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Oil seal solutions for wind turbines, position by position

A new application page walks through a wind turbine from the hub to the tower and shows the oil seal for each position.

Spedent supplies oil seal components for every rotating position in a wind turbine: the pitch drives in the hub, the main bearing, the gearbox, the generator and the yaw drives on top of the tower.

Seal positions in a wind turbine nacelle. Illustration.
Seal positions in a wind turbine nacelle. Illustration.

Pitch and yaw drives are compact planetary reducers, so the same products that seal industrial reducers apply: standard TC / TG seals, and cassette seals where load and contamination are high. The gearbox adds TC3 for dirt from inside the housing and EC / EG end cover seals.

A yaw drive taken apart, with the oil seal at its output. Illustration.
A yaw drive taken apart, with the oil seal at its output. Illustration.