GASKETS

A gasket is a mechanical seal which fills the space between two or more mating surfaces, generally
to prevent leakage from or into the joined objects while under compression.
Gaskets are commonly produced by cutting from sheet materials, such as gasket paper, rubber,
silicone, metal, cork, felt, neoprene, nitrile rubber, fiberglass, PTFE or a plastic polymer .

Types of Gaskets:
 Spiral Wound Gaskets
 Ring Type Joint Gaskets
 Solid Metal Gaskets
 Non Metallic Gaskets
 Heat Exchanger Gaskets
 Camprofile Gaskets

Spiral-wound gaskets comprise a mix of metallic and filler material. Generally, the gasket has a
metal (normally stainless steel) wound outwards in a circular spiral (other shapes are possible) with
the filler material (generally a flexible graphite) wound in the same manner but starting from the
opposing side. This results in alternating layers of filler and metal. The filler material in these gaskets
acts as the sealing element, with the metal providing structural support. These gaskets have proven to
be reliable in most applications, and allow lower clamping forces than solid gaskets, albeit with a
higher cost.

For dimensions kindly see dimensions 1, dimensions 2 and dimensions 3 attached.

Ring gaskets also known as RTJ. They are mostly used in offshore oil- and gas pipelines and are
designed to work under extremely high pressure. They are solid rings of metal in different cross
sections like oval, round, octagonal etc. Sometimes they come with hole in center for pressure
equalization.

Style R (Oval Octagonal )

Style R ( Octagonal )

Style BX
For dimensions and material see rgj_dimensions and rgj_material attached.

Solid metal gaskets are used in applications where temperatures and pressures rule out the use of
traditional gasket materials. In general, gasket compression loads need to be high to deform the
gasket, and the metal used for the gasket should be softer than the metal in the mating surfaces.

Non-Metallic Gaskets - Commonly used materials are

 Natural and Synthetic rubber

 PTFE
 Compressed Asbestos
 Fibre cork
 Woven Asbestos
 Graphite
 Non asbestos Aramid fibre

Camprofile gaskets consist of a metal core (generally Stainless Steel) with concentric grooves on
either side with sealing materials. The sealing layers (depending on the service duty) can be Graphite,
PTFE (Teflon), CAF or Metal (e.g Aluminium or Silver).