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Protecting Equipment in
Tough Environments
Equipment availability and reliability is the life blood of mining, mineral processing, and cement operations. When crews are working far from home in some of the toughest conditions on earth, downtime has bigger costs than lost days. Since most accidents occur during maintenance, keeping your equipment running smoothly is critical. Keep your workers and your business safe with proven industry solutions including in-depth knowledge of new environmental regulations and challenges from Sealing Solutions.
Available through Applied®, these products are supported by fluid power specialists and application expertise to help customers address the challenges of maintaining and operating hydraulic systems in demanding environments.
Protection Against Common Failure Modes
Achieving a high Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and keep maintenance efforts as low as possible is significantly challenging, specially under the very harsh conditions in the mining, mineral processing and cement industry, due to:
• Heavily contaminated environment
• Large sized equipment
• Broad temperature range from very cold to high
• High speeds and torque
• Shock-loads
Not only account maintenance costs a high percentage of the overall mine's costs – unplanned maintenance stops could easily reach 3 to 5 times the cost of planned maintenance.
Supporting Maintenance Operations
A non-functioning seal is, in many cases, the root cause of unplanned stops. According to SKF bearing investigation data, circa 20% of bearing failures can be attributed to sealing issues, allowing loss of lubrication or contamination ingress. SKF Sealing Solutions seals are fighting friction and contamination and make the difference for mining, mineral processing and cement industry since decades – here's how:
• Outstanding seal quality
• SKF Sealing Solutions knowledge is knowing-why
• The right design for every application
• Broad portfolio from standard seals to highly engineered sealing solutions
• Proprietary skills
• Life span aligned with maintenance cycles
Pressure Fluids & Sealing Materials
Generally fire-resistant working fluids can greatly affect the integrity of sealing materials. Compared to mineral oils these fluids require a much more careful selection of compatible sealing materials.
SKF has many years of experience in sealing systems for these kinds of critical applications and has extensively investigated the compatibility of seals with these fluids.