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    Installation Work Instructions For Mechanical Seal

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    1. The document provides instructions for properly installing a mechanical seal, including assembling parts in a clean environment, lubricating components, checking fittings, and ensuring correct part orientation. 2. It emphasizes taking care, using the correct parts, and checking multiple aspects of the installation to avoid damage to delicate seal faces. 3. A start-up procedure is also outlined to activate auxiliary systems, ensure proper pump operation, and check for issues like leakage or excess heat before operating the equipment.

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    Installation Work Instructions For Mechanical Seal

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    1. The document provides instructions for properly installing a mechanical seal, including assembling parts in a clean environment, lubricating components, checking fittings, and ensuring correct part orientation. 2. It emphasizes taking care, using the correct parts, and checking multiple aspects of the installation to avoid damage to delicate seal faces. 3. A start-up procedure is also outlined to activate auxiliary systems, ensure proper pump operation, and check for issues like leakage or excess heat before operating the equipment.

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    1. The document provides instructions for properly installing a mechanical seal, including assembling parts in a clean environment, lubricating components, checking fittings, and ensuring correct part orientation. 2. It emphasizes taking care, using the correct parts, and checking multiple aspects of the installation to avoid damage to delicate seal faces. 3. A start-up procedure is also outlined to activate auxiliary systems, ensure proper pump operation, and check for issues like leakage or excess heat before operating the equipment.

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    Installation Work Instructions For Mechanical Seal

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    1. The document provides instructions for properly installing a mechanical seal, including assembling parts in a clean environment, lubricating components, checking fittings, and ensuring correct part orientation. 2. It emphasizes taking care, using the correct parts, and checking multiple aspects of the installation to avoid damage to delicate seal faces. 3. A start-up procedure is also outlined to activate auxiliary systems, ensure proper pump operation, and check for issues like leakage or excess heat before operating the equipment.

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    Installation Work Instructions for M echanical Seal

    A component seal is one where each part of the seal must be assembled on the equipment
    individually. This requires considerable skill and significant time as compared to installation of a
    cartridge seal. During installation of a mechanical seal take care of following.
    1.

    Assemble seal parts in a clean environment.

    2.

    Do not use hammer for assembly as seal faces are delicate and may crack / break.

    3.

    Check that seal parts, gland, and stuffing box are free from burrs, sharp edged and deep
    scratches, / damage.

    4.

    Check surface finish at elastomer area to be as per manufacturers recommendation.

    5.

    Check that setscrews on either the rotary unit or the drive collar of the seal assembly are free in
    the threads.

    6.

    Confirm hardness of shaft / sleeve to be such that after tightening set screws, rotating assembly
    does not get loose (if set screws are tightened against a hard surface, they will fail to hold
    assembly in desired position during operation). Alternatively, use hardened setscrews.

    7.

    It is a good practice to check fitting of shaft sleeve, rotary assembly and gland without O-Rings to
    ensure that are fitting freely before assembling them with O-Rings.

    8.

    Use correct size O-Rings at all places.

    9.

    Do not use used O-Rings and gaskets.

    10. Never use "glued together" O-Ring for any "dynamic" application. A hard spot will be created that

    will interfere with the movement of the O-Ring.


    11. Lubricate shaft and secondary seal (O-Rings / bellows) as per manufacturers recommendation. If

    assembling is difficult, apply water as lubrication. Rubber bellow seals should be lubricated with
    Vaseline. Do not apply silicon grease on them. EPR (Ethylene Propylene Rubber) elastomers
    should not be lubricated with petroleum-based oil. For EPR material use silicon grease.
    12. Install seal at its correct operating length as per manufacturers drawing.
    13. Check direction of helix of coil for single spring seal. Helix should be R.H. for C.W. rotation and

    L.H. for C.C.W. rotation when looking at seal face.


    14. Gland bolts or nuts should be tightened only enough to effect a gasket seal at the stuffing box face.

    This can be achieved by initial finger tightening and further tightening with to turns. Over
    tightening could result in distortion of seal faces.
    15. Cartridge type seal assemblies are provided with axial location plates that hold the assembly

    together before installation in the equipment. Make sure that the axial location plates are moved
    out of the grooves provided on the shaft sleeve after their fitting.
    16. When seal assembly is complete, connect all piping, check that all environmental controls have

    been connected, and all unused holes in the stuffing box / gland are plugged.

    M echanical Seal Start Up Procedure


    Take care of following before starting equipment and its operation for the first time after installation of
    mechanical seal.
    1.

    Equipment should be aligned with the drive as per manufacturers recommendations.

    2.

    Check the shaft for free movement. Manually rotate the shaft several turns. If shaft binds due to
    any reason, investigate and correct it.

    3.

    Activate all auxiliary systems like flush, quench, barrier lines and vent the stuffing box until all
    trapped air has been released.

    4.

    Pump should have adequate NPSH and it should work with out cavitations and vibration.

    5.

    No noise should come from stuffing box.

    6.

    Excessive heat generation should not be there. This may be due to stationary parts contacting the
    rotating shaft or rotating seal parts contacting the housing of the equipment.

    7.

    Examine the seal. Slight leakage should stop when the faces wear in.

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