Synopsis With an aim of reducing rolling mill power consumption by saving on the mechanical loss of mill drives, a plan was made to replace the conventional slipper joints with universal joints at the hot rolling mill. For this project, torque transmitting efficiency tests were conducted on both slipper and universal joints to compare theoretical values with actual test bench values, leading to the finding of new equations for the quantitative forecast of transmitting efficiency o f commercial mill stand. Power consumption was measured before and after installation of the universal joints to the commercial mill stand, and as a result, a power saving of 5.7 % was confirmed.
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