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The use of polymer bearing can improve performance as polymer material is selflubricating material. Nowadays the use of polymer bearing is increasing in place of metal ballbearing. The usage of polymers in bearings has been increasing in recent years due to certainvaluable tribological properties, including their ability to self-lubricate and their resistance tocorrosion. These advantages encourage manufacturers to use polymer bearings in corrosive andlubricant-free work environments as well as applications in which weight reduction is desirable. Ballbearing used to mount the shaft of circulating pump used in agriculture application has to work incorrosive environment and having continuous contact with water, due to which lubrication loss occurwhich will cause bearing failure. Ball bearing used to support shaft of industrial DC motor,according to application has to work in corrosive environments and sometimes lubrication is notpossible which will cause bearing failure. Into this dissertation an analysis has been done to improvethe performance of ball bearing used in electric motor and circulating pump application by usingpolymer ball bearing. This will provide corrosion free, less noisy and lubrication free performance.To compare the performance, analytical calculation and dynamic analysis of metal ball bearing andpolymer ball bearing will be done and results in form of lifecycle and stresses formed on eachelement on bearing are compared for both materials.

Pritesh J.Thoriya, Prof.B.N.Gelot, “PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AND SIMULATION OF POLYMER BALL BEARING IN ELECTRIC MOTOR & CIRCULATING PUMP APPLICATION”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 1, Issue 3, pp. 55-57, March 2014.