{"id":3105,"date":"2016-07-18T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimejournal.nfdtesting.uk\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/2016\/07\/18\/water-lubricated-bearings\/"},"modified":"2016-07-18T16:32:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T15:32:00","slug":"water-lubricated-bearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/2016\/07\/18\/water-lubricated-bearings\/","title":{"rendered":"Water lubricated bearings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The company says that increasingly governments and classification societies are supporting the use of water as an environmental friendly and necessary alternative for oil.<\/p>\n<p>At Maprom, the trend to towards designing \u201cgreen shaft installations\u201d started more than 35 years ago. Maprom shaft systems are already successfully used onboard military, inland, dredging and seagoing ships.<\/p>\n<p>Maprom said that some of the pros associated with using water lubricated systems include easy maintenance, low operational cost and longer life of components.<\/p>\n<p>Other benefits are that these systems are better for the environment as they pose no risk of pollution.<\/p>\n<p>The proof of the durability of water lubricated bearings, Maprom said, is evident by the vessels equipped with them that are already in operation.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the cutter suction dredge <em>Halternsee<\/em> had a Maprom designed water lubricated cutter shaft bearing installed in 2001. It is expected to last more than 110.000 running hours following its 2011 inspection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netherland\u2019s based Maprom Engineering will be at SMM this year to promote water lubricated bearings as a suitable alternative to oil lubricated ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-deals"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3105"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}