Gaskets membrane sealing

The next stage of development went to polymer chemists and development engineers, as the expertise of Roy Plunkett was really in fluorine chemistry. The first great application was in the separation of the isotope U-235 from U-238 by gaseous diffusion of UFe to make atomic bombs, as the gas uranium hexafluoride was exceedingly corrosive and destroyed conventional gaskets and seals. PTFE was just what was needed to form the diffusion membrane, as it was not attacked by fluorine. When peace returned, PTFE registered the trademark of Teflon in 1944. 

The membranes in an electrodialysis cell are separated by spacer gaskets as indicated in Figure 5.3, which shows schematically the design of a so-called sheet flow electrodialysis stack. The spacer gasket consists of a screen that supports the membranes and controls the flow distribution in the cell and a gasket that seals the cell to the outside and also contains the manifolds to distribute the process fluids in... 

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Fig. 8.9 Hydrogen flux data from a 100 xm thick unalloyed ptdladium foiL Sieverts Law is followed very well, and the square root dependence implies that hydrogen is transported through the membrane in a dissociated form. The membrane, sealed by copper gaskets, was essentially 100% selective towards hydrogen with no leak to helium detected. Permeability at 440°C was 1.9 x 10 mol m- s-> Pa- -5...

Fig. 8.10 Hydrogen flux data of a composite membrane incorporating a Group IVB-VB material. Sieverts Law is followed very weU and a permeability at 440°C of 2.3 10 mol m s Pa was achieved. The membrane, sealed with copper gaskets, was essentially 100% selective towards hydrogen showing no detectable leak to helium. The disk withstood 33 bar differential pressure (Copyright Wiley-VCH Verlag, GmbH Co. KGaA, 2006. Adapted with permission from [8], Nonporous Inorganic Membranes.)...

Other areas of corrosion concern are the membrane seals. If the seals are composed of flexible graphite, a preferred sealing material as discussed above, then corrosion by the common feed stream constituents is not a problem. However, with any metal seal - whether it be a brazed, welded, or soft-metal gasket seal - it is prudent to evaluate the potential for corrosion specifically at the seal. This evaluation is complicated by the fact that with brazed and welded seals, the metallurgy of the seal is influenced by the addition of the membrane alloy to the liquid braze alloy or weld pool. Experience has shown that welded seals to Pd—40Cu membranes, in which the membrane is welded to either Monel or 304L stainless steel, rapidly fail when subjected to 50 ppm hydrogen sulfide at 400 °C. 

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Applications aircraft, aerospace, chemical processing and transportation, food and pharmaceutical, oil and gas, petroleum refining typical products caulks, coatings, gaskets, membranes, o-rings, seals, vibration dampers, wire cable ... 

Fig. 10 Examples of parallel-plate and frame designs for laboratory flow-through cells (a) cell chamber for strong mixing and (b) various parts of a cylindrical cell. A anode (with preelectrode) G sealing gaskets AC anode compartment (glass ring, reduced mixing requirements) M membrane (diaphragm) CC cathode compartment (three tubes for gas outlet, sufficient mixing by gas evolution) C cathode (current feeders outside the cell at the four corners).

Auxiliary equipment and fittings that require seals, gaskets, diaphragms, filter media, and membranes should exclude materials that permit the possibility of extractable, shedding, and microbial activity. 

D. Little, Inc., report for Contract 210-76-0130 to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health(11) and are shown in Fig. 1. The cell was constructed of Pyrex 1720 glass with stainless steel membrane holders and stainless steel top covers. Gaskets for the cell were constructed from Teflon (trademark DuPont) with the test material placed between the gaskets and with the bolts tightened to a torque of 5 2.5 pounds. This torque was chosen because values less than 2.5 in pounds did not seal the protective material firmly,and torques greater than 7.5 in pounds would put such pressure on the material that it would tear or degrade rapidly at the points of contact. 

In the early 1960s and 1970s, the in-line plate-and-frame module was the only available microfiltration module. These units contained between 1 and 20 separate membrane envelopes sealed by gaskets. In most operations all the membrane envelopes were changed after each use the labor involved in disassembly and reassembly of the module was a significant drawback. Nonetheless these systems are still widely used to process small volumes of solution. A typical plate-and-frame filtration system is shown in Figure 7.10. 

All spiral wound modules also have a brine seal (see Figures 4.23a and 4.23b). The brine seal is a U-cup-shaped rubber gasket material that is used to prevent feed water from passing by on the outside of the membrane module, thereby preventing feed water from bypassing the membranes (see Figure 4.24). The brine seal... 

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