Feasibility of contact elimination of a mechanical face seal through clearance adjustment

Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo

Volumn 4, Issue , 1999, Pages

  Zou, Min ^a   Dayan, Joshua ^a   Green, Itzhak ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; GAS TURBINES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBES;

ADJUSTMENT MECHANISMS; ANGULAR MISALIGNMENT; FACE SEALS; PARAMETRIC STUDY; POWER SPECTRUM DENSITY; PROBE SIGNALS; REAL TIME; SEAL FACES;

SEALS;

EID: 84928558375     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/99-GT-147     Document Type: Conference Paper

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