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Rotor Balancing - Know How999southw

The document discusses the importance of practicing machine balancing on actual equipment before attempting to balance complex systems. It emphasizes that balancing courses tailored to specific machinery can help technicians understand balance characteristics, identify potential issues, and prevent new problems from emerging during the balancing process. Hands-on training is recommended to reinforce classroom instruction on balancing fundamentals and techniques for single-plane and multi-plane balancing.

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Rotor Balancing - Know How999southw

The document discusses the importance of practicing machine balancing on actual equipment before attempting to balance complex systems. It emphasizes that balancing courses tailored to specific machinery can help technicians understand balance characteristics, identify potential issues, and prevent new problems from emerging during the balancing process. Hands-on training is recommended to reinforce classroom instruction on balancing fundamentals and techniques for single-plane and multi-plane balancing.

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There's more to balancing

than adding weights to your machine


by Don Southwick • Influence vectors at different
Technical Training Engineer machine loads. “To learn how to balance a
Bently Nevada Corporation • Thermal or environmental effects.
e-mail: [email protected]
500 MW steam turbine gener-
• Anisotropic stiffness effects on ator – you need to practice
weight placement. balancing a 500 MW steam
o learn how to balance a 500
MW steam turbine generator turbine generator...”
Will balancing cause other machinery
set, an overhung pump, or a problems to appear?
gearbox, etc., you need to practice bal-
It can be very disconcerting to find that machines with anisotropic support stiff-
ancing a 500 MW steam turbine gener-
your well-balanced machine now has ness. Classroom instruction and hands-
ator set, an overhung pump, or a gear-
a fluid-induced instability (whirl or on workshops provide a good founda-
box. For this reason, the on-site bal-
whip) or rub problem. However, tion in balancing fundamentals before
ancing courses provided by Bently
depending on the machine, these you attempt to balance your machine.
Nevada are specifically tailored to
results shouldn't be entirely Hands-on training on your machines
your machinery and your needs.
unexpected. helps reinforce this training.
Before you insert balance weights into
Contact your nearest Bently Nevada
any machine, you need to determine
What is the balance history of the sales or service professional to arrange
the following: machine? for a balancing course at your site.
Knowing what size weights were
Is unbalance the root cause of the
problem? used, where they were placed, what
influence vectors were computed, and
Balancing is rarely a valid solution to
what problems resulted, is essential to
anything except an unbalance problem.
an efficient, successful balancing oper-
If any unusual responses result during a
ation.
balancing job, special attention must be
given to the possibility of a shaft crack. The Bently Nevada on-site balancing
Do you know the symptoms? Do you course teaches you the techniques
know the difference between “usual” needed for that successful balance job.
and “unusual” responses? Learn why influence vectors and cali-
bration weights are so important for
What are the balance characteristics of effective single plane balancing of fans
your machine? and other low-speed machinery.
• Location of rotor mass. Understand why the information
• Mode shapes. contained in polar plots is essential for
• Location and number of balance multiplane balancing of machines
planes. operating above their second balance
resonances. Learn the value of virtual
• Influence vectors at different
probe rotation when balancing
machine speeds.

ORBIT Second/Third Quarters 1999 53

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