OFTTech Ltd

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OFTTech Ltd

OFTTech

Expertise

Proven Know-How

OFTTech has over 30 years' experience applying permanent magnet technology in high speed applications:

Turbo machinery
Machine spindles
Pumps
Compressors
Expanders

Our clients include many of the major companies across the industrialised world

ESA/MELFI Brayton Cycle Cooler Rotor

Hydrodynamic gas bearing supported permanent magnet motor driven rotors at 120000rpm have been running in the international space station since 2003

Micro Turbine Generator Rotors

Permanent magnet alternators supported on conventional oil bearings have been operating for many tens of thousands of hours in the supercritical regime

R134a Lubricated Heat Pump Compressor

Self Acting, hydrodynamic gas bearings support these permanent magnet motor driven rotors at 250000 rpm in a refrigerant r134a environment

DLC (Amorphous Carbon) coatings

OFTTech has been one of the leading gas bearing designer companies using DLC (Amorphous Carbon) coatings to reduce friction and wear

FEA Creep Plasticity

Work on containment and other impact situations

Alex Molyneaux PhD MIMechE CEng

Publications

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Oil Free Turbo Technology

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