Industrial lubricants

Industrial lubricants

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Industrial lubricants

Steam turbine

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A mechanical device that extracts thermal energy from pressurised steam. The energy is converted into a rotary motion that drives a device.

Statistical process control (SPC)

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

The use of control charts to track and eliminate variables in repetitive manufacturing processes, in order to ensure that the product is of consistent and predictable quality. If a chart reveals only ...

Stationary seal

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A mechanical seal in which the flexible members do not rotate with the shaft.

Static seal

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

A seal between two surfaces which have no relative motion.

Static friction

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

The force just sufficient to initiate relative motion between two bodies under load. The value of the static friction at the instant relative motion begins is termed break-away friction.

Spur gear

Industrial machinery; Industrial lubricants

This is the simplest variation of gear. It consists of a cylinder or disk, with the teeth projecting radially. Each tooth edge is straight and aligned parallel to the axis of rotation. Such gears can ...