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What to include in your compound request.

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  1. What the part is and how it seals (static or dynamic, gas or liquid)
  2. Fluids with concentrations: oil, fuel, amines, H2S, CO2, steam, brine, additives
  3. Lowest and highest service temperature, and the time held at the highest
  4. Maximum pressure, and whether it drops quickly (gas decompression)
  5. Hardness with tolerance and method (ASTM D2240 or ISO 48-4)
  6. Tensile strength and elongation at break (ASTM D412)
  7. Compression set with temperature and time (ASTM D395 Method B or ISO 815-1)
  8. Fluid immersion: fluid, temperature, time and allowed volume and hardness change (ASTM D471)
  9. Low-temperature requirement, such as TR10 (ASTM D1329) or low-temperature compression set
  10. Gas decompression standard and acceptance criteria, if relevant (ISO 23936-2 or NORSOK M-710)
  11. Form (sheet, strip, pellets), quantity per order and per year, delivery date
  12. Certificate of analysis per lot, and traceability to raw-material lots if you audit that far
  13. Any third-party approval you require, with the certificate asked for
  14. How you will accept the first lots (your tests, ours, or both)

Prepared by Pascalor. Write limits, not adjectives. See the buyer note How to write a compound specification.