USRE33760E - High purity, high temperature pipe thread sealant paste - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to pipe thread sealant pastes having good thermal stability and high purity and also to pipe joints made therefrom. More particularly, this invention relates to an improved high purity, thermally stable, pipe thread sealant paste which can be used in the nuclear power industry.
- Graphite is a thermally stable material which has heretofore been used as a filler component in various kinds of lubricants, coatings, cements, packing materials and the like.
- a non-corrodible, conductive, thermoplastic coating composition for dry cell electrodes comprising resin, linseed oil, scale wax and powdered graphite.
- a graphite paste composition useful as a cement for joining solid graphite bodies wherein electric furnace graphite powders are blended with a liquid coal tar and a hardening agent which is reactive with the coal tar at elevated temperatures.
- a lubricating grease for electrical components comprising a mineral oil having dispersed therein a high melting wax and a non-volatile solid lubricant such as graphite. None of these prior art references, however, disclose applications where the graphite is employed as a sealant at very high temperatures.
- U.S. Pat. No. 4,162,078 to Cox discloses an injectible packing formulation comprising flexible graphite particles and a liquid lubricant.
- the flexible graphite particles are prepared by shredding flexible graphite sheet made according to known methods by expanding graphite flakes by a factor of at least 80 times in the "c" crystallographic axis direction, and then compressing the expanded flakes to form a cohesive structure.
- the shredded flexible graphite particles employed in the packing formulation are fairly large in size varying in length up to about 0.250 inch.
- the smallest particles used in the formulation are of a size small enough to pass through a 30 U.S. Standard sieve (0.0234 inch).
- the liquid lubricant used in the formulation may be a synthetic oil such as a silicone fluid and is employed in amounts ranging from about 5 percent by weight to about 35 percent by weight based on the total weight of the flexible graphite and lubricant. Because the flexible graphite particles are thermally stable at elevated temperatures in excess of about 500° F., the packing formulation can be used in many high temperature applications such as steam expansion joints, for example.
- Pipe thread sealant paste prepared from natural flake graphite particles and a liquid carrier such as linseed oil has some drawbacks. Specifically, the linseed oil may polymerize and thereby harden in use to a point where it is extremely difficult to separate the pipe if required. A more important practical drawback is that it must be stirred before use because the graphite particles tend to settle to the bottom of the suspension. Where high purity sealant applications are required, then a non-contaminated stirrer would have to be used. The use of a contaminated article as a stirrer, could affect the joint seal in some applications.
- It is another object of this invention to provide a high purity, high temperature sealant paste comprising a substantially homogeneous mixture of natural flake graphite particles with a mineral oil and petrolatum.
- the pipe thread sealant paste composition comprises natural flake graphite particles of a size sufficient to pass through a 100 Tyler mesh sieve and a liquid carrier.
- the liquid carrier is a mixture of mineral oil and petrolatum.
- the total amount of leachable chlorides in the paste composition of the invention is less than about 50 parts per million and the ash content is no greater than about 1 weight percent.
- a mineral oil is an oil obtained from petroleum and has a viscosity of from 50 to 420 SSU (Saybolt seconds Universal) at 100° F., a specific gravity of 0.80 to 0.89 at 60° F., and a flash point of 130° C. to 250° C.
- petrolatum is a high molecular weight mineral oil having a melting point from 115° F. to 140° F.
- Graphite is an allotropic form of the element carbon and is probably best characterized by its good thermal stability at temperatures up to about 2600° Kelvin. It consists of layers of hexagonally arranged carbon atoms in a planar condensed ring system. These layers of hexagonally arranged carbon atoms are substantially flat and are oriented or ordered so as to be substantially parallel and equidistant to one another. The substantially flat, parallel equidistant layers of carbon atoms, usually referred to as basal planes, are linked or bonded together and groups thereof are arranged in crystallites. Some graphites consist of crystallites which are of considerable size and which are highly aligned or oriented with respect to one another.
- Natural flake graphite is a well known highly ordered graphite which is obtained as a mineral. It is generally found in the form of small, soft flakes or powders which exhibit a very high crystal perfection. Occasionally, natural flake graphite may occur as single crystals of graphite. It is relatively easy and inexpensive to obtain commercially; however, some commercial natural flake graphites are often contaminated with other minerals, e.g. chlorides, silicates, nitrates, etc. although the level of these contaminants is usually very low.
- the natural flake graphite that is used in the pipe thread sealant paste of this invention is not an "expanded" natural flake graphite, i.e., graphite which has been subjected to an oxidizing environment at elevated temperatures to expand the graphite as disclosed in the above referred to Cox patent, but rather is a natural flake graphite which is used in its original or naturally occurring state.
- the natural flake graphite employed in the present paste composition has a more finely divided particle size than the "shredded" flexible graphite sheet used in the packing composition of the Cox patent as shall be described hereinafter in greater detail.
- the pipe thread sealant paste composition of the invention consists essentially of natural flake graphite particles of a size sufficient to pass through a 100 Tyler mesh sieve and a liquid carrier.
- the liquid carrier is a mixture of mineral oil and petrolatum.
- the mineral oil and petrolatum are heated to melt the petrolatum, mixed and then the natural flake graphite particles are added and mixed completely into the liquid carrier.
- the amount of heating required will depend on the particular petrolatum used in preparing the liquid carrier. In most applications, a temperature of 45° C.-55° C. is usually sufficient.
- the proportion of natural flake graphite particles and liquid carrier employed in the present paste composition can vary over a relatively wide range depending upon the particular carrier used and its viscosity.
- the natural flake graphite particles when combined with the liquid carrier should produce a paste composition which has good spreadability so that it will flow quite easily onto and between the pipe threads.
