What is difference between Pipe and Tube?
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Answer / umesh parmar
Pipe is used for conveying fliud without any heat transfer
whereas tube is used for conveying fluid with heat hransfer.
Therefore Pipe is thick according to d/t >10 and tube is
comparatively thin, as Mr. Bommuraj said.
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Answer / vikas
The primary difference between pipe and tubing is how the
size is designated. Pipe is designated by a "Nominal Pipe
Size" based upon the ID (inside diameter) of the most
common wall thickness. Tubing is designated by the measured
OD (outside diameter)
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 27 Yes | 3 No |
Answer / bommuraj
pipe must be thick according to this formula d/t>10,tube shoul
be thin
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 19 Yes | 8 No |
Answer / magesh
Pipe is designated by a "Nominal Pipe
Size" based upon the ID (inside diameter) of the most
common wall thickness. Tubing is designated by the measured
OD (outside diameter)
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 10 Yes | 1 No |
Answer / nori vsn murthy
The fundamental difference between pipe and tube is:
Pipe is for mass transfer applications, whereas, tube is
for heat transfer applications.
Due to this fundamental difference, we generally call pipes
and tubes as: water pipes, steam pipes, slurry pipes,
boiler tubes, heat exchanger tubes, radiator tubes, etc.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 10 Yes | 2 No |
Answer / teekaraman
A pipe is having a circular cross section but tube is not
like that it may have any cross sections like
cirular,square, oval
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Answer / ajay kumar
In the pipe may with thread 9 internal/external But in tube
thread never require.
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Answer / mr. mechanical engineer
Pipe is in cylindical shape & tube shape is not fixed
Pipe both end are open & tube has one end closed"
Pipe transfer mass flow
& tube conveyed heat transfer.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 0 Yes | 4 No |
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