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LANTERN RING GLAD PACKING GLAD
RING
GLAD
FOLLOWER

GLAD
NUT
SHAFT
IMPELLER

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The Basic Sealing Problem:
Preventing Leakage

Environment Pump
casing

Shaft

Process
Fluid
Leakage

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 PERPENDICULAR TO THE SHAFT

PUMP
ALONG THE SHAFT
BODY

Shaft

Process
Fluid

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Packing
Environment Pump
casing

Shaft
ALONG THE SHAFT Process
Leakage Fluid

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Ra 10um Ra 5 um Ra 1 um
Fine turning Ground LAPPED

CONTACT AREA
4% 12% 40%

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Ra 0.1 um
POLISHED

CONTACT AREA 95%

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 Pump Housing
Gland
Process Fluid

Primary Ring Mating Ring

Invisible Leakage:
Fluid Evaporates Upon Reaching Atmosphere

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 Pump Housing
No Fluid Or Dry Running Gland

Primary Ring Mating

Ring

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 Mating Ring
Primary Ring

Retainer

Set Screw

Springs

Shaft

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 Design Features
Secondary Sealing Element
Static
Dynamic

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 Design Features
Secondary Sealing Element
Pusher Seal

O-ring must
move axially
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 Design Features
Secondary Sealing Element
Non-Pusher Seal

Static O-ring
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 Pusher vs. Non-Pusher
Pusher vs. Non-Pusher

O-ring secondary seal Bellows secondary seal

must slide along shaft as expands to accommodate
seal face wears face wear. Bellows tail is
stationary against shaft

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O-ring secondary seal
must slide along the Bellows secondary seal
retainer/carbon as the expands to accommodate
seal face wears. face wear.

Pusher vs. Non-Pusher

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Seal Selection by Type

O-ring

Metal Bellows

Rubber Bellows
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 Metal
O-Ring
Bellows

Elastomer Bellows
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 Secondary Sealing Elements
Elastomeric Half Teflon Welded Metal
Bellows Convolution Bellows Bellows

V Rings U Cup Wedge O Ring

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How a Elastomer Bellows
Mechanical seal
Is built ??

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 Seal face

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 Seal face

Bellows

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 Seal face

Bellows

"L" - rings

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 Seal face

Bellows

"L" - rings

Spring

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 Seal face

Bellows

"L" - rings

Spring

Seat
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 Seal face

Bellows

"L" - rings

Spring

Seat

O-Ring
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or cup rubber
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 Seal face

Bellows

"L" - rings

Spring

Seat

O-Ring
or cup
rubber
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Arrangement of
Mechanical seals

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 Arrangements
Single
Inside Mounted

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 Arrangements
Single
Outside Mounted

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 Arrangements
Rotating Head and Rotating Seat
Rotating Head Rotating Seat

Seal Head Seat Seat Seal Head

{

{
{

{
Stationary Rotating
Rotating Stationary

Advantages Advantages
Less Radial & Axial Space Requirements Higher Speed Capability
Lower Cost Tolerates Misalignment Better
Better Cooling

Use Rotating Head Assemblies up to:

3500 fpm for Single Spring Designs
5000 fpm formechnical seals byDesigns
Multiple Spring
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Multiple arrangements

Tandem
arrangement

Back-to-back
arrangement

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Multiple Seal Arrangements
Classical Tandem

Process seal Backup seal

Classical Double

Process seal Barrier fluid seal

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Multiple Seal Arrangements
Unpressurised
(Tandem)
Pressure

Process
Buffer Atmosphere

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Multiple Seal Arrangements

PRESSURISE
D (double)
Pressure

Barrier
Process
Atmosphere
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 INSTALATION OF
MECHANICAL SEALS

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Assembly - direction

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Installation - so simple, so easy!

Wet the shaft

Push the
mechanical seal
over the shaft
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Excellent axial movement of the
bellows

Compressed

Normal

Stretched
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 Bellows compensates
for deposits:

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Not sensitive to axial and
radial run out

Bellows
compensates
run out

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MECHANICAL SEAL
FAILURE
ANALYSIS

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Loss of Flexibility: Hang-up

Leakage decomposes
or solidifies and locks
primary ring in place
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 Discharge
By- pass Line from
Pump Discharge
to Seal Gland
Flow

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Suction
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