Eclipse Engineering
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March 10, 2022
The current global electric motor market is valued at more than 100 billion dollars and is slated for continued growth in the decades to come.
It’s estimated that more than 30 million electric motors are produced every year. The increased development of robotics and automation in many industrial processes as well as demand for numerous consumer applications continues to fuel growth.
The recent push and increased adoption of electric vehicles, including everything
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January 26, 2022
The oil and gas industry poses some of the most challenging seal applications for any seal designer. This is largely due to the varying chemical compatibility of fluids, and extremely high temperatures. The fluids often contain solids, which tend to be extremely abrasive. And applications are usually at high rotary speeds with extreme pressures.
This combination creates PV values (pressure x velocity) often reaching the limits of the seal materials. On top of these extremes, as seal designers
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December 23, 2021
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December 01, 2021
Spring Energized Polymer Seals and O-Rings are very different products, yet they can ultimately accomplish the same goal of sealing a system.
The humble O-Ring is, in simplest terms, a ring of rubber. A Spring Energized Seal consists of an engineered plastic jacket, usually a PTFE blend or
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November 18, 2021
While seal performance, leakage control, and wear-life characteristics are frequently discussed, one critical aspect of a successful sealing system is often overlooked — how a seal is contained in the hardware.
Whether you want to call it a gland or a groove, the physical space for housing a seal is an important part of the system’s performance. The type of gland greatly dictates
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October 08, 2021
Machining plastics is as much a skill as it is an art form. It takes understanding that whenever you cut a part, it will probably have some motion or energy still within the material.
This is largely because a lot of parts have more rebound than steel in the cutting process. And while plastics are mostly thermally stable, they’re not dimensionally, thermally stable.
Changes in temperature from the time the part is machined, inventoried, and put into service show that typically parts are
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September 15, 2021
With the marijuana and cannabis industry expected to take in nearly $24 billion by the end of in 2021, and more than $40 billion by 2025, the market is primed for innovation in production volume and technology.
The growth in popularity of vaporizers, infused edibles, and topical cannabis products means the demand for cannabis oil extraction is a fast multiplying industry.
The two primary means for oil extraction is via petroleum based solvents such as butane or propane, or by supercritical
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July 28, 2021
The machining of polymers such as PTFE, still remains somewhat of a specialty operation. While there are a plethora of machine shops dotted across the country focused on metal turning and milling operations, few specialize in plastics.
Only someone experienced in metalworking might call machining something like PTFE easy. PTFE is much softer and easier to cut than something like steel or aluminum.
While this certainly is true, polymers present their own unique set of manufacturing challenges,
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July 16, 2021
As the operating parameters of industrial technologies and manufacturing processes get more extreme, the need for optimal sealing solutions become that much more important.
Elevated temperatures and pressures, higher speeds, extreme environments, faster gas decompression, and aggressive medias all make sealing more critical. This extends right across static, reciprocating, rotary, and oscillating applications.
This challenge has been met very effectively
