Welded Titanium Tube for Industrial Cooling Systems

Cooling systems use water. River water. Seawater. Treated water. That water eats pipes.

Copper tube corrodes. Stainless steel tube pits. Steel tube rusts through.

Welded titanium tube for industrial cooling systems stops all of that. No corrosion allowance. No pitting. No replacement every few years.

Cooling towers. Heat exchangers. Chillers. Condensers. Anywhere you move heat with water, this tube works.

Seamless tube is great. But it costs more. For cooling systems, you don't always need seamless.

Welded tube starts as flat strip. Rolled into shape. Welded. The weld gets annealed so it's soft and corrosion resistant.

Welded titanium tube for industrial cooling systems gives you the same corrosion resistance as seamless at a lower price. The weld zone performs like the base metal. No weak spots.

For cooling systems, welded tube is standard. Seamless is overkill for most jobs.

Grade 2 covers most cooling systems. River water. Lake water. Cooling tower circulation. Seawater up to about 50°C.

Grade 12 handles hotter water. Higher chlorides. Tight crevices like tube-to-tubesheet joints.

For welded titanium tube for industrial cooling systems, Grade 2 is the first choice. Grade 12 when the water is hot.

Common cooling tube sizes

Tolerance: OD ±0.08mm. Wall ±10%. Length +5mm / -0mm.

• Power plants. Cooling water condensers. Thousands of tubes. River or seawater cooling.
• Chemical plants. Process coolers. Reactor cooling jackets.
• HVAC systems. Large chillers. Cooling towers.
• Steel mills. Equipment cooling. High flow rates.
• Plastics plants. Injection mold cooling. Clean water.
• Data centers. Cooling systems for servers. Constant flow. Zero downtime allowed.

In every one of these places, welded titanium tube for industrial cooling systems replaces copper, stainless, or carbon steel. The old tubes failed. Titanium keeps going.

Cooling water isn't clean. It has oxygen. Chlorides. Bacteria. pH swings.

Copper tube gets pitted. Then it leaks. Fixing a chiller tube leak means shutting down the whole system.

Stainless steel tube fails in stagnant conditions. Cooling systems have downtime. Water sits. Stainless pits where water sits.

Carbon steel tube rusts. Wall gets thinner. Eventually a hole.

Welded titanium tube for industrial cooling systems doesn't care about any of this. No pitting. No rust. No corrosion from stagnant water. Start and stop all day. Titanium doesn't notice.

Most cooling system exchangers use rolled tube-to-tubesheet joints. Sometimes welded.

Rolling titanium is different from rolling copper or steel. Titanium work-hardens. Use a torque-controlled roller.

Clean the tube ends and tubesheet holes before rolling. No oil. No dirt.

For welded titanium tube for industrial cooling systems, we supply tube ends clean and deburred. Ready for rolling.

If you weld, use argon purge. ERTi-2 filler for Grade 2 tube. The weld should be silver or light straw.

Steel tubes need extra wall thickness. They corrode. The wall gets thinner over time. Designers add corrosion allowance.

Titanium doesn't corrode. No corrosion allowance. Design for pressure only.

That means your titanium tube can be thinner than steel tube. Thinner wall means better heat transfer. More tubes per shell. Lower cost.

For welded titanium tube for industrial cooling systems, typical walls are 0.5mm to 1.0mm. For steel, you'd need 1.5mm to 2.5mm.

ASTM B338 for welded tube requires:

Hydrostatic pressure test. Every tube. Flattening test. Sample per lot. Flaring test. Sample per lot. Eddy current NDT on the weld seam.

We provide full documentation. Heat number traceable. Mill test reports. Weld seam identification.

Cooling systems are tough on tubes. Water corrodes. Water pits. Water rusts.

Welded titanium tube for industrial cooling systems stops all of it. No corrosion. No pitting. No rust.

Grade 2 for most cooling water. Grade 12 for hot seawater. Welded tube keeps your cost down.

Thinner walls. Better heat transfer. Decades of service.