Performance comparison between seamless steel pipe and traditional pipe

Performance comparison between seamless steel pipe and traditional pipe

1. Compared with other traditional pipes, seamless steel pipe supply steel pipe has lighter material, higher strength, good toughness, can withstand higher internal pressure, flexible production and application, and can adapt to complex or harsh geological conditions.

2. However, there are relatively large defects in the use of steel pipes, mainly due to the trouble of internal and external anti-corrosion treatment. First of all, the problem of external anti-corrosion is very critical, and the quality of external anti-corrosion directly affects its service life. At present, the external anti-corrosion of domestic steel pipes is mainly: concealed method, all steel pipes are required to be reinforced or extra-reinforced external anti-corrosion, and cathodic protection is promoted in some areas.

Concealed external anti-corrosion methods are usually paints such as petroleum asphalt, epoxy coal tar pitch, etc. The latter is not easy to solidify at low temperature, and there are more doubts in the field welding joint construction. This chlorosulfonated polyethylene has been used before. Because there are too many solvents, it is easy to produce pinholes, and the resistance to breakdown is unqualified, and some areas are clearly not used. For cathodic protection, its anti-corrosion effect is better, but because of the sacrificial anode method, the anode must be replaced regularly in future operation, which increases the operating cost and work.

Besides the problem of inner wall treatment, there are three commonly used methods for the supply of seamless steel pipes: anti-corrosion coatings, resin mortar, and cement mortar. There are two problems in all three methods: the first is the problem of the bond strength between the anti-corrosion layer and the steel pipe, which has been mentioned above with cement mortar. For both anti-corrosion coatings and resin mortar, both the inner and outer surfaces of the steel pipe are required to be completely derusted before construction, but it is difficult to be perfect.

Therefore, the rust part will form the source of delamination and peeling in the future, forming corrosion and scaling; secondly, most of the steel pipes are butt-welded on site, and anti-corrosion is carried out after welding. Can only be done manually. The quality is not easy to control, and, regarding the pipes with smaller diameters, because personnel cannot enter the construction, they are no longer anti-corrosion. It also creates a hidden danger of weld damage in the future. According to the analysis of several pipe explosion accidents of steel pipes, it is mainly caused by weld corrosion with poor weld quality.

3. Poor hydraulic performance and high energy consumption. The internal roughness coefficient of the steel pipe is between 0.013-0.014. In this way, for the same water delivery and equal pipe diameter, the resistance along the way is high, and the head of the pump needs to be increased, which increases the investment in the early stage. At the same time, the operating cost is due to consumption. The power is large, and it has also increased significantly.