Sea water hydraulic axial piston machine

In April 1994 Hytar Op launched a two years extensive R&D-project together with two European companies and the Institute of Hydraulics and Automation (IHA) from Tampere University of Technology. The project was carried out under the EUREKA-program. One aim of the project was to develop an environmentally safe high pressure hydraulic axial piston machine using tap water or sea water as pressure media. This paper describes the life time test installations of the machine and test results of over two years test runs. Descriptions of pilot projects using this machine are also included in this paper.