Dramatic increases in instrument performance and reliability have been achieved where original PTFE gasket seals have been replaced with Kalrez® custom gaskets from the DuPont™ Performance Polymers range of products.
A Finnish manufacturer of process refractometers was utilizing process media at temperatures ranging from -20° to +220°C and pressures from 0.7 bar to 25 bar. These aggressive operating conditions resulted with the PTFE seals needing to be regularly replaced on a 6-12 months operating cycle.
However, after the seals were replaced by Kalrez® custom gaskets, there was no experience of fluid leakage over a 10 year period, even though the sealing products were subject to permanent in-line fluids immersion during this period.
At Gallagher Fluid Seals, engineering is central to every project and solution we deliver. Our goal is to provide sealing solutions where there had been sealing failures, and our engineering team is among the most experienced and talented in the industry.
This blog post is the second in a four-part series discussing how we work with our customers to create a sealing solution for their most critical applications. The second step in this process is commercial evaluation of sealing solutions.
Making sure you have the right O-ring is critical to avoiding leakage in your product or machinery. But if an O-ring fails, do you know how to diagnose the problem? Can you tell the difference between wear and compression set problems in a flattened o-ring? Identifying the right root cause is critical to solving the problem of damaged O-rings. Watch the video below to learn how to diagnose some of the most common o-ring failure modes.
For more information on failure modes, check out the Leak Troubleshooting Tool in the support section of the Parker O-Ring Division website. Please contact us if you have any
Founded in 1945, Minnesota Rubber and Plastics is a pioneer in the design and production of four-lobed seals with the Quad-Ring® Brand seal design.
Today these seals are used around the world for a wide variety of static and dynamic sealing applications.
Avoiding Spiral Twist
To minimize breakaway friction, an O-Ring groove must be wide enough to allow rolling or twisting of the seal. In the long stroke of a reciprocating seal application, this twisting action can strain and eventually tear the rubber, causing a failure mode known as spiral twist.
To prevent spiral twist, the Quad-Ring Brand seal four-lobed configuration is designed to withstand the distortion and extrusion often caused by high or pulsating pressure. To accommodate these forces, a Quad-Ring Brand seal uses a narrower groove than a comparable O-Ring seal.
Gallagher Fluid Seals is pleased to announce the launch of its new engineering application request (EAR) form, designed to help our clients get answers to their sealing problems.
In a way, it seems fitting that we’re using the acronym “EAR” for this form, because it allows us to listen to our client’s needs.
KLINGER®expert's aim is to provide solutions to your gasketing problems, using years of experience, technical information and laboratory test results.
The innovative software takes your specifications and suggests the right KLINGERSIL® compressed gaskets grades, along with homogeneous graphite metal laminates and KLINGERtop-chem® PTFE sealing element. KLINGER expert shows you all of the variable parameters and allows you to change them on the screen. You choose the relative importance of function, cost, and handleability.
You can choose between standard ANSI and DIN flanges or enter details of your own specific flange. KLINGER expert will automatically calculate maximum and minimum sealing stress and fastener torque in all popular grades.
Here at Gallagher Fluid Seals, we provide O-rings to almost every industry you can think of: fluid power, chemical processing, aerospace, energy oil & gas, life sciences, pulp & paper, etc.
The thing with an O-ring is as long as it’s doing its job, you never really even know it’s there. It is only when an O-ring starts to fail and a leak develops that you investigate the problem.
One of the key causes of O-ring cracking is ozonolysis (ozone cracking). Ozone cracking occurs mostly with Nitrile Rubber o-rings (nitrile, buna, buna-N).
At Gallagher Fluid Seals, engineering is central to every project and solution we deliver. Our goal is to provide sealing solutions where there had been sealing failures, and our engineering team is among the most experienced and talented in the industry.
As an independent distributor, we have the freedom to be objective and create the optimal sealing configuration for your application. Our engineers work with the design teams of both our customers and suppliers, to ensure all sides of the application are thoroughly considered and there are no surprises at the end of the project.
This blog post is the first in a four-part series discussing how we work with our customers to create a sealing solution for their most critical applications. The first step in this process is application discovery and review.