mechanical seal diagram pricelist

FSI Series 1015 mechanical cartridge seals are a premium grade product without the premium price. They"re ideal for use with most ANSI and DIN (standard and big bore) pumps and other types of pumps and rotating equipment. They have the following features:

A mechanical seal consists of a stationary seat and a rotating head. The head rotates with a pump shaft while the seat is statically sealed to a non-moving cover. The stationary part of the seal is the non-rotating primary seal ring mounted in the gland plate, pump housing or other motionless structural part of the rotating equipment. A stationary seat also called Mating Ring is capable of joining seal parts together to prevent leakage.

Primary sealing takes place where the rotating and stationary faces are in near contact. Mechanical seals leak by design, albeit controlled leakage and must do so to work properly.

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The PSS Shaft Seal is a mechanical face seal. The sealing surface is created between the flat surfaces of the rotating stainless-steel rotor and the stationary carbon flange. The stationary carbon flange is attached to the front side of the bellows with hose clamps, and the back end of the bellows fits over the stern tube and is secured with hose clamps. The stainless-steel rotor is fitted on the shaft in front of the carbon flange. The stainless-steel rotor compresses the bellows before the rotor is secured to the shaft with set screws. This compression (pre-load) maintains constant contact between the two flat faces of the stainless-steel rotor and carbon flange, allowing the PSS to compensate for the variable fore and aft movement due to propeller thrust. In addition, the carbon flange is over-bored to the shaft diameter allowing it to float around the shaft and thus compensate for most misalignment and vibration problems. The stainless-steel rotor is sealed to the shaft by two O-rings recessed into the collar"s bore. These O-rings rotate with the shaft and stainless-steel rotor and do not experience wear during operation.

The scope of our mechanical seal product range far exceeds any other seal manufacturer. From small elastomer bellows seals used in millions of domestic water pumps to double mechanical seals that ensure maximum sealing safety and large, highly customized dry-running gas seals for mission critical high speed turbo compressors, John Crane has the right product for any application.

The right seal support system is critical for promoting seal reliability. John Crane customizes support systems to meet a variety of seal specifications, contributing to safe, cost-effective, reliable operation and reducing harmful environmental effects. Our support systems comply with constantly changing design codes and standards, and meet the increasingly stringent demands on end users.

Our comprehensive suite of seal face technologies are designed to overcome rigorous sealing challenges, including limited seal face lubrication and severe-service duties that adversely affect reliability, operational costs and seal life. Designed by our engineering experts, John Crane’s face treatment options help your equipment power through low-lubricity and dry-running conditions by using advanced micromachined patterns and features to improve seal face lubrication to optimize the performance of rotating equipment in all process industries

Isomag’s advanced magnetic face technology delivers unparalleled performance. The lapped flat faces create a positive liquid tight seal preventing lubricant leakage and the ingress of contaminants in both static and dynamic conditions on horizontal and vertical equipment alike. By optimizing the magnetic energy loading, Isomag’s are capable of running at shaft speeds well above average (up to 15,000 feet per minute) providing the ability to effectively seal the bearing housings on a wide variety of applications

Do you want to minimize leakage from your pumps in an effective manner? This is a challenge operators and maintenance managers face on a daily basis, which can prove costly. John Crane offers a wide selection of packing materials in compression packing, automatic packing, floating packing, and injectable packing. Learn more about our variety of packing equipped to handle the vast majority of sealing solutions and available for nearly all applications.

Mechanical seals are indispensable for sealing rotating shafts. They make sure that the fluid handled remains in the system, prevent emissions and thus protect the environment from contamination. High-quality shaft seals in the form of mechanical seals also ensure maximum economic efficiency and operating reliability for pumps. This is crucial because the majority of repairs arise due to sealing problems.

And this is where KSB’s mechanical seals can make a difference: as well as impressing with a robust design, they offer straightforward installation and optimal integration in the seal chamber – ensuring reliable and efficient system operation.

Mechanical seals are usually made of moving rings, stationary rings, compression elements and sealing elements. These parts are tightly bonded to form a sealing surface to avoid leakage. The liquid in the sealed chamber causes the end face to press against the end face of the stationary ring, and the mechanical seal occurs on the end faces of the two rings and the adhesion is to maintain the compression of the component pressure. The pump can not only work in the state, but also adhere to the end of the paste to ensure that the sealing medium does not leak, and avoid impurities into the sealed end. The sealing element acts as a gap between the sealing ring and the shaft, the action of the static ring and the gap of the gland, and the oscillation of the pump with the elastic element. When running with other components of the pump, the condition of the mechanical seal is closely linked with the external conditions. Only if the parts, auxiliary sealing equipment and technical requirements are ensured that the mechanical seal works well.

