Water Hydraulics is an emerging field due to its safety and environmental friendliness. The use of Water Hydraulics requires special technical expertise, as there is a limited number of components compared to traditional oil hydraulics. Systems must therefore be carefully designed using the components that are available. In addition, the poor lubricity and corrosion of water require a comprehensive understanding of what materials can be used.
Hydraulic oils may pose a fire risk in steel and aluminium mills, or a risk of product or environmental contamination in subsea hydraulics. In cases such as these, water hydraulics are a safer option. Water hydraulics is ideal for demanding industrial applications that require pressurized water or water-based fluids to be fire and product safe, and environmentally friendly.
Application Benefits:
- Fire Safety: Completely non-flammable hydraulic fluid.
- Product Safety: Hydraulic fluid is harmless to products and people.
- Environmental Friendliness: Leaks of completely natural hydraulic fluid do not cause environmental problems.
- Incompressibility: Water is more incompressible at high pressure than hydraulic oils, which is advantageous in test stress.
Our Fluiconnecto Tampere, Finland office has a dedicated water hydraulics team that develops solutions for applications where oil hydraulics is not suitable. In addition to this, we also carry out other high-pressure water applications in addition to hydraulics, such as pressure washing, test efforts, dust suppression, etc.
With over 30 years of experience as a supplier to customers in the mechanical engineering industry and production plants, we are experts at design and manufacture of pump units, valve systems, components (cylinders, pumps, valves) and complete turnkey systems for pressurized water technology.
Our main applications in industry are:
- Industrial (Paper & Process, Food, Steel & Foundry)
- Mining
- Oil & gas
- Energy
- Other Special Applications
