DuPont™ Kalrez® 1045 parts were phased out of the Kalrez product line at the end of March 2016. Kalrez 1045 parts have a long history of use in dinitrogen tetroxide (nitrogen tetroxide) service.
This chemical is often used as the oxidizer in rocket propellant, when combined with a hydrazine based rocket fuel. Nitrogen tetroxide is a very strong oxidizer, and Kalrez 1045 is resistant to oxidizing liquids; it has been the product of choice for hypergolic propellant applications.
New regulations are making it tougher to haul goods by railroad. Haulers are spending $2.9 billion to upgrade tank cars, and the use of railroads to transport crude oil declined by 17 percent last year. And starting this year, shippers and terminals will be held responsible for NARs, or non-accident releases.
Our partners at Parker – a long-time Gallagher O-ring supplier – discuss this trend in a recent blog post.
As of last year, NARs has gone up by nearly 20 percent. In most cases, these incidents involved problems with the manway. The four main issues were loose bolts, missing gaskets, misaligned gaskets and deteriorated gaskets.
Personal safety is important in every industry, but when sensitive, hazardous or unstable chemicals are involved, the need to protect employees from exposure becomes paramount. The Garlock® family of companies creates sealing solutions that resist the extreme temperatures and corrosive materials of chemical processing environments to deliver unparalleled safety, performance and reliability.
Garlock sealing solutions excel in a variety of chemical processing applications — including pumps, valves, reactors, flange joints, heat exchangers and more — through their tireless dedication to understanding their customers’ specific needs and designing highly engineered products that exceed their expectations.
Never content to rest on past achievements, Garlock’s scientists and engineers are constantly developing new and innovative sealing technologies that change the way the chemical processing industry meets its sealing requirements. By combining advanced technology products with exceptional service and environmental stewardship, Garlock delivers sealing solutions that improve personal safety and plant productivity, reduce costs and comply with increasingly stringent environmental regulations.
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 is the third in a four-part series discussing how we work with our customers to create a sealing solution for their most critical applications. So far, we’ve talked about Application Discovery & Review and Commercial Evaluation & Development. The third step in this process is Prototyping & Testing.
Depending on the nature of the part, the first run of prototype parts will be developed for evaluation and testing purposes using a single or low cavity tool. With advances in on-demand manufacturing technology, some seal manufacturers now offer rapid prototyping or “express” services, where prototypes can be machined or 3D printed to exacting specifications. This lowers mold and tooling cost while usually providing a faster turnaround time.
As you set out to reduce hydraulic system failure, it’s important to recognize sources of contamination as part of your maintenance program.
Our partners at Parker, long-time suppliers of O-rings to Gallagher Fluid Seals, offer these common forms of contamination in your hydraulic systems:
Freudenberg Sealing Technologies offers a unique service: machined seals from the original materials and original profiles as regular production, produced as tailor-made individual parts to meet the demand for replacement parts, prototypes or small, economical batches. Since everything has to move fast, their objective never varies: the parts are ordered, machined and delivered immediately, even overnight when possible.