Rubber tubing, a marvel of modern engineering, is a tubular product primarily crafted from resilient rubber. It typically features an intricate inner and outer rubber layer enhanced by a robust skeleton layer, designed to efficiently transport gases, liquids, slurries, or granular materials. The primary role of rubber tubing is to ensure the seamless flow and transmission of media, capitalizing on its elastic sealing and formidable pressure-bearing capabilities. This versatile product finds prominent applications across diverse sectors including industrial, automotive, and medical fields, providing indispensable solutions for each.
1. Introduction to Remarkable Rubber Pipe Materials
Crude Rubber: Renowned for its high elasticity, wear resistance, and exceptional bending and scratch-resistant qualities, crude rubber is an excellent fit for low-pressure environments, offering dependable performance.
Protobutadiene Rubber (SBR): This rubber boasts exceptional wear resistance and is a cost-effective choice, though it presents limited oil resistance, making it ideal for specific applications where oil exposure is minimal.
Cis-Polybutadiene (BR): Known for its superb moisture resistance, BR shines with outstanding resilience in low temperatures, maintaining elasticity even at -50ºC, making it suitable for colder climates.
Nitrile Rubber (NBR): Offering excellent resistance to mineral and lubricating oils, NBR is perfect for oil-exposed environments, though it shows limited ozone and high-temperature resistance.
Chloroprene Rubber (CR): Balancing oil, ozone, and aging resistance, CR excels with a comprehensive range of performance attributes for a wide array of industrial applications.
EPDM Rubber (EPDM): With its impressive temperature tolerance ranging from -50 to 150ºC and formidable weather resistance, EPDM is ideal for prolonged outdoor exposure.
Fluorine Rubber (FKM): This high-performance rubber withstands temperatures from -20 to 250ºC and offers excellent chemical corrosion resistance, suitable for the most extreme environments.
Silastic (VMQ): Praised for its resilience across a vast temperature range of -70 to 300ºC, VMQ rubber provides high transparency and outstanding electrical performance, ideal for specific high-tech applications.
Chlorinated Sulfated Polyethylene Rubber (CSM): With formidable resistance to strong acids and alkalis, including concentrated sulfuric and nitric acids, CSM exhibits strong permeability resistance, making it a specialized choice.
Conductive Rubber: Engineered with conductive fibers or metal mesh, this specialized rubber prevents static accumulation, ensuring safety in sensitive environments.
Fire Retardant Rubber: Enhanced with flame retardants such as aluminum hydroxide, this rubber passes UL 94 flame retardant certification, ensuring superior safety standards.
2. Structural Composition of the Advanced Rubber Pipe
The Glue Layer: Directly interacts with the medium being conveyed, offering superior wear and corrosion resistance, including protection against oil, acids, and alkalis.
| casing pyl |
Enhance the strength of the tube body, including cotton thread, steel wire, synthetic fiber, etc., to determine the pressure bearing capacity (e. g., the steel wire woven layer can withstand 80~600MPa pressure). |
| External glue layer |
Protect the internal structure from the external environment (such as ultraviolet light, mechanical friction). |
3. Diverse Structural Categories of Rubber Pipes: Rubber pipes are ingeniously designed into various forms, including sandwich hoses, braided hoses, winding hoses, and full hoses, each serving unique applications.
4. Working Principle of Rubber Pipes: These pipes are engineered to harness the natural elasticity and pressure-bearing capacities of rubber, ensuring efficient and reliable media transmission.
| Pressure transmission and energy buffer |
The hydraulic hose transfers the force through the fluid pressure, and uses the elastic shape of the rubber to absorb the pressure pulsation, and reduce the vibration of the system. For example, the hydraulic pipe of construction machinery bears high pressure (up to 60MPa or above) through a multi-layer steel wire reinforced layer. |
| Shock absorption and displacement compensation |
Rubber soft connection (e. g., flexible rubber joint) absorbs pipe displacement through the elastic deformation of the curtain layer and wire ring to reduce operating noise, which is suitable for pump valve connection and frequent vibration line. |
| Media isolation and leakage prevention |
The compactness of the inner adhesive layer combines with the protection of the outer adhesive layer to prevent the leakage of water, gas or chemicals. For example, the mobility of the coolant between the car radiator and the engine. |
5. Expansive Application Areas: Rubber tubing is an essential component across numerous industries, meeting the demands of industrial, automotive, and medical sectors with precision and reliability.
| industrial circle |
Welding gas delivery, hydraulic system, mine ventilation. |
| automotive filed |
Coolant circulation, fuel transmission, air-conditioning system. |
| Medical field |
Infusion tube, surgical instrument catheter. |
| The field of agriculture |
Irrigation system, aquaculture equipment. |
| New energy field |
Automobile battery and wind turbine cooling system, etc. |
6. Standardization and Security Assurance: Adhering to rigorous standards, the production of rubber products guarantees quality and safety, ensuring dependable performance in all applications.
| high-voltage insulation test |
Burst pressure is 3 times the working pressure (such as hydraulic hose). |
| degradation testing |
Simulated high temperature / UV environment assessment life (theoretical value of more than 15 years). |
| Environmental requirements |
Biological based rubber and low VOC (volatile organic compounds) formula meet the sustainable development needs. |
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