SEALING IN EQUIPMENT
ROTATIVES
NORMA API 682 2aedition
Topics
• Objective
• Second Edition
• Scope of the standard
• Key concepts
• Types of Seal
• Assembly arrangements
• Categories
API 682
Objective: The standard specifies requirements and provides
recommendations for sealing systems in
centrifugal and rotary pumps used in
oil, natural gas, and chemical industries. It was
mainly drafted for risk services,
flammable and/or toxic, where a higher level is required
degree of reliability for improvement of
available equipment, the reduction of both
emissions in the atmosphere and the costs of the cycle of
life of sealing.
API 682
• Created by the leaders of
industry in
equipment
rotating
• Made to capture
field experience
• Provide solutions
• Aims to meet
majority of applications
Second Edition
• Success of the First
Edition
• Applications outside of
refineries
• Application in
non-API equipment
610
• Advances in technologies
of Sealing
• Creation of a standard
international
Scope of the Standard
Comparison between the first and second edition
First Edition Second Edition
Dimensions Sizes of stamps of Shaft diameters from
30mm to 120mm 0.75” to 4.30”
(20mm to 110mm)
Temperature -40°C to 260°C -40°F to 750°F
(-40°C to 400°C)
Absolute pressure 0 to 34.5 bar 0 to 615 PSIA
(0 to 42 bar)
Fluid Water, sour water, caustic, Water, sour water, caustic,
amines, some acids, most amines, some acids, most
HCs HCs
Bombs API-610, ISO 13709 ANSI/ASME B73.1 and
B73.2, ISO 3069 Frame C
API-610, ISO 13709
API 682 - types
Arrangement 1 for type A stamps
Pattern (flexible rotating element)
Alternative(element
flexible stationary
API 682 - types
Arrangement 1 for type B stamps
Standard (assembly with rotating bellows)
Alternative (assembly with stationary bellows)
Alloy C-276 sheet
API 682 - types
Arrangement 1 for type C stamps
Standard (assembly with stationary bellows)
Alternative (assembly with rotary bellows)
Alloy 718 Sheet
API 682 - arrangements
Arrangement 1: one cartridge seal per assembly.
1CW-FX
1CW-FL
Legend
1CW-FX - Simple wet seal contact with 01 fixed actuator collar.
1CW-FL – Simple wet seal contact with 01 floating labyrinth-type ring.
API 682 - arrangements
Arrangement 2 - Two cartridge stamps per assembly
with a buffer fluid / liquid
Legend
2CW-CW Double wet seal contact
API 682 – examples
Feature for ring O
Page 30 last note
Seal materials
Pages 46 (6.1.6), 47, 48,
API 682 – examples
Qualification seal test parameter
of retention
Page - 94 table 9
Page - 96 figure 34
API 682 - examples
Procedure for seal selection
Página – 130 Categorias
Page - 131 Types
Page - 132 Arrangements