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RENK-MAAG installs two high efficiency gearboxes in a Powerplant in Bernburg, Germany

A chemical plant in Bernburg, Germany, installed in 1994 two Siemens V64.3 gas turbines (62 MW) and two turbo gearboxes from a leading German vendor. After a few years the end-user decided to replace both gearboxes from the German vendor with those from RENK-MAAG.

Recently, after reaching the midterm of the power plant, the end-user had to renew the licence. Due to stricter environmental regulations the end-user decided to replace current RENK-MAAG gearboxes with two new high efficiency HET Gear^® gearboxes from RENK-MAAG. The current gearboxes will be kept as spare.

Following innovations from RENK-MAAG result in best in class reliability for vacuum turbo gearboxes:

• Tooth flank modification, in order to compensate bending, torsional and thermal deflections, hence enabling even distribution of force over the whole tooth flank.
• Superior heat treatment, thus avoiding barrelling of the gear and premature wear
• Adjustable fourth bearing, hence enabling accurate parallel alignment of gears
• >99% Efficiency

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