Pipe beveling – its basics

The process of pipe beveling

Pipe beveling, which includes pipeline beveling, is recognized by numerous names that include pipe profiling and pipe cutting. All these three terms talk about a motorized industrial process that’s designed to produce a definite profile on the pipe. This profile is going to be cut for maximizing the tightness of fitting of two parts. Such complex cuts are able to include miters, straight cuts, saddles, and mid-section holes. Every one of these have their own benefits and uses, and fits different applications differently. The end objective of such cuts is to set up the pipe for being joined eternally with the help of arc welding.

A pipe beveling or tube beveling machine performs such cuts by making use of a thermal torch that’s either plasma /oxy fuel. Plasma torches produce a direct stream of plasma in a gush. This plasma gush is able to be employed for cutting, plasma spraying/ plasma arc waste dumping. In a pipe or tube beveler it’s apparently employed for cutting and beveling pipes and tubes respectively. When talking about pipe beveling the portable clamshell pipe cold cutting device/machine is worth a mention. This machine’s been developed in collaboration with European Offshore manufacturing. A high metal elimination rate, a great adjustment range and a trouble-free setup are the features of such outperforming clamshells. This transportable device for pipe beveling cutting evades any heat affect zone (or haz). These are specifically designed for hefty wall pipes having high wall-thickness in heavyweight applications. Their characteristics of high working pace and swift readiness for use permit economic manufacture.

Having been beveled and fixed to its adjacent pipe, arc welding is going to be used for joining them together. This kind of welding makes use of a power supply which generates an electric arc which melts the metal.

Grooving as a substitute to welding

World War I witnessed the starting of grooved pipe joining so that pipelines were able to be brought together, disassembled and moved quickly and easily. This concept is now being witnessed in a growing number of power plants. Such systems are able to do better than welding, which is a prolonged process, frequently involving the cutting, beveling and preparing of pipe lengths and aligning and clamping of the joint.

On considering the method of welding, a pipe joint’s popularity and relative ease are clear. It comprises three fundamental elements, which are, pipe grooving, gasket and coupling housings and nuts and bolts.