- the paste composition should not be so fluid, however, that the paste will too easily run off the threads and be lost.
- the pipe thread sealant paste composition should contain from about 30 to about 80 percent, preferably about 40 to about 60 percent, by weight of the natural flake graphite particles, the balance of the paste composition being composed essentially of the liquid carrier.
- the petrolatum should preferably comprise from 5 to 60 percent by weight of the liquid carrier with balance being the mineral oil. More preferably, the petrolatum should be from 20 to 40 percent by weight and most preferably from 25 to 35 percent by weight of the liquid carrier.
- the natural flake graphite particles used in the present paste composition should be of a size which is small enough to pass through a 100 Tyler mesh sieve (i.e. approximately 150 microns) as mentioned hereinabove. It has been found that if larger size natural flake graphite particles are used in the paste composition, then the particles will not fill and seal the tiny void spaces that ordinarily exist between the mating thread surfaces that make up the pipe joint.
- a pipe thread sealant paste which utilizes pure natural flake graphite particles having both a coarse and fine fraction.
- the pure natural flake graphite used has a carbon content of at least 99.5 weight percent and a leachable chloride content no greater than 50 ppm.
- the coarse fraction may be composed of the same particle size range mentioned hereinabove, i.e. particles of a size which pass through a 100 Tyler mesh sieve, while the fine fraction may be composed of a more finely divided particle size such as those which pass through a 200 Tyler mesh sieve (approximately 75 microns).
- Satisfactory pipe thread sealant paste compositions have been made utilizing 50/50 weight percent coarse and fine fractions of the natural flake graphite particles.
- Coarser size natural flake graphite particles can also be used in paste compositions for sealing larger diameter pipe joints, for example, pipes having a diameter greater than about 1 inch.
- the coarse and fine fractions of natural flake graphite particles are mixed together with the required amount of liquid carrier in a clean, gentle mixer, such as a Hobart mixer. Any mixer that does not degrade the particle size significantly can of course be used. Mixing is continued for a sufficiently long period of time (e.g., 20 to 30 minutes, for example) to insure that the graphite particles are uniformly distributed throughout the liquid carrier.
- the ratio of the components can of course be varied in any given instance so as to match the particular thread clearances and to control the spreadability of the paste.
- the paste should then be placed in tubes, such as the type sold with toothpaste, that can be easily handled and only what is needed can be squeezed out.
- the pipe thread sealant paste composition of the invention can be used to make "fire safe" pipe joints for most any type of high temperature application.
- the paste composition is thermally stable at temperatures up to about 500° C. in an oxidizing atmosphere and up to 3000° C. in a non-oxidizing atmosphere.
- the paste composition can be used to make stainless steel pipe and conduit joints for carrying high pressure steam, control fluids and control wiring in nuclear power plants.
- the pipe thread sealant paste composition of the invention can be fabricated to meet all the requirements of purity set forth by the nuclear power industry. These requirements are briefly summarized in the following table:
- the present paste composition should have an ash content preferably no greater than about 3 percent by weight, more preferably no greater than 1 percent by weight and preferably contains leachable chlorides in amounts equal to or less than about 100 parts per million, more preferably less than 50 parts per million.
- the coarse fraction consisted of particles passing through a 100 Tyler mesh sieve but resting on a 200 Tyler mesh sieve while the fine fraction consisted of particles passing through a 200 Tyler mesh sieve, 500 grams of each fraction were then mixed together with 1000 grams of a liquid carrier composed of 300 grams of petrolatum (obtained from Penreco, a division of Penzoil Products Co. under their brand name Petrolatum Penreco Amber) and 700 grams of light mineral oil (obtained from Penreco, a division of Penzoil Products Co. under the brand name Drakeol 9).
- the oil and petrolatum was heated to 45°-50° C. to melt the petrolatum and then the graphite flakes were added and mixed completely into the liquid carrier.
- the composition of the paste comprised:
- the paste composition consisting of these components blended together was then removed from the mixer and placed in a tube. A sample of the paste was then analyzed. It was found that the paste contained less than 1 weight percent ash and had a total chloride content of less than 10 ppm. The total sulphur content of the paste was less than 100 ppm. Zinc was less than 50 ppm, and the total of other embrittling metals was less than 80 ppm.
- a threaded pipe joint was made using stainless steel male and female pipe fittings by first cleaning the threads on each pipe and then applying the paste composition thereto from the tube. The paste was spread evenly over the pipe threads taking care to cover all of the threads on each fitting. The male and female fittings were then assembled together under sufficient tightness to insure a permanent pipe joint.
- the pipe joint was used to carry superheated steam at a pressure of about 1500 psi and showed no evidence of paste decomposition or deterioration.
- the paste remaining in the tube was sealed using a conventional cap so that the paste could be used again when needed. The remaining paste in the tube was kept clean until it was required for another application.
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TABLE I ______________________________________ Maximum Permissible Level of Impurities in Pipe Thread Sealant Pastes Impurity Maximum Level* ______________________________________ Ash 1 wt. % Total Chlorides 500 ppm. Leachable Chlorides 50 ppm. Total Florides 300 ppm. Total Nitrates 870 ppm. Total Nitrites 1 ppm. Total Sulfur 700 ppm. Total Zinc 200 ppm. Other Embrittling Metals (Silver, Cadmium, Mercury, 500 ppm. Galium, Indium, Lead, Tin, (200 ppm. each metal Arsenic, Antimony and Bismuth) but total below 500 ppm.) ______________________________________ *Approximate values
______________________________________ Material Percent by Weight ______________________________________ 100 Tyler Mesh 25 size graphite flakes 200 Tyler Mesh 25 size graphite flakes Petrolatum 15 Mineral Oil 35 ______________________________________
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