密封垫片虽小，却能影响油气行业作业的完整性！
编译 | 惊蛰
为了提高竞争力和扩大市场占有率，防漏密封技术全球领导者Pipeotech宣布已与Clock Spring达成合作协议，获得了革命性密封技术DeltaV-Sea授权，可以进行开发和生产。这项合作的达成，使这两家公司能够向油气市场推出这种全新的智能密封技术，从而有效地提高油气开采完整性。
Pipeotech首席执行官Henrik Sollie说：“Pipeotech很高兴与Clock Spring合作，共同进行销售和制造，推动这种零排放技术应用到石油和天然气领域的关键区域。通过这项协议，我们正在扩大该产品的应用范围，使更多公司能够减少逸散性排放。”
基于DeltaV-Seal的创新型防漏技术，全金属垫片可以实现零排放。采用相同的专有V形环结构，其密封强度超过油气行业标准的10000倍，这种联合密封技术采用三V形环系统压缩和贴合法兰表面，完全消除了排放。即使在预定的扭矩规格为17 Nm时（环形板材垫圈为Statoil要求扭矩的35％），也可以实现完整的连接，防止泄露。
通过先进的CNC加工方法，DeltaV-Seal和全金属垫片由单个金属坯料铣削而成，确保了最高规格和一致的产品质量水平以及可靠性。为了消除温度波动时密封压力损失造成的排放，所有密封件都采用与连接法兰相同的金属类型制造。由于技术垫片可以与法兰一起膨胀和收缩，在整个温度波动范围内都能保持最大的密封强度。
Clock Spring首席执行官Matthew Boucher说：“与我们其他产品一样，这种金属对金属密封垫片是一种高度工程化的解决方案，支持关键设备设施的维护和维修，并帮助Clock Spring为油气行业提供更好的环境污染管理。垫片为我们的石油天然气工业客户提供了一个关键解决方案，减少其运营中的逸散性排放污染。”
这种金属对金属垫片技术具有极高的成本效益和耐用性，对炼油厂、石油化工厂和油气开采上、下游作业效益都有重大改进。自2015年以来，这种新一代密封技术已经通过了Pipeotech在运行条件下的测试和验证。毫无疑问，随着此项技术应用频率不断增加，其逐渐显示出了为石油和天然气行业提供永久性、无泄漏的密封解决方案的潜力，可以几十年来保持耐用，它将继续给所有客户留下深刻印象并增加收益。
PIPEOTECH目前可以为全球各行业的管道连接提供全新密封解决方案。DeltaV-Seal2015年成为世界上第一个（也是唯一一个）经过DNV GL认证的型号认证垫片，DeltaV-Seal经历了振动和脉动测试程序，全部顺利通过，证明了其应用性能。
“垫圈是我们大多数人从来不会看到或想到的小部件，但是如果这个不见断裂，管道内的流体或气体逸出，会对周围环境和人员造成恶劣影响。”
法兰之间的密封泄漏问题是所有使用管道，法兰和阀门行业中不可忽视的问题，例如油田、炼油厂、发电厂、热再生系统、船舶等。 研究表明，法兰之间的密封通常是管道连接中最薄弱的部分，泄漏会导致产量损失，显着增加运营成本。
该技术最初模型为Quickflange系统，于2003年推出，随后发明人逐渐注意到，像垫圈这样简单的配件可能是许多行业中最薄弱的环节。随后于2013年发明了DeltaV-Seal，也是当今世界上第一个获得DnV GL认证的垫片。现在，Pipeotech的DeltaV-Seal可以为全球各行各业的管道连接提供革命性的新型密封技术。
Delta V-Seal特点
- 全金属单片垫片，与法兰本身材料相同或兼容，消除了电偶腐蚀
- 通用垫片，适用于各种液体和气体环境
- 满足ASME和DIN / EN应用标准
- 存储简单，应用经济高效
- 金属对金属的多重密封，防泄漏
- 金属对金属密封耐用，无需特殊扭矩操作
- 防火防爆，可承受与法兰连接本身一样多的热量
- 2015年通过DNV GL的泄漏、爆破/振动和压力测试
- 耐高机械应力，抗振动
- 无破碎，易于法兰面清洁
- 使用寿命长，生命周期成本低
In a strategic effort to expand market presence, Pipeotech the global leader in next-generation, leak-proof sealing technologies has announced it has entered into a partnership agreement with Clock Spring Company Inc. (Clock Spring), permitting the technology behind the revolutionary DeltaV-Seal to be licensed, developed, and produced by Clock Spring. This agreement enables both respected companies the ability to produce and market this next-gen, smart sealing technology to the industrial marketplace, effectively expanding the product presence to new prospective clients.
