Pumps, Bearings, and Turbines_VOCAB

Question 1

What allows cooling fluid into the stuffing box?

Answer 1

Lantern ring

Question 2

The vertical ribs that separate and support the speed ring is?

Answer 2

Stay vanes

Question 3

The amount of space between the component parts of a bearing assembly is called?

Answer 3

Clearance

Question 4

Damage caused by rubbing chafing or wearing away?

Answer 4

Fretting

Question 5

In the direction of, or along the axis?

Answer 5

Axial

Question 6

Load supported by high pressure fluid?

Answer 6

Hydrostatic

Question 7

The part of a rotating shaft, axle, roll, or spindle that turns in a bearing?

Answer 7

Journal

Question 8

Indentions formed in the surface of a bearing?

Answer 8

Pitting

Question 9

In the direction extending from the center point of a shaft?

Answer 9

Radial

Question 10

Designed so that speed of a liquid is converted into pressure without shock?

Answer 10

Volute

Question 11

Load supported by balls or rollers?

Answer 11

Rolling contact

Question 12

Compares the speed of all types of turbines for a given head and capacity?

Answer 12

Specific speed

Question 13

Provides circular flow and drags a film of oil with it?

Answer 13

Thrust runner

Question 14

Load supported by a lubricant film?

Answer 14

Hydrodynamic

Question 15

The chipping or flaking of metal from the surface of a bearing?

Answer 15

Spalling