First, we need to turn off the pump, and then clean and inspect each part of the pump. Second, remove the impeller by rotating it in the anticlockwise direction. Then take out the seal at the backside of the impeller, and place the mechanical seal on to the shaft. Fix the mechanical seal and screw the impeller onto the motor shaft. Here are some notes of installation:

With its wide range of designs, the mechanical seals can also be made of different materials. In fact, the seal face materials decide the service time of mechanical seals. The most popular materials include rubber, stainless steel, PTFE, carbon, ceramic, Sic, and TC.

In SEALCON, equipped with advanced CNC processing equipment, you can not only buy the mechanical seals, but also buy the mechanical spare parts: sealing rings, spring, O-ring, sleeve and gland. All of our products conform to the standard of DIN24960, EN12756, ISO3069 API610, API682.

A mechanical seal is simply a method of containing fluid within a vessel (typically pumps, mixers, etc.) where a rotating shaft passes through a stationary housing or occasionally, where the housing rotates around the shaft.

When sealing a centrifugal pump, the challenge is to allow a rotating shaft to enter the ‘wet’ area of the pump, without allowing large volumes of pressurized fluid to escape.

To address this challenge there needs to be a seal between the shaft and the pump housing that can contain the pressure of the process being pumped and withstand the friction caused by the shaft rotating.

Before examining how mechanical seals function it is important to understand other methods of forming this seal. One such method still widely used is Gland Packing.

The stationary part of the seal is fitted to the pump housing with a static seal –this may be sealed with an o-ring or gasket clamped between the stationary part and the pump housing.

The rotary portion of the seal is sealed onto the shaft usually with an O ring. This sealing point can also be regarded as static as this part of the seal rotates with the shaft.

One part of the seal, either to static or rotary portion, is always resiliently mounted and spring loaded to accommodate any small shaft deflections, shaft movement due to bearing tolerances and out-of-perpendicular alignment due to manufacturing tolerances.

The primary seal is essentially a spring loaded vertical bearing - consisting of two extremely flat faces, one fixed, one rotating, running against each other.  The seal faces are pushed together using a combination of hydraulic force from the sealed fluid and spring force from the seal design. In this way a seal is formed to prevent process leaking between the rotating (shaft) and stationary areas of the pump.

If the seal faces rotated against each other without some form of lubrication they would wear and quickly fail due to face friction and heat generation. For this reason some form of lubrication is required between the rotary and stationary seal face; this is known as the fluid film

In most mechanical seals the faces are kept lubricated by maintaining a thin film of fluid between the seal faces. This film can either come from the process fluid being pumped or from an external source.

The need for a fluid film between the faces presents a design challenge – allowing sufficient lubricant to flow between the seal faces without the seal leaking an unacceptable amount of process fluid, or allowing contaminants in between the faces that could damage the seal itself.

This is achieved by maintaining a precise gap between the faces that is large enough to allow in a small amounts of clean lubricating liquid but small enough to prevent contaminants from entering the gap between the seal faces.

The gap between the faces on a typical  seal is as little as 1 micron – 75 times narrower than a human hair.  Because the gap is so tiny, particles that would otherwise damage the seal faces are unable to enter, and the amount of liquid that leaks through this space is so small that it appears as vapor – around ½ a teaspoon a day on a typical application.

This micro-gap is maintained using springs and hydraulic force to push the seal faces together, while the pressure of the liquid between the faces (the fluid film) acts to push them apart.

Without the pressure pushing them apart the two seal faces would be in full contact, this is known as dry running and would lead to rapid seal failure.

Without the process pressure (and the force of the springs) pushing the faces together the seal faces would separate too far, and allow fluid to leak out.

Mechanical seal engineering focuses on increasing the longevity of the primary seal faces by ensuring a high quality of lubricating fluid, and by selecting appropriate seal face materials for the process being pumped.

When we talk about leakage we are referring to visible leakage of the seal. This is because as detailed above, a very thin fluid film holds the two seal faces apart from each other. By maintaining a micro-gap a leak path is created making it impossible for a mechanical seal to be totally leak free. What we can say, however, is that unlike gland packing, the amount of leakage on a mechanical seal should be so low as to be visually undetectable.