Copper pipe, a type of non-ferrous metal pipe, is pressed and drawn seamless. Copper pipe has a strong, corrosion-resistant properties, and become modern contractors in all residential commercial housing water piping, heating, cooling piping installation. Copper pipe is the best water supply pipe.
Copper Pipe Characteristics
Due to the easy processing and connection of copper pipe, it can save material and total cost when installing, has good stability as well as reliability, and can save maintenance.
For stranded threaded pipe of the same inside diameter, copper pipe does not require the thickness of ferrous metal. When installed, copper tubing has smaller delivery costs, is easier to maintain, and takes up less space.
Because copper pipe can be bent and deformed, copper pipe it can often be made into elbows and fittings, and smooth bends allow copper pipe to be bent at any angle.
Copper is safe. It does not leak, does not promote combustion, does not produce toxic gases, and is corrosion resistant. Copper pipe is hard, not easily corroded, and resistant to high temperatures and pressures, allowing it to be used in a wide range of environments. Compared with this, many other pipe shortcomings are obvious, such as the past residential galvanized steel pipe, very easy to corrode, the use of a short period of time there will be yellow tap water, water flow becomes small and other issues. There are also some materials in the high temperature of the strength will be rapidly reduced, used for hot water pipes will produce unsafe hidden danger, and the melting point of copper as high as 1083 degrees Celsius, hot water system of the temperature of the copper pipe is negligible.
Copper pipe is commonly used in water piping, heating and cooling piping, as the installation of the pipe has a hard texture, not easy to corrode, high temperature, high pressure resistance and other advantages, can be used in different environments. Copper pipe combines the advantages of metallic and non-metallic pipes, and it is the best connecting pipe in the hot and cold water system. Copper pipes are fire and heat resistant, retaining their shape and strength at high temperatures, and do not age.
Copper pipe is several or even dozens of times more pressure-resistant than plastic and aluminum-plastic pipe, and it can withstand the highest water pressures found in today's buildings. In the hot water environment, with the prolongation of the service life, the pressure capacity of plastic tubing decreases significantly, while the mechanical properties of copper pipe remain unchanged in all thermal temperature ranges, so its pressure resistance will not be reduced, and will not appear aging phenomenon.
The linear coefficient of copper pipe is very small, which is 1/10 of that of plastic pipe, and it will not cause stress fatigue rupture due to excessive thermal expansion and contraction. Steel pipe is stronger, in order to ensure the effective inner diameter requirements, the outer diameter is smaller, more suitable for buried.
Copper pipe in Europe and the United States in economically developed countries, the application is extremely common. In China, especially in Shanghai, the pre-liberation period also used to be a large number of copper pipe in the building. At the beginning of the founding of the country, people live at a lower level, the quality of life is not high, and at the same time, due to the needs of national defense construction, copper as a strategic material and less in the use of residential buildings.
With the rapid growth of China's economy, the rapid improvement of people's living conditions, we have a higher level of quality of life requirements, "the famous mountain hidden treasure, the famous house hidden copper" concept has also begun to quietly rise.
