Mechanical Seals: Designs, Application, Selection, Installation, Troubleshooting & Maintenance

Course Introduction

This is an intensive, highly practical and useful course. The participant will gain up-to-date Information and practical understanding of the basics, applications, troubleshooting and failure diagnosis, installation and maintenance of mechanical seal. Mechanical seal for pump and compressor applications will be addressed.

Recent design like dry mechanical seal will also be addressed.

The highlights of the course are as follows:

• Lubrication and sealing concepts
• Mechanical Seal and Dry Gas Seal design
• Different arrangements of mechanical seals
• Optimal selection of seals and flush plans.

Objectives

By the end of the training, participants will be able to:

• Have an understanding of the different types of seals
• Have learned about selection, operation and maintenance strategies
• Troubleshoot seal problems
• Understand how seals are fitted
• Understand how seals are tested
• Have an understanding of API flush plans

Organisational Impact:

On completion of this course, the participant will be able to critically analyse the methodologies employed within the organisation and instigate improvements where required. The knowledge gained in this course will: ü Enable the participant to optimise the operation and maintenance of various types of pumps & compressors

• Give the Participant confidence to carry out failure analyses on seals thereby avoiding repetitive failures
• Improve seal operating and maintenance techniques
• Enable measures to quantify equipment condition
• Give better control of mechanical seal providers
• Enable better identification and specification of new and replacement seals
• Allow tighter control of maintenance budgets by the avoidance of unplanned equipment failures in service

Personal Impact:

• Improved confidence when dealing with suppliers and contractors
• Better understanding of how manufacturers design and develop mechanical seals for particular environments
• Better control of the management of pumps and compressor maintenance and operation
• Improved personal knowledge of sealing systems.

Training Methodology

This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies as a percentage of the total tuition hours:-

• 30% Lectures, Concepts, Role Play
• 70% Workshops & Work Presentations, Techniques, Based on Case Studies & Practical Exercises, Software & General Discussions
• Pre and Post Test

Target Audience

Indicate 2 sentences of introduction “how does this course is designed for the participants” followed by at least 10 target audiences to attend on the training course. It should be specific to their professional field (ie. Project Engineer, Project Manager, HR Manager and so on).

Daily Topics

• PRE-TEST
• Introduction
• Basic Concepts of Fluid Sealing
  • Role of tribology, leak rates, heat transfer, design considerations, materials, application to mechanical seal
  • Lubrication fundamentals
  • Basic fluid mechanics, Reynolds equation, lubrication solutions, application to mechanical seal

• Mechanical Seal Design
  • Theoretical aspects and design
  • Factors affecting design
  • Materials of construction
  • Mechanical seal selection
  • Data requirements for seal selection
  • Seal type selection
  • Selection of the primary seal
  • Selection of the seal arrangement

• Mechanical Seals Configurations
  • Mechanical seal applications
  • Seals Classification
  • Wet mechanical seal
  • Dry mechanical seal
  • Balanced and unbalanced mechanical seals
  • Mechanical seals pump considerations
  • Mechanical seals compressor considerations
  • Mechanical seals troubleshooting

• Failure Diagnosis
  • External symptoms of seal failure
  • Visual seal examination
  • Common seal failure modes-seal faces
  • Common seal failure modes-secondary seals
  • Common seal failure modes-seal hardware

• Seal installation tolerances
• Vibration effect on a mechanical seal
• High temperature effect
• Running speed effect
• Rotor balance effect

• Mechanical Seal Operation
  • Operating limits
  • Operating conditions
• Mechanical Seal Performance
  • Acceptable performance
  • Mechanical seal related standards
  • Pre-installation machine checks
  • Mechanical seal installation
  • Mechanical seal maintenance
  • Seal handling and inspection
• Testing and Verification of Mechanical Seals
  • Degree of testing
  • Type of test
• Course Conclusion
• POST-TEST and EVALUATION

For registration & more information please contact

NAYEL Training Centre 

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