under various kinds of application conditions. Turbolink has three journal bearing
test rigs and one thrust bearing test rig. Circumferential
distributions of film pressure and film thickness as well as bearing metal temperatures are measured according to the change of speed and load.
Bearing and Rotordynamic Analysis
When a bearing fails, accurate diagnosis is the key to repair it. Turbolink bearing experts carry out full rotating machine studies (bearing characteristic analysis and rotor dynamic
