Hot Tool Welding of Pipelines from Polyethylene for Gas Supply with a Diameter of 90-315 mm

Abstract

Purpose of research. GOST P 55276-2012 applied in the Russian Federation does not regulate concrete data on the choice of this or that procedure under various conditions of welding and standard sizes of the applied pipes, leaving it to the discretion of the consumer. Unlike the procedure of the welding with only low pressure which is well fulfilled and widely applied in domestic practice, the welding according to the procedure with the only high pressure allowing to reduce three times time of a welding cycle is practically not used and specially intended welding machines in Russia are not issued. In this regard this work is devoted to development of the modes of hot tool welding of abutting connections of pipes from polyethylene with a diameter from 90 to 315 mm for SDR 13.6 - SDR 9.0 with the only high pressure, to the choice of possible domestic welding equipment and experimental check of the developed modes.Methods. In this article for butt welding by the heated tool of pipes from polyethylene with a diameter from 90 to 315 mm, using a design technique, main parameters of welding procedure are determined with the only high pressure. When choosing the welding machine necessary for tube welding of the considered range on welding procedure with the only high pressure, by results of the carried-out analysis of technical datas of domestic welding machines and features of their operation capabilities it is preferred as the welding machine with the hydraulic drive "Native of the Volga Region of SSPT-315". For experimental check of the executed payment of parameters of the procedure of welding under the cyclogram with the only high pressure four joints of pipes with a diameter of 110 mm with thickness of a wall of 10 mm from PE-100 (SDR 11.0) have been welded and visual and measuring quality control of the executed connections and short-term tests of technological samples on axial stretching by the R-50 machine is made.Results. Mechanical tests of technological samples of all joints of the pipes from PE-100 with a diameter of 110 mm (SDR 11.0) executed on the SSPT-315 welding machine on welding procedure with the only high pressure have shown 100% - ny result of plastic nature of destruction at the size of lengthening from 500 to 600%.Conclusion. The high quality of experimental joints of pipes from PE-100 assumes a possibility of use of the SSPT- 315 machine for hot tool welding of pipes from polyethylene of everything of the range regulated by technical datas on welding procedure with the only high pressure.