Split spherical roller bearings are principally used where the  replacement of unsplit spherical roller bearings would require costly additional work, involving the removal of gears or couplings, the dismounting of drives or the  dismantling of shaft power trains. The use of split spherical roller bearings reduces the downtime of machinery and plant.

Split spherical roller bearings are essentially used on shafts supported at several points and locations that are difficult to access. Typical areas of application include conveying equipment, materials processing plant, ventilation plant, rolling mills, ships and paper machinery. Application examples in mining and materials processing: Bucket wheel excavators and reclaimers ,Winches and sheaves, Worm conveyors , Bucket conveyors and belt conveyors ,Mixing and stirring plant , Mills and crushers, Sintering plant, drum type kilns, Fans and ventilators, Dust extraction plant , Drive and transmission shafts.

Split spherical roller bearings can generally be fitted instead of unsplit spherical roller bearings with adapter sleeves. The precon - dition for replacement is that the outside diameter, outer ring width and diameter of the shaft seat are identical.