What is Casting Stainless Steel Tee?
Stainless steel tee is a T-shaped fitting with three ports used to create a 90 ° branch on a main pipeline. It is mainly divided into two types: Equal Tee, whose three ports have exactly the same size and are used to evenly distribute flow; And reducing tee, whose branch pipe port size is smaller than the main pipe port, is used to connect smaller branch pipes. Three connections are the fundamental components for constructing fluid distribution pipelines.
Popular Science on Fitting Connection Types
There are three main connection methods for industrial pipe fittings. Threaded connection, such a tee, is suitable for medium and low voltage systems, with the advantage of easy installation and disassembly. Socket welding is used for high-pressure, small-diameter pipelines, connected by fillet welds, with high strength. Butt welding is the direct welding of the end of a pipeline to form a continuous and integrated pipeline. It has the highest strength and is suitable for various critical and high demand pipeline systems.
Material Properties of 304/CF8
304 stainless steel (cast as CF8) is the most widely used and cost-effective stainless steel grade. It exhibits good corrosion resistance in water, air, and various weakly corrosive media, effectively preventing rust and ensuring the cleanliness of fluid media. Its excellent mechanical properties and ease of processing make it an ideal material for manufacturing low-pressure pipe fittings in fields such as water supply and drainage, general chemical engineering, etc. It combines reliability and economy.
Casting Tee Application
Class 150 cast tees are the core components of low-pressure fluid distribution systems. 2-inch is a commonly used size for main pipelines in commercial water supply and drainage, fire sprinklers, HVAC waterways, and general industrial utility pipelines. They are widely used to branch off from the main pipeline or build distribution manifolds. Its convenient NPT thread connection method provides an economical and efficient solution for constructing complex pipeline networks under non critical and non high pressure conditions.