How you will decide about the right time to change hydraulic gear pumps? Actually it completely depends on efficiency of hydraulic gear pumps and its bearing life. The maintenance technology has become advanced but accuracy of determining hydraulic pump efficiency by experts is truly exclusive.
Techniques to determine efficiency of gear pumps
1. Cycle times
One of the best technique to check deteriorating efficiency is note down cycle time. When it start increasing automatically it means the time has come to replace hydraulic gear pumps. When it becomes unaccepted slow then take immediate action and replace now.
2. Compare the efficiency value
Sometimes it becomes necessary to compare pump’s efficiency with real native components that will surely help you in determining actual efficiency of running hydraulic gear pumps.
3. Efficiency Categories
There are mainly 3 categories used to determine efficiency of hydraulic pumps – mechanical efficiency, volumetric efficiency and overall efficiency.
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For calculating mechanical efficiency of hydraulic gear pumps, we have to use torque value. You just have to divide theoretical torque with actual torque necessary to drive gear pumps. If it showing efficiency value of 100 percent, it means flow was maintained at zero pressure that is not possible in real world.
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For calculating volumetric efficiency, we have to consider flow. You just have to divide actual flow with theoretical flow necessary to drive gear pumps. Actual flow is measured through flow meter and theoretical flow is measured by displacement value.
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The last category is overall efficiency. Here you have to multiply mechanical efficiency and volumetric efficiency together to get overall efficiency.
As you can see there is many factors that you have to consider when determining efficiency of hydraulic gear pumps. The best idea is to take expert advice for more accurate and assured results.