gasketing

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.

In today's post, we'll look at the proper way to install gaskets.

In the past, we've used this blog to discuss the hidden cost of gasket failure. While gaskets represent a fraction of the cost of the machines or systems in which they are installed, the consequences of a failure can range from nuisance leaks to catastrophic failure.

And with that failure comes damage to equipment, lost production time, non-compliance penalties, along with loss of customer confidence and even the threat of litigation.

In that article we said that 68% of gasket failures were due to insufficient load, stemming from improper installation, misapplication, poor flange design and/or bolt selection, and rotated flanges. Today, we'll look at the first section of that list.