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    Flange Face Surface Finish

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    The document discusses flange face surface finish requirements according to ANSI standards. It states that flange faces must have a serrated finish between 125-500 micro inches to ensure compatibility with gaskets and provide a high quality seal. It then describes common flange finish grades produced by manufacturers, including stock, smooth, hydrogen and cold water finishes, and the typical tool markings and surface roughness for each grade. Finally, it discusses common methods for measuring surface roughness, including visual inspection and using a comparator gauge, and defines the arithmetic average roughness height and root mean square methods of measurement.

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    The document discusses flange face surface finish requirements according to ANSI standards. It states that flange faces must have a serrated finish between 125-500 micro inches to ensure compatibility with gaskets and provide a high quality seal. It then describes common flange finish grades produced by manufacturers, including stock, smooth, hydrogen and cold water finishes, and the typical tool markings and surface roughness for each grade. Finally, it discusses common methods for measuring surface roughness, including visual inspection and using a comparator gauge, and defines the arithmetic average roughness height and root mean square methods of measurement.

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    The document discusses flange face surface finish requirements according to ANSI standards. It states that flange faces must have a serrated finish between 125-500 micro inches to ensure compatibility with gaskets and provide a high quality seal. It then describes common flange finish grades produced by manufacturers, including stock, smooth, hydrogen and cold water finishes, and the typical tool markings and surface roughness for each grade. Finally, it discusses common methods for measuring surface roughness, including visual inspection and using a comparator gauge, and defines the arithmetic average roughness height and root mean square methods of measurement.

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    Flange Face Surface Finish

    Uploaded by

    Joel Ashley D'Souza
    The document discusses flange face surface finish requirements according to ANSI standards. It states that flange faces must have a serrated finish between 125-500 micro inches to ensure compatibility with gaskets and provide a high quality seal. It then describes common flange finish grades produced by manufacturers, including stock, smooth, hydrogen and cold water finishes, and the typical tool markings and surface roughness for each grade. Finally, it discusses common methods for measuring surface roughness, including visual inspection and using a comparator gauge, and defines the arithmetic average roughness height and root mean square methods of measurement.

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    Flange Face Surface Finish

    The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) code for flanges and flanged fittings (ANSI B16.5) requires that the flange face has a specific roughness to ensure that this surface be compatible with the gasket and provide a high quality seal. A serrated finish, either concentric or spiral, is required with 30 to 55 grooves per inch and a resultant roughness between 125 and 500 micro inches. This allows for various grades of surface finish to be made available by flange manufactures for the gasket contact surface of metal flanges. These grades are often referred to by name e.g. stock finish. The exact definition of each grade may differ between manufacturers, but can be generalized as follows; Stock Finish The gasket contact surface is typically formed by a continuous (sometimes called phonographic) spiral groove generated by a 1.6mm radius round-nosed tool at a feed rate of 0.8mm per revolution with a depth of 0.15mm. This will result in a roughness between Ra 3.2 and 12.5 micrometers (125 - 500 micro inch). Smooth Finish No definite tool marking should be apparent to the naked eye. This is typically achieved by having the gasket contact surface formed by a continuous (sometimes called phonographic) spiral groove generated by a 0.8mm radius round-nosed tool at a feed rate of 0.3mm per revolution with a depth of 0.05mm. This will result in a roughness between Ra 3.2 and 6.3 micrometers (125 - 250 micro inch). Hydrogen Service Finish The finish for flanges in hydrogen service is very smooth, typically between Ra 2 and 3.2 micrometers (79 - 125 micro inch). Cold Water Finish The flange face appears as mirror like. This flange finish is usually expected to be used with metal to metal contact, i.e. without a gasket. It is seldom used in the oil, petrochemical and related industries.

    Measuring Surface Roughness Flange finish is generally measured by visual and tactile means. Comparing the feel of the machined face with that of a surface finish comparator gauge, occasionally referred to as a Rupert gauge, is considered adequate. There are two common methods of expressing roughness. They are the Arithmetic Average Roughness Height (AARH) and the Root Mean Square (RMS) Average. Arithmetic Average Roughness Height- Calculation of the Arithmetic Average Roughness Height involves measuring the distance of the peaks and valleys and performing an arithmetic average of the measurements. Root Mean Square Average - Calculation of the Root Mean Square Average involves measuring the distance of peaks and valleys, adding the square of these measurements and calculating the square root of the total. The RMS value is approximately 11% higher than the AARH value.

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