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Supporting the Infrastructure Behind the Digital World
Every email sent, video streamed, file stored in the cloud, and online transaction completed depends on the physical infrastructure of data centers. These facilities house servers, electrical equipment, cooling systems, monitoring technology, backup power, and utility systems that operate continuously to keep digital information available, secure, and moving.
Although data centers may look like commercial buildings from the outside, their operating demands are very different. Servers run twenty-four hours a day, generating heat that must be continuously managed. As a result, data centers are not only IT facilities; they are high-performance energy and thermal management environments where power, cooling, and reliability must be maintained without interruption.
Data centers are built on uptime, efficiency, and operational continuity. Behind every rack, server, and electrical system is a network of critical support equipment that must perform reliably. Cooling loops, backup power systems, water treatment, fire suppression, HVAC equipment, and general facility piping all depend on secure, dependable sealing solutions.
At Durlon, we understand that sealing performance is part of operational reliability. Durlon sealing solutions support the mechanical and utility systems that help keep data centers running safely, efficiently, and continuously.
Critical Data Center Operating Requirements
Continuous Power
Servers cannot shut down unexpectedly. Even brief interruptions can result in service disruption, data loss, or outages that affect users and business operations. Data centers rely on robust electrical infrastructure, backup power systems, generator equipment, fuel delivery, switchgear, and power distribution equipment to keep systems energized.
Continuous Cooling
Because servers generate heat constantly, cooling systems must operate continuously. Data center cooling is not designed for comfort; it is required for equipment protection and system survival. Chillers, cooling towers, pumps, air handling units, heat exchangers, and rack-level cooling equipment all help maintain safe operating temperatures.
Continuous Operation
Data centers are designed for uptime. Maintenance, repairs, and equipment failures must be managed while the facility remains operational. This need for reliability drives redundancy across mechanical, electrical, and control systems, making dependable sealing performance an important part of long-term facility operation.
Where Durlon Products are used in Data Centers
Durlon gaskets are used at flanged, bolted, or removable mechanical joints throughout data center support systems. These joints may include piping, pumps, valves, tanks, skids, heat exchangers, generators, and fire suppression equipment where a reliable seal is required.
Sealing products used in data center infrastructure must help maintain system integrity and reduce the risk of leaks, downtime, and unplanned maintenance. Durlon products are engineered to support a wide range of service conditions, including water, glycol, corrosion inhibitors, biocides, diesel, oils, coolants, treatment chemicals, clean-agent fire suppression systems, elevated temperatures, vibration, and pressure cycling.
NOTE: This is a graphical representation of a typical data center, showing the primary process flow path. It does not show the minor details of the process, rather it focuses on the equipment used, and other instruments that are present. It helps to illustrate how the major components of this type of process plant interacts with each other to bring about the desired effect.
Common Data Center Systems
IT Load / Server Hall
Cooling coil connections, chilled-water manifolds, isolation valves, strainers, floor piping penetrations, and utility tie-ins all require dependable sealing solutions to support the cooling infrastructure closest to the server environment.
Cooling Plant
Chiller nozzles, cooling tower piping, heat exchanger flanges, pump suction and discharge flanges, valve bodies, strainers, and related cooling equipment require gasket materials selected for water, glycol, corrosion inhibitors, biocides, and system operating conditions.
Closed Cooling Loop
Treated water and glycol loop flanges, pump connections, plate-and-frame heat exchanger ports, valve flanges, bypass headers, and instrumentation spools depend on reliable sealing to support continuous cooling operation.
Water Treatment Skid
Reverse osmosis systems, filter housings, chemical dosing connections, tank nozzles, metering pump connections, and chemical feed lines require gasket materials selected with consideration for water chemistry, treatment chemicals, and flange design.
Backup Generator System
Generator coolant piping, lube oil service connections, jacket-water heat exchanger flanges, exhaust system joints, turbo connections, and exhaust transitions may involve coolants, oils, vibration, thermal cycling, and elevated temperatures.
Fuel Storage & Transfer
Diesel storage tank nozzles, day tank flanges, transfer pump flanges, fuel filter housings, valves, and fuel piping unions require sealing materials compatible with fuel service and operating requirements.
