Application of stainless steel seamless pipes
Stainless steel seamless pipes are pipes made of stainless steel material and without a joint line. These pipes are widely used in the chemical industry, oil and gas industry, water and wastewater treatment plants, marine, food processing, medical devices and many other industries.
Stainless steel seamless pipes are widely used in many different industries. Some examples are:
- Chemical Industry: It is used for the production, storage and transportation of chemicals.
- Oil and Gas Industry: Used to build pipelines for oil, natural gas and other hydrocarbons.
- Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants: It is used in water treatment plants, pipelines and wastewater plants.
- Marine: Stainless steel seamless pipes are used in submarine pipelines, shipbuilding and other marine applications.
- Food Processing: It is used in the food processing industry, for example, for the production of milk and dairy products.
- Medical Devices: It is used in the production of many components used in medical devices.
- Other Industries: Stainless steel seamless pipes are also used in many different industries such as nuclear power plants, aerospace industry, automotive industry, construction industry.
Manufacture of Seamless Pipes
Seamless Steel Pipesare produced by rolling heated (baked) billet. At high rolling speed and pressure, the configuration creates pressure in the center of the slab and pierces with a pointed rod creating the tube sleeve. This sleeve is then extended on a multi-roll stand with a mandrel or a long bar, inserted into the tube to achieve the desired range of wall thickness and diameter.
Thanks to their homogeneity in microstructure, the strength of seamless pipes is higher than the welded pipes produced by sheet bending and welding, but their production costs are higher.