MEM18012B - Perform installation and removal of mechanical seals

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Unit code: MEM18012B | Study level: TAFE
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Overview

This unit covers dismantling, selecting, reassembling and
installing mechanical seals.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

  • reading, interpreting and following information on standard operating procedures, written job instructions, specifications, charts, lists, drawings and other applicable reference documents;
  • determining mechanical seal requirements;
  • dismantling mechanical seal installations;
  • selecting replaceable items;
  • reassembling/repairing mechanical seal installations;
  • adjusting mechanical seal tensions;
  • testing mechanical seal assembly;
  • checking for conformance to specifications, and;
  • measuring components to specified tolerances.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by the Polytechnic and/or via the Polytechnic e-learning system.

As part of a course

This unit is not compulsory for any specific course. Depending on the course you study, this unit may be taken as an elective.

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