The benefits of Grooved Pipe Fitting Couplings

As you can see, Shandong Zhihua Pipe specializes in Grooved Couplings and Fittings. Grooved coupling are widely used in pipeline systems because of their many advantages. Today we will talk about the benefits of groove couplings.

1. Cost Saving
As mentioned, the grooved coupling assembling is up to six times faster with fewer bolts and no torque requirements in comparison to other methods such as welding. As a result, they drastically reduce the labor time as well as labor cost. With the elimination of welding, the requirement for the expensive skill worker for the assembly of the mechanical system eliminates, which contributes to the reduction of total installation cost. 

2. Easy and Fast Installation
Grooved pipe couplings can significantly reduce installation time over any other pipe joining method. They are a great substitution for welding, flanging, or threading to join two pipes together. They result in 4x to 6x faster installation compared to other pipe joining methods.  This clearly leads to a significant reduction in labor hours required for operation. Obviously, flanging or welding methods of connection pipes can’t come into competition with the most versatile, reliable fastest method of pipe connection. Furthermore, mechanical grooved couplings offer an easy installation. The gasket and housing simply require to be placed over the grooved pipes and with just two the bolts and nuts tighten the system together with a standard hand tool as opposed to multiple bolts that are required for each flange.



3. Minimize Noise and Vibration
Another great benefit of grooved pipe couplings is that the rubber gasket absorbs the system forces and vibrations significantly reduce the risk of joint issues. The housing secures the gasket in precise compression from outside while bolts and nuts support the housing in place. The point is that the gasket itself absorbs the vibration, not the bolts or nuts. On the contrary, in flanging systems, a series of bolts and nuts are employed to provide compression to the gasket between two flat-faced flanges. he amount of torque on the bolts puts a high compressive load on the internal gasket that causes the gasket to adhere to the flanges. In the case of disassembling, rubber gasket has a high risk of tearing and result in re-installation failure. The system can pressurize or depressurize constantly without fatiguing the rubber.

4. Easy Maintenance
Many grooved coupling can inspect visually to do that installers need to check as if the two housing halves connect properly together. The inspection routine for the grooved couplings is much easier than other methods. The characteristics that caused mechanical grooved couplings to be the fastest result in to be easier to perform maintenance, repair, and replacement of worn parts. All there is to do is to drain the system, unscrew the bolts and housing and perform the inspection. Making the maintenance quite easy, cost-saving and, rapid. This contrasts with the flanging system that requires pressurizing and filling the pipe for checking. Or the welds that require ultrasonic testing and x-ray inspections.