Fire Suppression System
Clean-agent, inert-gas, CO₂, and water-based suppression systems may include agent cylinder manifold flanges, distribution piping, valve assemblies, discharge headers, and pressure switch or test connections where reliability is essential.
General Facility Piping
Domestic water, process water, compressed air, drainage, utility headers, mechanical room valves, pumps, strainers, and flanged fittings throughout the facility require practical, reliable gasket solutions for day-to-day operation and maintenance.
How to Select a Gasket for Data Center Systems
1. Identify the fluid or gas, including additives and concentration.
2. Confirm normal and maximum temperature and pressure.
3. Identify the flange material, type, condition and available bolt load.
4. Consider vibration, thermal cycling and pressure cycling.
5. Confirm requirements such as NSF/ANSI 61, oxygen service, fire testing or electrical isolation.
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Recommended Durlon Products for Data Centers
Below is a list of Durlon gasket recommendations for the data center industry.
Final gasket selection should always be based on the specific media, temperature, pressure, flange design, bolt load, and operating conditions.
Durlon® 7910
Recommended for potable and domestic water tie-ins where NSF/ANSI 61 certification is required.
Durlon® 8400
Recommended for chemically treated cooling-water systems, water-treatment skids, mild acid or caustic service, and flange isolation applications where strong dielectric performance is required.
Durlon® 8500
Recommended for chilled-water and glycol loop flanges, treated water systems, coolant and jacket-water flanges, standard diesel fuel system connections, general facility piping, compressed air, utility headers, pumps, valves, strainers, and non-aggressive drainage.
Durlon® 8700
Recommended for refrigeration and HVAC equipment, including chiller and compressor connections involving refrigerants, compressor oils, and non-aromatic solvents.
Durlon® 9000
Recommended for chemical service, corrosion inhibitors, treatment chemistry, clean-agent fire suppression systems, CO₂, inert-gas piping, critical low-leak service, and aggressive process water applications.
Durlon® 9002
Recommended where oxygen-cleaned or oxygen-service requirements apply.
Durlon® 9200
Recommended where more aggressive caustic, chlorine-type chemical dosing, cooling tower chemicals, or treatment chemicals are present.
Durlon® 9600
Recommended for irregular, FRP/PVC, glass-lined, or low-bolt-load flanges, as well as certain aggressive or chemically treated utility services.
Durlon® CFG
Recommended for heat exchanger flange connections, thermal cycling, vibration, higher-load joints, lube-oil service, fire-safe applications, and demanding mechanical conditions.
Durlon® HT1000®
Recommended for very high-temperature generator exhaust joints and thermal service areas.
Durlon® Durtec®
Recommended for higher-load, pressure-cycling, vibration, and blowout-resistance applications where severe service performance is required.
Durlon® DRI-FG SWG
Recommended for high-pressure discharge headers, manifold flanges, high-bolt-load joints, large flanges, vibration-prone joints, and applications requiring spiral wound gasket performance.
Durlon® DRI-ETG SWG
Recommended for exhaust joints, turbo/exhaust transitions, and very high-temperature flange applications where enhanced containment is required.
Durlon® iGuard™ Flange Isolation Kits
Durlon® iGuard™ flange isolation kits may be used where projects require electrical isolation or mitigation of galvanic corrosion at flanged joints. These kits are designed to prevent metallic contact between flanges and include an isolation gasket, sleeves, and washers. Available gasket and carrier options include Durlon® 8400, Durlon® 8500, and Durlon® 9000.
Reliability Matters
In data centers, uptime is essential. Every system that supports power, cooling, safety, and facility operation must be dependable. Durlon sealing solutions help support mission-critical environments where gasket performance contributes to leak prevention, equipment integrity, operational safety, and continuous service.
The core of the Durlon brand is to provide fluid sealing solutions that make sense, both financially and strategically. We accomplish this through process-oriented design, sector-specific knowledge, and extensive testing.
For data centers, sealing reliability supports more than piping performance. It helps protect uptime, equipment integrity, operational safety, and long-term facility efficiency.
Contact Durlon today to discuss sealing solutions for data center systems.