Spiral Welded

Petrosadid: Spiral Welded

Spiral welded pipe is an alternative process, spiral weld construction allows large diameter pipe to be produced from narrower plates or skelp. The defects that occur in spiral welded pipe are mainly those associated with the SAW weld, and are similar in nature to those for longitudinally welded SAW pipe.

Spiral welded steel pipes are widely used in Oil, Natural Gas, Water and other flammable & nonflammable liquid conveyance and distribution pipelines, steel structures for construction and other general purposes by means of their wide size range.

Widely preferred longer lengths up to 18,5 m. considerably decreases the cost of pipeline construction resulting in less number of girth welds compared to shorter pipe lengths.

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Spiral Weld Pipe, as the name implies, is a steel pipe that has a seam running its entire length in a spiral form.

In the past, due to the method of manufacture, Spiral Welded pipe was relegated to low pressure and structural applications. With the development of the Submerged Arc Welding process, the production of large hot rolled coils of sufficient width and the development of dependable non-destructive testing methods, it is now possible to produce Spiral Weld pipe for high-pressure service.

Present Spiral Weld mills consist of a de-coiling device (in the case of strip base material) or a plate preparation table (where the base material is in plate form) a strip connecting welder, straightening rollers, edge preparation tools (shearing and trimming), prebending devices, a three roller bending and cage forming system, an internal welder, an external welder (both Submerged Arc), ultrasonic testing apparatus and cutting devices.

The material passes through all these production stages continuously. The angle between the flat strip being fed into the machine and the finished pipe leaving the machine controls the pipe diameter in ratio to strip width and the angle of the weld in the pipe.

Because of the method of manufacture, a wide variety of diameters can be produced. The diameter tolerance is small, particularly with regard to ovality; and the pipe, due to its axial symmetry, has an inherent straightness. The length range is infinite and is controlled only by the economics of transportation.

Petrosadid: Spiral Welded

Highlights of the Spiral Welded Pipe

Materials

• ASTM A 252 (Grade 1, 2, 3 )

• ASTM A53 (Gr. A, B)

• API 5L Welded -Grades (B, X42, X46, X52, X56, X60, X65 and X70) PSL 1, PSL 2

• EN 10255

• EN 10217

• EN 10219

• API 5L Grades X80

Standard

ASME 36.10, ASME 36.19 are the key specifications covering the standardization of dimensions of welded and seamless wrought steel pipe. ASME B16.25 covers the preparation of butt weld connections between pipes and ASME B16.49 covers the marking details.

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