Steel Plants

Gearboxes for Steel Industry

Worm Gears

Bevel & Spiral Gears

A great variety of production processes and methods are involved in the steel industry regarding to the production of different kinds of steel. To match with the different kinds of production processes, various heavy duty industrial equipments and machineries are used.

The different types of heavy duty machineries which are used in the steel industry are: crane slew drives, agitators, winches and conveyors. To ensure powerful and smooth functioning of these machineries, various kinds of powerful gearboxes are used along with these machineries.

Some prominent gearboxes which are used in the steel industry are as follows:

• Planetary Gearboxes
• Reduction Gearboxes
• Pinion Gearboxes

Gearboxes for Steel Plant
These gearboxes are used in the steel industry for getting high torque with high reduction ratios. As steel industry is considered as one of the heaviest industries, so very high torque and reduction ratios are required for getting desired result. These mentioned industrial gearboxes used in the steel industry are available in different specifications, configurations and in a wide range of sizes. These versatility makes these suitable according to the different purposes.

The manufacturers of these industrial gearboxes are continuously making efforts in the direction of improving the work efficiencies of these gearboxes, so that these can sustain the heavy work loads and jerks.

Worm Gears for Steel Plant
On screw down mechanisms, the applications of some largest worm gears sets are useful. These screw down mechanisms are applicable on automated steel strip mills. The strength and reliability are the two most important factors for the steel products. Hence, the use of the worm gears are preferred on most of the machines used in the steel plants. For instance, in the tube and wire drawing machines and in the metal shearing machines, the worm gears are used, and the ratios normally varies from 2.5 to 3.0.

Bevel & Spiral Bevel Gears for Steel Plant
In the hand drill machines, the bevel gears are used as a principle mechanism. The directions of the rotation of the handle of the hand drill and the chunk are just opposite of each other. This is possible due to the presence of bevel gears in the hand drills. Apart from this, the bevel gears also help in increasing the speed of the chunk present in the hand drill and this as a result, helps the hand drill in drilling a wide range of materials.

In Steel Plants, there are different types of rotatory craft drive systems are used. Spiral bevel gears are used in these drive systems as important components. The present of spiral bevel gears assist these drive systems in increasing their speeds, extreme load cycles and high loads. The spiral bevel gears also help in shifting the direction form the horizontal gas turbine engine to vertical rotor. In the plate bending machines, which are used in the steel plants, planetary gear units are used.