Production of the cooling towers fan bearing unit at J-PARC RCS

Fujirai, Kosuke; Suganuma, Kazuaki ; Yamazaki, Yoshio 

Cooling water equipment of J-PARC RCS is supplying heat source equipment of an electromagnet cooling water. The cooling water is cooled in a cooling tower established outdoors. I heard abnormal noise from the bearing unit of the cooling tower fan in April, 2015 I decided to observe the state of the bearing unit. As a result of observation, it has a wound peculiar to a bearing of the pulley side. I decided to check why a bearing of the pulley side was damaged. When a fan goes around, a bearing on the pulley side is pulled by the upper and lower movement and fan belt which occur to a crosswise direction. I guessed a peculiar bruise the pulley side was that these vibration and load were added, and to have stuck. A bearing is the structure with which grease can't be replaced by the grease shutting tightly type, and I can think a small bruise has spread by the thing detached because a thing detached by braking drove in the remaining state in the bearing. So I decided to consider the above mentioned problem, move up and down for stable driving of a gas cooler fan and produce vibration of a crosswise direction and the bearing unit able to endure the load and replenish grease periodically newly. I'll report on vibration parameter of the structure of the bearing unit produced newly and an early stage by this publication.