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Due to high pressure on start-up the valve was suffering from heavy flange rotation. This reduced the gasket contact area by 50% and a few days after start-up, the joint would leak. The customer estimated annual repair costs of £15,000.
Mannesmann steam valve
Several types of gasket were tried and tested by the customer to eliminate the leakage.
The James Walker team undertook a flange management assessment, which led to a redesign of the gasket, replacing the kammprofile with a spiral wound gasket, as well as the addition of a secondary seal and the implementation of RotaBolt RB2 Touch. The RotaBolt RB2 Touch ensures bolts are installed to the correct tension and offers a simple tactile check this is being successfully maintained. It features two tension settings within a single sensor for greater control and monitoring, so is ideal for applications such as this, where the rotation of the flange was proving problematic.
After the installation of RotaBolt RB2 Touch, the customer reported a 100% leak free start up rate. So successful was the implementation that the customer commissioned the services of James Walker to install RotaBolt technology on a second nuclear power plant experiencing the same issues.
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