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SELECTING THE RIGHT GASKET . . . The price of gasket failure is high -- in downtime of equipment, labor costs in replacement, loss of fluid, and danger to personnel. Failure can be avoided by selecting the proper gasket. When Flexitailic Gasket Company engineers develop a special gasket for a particular sealing need, they require: all essential data related to the joint or closure, knowledge of fluid to be sealed, operating pressure, operating temperature, number and size of bolts, flange dimensions, material specifica tions of bolts and flanges, description of flange face finish. With this infor mation, Flexitailic will supply the right gasket for the right fitting to make a safe seal. METALS . . . 304, 310, 316ELC, 347SCb, 321STi, 430, Carpenter 20, Hastelloy B, Hastelloy C, Titanium A-55, Monel, Inconel, Inconel X, Nickel, Phosphor Bronze, Copper. FILLERS . . Canadian asbestos, virgin Teflon, blue African asbestos, inorganic ceramic, Teflon impregnated asbestos, variety of fiber sheets with special binders. AVAILABLE in any practical pres sure/temperature combination -- from vacuum to 6000 lbs. and higher, from cryogenic temperatures to 1900F and higher. Thicknesses of .0625", .125", .175", .250", and .2S5" where appli cable; in diameters to 100 inches; for all standard ASA and API joint assem bly fittings. THAT'S WHY Flexitailic Spiral- Wound Gaskets are specified so often in original equipment such as valves (all types), centrifugal pumps, recip rocating pumps, blowers, burners, compressors, fittings and flanges, sight glasses, electric motors, pressure regulators, strainers, steam traps, sas turbines, steam turbines, power trans formers, diesel engines, fired and unfired pressure vessels, molding presses, nuclear reactors, aircraft engines, missiles. Stocking Distributors for Standard Flexitailic Gaskets in principal cities. Consult telephone directory. Design inquiries invited. GASKET COMPANY, Camden, N.J. 08101 SpiraUWound Gaskets made by Flexitailic are supplied with our exclusive blue-dyed Canadian asbestos filler. Flexitailic Blue iReg. U. S. Patent Office) For more facts circle 2?k on Reader Service card. i> Ifil ERSCOPE Begins on page 74 eld, Yorkshire, and the Amald Engineering Union and amated Society of Boilermak ers, Shipwrights, Blacksmiths and Structural Workers, have signed an agreement by which employment for life is assured to the company's em ployees in exchange for their cooper ation with the management. Italy: The Fusina power plant of S.A.D.E., near Venice, which will be in operation in early 1965, will be equipped with a "Direct Energy Balance" (DEB) boiler control system, including a digit al computer of Leeds & Northrup make that will provide perform ance computations for overall station optimization. India: The foreign members of the Electric Power and Energy Survey Committee have recently presented to the Indian Government a report titled: Electric power for India. The synopsis says: "It is hoped that such a plant, supplying low-cost power to nearby industries making intense use of energy, will permit volume export of goods and, hence, provide the for eign exchange which is a vital ele ment in India." The report is based on using, in a thermal power plant, the byproduct coal from coal washeries, with 7920 Btu per lb, 40% ash, 15% moisture, 0.6% sulfur, and ash fusion temperature above 2100 F. The "good" coal from these washeries is used for coking and steel making. Power plant design consists of six 300-mw turbine generators with tand em-compound double-flow turbines. Steam is produced in six boilers, gen erating 2 million lb per hr of steam at 200 psi 1000/1000 F, with natural or controlled circulation or, alternate ly, once-through boilers at 2400 psi. Coal is to be pulverized in ball tubemills. Furnaces will be of the dry-ash bottom type and there should be about 11,000 tons of refuse per day. The estimated cost of the plant is S125 per installed kw. Japan: The Tokai-Mura nuclear plant, headquarters of Japanese nu clear activity, has ordered a chopand-leach facility for fuel reprocess ing from the Atomics Division of American Machine St Foundry Co. continued POWER JULY 1964