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Flange Sealing: Best Practices for Maintaining Aging Equipment

By Hans Dekker

Flange Sealing for Refineries - Chesterton

Part 2 of our series Extending the Life of Aging Fixed Plant Equipment, this post focuses on techniques and practices to reduce flange leaks and extend equipment life. Proper gasket seating stress is important to generate the pressure drop required in sealing a flange reliably. This gasket stress needs to stay between a certain minimum and […]

Filed Under: Flanges, Sealing Tagged With: aging plants, Gaskets, heat exchangers

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