Tungsten Carbide Seals

  The products require a different shaft housing design arrangement compared to that for the other type of mechanical seal because the mechanial seal is a more complicated arrangement and mechanical seal does not provide any support to the shaft.

Tungsten carbide mechanical seal rings come in two primary types:
  Cobalt bound (Ammonia applications should be avoided)
Nickel bound (May be used in Ammonia)
Typically 6% binder materials are used in tungsten carbide mechanical seal rings, although a wide range is available. Nickel-bonded tungsten carbide mechanical seal rings are more prevalent in the wastewater pump market due to their improved corrosion resistance compared with cobalt bound materials.

  In order for the tungsten carbide mechanical seal to perform over an extended time period with low frictional the mechanical seal faces are generally hydrodynamically lubricated. The fluid film will need to carry substantial load. If the load becomes to high for the film surface contact will take place with consequent bearing failure. This lubricating film is generally of the order of 3 micrometres thick , or less. This thickness is critical to the required sealing function. Tungsten carbide mechanical seal often have one face of a suitable solid lubricant such that the mechanial seal can still operate for a period without the fluid film.
  

  Mechanical seals including tungsten carbide seals and silicon carbide seals are used increasingly on fluid pump to replace packed gland and lip seal. Pump with mechanical seals perform more efficiently and generally perform more reliably for extended periods of time.Because tungsten carbide seals are of good wearable resistance, great anti-bend strength, high thermal conductivity, small co-efficient of expansion, they have a very wide range of applications. Tungsten carbide seals also have the highest co-efficient of heat shock among all the hard surface material.

  Tungsten carbide seals are extremely tough and stiff and have very good abrasion resistance. Tungsten carbide seals have versatile seal faces like Silicon Carbide. Tungsten carbide seals are very hard like silicon carbide seals; however they are very heavy to the touch, making them easy to distinguish from silicon carbide.

Tungsten carbide seals come in two primary types:
  Cobalt bound (Ammonia applications should be avoided)
  Nickel bound (May be used in Ammonia) 
  Typically 6% binder materials are used in mechanical seals, although a wide range is available. Nickel-bonded tungsten carbide seals are more prevalent in the wastewater pump market due to their improved corrosion resistance compared with cobalt bound materials.
  

Tungsten Carbide Seal Faces