Versatile RTM
Applications

Engine Industry

Nearly all wearing components of combustion engines have been tested by RTM: automotive, utility vehicles and marine engines as well as aircraft turbines. The first 5 figures of the light box demonstrate the application of the RTM measuring technique in different motor tests of our customers.

Oil Industry

Developments of lubricants and additives in order to improve anti-wear and anti-corrosion properties. For this purpose, the wear of a cam follower is investigated at a motor test bench, e. g.

Vehicle Industry

Figure 9 shows a brake disk of a train in irradiation position facing the cyclotron beam line tube. Also complete railway wheel sets can be processed.

Process instrumentation and control

Figure 10:  Setup for irradiation of a conduit bend for an ethylene plant. Radioactive labeling in the section with the strongest bend allows for continuous measurement of the inside material removal during service and thus the reliable scheduling of servicing and commissioning tasks.

Refrigeration and Air Conditioning

An RTM compressor test bench for online wear measurement of refrigerant compressors has been developed. Figure 11 below  -  run-in wear of a  piston of a refrigeration compressor.

Biomechanics

ZAG Zyklotron AG offers a RTM measuring system, proven in practice, for online wear measurements of artificial bone joints in simulators in the sub-microgram-region, and the radioactive labeling of artificial bone joints (metal, ceramics, UHMWPE).

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Lightbox RTM Applications

Engine test bench with RTM measuring system (photo © ISP Salzbergen)

Engine test bench with RTM measuring system (photo © ISP Salzbergen)

RTM engine test bench (Foto © APL Landau)

Connection of the RTM measuring system to the oil sump of the test engine (photo © APL Landau)

Connection of the engine test bench to the RTM measuring system (Foto © APL Landau)

Cylinder block in irradiation position

Setup of a camshaft at the minicyclotron

Run-in wear between piston ring and cylinder wall of a diesel engine

Brake disk of a train in irradiation position

Chemical industry: pipe elbow in front of the beam tube

Run-in wear of a piston of a refrigeration compressor

Biomechanics: artificial hip and knee joint

RTM Verschleiß an Kältemittelkompressoren deutsch (de)

RTM-Übersichtsarbeit Biomechanik (de)

RTM Biomechanik (de)

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