API 682, now in its 4th Edition, has made a concerted effort to accurately define and distinguish between different types of seal configurations available under the designation of ‘Arrangement 2’, including 2CW-CW, 2CW-CS, ...

Mechanical seals are the most common method of sealing industrial centrifugal pumps and other rotary equipment. Although the basic concepts of a seal is simple, successfully using seals requires an understanding of the ...

One of the largest ethylene and polyethylene production complexes in the world located in Alberta Canada was dealing with marginal reliability of the mechanical seals on their ethylene product pumps. The ethylene product ...

There are many challenging mechanical seal applications throughout industry and perhaps none more so than those with negative operating temperatures, more succinctly, a temperature value lower than zero on respective ...

There are few applications that place a significant demand on mechanical seals such as those associated with the handling of various fluids through pipelines. Pipeline applications are unique in that they typically encompass ...

This short course is designed for all personnel that interacts with mechanical seals such as engineers, users, installers, purchasers, reliability engineers, and other industrial plant functions. It starts with basic ...

Mechanical seal selection for pipeline applications can be a challenging task considering the application pressure ranges, speeds, and the properties of the fluids being moved. Variable fluid properties present their own ...