Upcoming Trend

After several years of uncertainty, there are reports that the worldwide market for wind turbine gearboxes is about to experience high demand. The industry insiders say that the demand for wind turbine gearbox  is finally growing up along the expected lines. One more factor which has helped this renewed demand is that most of the countries have recovered from recession and are in a position to take decisions for substantial investment in wind energy.

There are estimates that the worldwide market for wind turbine gearboxes could be $ 3.8 billion, with a growth rate of around 16% per annum. Gear box exporters are unfazed by new challenges and are keen to adopt latest technologies to remain profitable.

Even though most us make use of the gearboxes in our daily lives (either directly or indirectly), still not many of us appreciate its importance and relevance in today's technological innovations. For the beginners, gearboxes provide speed and torque conversions from a rotating power source to another device using gear ratios.

The most common usage of gearboxes is in the auto mobiles, where the transmission adapts the output of the internal combustion engine to drive wheels. Such engines need to operate at a relatively high rotational speed, which is not appropriate for starting, stopping or slow travel. The transmission reduces the higher engine speed to the slower wheel speed and thus increasing torque in the process. Wherever, rotational speed and torque needs to be adapted, gear boxes comes in handy like on pedal bicycles, fixed machines etc.

Often, a transmission will have multiple gears, with the ability to switch for speed variance. Usually this switching is done manually though sometimes it can be automated as well. An interesting point to note here is that conventional gear/belt transmissions are not the only mechanism for speed/torque adaptation. Alternative mechanisms include torque converters and power transformation.

Scope In Different Industries

In almost all the manufacturing plants, complex gearboxes are one of the most critical equipments. In order to avoid unnecessary overhead expenses one should have the ability to know precisely when to replace bearings otherwise there could be huge losses due to unnecessary shut-downs or catastrophic failures.

gearboxes are used in various industries like cement, petrochemical, power, paper & pulp, steel etc. They are also used in limestone, plastic-cement, ore, slag, plaster, coal-kibbling and so on. Today, gearboxes are available in novel structures, with advance features like shock resistance, anti-vibration, small volume, light in weight along with a longer shelf life.