Hydraulic Equipment and Components Reference Materials

Description: Explore how four-column hydraulic presses reduce tooling costs, improve part strength, and enhance forming efficiency across industrial applications. ...

Description: Learn how piston hydraulic cylinder design affects force output, motion control, and performance in single- and double-acting systems. ...

Description: Explore how rolling processes improve surface finish, wear resistance, fatigue strength, and manufacturing efficiency for hydraulic cylinders. ...

Description: Analyze hydraulic cylinder failure mechanisms, focusing on leakage, pressure instability, piston crawling, and troubleshooting methods in hydraulic systems. ...

Description: An automotive R&D facility operating environmental test chambers was experiencing chronic issues with its deionized (DI) water metering system. The system used a Yamada air-operated double diaphragm ...

Description: Countless industries use hydraulic machinery in different settings. Automotive repair, the construction industry, the entertainment business, aerospace companies, and municipalities rely on hydraulics ...

Description: The amount of energy used by a positive displacement pump is proportional to the pump’s differential pressure. The higher the pressure added by the pump, the harder the pump is working. ...

Description: The amount of energy used by a positive displacement pump is proportional to the pump’s differential pressure. The higher the pressure added by the pump, the harder the pump is working. ...

Description: At this point (we hope) you’ve likely read a few of our previous blog posts and are now an honorary Blacoh expert. But in case you haven’t, here’s a quick recap: Transient events ...

Description: There are tons of articles, videos, and books about water hammer. But what the heck is it? Simply put, it's the pressure surge that occurs in a piping system when the fluid within is forced to stop or ...

Description: Blacoh offers full system solutions to improve fluid process system performance, reliability, safety and productivity. View our products in pumping systems to learn more. Build and quote the right ...

Description: When it comes to maintaining the efficiency and longevity of a pumping system, one often overlooked component is the inlet stabilizer, sometimes called a suction stabilizer. This simple yet crucial ...

Description: Think about cooking for a second. Salt specifically...a pinch here, a dash there—too little and it's bland, too much and it's ruined. That's exactly what chemical feed injection skids do for ...

Description: Thermoplastic calibration columns are a quick and convenient way to measure or verify pump flow rates, chemical dosing accuracy, or chemical feed system accuracy. In many cases they can also serve as ...

Description: Pulsation dampeners, or pulsation dampers, can be important for the smooth operation of fluid systems. We explain how they work and what they are used for. ...

Description: Thousands of miles from the coast, lake communities serve as the center of Midwestern fun. However, as millions of families flock to their favorite lakeside spots, municipalities close to the shore ...

Description: Fluid power is generally divided into two main categories: Pneumatics and Hydraulics. Pneumatic systems use compressed air for low-cost applications requiring moderate forces or torques. Hydraulic ...

Description: Technological advancements in hydraulic systems and fluids have significantly improved both industrial and mobile machine performance by improving equipment reliability, minimizing operating costs, ...

Description: Hydraulic systems serve almost every industry including construction, industrial, mobile, civil, military, and agricultural applications. These systems can be found in every piece of construction ...

Description: Hydraulic motor or motor oil, mainly used in injection molding machinery, ships, raise machine, engineering machinery, construction machinery, mining machinery, mining machinery, metallurgical ...

Description: Urethane is an engineered product and a member of the rubber family. Like other rubber materials, urethane has the ability to endure large deformation and recover from the deforming force; more simply ...

Description: Working pressure: the pressure input motor oil, which depends on the motor load. The difference between motor inlet pressure and outlet pressure is called motor differential pressure. ...

Description: Quick closing valves, positive displacement pumps, and vertical pipe runs can create damaging pressure spikes, leading to blown diaphragms, seals and gaskets also destroyed meters and gauges. ...

Description: Safe storage and distribution of domestic hot water is imperative in any application. We provide a complete line of thermostatic mixing valves to ensure safe, tempered water is delivered from source ...

Description: Roadtec manufactures a variety of road building and asphalt paving equipment, relying on hydraulics for the power density and precision control it provides in cutting, paving and more. The company's ...

Description: There are several factors that need to be known before a calculation can be used to decide the most suitable sized hydraulic gear motor for an application. 1) First of all find out if the required ...