“Pipeotech is pleased to have Clock Spring as a sales, marketing, and manufacturing partner to drive penetration of this zero-emissions technology into key regions in the oil and gas and industrial sectors,” Henrik Sollie, CEO, Pipeotech. “Through this licensing agreement, we are extending the reach of this product to empower more companies to reduce fugitive emissions.”
Based on the highly innovative, leak-proof technology of the DeltaV-Seal, the zero-emissions Full Metal Gasket” features the same proprietary, V-shaped rings in order to achieve sealing strengths exceeding 10,000 times stronger than the requirements of the oil and gas industry. This joint sealing technology utilizes a triple-V-ring system to compress and conform to the surface of a flange, completely eliminating emissions. This also enables a complete connection to be achieved, even at pre-torqured specifications equal to 17 Nm (35% of required Statoil torque for sheet gaskets). Through advanced CNC machining methods, the DeltaV-Seal and Full Metal Gasket are milled out of a single metal billet. This ensures the highest and most consistent levels of product quality, as well as reliability. In order to eliminate emissions caused by loss of sealing pressure during temperature fluctuation, all seals are manufactured from the same metal type as the connecting flange. This enables the seal and flange to expand and contract in unison, maintaining maximum sealing strength through a full range of temperature fluctuation.
“Like the other offerings in our portfolio, this metal-to-metal gasket is a highly engineered solution that supports the maintenance and repair of critical infrastructure and helps Clock Spring deliver better environmental stewardship in the industry,” Matthew Boucher, CEO, Clock Spring. “The gasket provides a key solution our industrial oil and gas customer are asking for to reduce fugitive emissions in their operations.”
By being highly cost effective, as well as durable, this metal-to-metal gasket technology presents significant improvements to both upstream and downstream operations in refineries, petrochemical plants, and terminals. Since 2015 this next-gen sealing technology has been tested and proven in real world operating conditions by current Pipeotech clients. As adoption of this technology continues to grow, it will no doubt continue to impress and add value to all those who use it by delivering the only permanent, leak-free seal solution to the Oil and Gas Industry, remaining durable for decades.
PIPEOTECH provides a revolutionary, new sealing solution for pipe connections used in a variety of industries worldwide, the DeltaV-Seal?. The world’s first type approved gasket In 2015, DeltaV-Seal? became the world’s first (and only) gasket to be type approved, certified by DNV GL in October 2015. The DeltaV-Seal? went through an extremely hard vibration and pulsation test programme in which the gasket finished with success.
A gasket is something most of us never know, see or think about, but if this little piece breaks and the fluids or gases inside the pipe escapes, the consequences for the surroundings, the environment and people involved can be significant.
Sealing leakage between flanges is a well-known problem in all industries using pipes, flanges and valves, such as refineries, power plants, heat regeneration systems, ships and other applications.?Studies show that sealings between flanges frequently appear to be the weakest part of a piping connection.?Leakages may often cause loss of production and productivity, and as a result, significantly higher costs.
THE BEGINNING
Having developed the unique?Quickflange-system?back in 2003, the inventors saw numerous times that something as simple as a gasket time after time represented the weakest link of a piping system. As a consequence, they invented in 2013 the DeltaV-Seal, today the world’s first DnV GL type approved gasket.
THE TECHNOLOGY
DeltaV-Seal from Pipeotech provides a revolutionary, new sealing technology for pipe connections used in a variety of industries worldwide.
Delta V-Seal features:
- An all metal, one piece gasket. In equal material or a galvanic compatible material to the flange itself. Galvanic corrosion eliminated.
- One universal gasket, applicable for a full variety of liquids and gases
- ASME & DIN/EN standards
- Easy and cost effective storage and logistics
- Leak proof – metal to metal multiple sealing. One primary, two secondary.
- Seals damages to the pipe flanges (tested up to 0,3 mm)
- Solid, metal to metal sealing. Less torque and no retightening of the bolts necessary
- Fire safe, withstands as much heat as the flange connection itself. Blow out resistant
- DNV GL type approved (click?here to see certificate)
- Leakage & burst / vibration & pressure tests approved by DNV GL in 2015
- High mechanical stress and vibration resistant
- No fragmentation, easy flange face cleaning
- Long lifetime – low lifecycle cost