Rubber tubing is an essential, versatile tubular product, primarily crafted from resilient rubber. It typically features a robust inner and outer rubber layer coupled with a fortified skeleton layer, designed to transport gases, liquids, slurries, or granular materials with precision. The core of rubber tubing lies in its remarkable ability to facilitate seamless transmission of media through its exceptional elastic sealing and pressure-bearing capabilities. This makes it indispensable across diverse fields such as industry, automotive, and medical treatment, where it performs with excellence and reliability.
1. Introduction to Rubber Pipe Material
Crude Rubber: Renowned for its exceptional high elasticity, wear resistance, and commendable bending and scratching characteristics, making it ideal for low-pressure environments.
Protobutadiene Rubber (SBR): Offers outstanding wear resistance and a cost-effective solution, although its oil resistance is comparatively less robust.
Cis-Polybutadiene (BR): Praised for its excellent moisture resistance and superior low temperature performance, maintaining elasticity even at a chilling -50ºC.
Nitrile Rubber (NBR): Remarkable for its excellent oil resistance, particularly against mineral and lubricating oils, though it falls short in ozone and high temperature resistance.
Chloroprene Rubber (CR): Balances oil, ozone, and aging resistance, delivering a well-rounded performance across multiple parameters.
EPDM Rubber (EPDM): Excels in high temperature resistance ranging from -50 to 150ºC, paired with robust weather resistance, perfect for prolonged outdoor exposure.
Fluorine Rubber (FKM): Withstands high temperatures up to 250ºC and resists chemical corrosion, ideal for the most extreme environments.
Silastic (VMQ): Boasts impressive high temperature resistance from -70 to 300ºC, alongside high transparency and outstanding electrical performance.
Chlorinated Sulfated Polyethylene Rubber (CSM): Offers formidable resistance to strong acids and alkalis, including concentrated sulfuric and nitric acid, with strong permeability resistance.
Conductive Rubber: Features built-in conductive fibers or metal mesh to effectively prevent static accumulation, ensuring safety and performance.
Fire Retardant Rubber: Enhanced with flame retardants such as aluminum hydroxide, it has successfully passed the UL 94 flame retardant certification, ensuring superior safety standards.
2. Structural Composition of the Rubber Pipe
The Glue Layer: This component is in direct contact with the conveying medium, designed for wear resistance and corrosion resistance, adept at handling challenges such as oil, acid, and alkali resistance.
| 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. Structurally, rubber pipes are ingeniously categorized into various types, encompassing sandwich hoses, braided hoses, winding hoses, and full hoses, each serving unique applications.
4. Ingenious Working Principle of Rubber Pipe
| 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. Diverse Application Areas:
| 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 Guarantee:
| 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. |
Employing state-of-the-art production equipment and a wealth of technical expertise, we absorb rubber and plastic products to tailor a diverse range of specifications and materials for rubber products, ensuring customization and excellence.
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