The most common bearings used in a wind gearbox are full-complement cylindrical roller bearings, single and multi-row cylindrical roller bearings, tapered roller bearings, spherical roller bearings, deep-groove ball bearings, and angular contact ball bearings.
“NKE can manufacture all of those bearing types for wind gearboxes to high-quality standards,” says Michael Rössl, Application Engineering at NKE in Steyr, Austria.
“NKE bearings are installed inside wind turbines for power ratings from several hundred kilowatts, up to multi-megawatts.
Read the full article in DPA's December issue