Novagear – your gearbox specialist
NOVAGEAR provides engineering services in the field of gearboxes and gear systems for stationary and mobile drive applications.
Gearboxes with highest demands on speed, power and complexity are our motivation and our speciality.
We design and develop customized gearbox solutions for you and we optimize existing gearbox designs according to your criteria. In special cases we take over the production of prototypes.
Failure analysis on site as well as consulting and training on all theoretical and practical aspects of gear technology round off the range of our services.
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Gear solution for hydro- electric power plant
A consortium, consisting of several European companies, was commissioned to modernize a run-of-the-river hydroelectric power plant in Central Europe. The new machine group, consisting of a 12 MW Kaplan turbine and generator, required a speed increasing gearbox with an integrated turbine thrust bearing. Installation space was limited – a conventional single-stage planetary gearbox with approx.…
Maximized Efficiency for 48V WHR
Our newest gearbox development for a 48V WHR prototype comprises a minimum quantity lubrication for the gears. The lube oil is precisely dispensed, dependent on speed and temperature, and directed to the gear flanks in atomized condition. With this adaptive lubrication concept, drag and churning losses are reduced by more than 90 percent, compared to…
