Start Date : 2 Nov,2025
End Date : 6 Nov,2025
Duration : 5 Days
Overview:
In this course, participants will gain a strong technical and practical understanding of mechanical seals through the exploration of the design features and implications of many sealing systems in today’s application.
Course Objectives:
- Understand the different types of seals
- Have learned about selection, operation, and maintenance strategies
- Be able to troubleshoot seal problems
- Understand how seals are fitted
- Understand how seals are tested
- Understand API flush plans
Course Content:
1. Basic Concepts of Fluid Sealing
- Lubrication fundamentals
- Basic fluid mechanics, Reynolds equation, lubrication solutions, application to mechanical seal
2. Mechanical Seal Design
- Factors affecting design
- Mechanical seal selection
- Seal type selection
- Selection of the primary seal
- Selection of the seal arrangement
3. Mechanical Seals Configurations
- Mechanical seal applications
- Seals Classification
- Wet and Dry mechanical seal
- Balanced and unbalanced mechanical seals
- Mechanical seals pump and compressor considerations
4. Failure Diagnosis
- External symptoms of seal failure
- Common seal failure modes
- Seal installation tolerances
- Vibration effect on a mechanical seal
- High temperature effect
- Running speed effect
- Rotor balance effect
5. Mechanical Seal Performance
- Acceptable performance
- Mechanical seal related standards
- Pre-installation machine checks
- Mechanical seal installation
- Mechanical seal maintenance
- Seal handling and inspection
Targeted Audience:
This course is intended for mechanical engineers, maintenance engineers, material engineers, machinery engineers, superintendents, supervisors, draftsmen, foremen & technicians.
Mechanical Seals: Design, Selection, and Maintenance Techniques
3٬995٫00$السعر