Large Rings, Huge Energy Savings

Yesterday we made some large composite wear rings for water pumps. This was a major overhaul and our original material ran excellent for the last 9.5 years.

These pumps run in a desalination plant and are in contact with seawater with high chlorine content from the reverse osmosis process.

The decision was made to use our material for three major reasons:

- Huge efficiency improvements due to running on closer wear ring clearances.
- No electrical corrosion problems between different metals.
- Return on investment (R.O.I.) was below 1 year.

Tenmax developed a special composite material and machining process to ensure the best fit and the machining tolerances of these huge thermoplastic composite rings.

For more information or inquiries please contact one of our engineers here.