The classification and application of 316/316L stainless steel tees

　　316/316L Stainless steel tees are used to to connect main pipe lines and branch pipes, which are named for its connecting way and material.

　　The common pipe fittings which are used to connect pipes are elbow, flange and tee. Tee is very common in piping system, which can be made by hydro-bugling and hot pressing. There are stainless steel, plastic tees based on the different applications.

　　Parts that used to connect pipelines are called pipe fitting, such as elbow, tee, coupling, reducer and flange. Steel pipe fitting, cast iron pipe fitting and nonmetal pipe fitting are always applied to the pipeline project.

　　316/316L Stainless steel tee is classified into equal tee, reducing tee and high-pressure tee. reducing tee is to connect three pipes with different diameters, which include two main pipes and one branch pipe. In the using process of reducing tee, the flow velocity of the medium inside will change due to the different pipe diameter. Stainless steel tee is smooth on the inner wall, acid and alkali resistant, anticorrosion, which can prevent crushing and static cased by the changing of the flow velocity of the medium.

　　316/316L Stainless steel tee is a kind of pipe fitting that is used in branch pipes. Speaking of seamless tee, we often adopt hydro-bugling and hot pressing manufacturing technologies. The hydro bugling technology refers to that through hydro bugling the nose balance of metal material to form tees. We use a special hydraulic press to inject liquid into the billet which has the same diameter as tee. The two horizontal side cylinders of hydraulic press are extruding the billet at the same time, the volume of the billet will become smaller, the pressure of the billet will increase due to the smaller volume. When it gets to the certain pressure which stainless steel tee branch pipe requires, the metal material will flow in the mold and expand under influences of side cylinders and liquid in the billet.