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© 2024 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.

Abstract

Studying rotor-bearing systems involving fluid film bearings is essential for designing and assessing the dynamic responses and performance of rotating machinery. They are involved in many applications such as pumps, turbines, and engines. Water-lubricated bearings are often used in many applications where the use of oil-based lubricants is not desirable, such as in environmentally sensitive areas such as water desalination. In this study, dynamic analysis is performed to identify the stability regions that prevent the application of water-lubricated journal bearings. This is achieved by solving the system equations of motion and then using an infinitesimal perturbation method to evaluate the second-order bearing coefficients of a journal bearing. In this paper, a steel shaft supported by two symmetrical journal bearings was used to investigate the system stability analysis. A test rig is designed and manufactured to examine the rotor’s dynamic behavior and verify the theoretical outcomes of the FE model, utilizing the bearing coefficients based on second-order analysis. Furthermore, this study compares the two fluids, both theoretically and experimentally, investigating their impact on the rotor-bearing system at different rotational speeds. The theoretical findings indicate that the threshold speed for journal bearings is significantly higher when using water as the lubricant fluid film compared to using oil as the lubricant fluid. Additionally, because of the low viscosity of water, water-lubricated bearings are susceptible to significant wear and noise in operating conditions. Our experiments show that an oil lubricant provides less response than a water lubricant for unbalanced rotors within the tested speed range.

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Title
A Comparative Study of Theoretical and Experimental Analysis on Balanced and Unbalanced Rotors Supported by Oil- and Water-Lubricated Journal Bearings
Author
Ahmed, Omar 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; El-Sayed, Tamer A 2 ; Hussein Sayed 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 Department of Mechanical Design, Faculty of Engineering, Mataria, Helwan University, Helmeiat-Elzaton, Cairo P.O. Box 11718, Egypt; [email protected] (O.A.); [email protected] (H.S.) 
 Department of Mechanical Design, Faculty of Engineering, Mataria, Helwan University, Helmeiat-Elzaton, Cairo P.O. Box 11718, Egypt; [email protected] (O.A.); [email protected] (H.S.); Centre for Applied Dynamics Research, School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, UK; School of Engineering, UH Hosted by Global Academic Foundation, Cairo, Egypt 
First page
675
Publication year
2024
Publication date
2024
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
20751702
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
3120678431
Copyright
© 2024 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.