The sealing of valve stems is ensured by the traditional systems of packed stuffing boxes. The performance of this type of sealing system used also in rotating equipment is dependent on the radial contact pressures generated by the packing axial compression. The mechanical behavior of a packing seal is characterized by the transmission ratio of the axial stress over the radial stress known as the lateral pressure coefficient which is one of the required characteristic used to select packing seals. However, the modeling of the packed stuffing box requires the knowledge of some mechanical characteristics other than the lateral pressure coefficient. In this paper, the mechanical characteristics of packing seals are obtained using a hybrid experimental-numerical procedure. The experimental study is carried out on an instrumented stuffing box packing test bench. The tests results of the experiments are coupled to the ones obtained by a finite element simulation of the test rig to determine the packing seal mechanical characteristics. Two packing types are used; one based on Teflon and the other one based on flexible graphite.
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ASME 2010 Pressure Vessels and Piping Division/K-PVP Conference
July 18–22, 2010
Bellevue, Washington, USA
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- Pressure Vessels and Piping Division
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978-0-7918-4921-7
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An Experimental-Numerical Procedure for Stuffing Box Packing Characterization
Mohammed Diany,
Mohammed Diany
E´cole de Technologie Supe´rieure, Montreal, QC, Canada
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Abdel-Hakim Bouzid
Abdel-Hakim Bouzid
E´cole de Technologie Supe´rieure, Montreal, QC, Canada
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Mohammed Diany
E´cole de Technologie Supe´rieure, Montreal, QC, Canada
Abdel-Hakim Bouzid
E´cole de Technologie Supe´rieure, Montreal, QC, Canada
Paper No:
PVP2010-25012, pp. 183-189; 7 pages
Published Online:
January 10, 2011
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Diany, M, & Bouzid, A. "An Experimental-Numerical Procedure for Stuffing Box Packing Characterization." Proceedings of the ASME 2010 Pressure Vessels and Piping Division/K-PVP Conference. ASME 2010 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference: Volume 2. Bellevue, Washington, USA. July 18–22, 2010. pp. 183-189. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/PVP2010-25012
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