Stainless Steel Pipes: Types and Applications

As the main steel material, stainless steel pipes are widely used in our daily life. Fields such as the transportation of oil and gas, the manufacturing of building structural grids, and the manufacturing of highway bridges can all use steel pipes. It can be said that steel pipes not only reduce the weight of the supporting structure, saving building materials, but also make construction increasingly simple. So what are the types and applications of stainless steel pipes? In this article, we’ll try to answer this question.

Types of Stainless Steel Pipes:

1. Classification of stainless steel pipes by material: They are classified into ordinary carbon steel pipes, high-quality carbon structural steel pipes, alloy structural pipes, alloy steel pipes, bearing steel pipes, stainless steel pipes, and double metal composite pipes, coated and coated pipes that save precious metals and meet special requirements. There are many types of stainless steel pipes with different uses, and their technical requirements are different. The production methods are also different. Currently, the outer diameter of produced steel pipes ranges from 0.1 to 4500mm, and the wall thickness ranges from 0.01 to 250mm. In order to distinguish their characteristics, steel pipes are usually classified according to the following methods.
2. Classification of stainless steel pipes by pipe end shape: They can be divided into bright pipes and threaded pipes (with threaded steel pipes) according to the end condition. Threaded pipes can be further divided into ordinary threaded pipes (pipes for conveying water, gas, and other low-pressure applications, using ordinary cylindrical or conical thread connections) and special threaded pipes (pipes for oil and geological drilling applications, for important threaded pipes, using special thread connections). To compensate for the impact of thread on the strength of the pipe end, some special pipes usually have extra thickness added at the pipe end before threading (internal thickening, external thickening, or both internal and external thickening).

Applications of Stainless Steel Pipes:

1. Stainless steel pipes are hollow steel strips, and many of them are used to transport fluids such as oil, natural gas, water, steam, etc. Other pipes are relatively light in bending strength and torsional strength. It is also widely used in manufacturing mechanical parts and engineering structures. It is also commonly used in various production enterprises for daily life.
2. Stainless steel pipes have safe and reliable operation, environmentally friendly, economical, and practical applications. The thin-walled piping and the development of various new reliable and complex connection methods make it more irreplaceable than other pipe materials in China. The application in engineering will become more and more common and popular, and the future prospects are optimistic.
3. Engineering practice has proved that stainless steel pipes are a new type of pipe material that is energy-saving, environmentally friendly, and has a good water supply sensing function. It is also a highly competitive water supply pipe material that will definitely improve water quality and the living standards of the people.

Conclusion

Thank you for reading our article and we hope it can help you to have a better understanding of the types and applications of stainless steel pipes. If you want to find more information about stainless steel, we’d advise you to visit Sino Stainless Steel for more information.

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