Personnel competence qualification Correct installation of the sealing elements is essential in their optimal and safe operation of a system containing pressurised bolted connections and in the achievement of the highest performance from a pressurised bolted...
Gasket parameters – Part III – Gasket factors Qsmin(L), Qsmax, Qmin(L), PQR and EG The approval of the new standard EN 1591-1 – ”Flanges and their joints – Design rules for gasketed circular flange connections – Part I: Calculation method” – is done within the...
Gasket parameters – Part II – Gasket factors Gb, a, Gs Due to the increasing importance given to environmental protection and with the adoption of norms regulating leakage, starts the research to replace the ”m” and ”y” parameters. These two parameters do...
Gasket parameters – Part I – Gasket factors ”m” and ”y” The tightness of the assembly is a very important issue for the integrity and safety of the installation, as well as for operating in prescribed parameters and obtaining desired efficiency. However, for quite...
What influences the behavior of the flanged joints? Gaskets are basic elements for flanged joints, with the purpose to create and maintain a static seal between two imperfect surfaces of a mechanical system, designed to contain a wide range of liquids and gases in...
