Shaft seals seal requirements

Double seals require some type of support system. The reason is simple. With two seals mounted onto the same shaft, one seal is the principal or primary seal and the other becomes the secondary or back up seal already installed. If the primary seal is performing its function and sealing the pumped liquid, the. secondary. seal would be running dry, overheat, burn and self-destruct. Then when the crucial moment comes, we won t have a second seal to assume the ftinctions, which was the original reason to consider a dual seal. 

Damage to the labyrinth requires replacement of the expander heat barrier or compressor shaft seal. A replacement design (Figure 5-6) uses a replaceable stainless-steel labyrinth mounted on the shaft. Because the seal is not tapered, axial movement of the shaft has little or no measurable effect on seal gas flowrates. Each labyrinth has an integral oil slinger incorporated into the design. Also, each rotating... 

This API Standard 614 standard eovers the minimum requirements for lubrieation systems, oil shaft sealing systems, and related eontrol systems for speeial purpose applieations. The terms are fully defined, referenees are well doeumented and basie design is deseribed. Details of the lubrieation system are presented in Chapter 15. 

From a flow pattern and power dissipation standpoint, a bottom entering shaft is equivalent. If shaft seal problems are handleable, bottom entry ean reduce the required shaft length in vessels which are designed with tall vapor spaces for foam disengagement, etc. The geometric parameters for a standard geometry tank shown in Figure 19 are defined as follows Z = T, D = T/3, B = T/12 to T/10, B,. = T/12, w = D/8 to D/5. 

In the two typical shaft seal manufacturing processes shown in Fig. 2, the extrusion process is only required if the compression molding process is being used. There are basically two types of extruders in general use, the cold feed and the hot feed. In both cases their role is to produce the preforms for use with compression molding. The critical issues with the preform are the shape, the dimensions, and the weight. 

Pumping of liquids is almosl universal in chemical and petrochemical processes. The many different materials being processed require close attention to selection of materials of construction of the various pump parts, shaft sealing, and the hydraulics of the individual problems. A wide variety of qqtes and sizes of pumps have been developed to satisfy the many special conditions found in chemical plant systems however, since all of these cannot be discussed here, the omission of some does not mean that they may not be suitable for a service. 

Because these machines require internal lubrication of the sliding-vane surface, no extreme effort is made to arrange special bearing and shaft seals, except that a gas seal of the conventional mechanical design is usually used to prevent gas from escaping to the outside or to prevent air inleakage in the case of vacuum service. For hazardous or... 

Shaft seal requirements and two common types of seals, packed stuffing boxes and simple mechanical seals, are described and discussed in this section. A packed box typically is used on slow- to moderate-speed machinery where a slight amount of leakage is permissible. A mechanical seal is used on centrifugal pumps or other type of fluid handling equipment where shaft sealing is critical. 

The other drawback is simply one of economics. Because pumps come in a variety of shaft sizes and speeds, the use of this type of seal requires inventorying several sizes of spare springs, which ties up capital. 

A floating shaft can cause chattering, which results in chipping of the seal faces, especially the carbon element. Ideal mechanical seal performance requires a uniform wear pattern and a liquid film between the mating contact faces. 

Most screw compressors are of the oil-lubricated type. There are two types—the semihermetic and the open-drive type. In the former, the motor is located in the same housing as the compressor, while in the latter the motor is located outside of the compressor housing and thus requires a shaft seal. The only moving parts in screw compressors are two intermeshing helical rotors. The rotors consist of one male lobe, which functions as a rolling piston, and a female flute, which acts as a cylinder. Since rotary screw compression is a continuous positive-displacement process, no surges are created in the system. 

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