Galvanized Pipe, Galvanized Steel Pipe

Hot dip galvanized pipe
The molten metal is reacted with an iron matrix to produce an alloy layer, thereby combining the substrate and the plating layer. Hot-dip galvanizing is to pickle the steel pipe first, in order to remove the iron oxide on the surface of the steel pipe, after pickling, it is washed by ammonium chloride or zinc chloride aqueous solution or a mixed aqueous solution of ammonium chloride and zinc chloride, and then fed. Hot dip plating tank. Hot-dip galvanizing has the advantages of uniform plating, strong adhesion and long service life. Most of the northern processes use galvanized strips to directly coil the zinc.

Cold galvanized pipe
Cold galvanizing is electrogalvanizing. The amount of galvanizing is very small, only 10-50g/m2, and its corrosion resistance is much worse than that of hot-dip gal tubing. Regular galvanized pipe manufacturers, in order to ensure quality, most do not use electro-galvanizing (cold plating). Only small companies with small equipment and old equipment use electro-galvanized steel, of course, their prices are relatively cheaper. In newly built houses, the use of cold-galvanized steel pipes as water supply pipes is prohibited.

Material and Size of Galvanzied Pipe

Pipe Standard	ASTM A53, BS1387-85, GB/T3091-08, DIN2440, JIS-G3444, EN10240, EN10255
Grade	Q195, Q215, Q235, Q345, S235JR, S275JR, STK400, STK500
Type & Zinc Coating	Hot dip galvanized steel pipe (zinc coating: 60g/m2-275g/m2)
Type & Zinc Coating	Pre-painted galvanized steel pipe (zinc coating: 80g/m2-275g/m2)
Outside diameter	Round pipe: 17mm-273mm
	Square pipe:15mm x 15mm - 400mm x 400mm
	Rectangular pipe: 10mm x 20mm -200mm x 400mm
Wall thickness	Round pipe: 0.6mm-12mm
	Square pipe:0.6mm-20mm
	Rectangular pipe: 0.6mm-20mm
Length	2m-5.8m/6m/12m ( We can adjust length according to your request)

Difference hot-dip galvanizing and cold galvanizing
Hot dip galvanizing process:
Workpiece degreasing → washing → pickling → washing → drying solvent dip fluxing preheated hot dip galvanized → cooling → finishing → rinsing → drying → passivation test

Cold-galvanized process:
Chemical degreasing → washing → hot water hot water electrolysis degreasing → washing → washing → strong corrosive galvanized iron alloy → washing → washing → light → → washing → drying passivation

Appearance of hot-dip galvanizing and cold galvanizing
Cold galvanizing looks more smooth, bright, color passivation process plating layer is yellow-green in color, was colorful. Plating layer was bluish-white or white with white passivation process was green, white coating passivation process and the sun was significant Colorful angle. The complex workpiece angular edges parts prone to “electrical burning” from gloomy, the parts of the zinc layer thick. Yin corner site is easy to form a current dead undercurrent gray area and the area zinc layer is thinner. The workpiece overall zinc tumor, caking phenomenon.

Hot dip galvanized look a little rough compared to the electro-galvanized, silvery white, look prone process waterlines and a few drops of tumor is more obvious, especially in the one end of the workpiece. Hot dip galvanized zinc layer than a few times of the electro-galvanized thick corrosion protection is several times that of the electro-galvanized.

Characteristics of galvanized steel welding
Galvanized steel is generally low carbon steel plated with zinc, the zinc coating is generally 20um thick. At 419 ° C, the boiling point of about 908 ° C melting point of zinc. In welding, the melted liquid zinc bath floating on the surface or in the root of the weld location. Zinc has a greater solubility in iron, zinc etching liquid will go into the weld metal along the grain boundaries, low-melting zinc to form a “liquid metal embrittlement.” Meanwhile, zinc and iron brittle intermetallic compounds can be formed, these brittle phases so that the weld metal plastic lower under tensile stress and cracks. If the fillet weld, especially the fillet weld T-joints most prone to penetrate the cracks. When welding galvanized steel, zinc layer and the surface of the groove at the edge of the arc under the action of heat, oxidation, melting, evaporation as well as volatile white smoke and steam, can easily cause weld porosity. ZnO due to oxidation and the formation of its high melting point of about 1800 ° C or more, if small parameter in the welding process, will cause the ZnO slag, at the same time. Since Zn become deoxidizer. Produces FeO-MnO or FeO-MnO-SiO2 low melting point oxide slag. Second, due to the evaporation of zinc, volatile lot of white smoke, to stimulate the human body, harmful effects, therefore, must be welded zinc coating at the polished off.

