EZTM Joint Stock Company
Mills for Seamless Tube
Mills for Welded Tube
  Plant for Large, Medium & Small Diameter Tube 
Cold Rolling Mills

MILLS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF WELDED TUBES
 
JSC EZTM manufactures a wide range of mill for the production  of welded tubes. A wide range of finished tube size from 10 to 1620mm special requirement to finished tube have presupposed the use of various methods of tube manufacture. Classifying these method by specific characteristic, electric welded tube plants can be subdivided in two large groups:
 
  1. Plants for large diameter tube(  530- 1620mm)
  2. Plants for small and medium diameter tube( 10-530mm)

  Each of this group has its own feature for development of the technological schemes for tube production.

 
PLANTS  FOR LARGE DIAMETER TUBE PRODUCTION
 
Production process in plants of this type may be both discrete (single or double seam tube are made of separate  sheets) and continuous ( spiral seam tube are made of coiled  steel)
Sheets may be formed to round billets for longitudinal seam tube in both presses and rolls.
By press forming both semi cylinders and round billets for welding may be obtained. Forming here is effected in three stages: edges, preparation, preliminary and final.
Roll forming is used for obtaining semi cylinder. Double seam tube production from semi cylinder allows to use relatively narrow sheets as starting material for large diameter tubes. To produce large diameter tube submerged arc shielded welding is used. The welding is done in several passes by two or three electrodes putting in process seam, then external and internal working seams.
 
Table-6, Plants for Production of large Diameter Tubes: 
Variable
TESA1020
TESA1220
TESA1620
TESA1620D
 
Tube Diameter, mm
 
 
530-1020
 
 
1020-1220
 
 
1220-1620
 
1220-1620
Wall Thickness, mm
8-32
8-14.5
11.5-24
16-32
Length, mm
10-11.6
10.5-12
11.1-11.8
10-12
Starting Material
Sheet of Measured Length
Sheet of Measured length
Sheet of Measured Length
Coiled steel
Forming Method
Pressing
4 operations
Pressing
3 Operations
Roll
Spiral
Formed Billet
Configuration
Cylinder
Semi-cylinder
Semi-cylinder
Cylinder
Welding Method
SAW, 3&4 Layers, 2-3 Arc
SAW, 2-Layers ,
3 Arc
SAW, 3 Layers,
3-Arc
 
SAW, 2&3 Layers
 
Welding Speed m/min
0.5-4
1.5-3
1.5-3.5
0.5-2.5
No. of Welding Lines
6-9
8-12
4-14
1
Working Pressure in Pipeline, Mpa
5.5
5.5-7.5
5.5-10
5.5-7.5
Productive Capacity,
thous.t per annum
1000
800
1500
400
  
CONTINUOUS PLANTS FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM DIAMETER TUBE PRODUCTION.
 
Production process in these plants in continuous from coiled steel by means of roll forming . When roll forming several process limitations for instance value of stesses in sheets edges when the sheet is bent crosswise , diameter to wall ratio have impact on selection of stand number, roll pass design, installation of roller guide between the roll stands. Thus for instance in 100-220 Electric-welded tube plant for tube with diameter to wall ratio of 100, a part of forming section is occupied by ROLLER TABLE- a number of stands having assemblies of idle roller which increases a longitudinal stability of edges, due to an increase of splitting sheets deformation along its length. Similar solution have  been adopted by a number of foreign companies as well.
 
The plants of this group use the following welding methods:
-         High frequency with induction supply for the production of 10-530mm diameter tubes of carbon steel, aluminum ,copper.
-         Gas shielded arc welding by non melted electrodes for the production of high alloy steel, titanium, zirconium, copper, copper base alloy tube. Welding is by tungsten electrode, argon-shielded
-         Plasma welding- for the production of stainless steel tube, welded is by 3 cathod plasmotron, gas shielded. 
                 
 
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