Blower Bearing Outer Race Defect

Routine inspection detected a defect in the LOA bearing of the blower. Preventive maintenance during a scheduled shutdown avoided higher expenses and confirmed the defect.

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In a routine inspection, an increase in the overall value was detected with a defect characteristic in the external raceway of the LOA bearing of the blower.

In this sense, maintenance planning was carried out, taking advantage of a scheduled shutdown carried out by production. Thus, the gain of acting preventively on the equipment was obtained, avoiding a possible higher expense.

After maintenance, the overall values dropped and the defect represented by spectrum was confirmed!

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Category: Vibration Case Study
Language: English
Reading Time: 1 min
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blower outer race bearing defect
Original Authors
Vitor Barbosa
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Reliability

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