Welding process control
Preparation before welding galvanized steel and low carbon steel is generally the same, you need to pay attention is to seriously handle the groove dimensions and the nearby zinc coating. For penetration, groove size should be appropriate, generally 60 ~ 65 °, to leave some space, usually 1.5 ~ 2.5mm; zinc in order to reduce the penetration of the weld, before welding can be galvanized inside groove Clear after layer and then welded. In practice, supervision, using a centralized playing groove, leaving blunt edge technology for centralized control, two welding process, reducing the possibility of incomplete penetration.
Galvanized pipe welding rod should be based on the choice of substrate material, usually low-carbon steel on account ease, use J422 is more common.
Welding techniques: When welding the first layer of the multilayer welding seam, try to make it melt and vaporize the zinc layer, evaporation and escape the weld, can greatly reduce the liquid zinc to remain in the weld. When fillet welds, as far as possible in the first layer to melt and vaporize the zinc coating, evaporation and escape the weld, the method is first removed from the ends of the electrode forward about 5 ~ 7mm, when the zinc layer melted down and continue to move back to the original position welding. Again when horizontal welding and vertical welding, such as welding slag, such as the choice of short-J427, undercut tends to be minimal; roundtrip transportation around if strip technology, but can be defect-free weld quality.

Galvanized Steel Pipe Production Line for Special Demands
For galvanized steel pipe production lines have special requirements, especially in a production environment this, a good environment can help us better production, improve production quality and production efficiency, particularly galvanized steel that needs a stable environment products even more so.

First, Ensure that the production line for delicate work processes, equipment, heating, ventilation, drainage, etc., all work must center around quality galvanized steel to expand, as long as the quality of the galvanized steel to ensure good, all other factors we can be achieved.

Galvanized steel currently use is very widespread, especially in natural gas pipes, heating and other high strength and quality of the pipeline industry, galvanized steel pipe has a more obvious than other advantages. Galvanized steel as plumbing, a large amount of rust inner tube after several years of use, the outflow yellow water pollution is not only ware, and mixed with not smooth inner wall of the breeding of bacteria, corrosion caused by heavy metal content in the water is too high, serious harm to human health. In order to make galvanized steel with a bright white appearance and good corrosion resistance, in addition to hot dip galvanizing process, you can also use electric galvanizing process.

Requirements of galvanized insulated steel pipe in construction:
1, Galvanized insulated steel pipe is used for gas and natural gas, long-distance transmission of high pressure pipeline.
2. Galvanizing in order to preserve corrosion, in the long-distance transportation, the pole protection testing station is generally set up at several tens of kilometers to 100 kilometers. The instrument in the station generates cathode electrons to fill the pipeline, and the galvanized surface is conducive to conductive rust. The pipe is charged uniformly.
3, In order to prevent the loss of cathode electrons in the pipeline, the galvanized pipe is filled with electric tannin (mixture of bitumen and quartz powder) and kraft paper, second oil two paper or three oil three papers before installation. After head welding, it should be treated equally. The insulation resistance should be not less than 0.5 Mn, and check if the pipe is punctured with low voltage 380V/220V.
4. On the side of the gas transmission pipeline, a distance of 50cm, a tens of meters of grounded galvanized l” pipe grounding tape shall be embedded in the same trench, and a galvanized iron tape shall be introduced into the testing station.
5. If the gas or natural gas leaks and breaks through the insulating layer under pressure, the electrons enter the land, return to the grounding zone and enter the detection instrument, and immediately reflect it from the instrument. The leak distance and the position of the pipe fault can be organized to repair the manpower.

Advantages of galvanized pipes are following below:
Firstly, galvanized pipe after being hot dip galvanized surface can be protected, and inside the cavity of the pipe or any other coating the corner is difficult to enter, deepen the zinc can easily cover to the top, make whole galvanized pipe can be protected.

Second, after being galvanized pipe galvanized its impact resistance and anti-wear properties are very good, because the zinc coating hardness values larger than the hardness of steel, and therefore the impact resistance of hot-dip galvanized after and abrasion resistance is quite good. Furthermore galvanized biggest advantage is in the corner of the zinc layer will be relatively thick and good toughness and abrasion resistance, while other coatings are often in this corner of the thinnest most difficult construction, and therefore are vulnerable injury.

Third, there is a major feature of hot-dip galvanizing that is occasionally subject to considerable mechanical damage or other causes a small portion of the zinc layer off, the iron-based nudity, then it will play around the zinc layer and other coatings not the same spirit of sacrifice to protect the steel here, so from erosion.

Finally, the hot-dip galvanizing and other aspects of life and aesthetics of art, life expectancy is in a particular environment, the main agency of the thickness of the coating, and the coating thickness of it but also by the thickness of the galvanized pipe and decisions, and therefore thicker galvanized pipe is more easily coating. Second, in terms of aesthetics and art, at the time it is certain severe corrosive environments, galvanized layer above Zaishi paint to deal with, as long as the selection of the correct paint system, easy construction of its anti-corrosion effect will be very good.