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Intervention on site: expertise and maintenance of key high-stakes seals

28/02/2022 - posted in Experience

Seals are considered “high-stakes” when they are critical and can cause equipment to shut down, due to a leak for example. The maintenance and installation of these types of seals requires a great deal of expertise and experience, but also responsiveness and innovation to ensure they can (...)

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Refurbishment of butterfly valve seals

12/05/2021 - posted in Experience

Our customers’ requirements vary from one piece of equipment to another, which is why PXL SEALS has been offering various butterfly valve refurbishment options for over 20 years. The connecting area between the trunnions and the lens is often critical and where major leaks can be found. (...)

Tags : Seals, valve, butterfly valve, pxl, pxl seals, Refurbishment

Should sealing be only designed considering material and geometry?

08/03/2015 - posted in Experience

Introduction Further to several customer experiences, we noticed that it is critical to work on both seal and housing parameters. This new way of considering projects is based on a specific experience: the replacement of a valve trunnion. The equipment working conditions caused big (...)

Tags : geometry, ring, sealing, seal, seals, material

Mobile ring sealing: is D-ring the ideal solution at low pressure?

26/02/2015 - posted in Experience

Is D-ring the optimal answer to all mobile ring sealing issues? Not necessarily. We would like to share our experience on low pressures applications.As required by a Hydro Power Customer, PXL SEALS proceeded to a mobile ring sealing of a spherical valve initially equipped with O-ring seals. (...)

Tags : Mobile, ring, sealing, seal, seals, D-ring