Browsing by Author "Lebeck, Alan O."

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    • Design And Testing Of A Zero-Net Radial Taper, Radially Compliant Face Seal 
      Lebeck, Alan O. (Turbomachinery Laboratories, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1993)
      Conventional seal designs, the net radial taper changes with operating conditions so that contact is not always maintained across their entire width and leakage can occur. The “zero-net” face seal combines two ideas to ...
    • Double Gas Seal With Coplanar Coaxial Rayleigh Pad Faces For Pump Sealing Applications 
      Lebeck, Alan O.; Albor, Gabriel (Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 1999)
      There has been a rapid growth in the application of noncontacting double seals with a gas buffer fluid to pump sealing. The advantages of such a sealing arrangement are: • There is no liquid buffer fluid to maintain or ...
    • Face Seal Balance Ratio Selection For Two Phase Single And Multicomponent Mixtures 
      Lebeck, Alan O. (Turbomachinery Laboratories, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1988)
      It is well known that the fluid pressure distribution between the faces of a mechanical seal greatly affects seal performance. In cases where a sealed fluid changes phase from liquid to vapor as it leaks across the seal ...
    • Two-Phase Mechanical Face Seal Operation: Experimental And Theoretical Observations 
      Lebeck, Alan O.; Chiou, Bing-Ching (Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 1982)
      Experimental and theoretical results related to two·phase mechanical face seal operation are presented. The basic cause for the transition from low friction to high friction operation with increasing temperature is discussed. ...