Motives of Automotive Belts in Industrial Uses

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Motives of Automotive Belts in Industrial Uses
-PIX Transmission Limited
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• Description
• Automotive Belt drives are used by one-third of
  electric motors in the industrial and commercial
  sectors. They provide flexibility in the
  positioning of the motor relative to the load.
  The different types of belts perform separate
  functions in an industry.

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• An aptly designed belt transmission system caters
  high efficiency, reduces noise, needs no
  lubrication, and presents low maintenance
  requirements. However, certain types of belts
  offer potential energy cost savings. Pulleys of
  different diameters permit the speed of the
  driven machinery to be increased or decreased.
• Most of the belt drives use V-belts. V-belts use
  a trapezoidal cross section to generate a wedging
  action on the pulleys to escalate friction and
  improve the belts power transfer capability.
  Joined or multiple belts are specified for hefty
  loads. V-belt drives have a peak efficiency of 95
  percent to 98 percent at the time of
  installation. Efficiency is also based on pulley
  size, driven torque, under or over-belting, and
  V-belt design and construction. Efficiency slumps
  by as much as 5 percent over time if slippage
  occurs because the belt is not regularly
  retensioned. 

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• Cogged belts
• These have slots that run perpendicular to the
  belts length. The slots curtail the bending
  resistance of the belt. Cogged belts can be used
  with the same pulleys as equivalently rated
  V-belts. They run cooler, last longer, and have
  an efficiency that is about 2 percent higher than
  that of standard V-belts. 

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• Synchronous belts 
• These are also called timing, positive-drive, or
  high-torque drive belts. It is toothed and
  entails the installation of mating toothed-drive
  sprockets. Synchronous renders an efficiency of
  about 98 percent and maintains that efficiency
  over a wide load range. Contrastingly, V-belts
  have an acute reduction in efficiency at high
  torque due to surging slippage. Synchronous belts
  require minimum maintenance and retensioning,
  operate in wet and oily environments, and run
  slip-free. However, it is noisy, inappropriate
  for shock weights and transfer vibrations.