KENOL JOINT

The KENOL® joint enables high-sealing performance with a very simple and proven concept that lasts many years. The KENOL® joint combines best-in-class sealing performance and ease-of-use for quick and repetitive opening and closing of a flange.

The KENOL® joint outperforms other designs for high vacuum, cryogenic and relatively high-temperature applications in sealing performance with a low overall operating cost. The metal cup seal is the only replacement part. There is no deformation of the piping by parasitic torque and there is easy low-load tightening, facilitating opening and closing.

Technetics has the ability to adapt the KENOL® solutions to your very specific, complex and critical applications, using custom material combinations which make the KENOL® joint and seal a perfect fit to your applications.

Features & Benefits

  • Easy assembly and disassembly
  • Low tightening torque
  • No torque applied on the pipe during tightening
  • Excellent sealing levels up to 10-9 atm. cm3. s-1 (gas volume of
    1 thimble over 50 years)
  • No seal creep
  • Tightening force: low compared with other metal seals
  • Suitable for machined surface conditions Ra 0,2 to 3,2
  • Cost-effective (the only replacement part is the metal cup)
  • Large range of materials (aluminum, silver, copper, stainless
    steel, Inconel and other exotic metals

Product Applications

All engineering and industrial fields requiring high-level of sealing, particularly:

  • Vacuum and ultrahigh vacuum technology
  • Particle accelerators
  • Cryogenics
  • Aerospace
  • Petrochemicals
  • Electronics
  • Physics laboratories
  • Nuclear industry

Specifications

KENOL

Temperature Pressure Leak rate
- 270°C to + 600°C
(-454°F to 1112°F)
ultra high vacuum to several
hundred bar
1.10-9 atm cm3. sec.-1
helium

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