Oil and gas transmission SSAW steel pipe

SSAW (Spirally Submerged Arc Welding) pipes are made from hot-rolled steel coils. These pipes mainly used in petroleum and natural gas industry to transport flammable and non-flammable liquid and steel construction.

Spiral welded pipe production process:

(1) The raw materials are strip coil, welding wire and flux. They must undergo strict physical and chemical inspections before being put into use.

(2) The head and tail of the strip steel are butted by single wire or double wire submerged arc welding, and automatic submerged arc welding is used for repair welding after rolling into a steel pipe.

(3) Before forming, the strip is leveled, trimmed, planed, surface cleaned and conveyed and pre-bending.

(4) The electric contact pressure gauge is used to control the pressure of the cylinders on both sides of the conveyor to ensure the smooth conveying of the strip.

(5) Adopt external control or internal control roll forming.

(6) The weld gap control device is used to ensure that the weld gap meets the welding requirements, and the pipe diameter, the amount of misalignment and the weld gap are strictly controlled.

(7) Both internal welding and external welding use American Lincoln welding machine for single wire or double wire submerged arc welding, so as to obtain stable welding quality.

(8) The welded seams are all inspected by an online continuous ultrasonic automatic flaw tester, which ensures the non-destructive testing coverage of the spiral welds. If there is a defect, it will automatically alarm and spray the mark, and the production workers can adjust the process parameters at any time accordingly to eliminate the defect in time.

(9) Use an air plasma cutting machine to cut the steel pipe into single pieces.

(10) After cutting into a single steel pipe, each batch of steel pipes must undergo a strict first inspection system to check the mechanical properties, chemical composition, fusion condition of the weld, the surface quality of the steel pipe and non-destructive testing to ensure that the pipe making process is qualified. Only then can it be officially put into production.

(11) The tube where the strip butt welding seam and the T-joint intersecting with the spiral welding seam are located shall all be inspected by X-ray television or filming.

(12) Each steel pipe is tested by hydrostatic pressure, and the pressure is radially sealed. The test pressure and time are strictly controlled by the steel pipe water pressure microcomputer detection device. The test parameters are automatically printed and recorded.

(14) The pipe end is bevelled, so that the verticality of the end face, the bevel angle and the blunt edge are accurately controlled.

Specifications of SSAW Steel Pipe:

1) Outside Diameter: Ф219 - 3420mm

2) Wall Thickness: 5mm - 25mm

3) Length: 3m - 30m

4) Steel Grade:Q235B,  Q345B, API X42 - X80, L245, L555, J55, N80

5) Standard: SY/T5037-2000, GB/T9711.1-97, API Spec 5L PSL1 and PSL2