Rubber tubing, an essential component in modern industries, is crafted predominantly from high-quality rubber. It features a sophisticated design with an inner and outer rubber layer, complemented by a sturdy skeleton layer. This marvel of engineering serves as a conduit for gases, liquids, slurries, or granular materials, ensuring efficient transportation. The primary role of rubber tubing lies in its ability to transmit media seamlessly, thanks to its remarkable elastic sealing and robust pressure-bearing capabilities. It finds extensive applications across diverse fields, including industry, the automotive sector, and medical treatments, proving indispensable in facilitating smooth operations.
1. Introduction to Cutting-Edge Rubber Pipe Materials
Crude Rubber: Renowned for its superb elasticity, this material also boasts excellent wear resistance and remarkable resilience against bending and scratching. It is ideally suited for low-pressure environments, providing reliable performance.
Protobutadiene Rubber (SBR): This cost-effective option offers remarkable wear resistance, although it is less efficient in resisting oil.
Cis-Polybutadiene (BR): Distinguished by its outstanding moisture resistance, this material excels in low-temperature environments, maintaining elasticity even at a chilling -50ºC.
Nitrile Rubber (NBR): This material is celebrated for its exceptional oil resistance, particularly against mineral and lubricating oils. However, it shows limitations in ozone and high-temperature resistance.
Chloroprene Rubber (CR): Known for its balanced performance, it offers oil resistance, ozone resistance, and aging resistance, ensuring durability.
EPDM Rubber (EPDM): This material withstands a broad temperature range (-50 to 150ºC) and exhibits strong weather resistance, making it ideal for prolonged outdoor exposure.
Fluorine Rubber (FKM): With impressive high-temperature (-20 to 250ºC) and chemical corrosion resistance, this material is perfect for extreme environments.
Silastic (VMQ): Known for high transparency and excellent electrical performance, it withstands temperatures from -70 to 300ºC, making it exceptionally versatile.
Chlorinated Sulfated Polyethylene Rubber (CSM): Offers strong resistance to powerful acids and alkalis, such as concentrated sulfuric and nitric acids, while providing significant permeability resistance.
Conductive Rubber: Features built-in conductive fibers or metal mesh to effectively prevent static accumulation, enhancing safety in sensitive applications.
Fire Retardant Rubber: Incorporates flame retardants like aluminum hydroxide, achieving UL 94 flame retardant certification to ensure safety.
2. Structural Composition of Advanced Rubber Pipes
The Glue Layer: Directly interacts with the media being conveyed, featuring wear and corrosion resistance, withstanding oils, 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. Types of Rubber Pipes: Structurally categorized into sandwich hoses, braided hoses, winding hoses, and full hoses, each designed for specific applications.
4. Working Principles of Rubber Pipes: A detailed exploration of how rubber pipes facilitate the efficient movement of various media.
| 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: Rubber pipes play crucial roles across a wide spectrum of industries, adapting to specific needs with precision.
| 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 stringent industry standards to guarantee safety and performance.
| 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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