Power Generation Applications

 

Upgrade To Better Performance

 

Kingsbury has provided bearings for all of the major manufacturers of heavyduty power generation equipment including large steam turbines, gas turbines and generators, and nuclear reactant coolant pumps.

 

Kingsbury's Repair & Service Division has many years of experience and countless installations in power plants.

 


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Plain and tilt-pad journal bearings

Kingsbury Expert Services For Power

  • Evaluation, repair, and rebabbitting of tilt-pad thrust bearings, horizontal tilt-pad journals, and cylindrical journal sleeve bearing
  • Send us the bearings from your entire power train for fast, efficient, and expert repair of your bearing set
  • Installation services & training at your facility or at Kingsbury.

Performance Upgrades & Retrofits

  • Offset-pivot pads to increase load-carrying capacity
  • Chrome-copper thrust and journal shoe retrofits to reduce operating temperature and increase load carrying capacity
  • Leading Edge Groove (LEGTM) directed-lube retrofits of your flooded bearing designs to reduce oil-flow and power loss due to shearing and turbulence in a flooded cavity; increase load carrying capacity
  • Consider a Kingsbury upgrade to your existing OEM-supplied bearing for improved performance
17” diameter journal for large gas turbine
Fitting a large spherically-seated turbine bearing
Steam turbine thrust bearing