Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co KG

Pakistan Liaison Office

Engineering Consultation Report

Important note:

This report is produced only for Bestway Chakwal Cement. If customer wishes to
reproduce or distribute entirely or any of its portion, he should inform us prior to that.

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Prepared By:
Tehseeen Abbasi, Technical Manager, Pakistan

Prepared For:
Bestway Cement, Chakwal, Choa Saidan Shah.

Our Reference:
T17012701

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Engineering Consultation Report

Introduction:
This report is prepared in accordance to company provided data of bearings and calculation are based on the
data by customer on-site or through emails. All suggestion are in good faith of improving the equipment
efficiencies, life and maintenance friendliness without changing anything related to its output.

Case in discussion:

(a) Clearance setting of TRB 32309 at pinion of gear box:

Application : 04 Belt Bucket Elevator Gear

Bearing Designation : 32309 BJ2/QEL (SKF)
Location : Pinion Shaft

Problem statement:

It is requested to provide exact formula/process for determination of tape roller bearing preload/axial
clearance in this case. (Planning Best way Cement Chakwal)

Comments:

 Proper clearance/preload setting of TRB (Tapered roller bearing) is required to ensure safe
function of gear set and bearing.
 As due to design of the TRB has no manufactured clearance of the bearing. Clearance or preload
can be set by user during mouting and maintenance.
 Clearance means (in general) leaving gap inside the bearing and preload means creating
interference inside the bearing, either by selecting shaft and housing tolerance.
 But for TRB this is achieved by setting adjacent parts of bearing, such as locking nut or end
covers.

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Choosing Between Clearance and Preload:

 Normally Maintenance department wonders that what should be the set clearance/preload of
TRB sets in gear boxes, and how to achieve that.
 First of all, the set value of clearance and preload for TRB set will always come from
manufacturer.
 In case of no information from manufacturer is available, then we normally suggest slight
clearance in the set, for lubrication purpose of the bearing and to avoid preload at high speed.
 We as general rule, unless advised by manufacturer, do not go for preload arrangement.
 Here we can saggregate, the mounting of TRB in (a) Mounted in a Pair (b) Mounted at a distance
on same shaft.
 In your case the situation is case “b” where the bearing are mounted in about 84.75 mm.
 Those bearings are not paired but mounted on the same shaft in “O” or “Back to Back”
arrangement.
 In this case, we need to (a) measure the clearance and also, (b) calculate the expected change
of clearance during operation.

How to set Clearance during mounting for set value:

 Assemble the gear box, and put it on an even surface in the work shop, in a way so that pinion
shaft can be lifted vertically.

 Now attach

 Now attached two dial gauges separated at 180 deg to each other and lift the shaft and read the
gauge.
 In this way you can set your desired clearance for the application.

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What should be appropriate clearance of this set:

 The appropriate clearance should be suggested by the manufacturer.

 If no guide line is available, then based on other experience we advise you should maintain a
clearance of 150-100 microns (or 0.1 to 0.15 mm).
 Here, we have calculated that in extreme case this bearing set will cause a preload due to
operational temperature approximately of value - 0.065 mm.
 This means, if we set a clearance between 0.1 mm to 0.15 mm then it should cover the preload
caused, during the operation.

B-11, Shahrah-e-Faisal, KDA Sch. # 1, Karachi – 75350, Pakistan. Phone: +92 21 3437 6041
Fax: +92 21 3437 6043, e-mail: Pakistan@Schaeffler.com