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NEW: The Fourth Edition of the Pump Handbook has been released. In this comprehensive reference
is a chapter contributed by Dr. Mel Giberson dedicated to fluid drives.
TRI
provides Consulting Engineering Services and Manufactured Products that
are generally related to solving rotor vibration and bearing damage
issues for Rotating Machinery, from the largest to the smallest. TRI
also specializes in resolving all types of fluid drive problems. TRI
designs and manufactures new mechanical equipment and components
including TRI Align-A-Pad® Bearings
and large, high powered variable speed fluid drives for electrical
generating plants and similar installations.
Since its inception in 1961, TRI has had a
very strong and broad analytical engineering foundation. Over the years,
TRI has acquired an extensive experience base in the US electrical
generation industry. With these capabilities and this experience, TRI
personnel are able with great confidence to identify problems in
existing equipment, and to design and manufacture hardware solutions to
"Take Problems off the Maintenance List." Additionally, with
this experience base of what works and what does not work, TRI is able
to design new equipment for both new applications and upgrades that will
be very reliable throughout the operating lifetime with a minimum of
maintenance.
Almost all of TRI's services and products are listed on
this website, and some are reached on an interactive basis. Please
contact TRI for information on any product or service in which you have
an interest, whether it is or is not on our website.
TRI's principal specialty products are Babbitted bearings
of all types and variable speed Fluid Drives for boiler feed pumps up to
40,000 hp.
Online Presentation describing the TRI Heavy
Duty Fluid Drives. Dr. Mel Giberson discusses the history of fluid drives in boiler
feed pump service and how Turbo Research solved the vibration problems induced during
sliding pressure operations.
Upgraded Gearboxes for Power Trains: Gas Turbines, Exciters and Other Applications
New Information: Using Variable Speed
Fluid Drives for Large Pumps
New
Case Study: Vibration Patterns Expected for Variable Speed Fluid Drives
30,000 MW of Electrical Generation Equipment
Runs on
TRI Bearings
Over 400,000 hp of Installed Variable Speed Power
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