EHD
The EHD can allow extensive research into the fundamental behaviour of a new sustainable lubricant's ability to form EHL films.
Although they are the clearest examples of green industries, wind turbines and electric cars represent only a part of the rapid growth in, and variety of green industries. Using our instruments, tribologists around the world are helping to improve the efficiency and reliability needed to make these industries viable.
In renewable power, efficiency and reliability are key. Take wind power as an example and you find that the profit margins over the life of a turbine are narrow due to high setup costs, and the huge costs associated with maintenance, downtime, and repairs. Reliability is therefore key in ensuring wind power remains a viable power source for the future. Tribology plays a critical role in this as common failure mechanisms in wind turbines such as excess wear, micro and macro pitting, false brinelling and cracking can all be investigated using instruments from PCS.
Efficiency and reliability are just as important in other industries, such as the electric car market. Currently one of the hurdles facing the mass uptake of electric cars is their range and cost. One way to solve both these issues is improving efficiency, something currently being studied by tribologists around the world. Improving drivetrain efficiency would mean electric cars would need fewer batteries to go the same distance – thus cutting costs – or you could keep the same number of batteries but go further for the same cost.
PCS Instruments is giving tribologists the tools to develop new and improved fuels, lubricants, and additives, in turn helping to solve the multitude of problems green industries are facing, and ultimately fight climate change.
The EHD can allow extensive research into the fundamental behaviour of a new sustainable lubricant's ability to form EHL films.
The EHD-HS increases the available speed testing window of the EHD to provide key information at system extremes essential for developing high performing sustainable lubrication solutions.
Improving lubricants' and materials' behaviour in reducing power losses and increasing system reliability in high load applications essential in finding green solutions can be realised using the ETM.
The HFRR allows effective research into alternative green fuels and lubricants as well as wear modes such as false brinelling and fretting.
The HPR opens doors to researching new and sustainable fuels such as Hydrogen in heavy industry and ammonia and methanol in marine applications.
The HSD is critical in developing a deeper understanding in high-speed tribological applications such as those found in electric vehicles which are pivotal in developing green and sustainable energy solutions.
The MPR is critical in overcoming the significant challenges around efficiency and reliability of machine elements to enable longer lasting, more effective greener solutions.
The MTM offers a versatile tribology testing platform capable of performing fundamental research on the chemistry and tribological behaviour of sustainable lubrication solutions.
The MTM-EC allows for a thorough analysis of electric fields across tribological contacts which are an ever increasing phenomenon especially in energy sustainable solutions such as electric vehicles.
