Monel Slip-On Pipe Flanges, As made obvious by their name, these pipe flanges slip over the pipe. They're manufactured with an inside diameter that is slightly bigger than the pipe's outside diameter. These attachments are connected to the pipe via fillet weld at the top and bottom of the flange.
However, customers should bear in mind that this initial cost saving may be diminished by the additional cost of the two fillet welds required for proper installation. Moreover, weld-neck flanges have a higher life expentancy than slip-on flanges under duress. It is fabricated with an inside diameter that is bigger than the pipe’s outside distance across. These connections are associated with the pipe by means of filet weld at the top and base of the flange.
Monel Slip-on flanges are all bored slightly larger than the O.D. of the pipe. They are preferred over welding neck flanges bu many users due to their lower intial cost, but final intallation cost is probably not much less than that of the welding neck flange because of the additional welding involved.
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Monel : Grade: Monel 400 ( 2.4360), Monel K500, Monel R-405 |
| Grade | Ni | Fe | C | Mn | Si | Cu | Al | Ti | S |
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| K500 | 63.0 min | 05 - 2 | 0.25 max | 1.5 max | 0.5 max | 27.0 - 33.0 | 2.3 - 3.15 | 0.35 - 0.85 | 0.010 max |
| 400 ( 2.4360) | 63.0- 70.00 max | 2.50 max | 0.3 max | 2.00 max | 0.50 max | Remainder | - | - | 0.024 max |
| Grade | Tensile (ksi) | .2% Yield (ksi) | Elongation % | Hardness (HRb) |
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| 400 ( 2.4360) | 75 to 90 | 25 to 50 | 60 to 35 | 60 to 80 |
| K500 | Psi – 1,60,000 , MPa – 1100 | Psi – 1,15,000 , MPa – 790 | 20 % | - |
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Stainless Steel : Grade: 304 (1.4301), 304L (1.4307), 304H (1.4948), 309 (1.4828), 309S, 310, 310S (1.4845) , 316 ( 1.4401), 316H, 316L( 1.4404 /1.4432) , 317, 317L (1.4438), 321 (1.4541), 321 H(1.4878), 347 (1.4550), 347H (1.4961), 904L (1.4539) Duplex Steel: Grade: 2205 (1.4507) Super Duplex Steel: Grade: 2507 (UNS S32750) (1.4410) (UNS S32750) Inconel : Grade: Inconel 600 (2.4640), Inconel 601 (2.4851), Inconel 625 (2.4856), Inconel 718(2.4668) Incoloy : Grade: Incoloy 800 (2.4958), Incoloy 800H, Incoloy 800HT Nickel : Grade: Nickel 200, Nickel 201 Titanium : Grade: Gr.1 (3.7025) , Gr.2 (3.7035) , Gr.3:(3.7055) , Gr.5(3.7164/65), Gr. 7(3.7235) , Gr. 11 (3.7225) Hastalloy : Grade: Hastalloy B2, Hastalloy B3, Hastalloy C22, Hastalloy C276, Hastalloy X |
The manufacturing process of flange mainly is divided into forging, casting, cutting and rolling. .
The casting and forging flanges have advantages that the blanks of them have accurate shape, size and low costs and only need simple process. But forging flanges have manufacturing defects such as blowholes, cracks, etc and have not very smooth internal organization streamline. The obvious advantages of forging flanges are that they can be forged in various shapes and they have low costs. .
Forging flanges generally have lower carbon content than the casting flanges and are not easy to rust. They have smooth streamline, uniform internal organization, and better mechanical performance than that of casting flanges. There are no defects, such as blowholes and cracks existing in the casting flanges. Forging flanges are able to withstand higher shear and drawing forces than casting flanges. However, if adopting improper forging process, it will also cause appearance of large, uneven grains and solidification cracking phenomenon, resulting in higher cost than the casting flanges. .
We can distinguish between the casting flanges and forging flanges from the different production process. To take the centrifugal flange as an example, it is a kind of casting flange. Centrifugal flanges are produced by a precision casting method, which makes the flanges’ organization smaller than those commonly produced by sand casting and improves the quality of flanges, making fewer occurrences of loose tissue, pore, sand hole etc.
Cutting process refers to producing flanges by directly cutting a round plate with the inner diameter, outer diameter and thickness which can be further processed later from the middle plate, and then processing the bolt hole and waterline. The maximum diameter of such flanges is limited by the width of the middle plate.
Cutting process refers to producing flanges by cutting stripes from the middle plate and then rolling them into round shape. This process is mainly used for the production of large flange. After the rolling process, weld and then flatten the round shape, and finally process the serrated spiral finish and bolt hole.
