In the coming months, a Turkish geothermal plant will be installing Vesconite’s high-temperature bearing material known as Hitemp 160. Specially designed for pump bearings, this new material may be used in the high temperature range of 160 – 200ºC depending on the chemicals in the solution.
The installation follows an order received from an OEM pump supplier, which stipulated that it required a bearing material that could cope with temperatures as high as 90ºC for its client’s pumps.
Some 26 different bearings have been ordered. These are to be installed on four different vertical-turbine pumps at different stages along their lengths.
Turkey has 55 geothermal power plants and is a leader in this type of generation in Europe.
