About SSS :: Quality Dimensions of components for SSS Turning Gear Clutches being measured and recorded at SSS. Components for SSS Clutches are manufactured by subcontractors to SSS specifications and quality procedures. The quality procedures adopted by SSS are equivalent to the requirements of ISO...

Auxiliary Drives :: Pinion Clutch The SSS Pinion Clutch is a mechanical turning gear, designed to meet the requirements of turbine plant where a shaft-end is not available and, therefore, an in-line turning gear drive and SSS Turning Gear Clutch cannot be fitted. An SSS Pinion Clutch installed in an...

How It Works The SSS Clutch shown above has an input shaft with helical splines. Mounted on the helical splines is a sliding component which has external clutch teeth, and external ratchet teeth. When the input shaft and sliding component reach the same speed as the output, they rotate until a ratch...

Power Generation :: Synchronous Condensing An Acceleration System replacing a redundant steam turbine at the end of a 44 MVA generator on Stock Island, Florida allows the generator to be used for synchronous condensing. The unit was commissioned in 1998, by General Electric Company, Inc. an can prod...

Auxiliary Drives :: Marine Starters Size 45T SSS Clutch for DDG51 Gas Turbine Generator Starter. The Size 45T SSS Clutch is used as a replacement for the previous ratchet clutch on the Air Starter for a Gas Turbine Generator set. The clutch output bolts directly to the gearbox high speed pinion shaf...