Over the past two decades, oil and gas processing facilities have been challenged in complying with increasingly stringent regulatory and legislative requirements relating to Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) regulations. This is particularly true for the rules governing allowable Fugitive Emissions (FE) of process stem valves.
To help customers with this challenge, Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics, Seals responded by dedicating efforts to develop compact, polymer spring-energised seal solutions meeting low fugitive
emission (LFE) leakage requirements per international standards such as ISO. Performance of their seals is validated by internal experimental measurements according to ISO 15848-1 Industrial Valves, Fugitive Emissions – Measurement, Test and Qualification Procedures. The ISO 15848-1 standard has three different leakage limits that range from extremely stringent (Class AH) to non-strict (Class CH), and are measured with the appropriate leakage detection method as mentioned in the standard.
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