Improved Gear Pump Life With New Generation High Performance Steels

摘要

In many industries, when conventional engineering materials do not give the performance needed, tool steels can be the answer. For high quality Gear pumps, tool steels have long been the only answer and particularly so in heavy duty and hot-melt applications. When designing critical components for metering pumps, consideration of heavy loads, heavy wear/abrasion, corrosion, high temperatures or a combination of all may be required and it will be necessary to look to high performance and specialist steels. Choosing the right materials for any process industry product such a metering pump is always a critical decision to make. For the end user, the correct product from the correct supplier will result in success, stability, consistency and top quality end product. The wrong critical product decision will result in economic failure. For the gear pump manufacturer, the prime considerations are always commercial viability, operational stability/reliability and overall customer satisfaction. Certain gear pump manufacturers claim that they offer material of superior analysis to help achieve a high performance, long lasting solution. In reality however, a truly optimized gear pump may require several slightly different specialist steels from a small generic range.