Measuring and Reducing Hydrocarbon Losses Occurring in Gasketed Flanges

Gasket materials now play a major role in helping to reduce hydrocarbon leakage occurring from evaporative loss emissions.

Many so-called ‘conventional’ gasket materials in emissions-related applications have not demonstrated significant reductions in HC leakage. In addition, scientific testing for real numbers to rate gasketing singularly has been difficult to impossible. These needs have created pragmatic methods for testing, resulting in improved gasketing.