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VOICE OVER NARRATION: When you're looking for ways to optimize performance and reduce
operating costs, it pays to be flexible.
From installation to maintenance, tubing is simpler, safer and faster than threaded or
welded pipe!
Threaded pipe installation requires stands, dies, cutting oils, sealants, and tapes.
Then there's assembly, testing, disassembly, rework, and reassembly.
For welded pipe installations, you'll need a qualified welder with equipment and consumables.
In some areas, permits, air tests, quenching, purging, finish welding, and inspection are
required.
Tubing, on the other hand, is easily installed.
No threading, flaring, soldering, or welding required.
Pipe installations generally involve straight pipes with right angle connections.
Tubing is flexible and can bend around obstructions.
The sharp angles in pipe installations can cause pressure drops.
The gradual bends and smooth inside diameter of tubing make pressure more consistent.
Threaded piping is thicker and heavier than tubing because additional material is needed
to form the threading.
With tubing, the entire wall thickness goes to contain pressure, providing better strength
to weight ratio.
Because tubing is lighter, it's easier to ship and assemble, requires less support,
and occupies less space.
Pipes require more joints, which means far more potential for leaks, particularly at
high pressures.
Tubing not only has fewer joints, the connections are better engineered, optimally secured.
Swagelok's gaugeable tube fittings are leak tight, no sealing compounds required.
With tubing, there's less waste of expensive compressed gases and oils.
The possibility of fugitive emissions, a closely regulated environmental hazard associated
with leaking pipes, is greatly reduced.
Because Swagelok's fittings are easy to disassemble, maintenance is faster, simpler, and less labor
intensive versus welded pipe -- thus significantly reducing your total operating costs.
Here's an example from a customer with a 150 PSI steam heating system.
The welded pipe, with 320 joints and 149 fittings, required 720 pipe-fitting hours and 480 hours
of welding.
The Swagelok tubing installation, with 196 joints and 91 fittings, required 240 pipefitting
hours and 32 hours of welding.
Although the initial material outlay was greater, the installed cost was almost $18,000 less.
And, because there's such a shortage of skilled welders in many areas of the country, the
reduction in welding hours is especially beneficial.
In all, tubing delivers substantial savings in the form of reduced leaks, downtime, and
maintenance.
United Refining uses Swagelok leak-tight fluid systems to carry environmentally sensitive
fluids.
TESTIMONIAL (Chet)
VOICE OVER NARRATION: As
United Refining learned first hand, Swagelok tubing is simpler and safer to use, and installs
far faster, versus threaded or welded pipe.
Talk with your Pittsburgh Valve and Fitting representative about tubing applications...and
see for yourself that it pays to be flexible.