Clamshell expansion joint to protect a damaged metal bellows
An offshore plant in the North Sea has been fitted with an oversized clamshell expansion joint from Inconel 625. The expansion joint encases and protects a damaged bellows (DN 2000) of a turbine.
Operating conditions: p = 1 bar (14.5 PSI); t = 450 °C (842 °F).
Triple seal for high pressure injection pump
A new developed pump seal from EagleBurgmann for dynamic pressures up to 600 bar, provided for a FPSO in the Tupi oil field off the Brazilian coast. The triple seal, type SHVF-D11/100-KB1 is applied in a CO2 injection pump. Medium: supercritical carbon dioxide.
Operating conditions: p = 481 bar (6,975 PSI); t = 40 °C ... 70 °C (104 °F ... 158 °F); n = 3,600 min-1.
Shaft seals for water injection pumps
StatoilHydros Brage platform in Norway uses an EagleBurgmann SHFV-D4/160-E1-A3 as a dual seal in an AkerKvaerner water injection pump.
Operating conditions: p = 44 bar (638 PSI); t = 7 °C ... 80 °C (45 °F ... 176 °F); n = 3,585 min-1.
Compressor seal for Saudi Aramco
Saudi Aramco in Saudi Arabia uses a high pressure compressor seal, type PDGS/185-TA-U.
Operating conditions: p = 30 bar (435 PSI); t = 30 °C ... 130 °C (22 °F ... 266 °F); n = 5,523 min-1.
Shaft seal for suction gas compressor
Since 2005, PEMEX (Petróleos Mexicanos) has been using the EagleBurgmann DGS20/170-TA3-U together with the 13-SMS-2-DGS20 supply system in a Dresser Rand suction gas compressor.
Operating conditions: p ... 36 bar (522 PSI); t = 50 °C ... 130 °C (122 °F ... 266 °F); n = 8,295 min-1.
Shaft seal for the world largest water injection pump
Dual seal type SHF-D2/202-E2, installed in the world's largest water injection pump from Sulzer Pumps on a BP offshore platform in the Caspian Sea in Azerbaijan (AIOC project).
Operating conditions: p = 9 ... 31 bar (131 ... 450 PSI); t = 18 °C ... 32 °C (64 °F ... 90 °F); n = 4,800 min-1.
Shaft seals for water injection pump
SHFV-D3/140-E3 dual seal with SPN120 supply system, installed in a water injection pump from Sulzer Pumps at PDO (Petroleum Development Oman) in Oman.
Operating conditions: p = 17 ... 22 bar (247 ... 319 PSI); t = 30 °C ... 80 °C (86 °F ... 176 °F); n = 4,700 min-1.
High pressure compressor seals for Saudi Aramco
Compressors of Saudi Aramco in Saudi Arabia are equipped with a PDGS2/130-ZT3-U.
Operating conditions: p ... 50 bar (725 PSI); t = 20 °C ... 177 °C (4 °F ... 351 °F); n = 15,800 min-1.
Magnetic coupling for a centrifugal pump
Eighteen magnetic couplings type MAKH66-110-3/43-00 are applied on the PRA1 platform off the coast of Brazil to seal a centrifugal pump from Sulzer (ZF 25200) in a buffer fluid system at 90 bar for supplying the mechanical seal of a crude oil pump. Since 2005, the couplings have lived up to their low maintenance design in a location that is difficult to access. Medium: ISO VG 46 barrier fluid
Operating conditions: p = 90 bar (1,305 PSI); t = 70 °C (158 °F); n = 3,500 min-1.
Diaphragm couplings for compressors
EagleBurgmann supplied numerous diaphragm couplings of type 74 are applied as joint between motor, gear box and compressor.
Operating condition: power = 241 ... 7,656 kW, n = 2,950 ... 11,281 min-1.