Development of safety and secure system of high-speed oil film journal bearing using supply oil quantity control

Abstract

This paper describes the safety operating system of oil film journal bearing using supply oil control system. Journal bearings are widely used for high speed rotating machinery such as turbines, pumps, and compressors because they can support the high speed rotating shaft across the oil lubricating film. However, in higher speed self-excited vibration which is called oil whip is generated and then they cause the seizure of bearing surface or breakdown of the machinery. It is, therefore, important to avoid the oil whip. Hashimoto et. al. suggested the stabilization method of the journal bearing using starved lubrication and the applicability of the method is verified theoretically and experimentally. The next step of the stabilization method is decreasing the several risks such as the contact of the bearing excess of decreasing the supply oil quantity. In this paper, we propose the safety and secure system by controlling the supply oil quantity for stabilization of the journal bearing using the starved lubrication and the effectiveness of the system is verified experimentally.