“Running 13 months without failure or leakage”
“Running 13 months without failure or leakage”
1 Pageswww.aesseal.com Replacing gland packing reduces cost, and improves reliability A coal mine in Australia was using gland packing on 3 coal slurry transfer pumps. The gland packing would start to fail after 6 weeks and the yearly maintenance bill for the 3 pumps was over $135,000AUD. Once the gland packing started to fail it would slowly cause the pump pit to flood, requiring the pumps to be overhauled every 6 – 7 months. The leaking water