Description: Discover how metering pumps were customized to effectively deliver chemicals to record depths, for deep offshore production in Indonesia. ...

Description: Sometimes the enormous power and precision of synchronous hydraulic technology is the best option; sometimes standard indoor and outdoor cranes can do the job cost-efficiently; and sometimes lifting ...

Description: Continuous inspection by collecting information at various production stages. Production will be adjusted accordingly. Measurements made are the following: flows, temperatures, pressures, pressures ...

Description: Current couplings in use leak and a danger of cross connection is existing. Panel mount also required by the customer. ...

Description: STC has worked with MANUFACTURER FS on this project for almost 4 years beginning in 2005. The scope of this particular project is the remote electrical connection for electrical pump motors in the ...

Description: Compressed air connection system, for connecting to the air jack cylinder. This then raises the car when in race mode and maintenance mode. Existing solution for the connector from James Lister needs ...

Description: Connect main Vehicle A/C system to auxiliary A/C unit aboard military vehicle for onboard electronic cooling. ...

Description: The Issue: The trade-off to using low temperature bladder compounds in mobile hydraulic applications is higher gas permeation rates through the bladder at working temperature. ...

Description: Columbia Industries LLC (Hillsboro, Oregon) was instrumental in pioneering the oil drilling rig transport industry in 1974 by putting heavy land rig modules on large axle systems. In 1982, the company ...

Description: CHALLENGE: Wallmasters was experiencing pump shaft failure after only three months of service, due to excessive wear on the splines that drive the pump. Tiffin Loader contacted Parker mobile territory ...

Description: Hydraulic actuators provide a consistent, repeatable force in a relatively small weight and size envelope. This means that in today's manufacturing environment, the work piece can be secured, in less ...

Description: Successful powered workholding does not just happen. Like any other manufacturing process, it must be carefully planned. But that does not mean that you need to be a hydraulics engineer to implement a ...

Description: This Application Note will help you understand how to better acheive Achieving Smoother Operation in Dynamic Accumulator Charging Circuits by using our Unloading Pilot Valve UP10-40 in conjunction ...

Description: This technical reference briefly discusses temperature and how it effects a Cartridge Valves performance. ...

Description: A scrap processing company's whole car shredder was experiencing continuous overload, causing downtime and damage to the 1000 Hp drive motor. They had been quoted a solution costing over $125,000 and ...

Description: An electric arc furnace steel processor was experiencing hydraulic cylinder failure on the segment clamp circuit. New cylinders were failing in 3-8 weeks. ...

Description: Existing mechanical prop drive systems have limitations which include: Mechanical drive systems are inherently inefficient, Engine placement is fixed, High knots require high engine RPM, Low speed ...

Description: A steel processor was experiencing hydraulic cylinder failure on the caster dummy bar disconnect cylinder. Failures were so common and repair times so lengthy that three spares were required for one ...

Description: A Midwestern steel industry manufacturer's roll lathe stopped working. The lathe was critical to the operation of the hot mill and further downtime was not acceptable. The situation was further ...

Description: A coke plant was spending in excess of $500,000 / year in hydraulic cylinder repair and had been previously trying to reduce repair cost by pursuing vendors with a low cost repair philosophy. The ...

Description: A critical piece of production equipment (so critical that on board inline spares were included) had undergone a remanufacture and redesign. System malfunction and dependability problems had gone ...

Description: An electric arc furnace steel processor wanted to Reduce the time of the charging / tapping cycle, Provide for emergency power during an outage, Increase the system pressure capabilities, Improve ...

Description: A Midwestern manufacturer was using a locomotive to transfer a highly conductive material in an environment where ambient temperatures commonly reached 130+ F. The average duty cycle of the generator ...

Description: A scrap processing company's scrap shear was experiencing much down time and components were continually failing. The shear manufacturer was no longer in business and no prints were available. ...

Description: A newly installed (by manufacturer) hydraulic security gate system (7 gate locations) was experiencing repeated failures (2-3 day duty cycle), creating terrible traffic backups. The manufacturer's and ...

Description: Includes Basic Hydraulics, Setting up a Hydraulic System Guide, and Key to Measurements ...