Bending Complex Geometries for Power Plants
The transfluid t bend DB 622 CNC R/L mandrel bending machine, the fully automatic t bend DB 2090 CNC VE machine, the t cut RTO 628 chipless orbital cutting system, and the REB 632/SRM 622 CNC combination machine from Advanced Fabricating Machinery fabricate pipe for meeting the highest loading requirements, including tight bending radii to ensure optimum surface area for thermal transfer.
Posted: February 9, 2018
Pipe required for power plant systems must meet the highest loading requirements, including tight bending radii to ensure optimum surface area for thermal transfer. Transfluid tube bending technologies from Advanced Fabricating Machinery (Kingston, NH) enable shops to cost effectively process all tube bending requirements, including small bending radii with no wall thinning and bending radii shorter than 1xD for larger pipe diameters. As a right-hand/left-hand bending machine, the t bend DB 622 CNC R/L mandrel bending machine provides a greater amount of freedom for solving even the most complex geometries, even if the existing space is tight. It is ideally suitable for fabricating smaller tubes up to 22 mm (.866 in) diameter while having the capability to quickly change the bending direction in less than two seconds. It uses two bending heads: a standing variant bends towards the right and a suspended bending head bends towards the left.
The fully automatic t bend DB 2090 CNC VE machine bends round and square tubes with a diameter of between 20 mm (.787 in) and 90 mm (3.543 in) at an impressive repetition accuracy and quality. This system also makes it possible to free-form large bending radii. The t cut RTO 628 chipless orbital cutting system makes extremely precise and clean cutting results possible, with cutting quantities of up to 1,600 units/hour. The tubes can be further processed immediately by directly forming at the cutting surface. Because the tubes are stress-strained during cutting at different torques depending on the size, the cutting point is protected from collapsing. The REB 632/SRM 622 CNC combination machine ensures twice the number of forming options, including rolling and axial tube forming together that allow a compressed geometry to be re-rolled, for example, or to perform a cut prior to the axial tube forming. Tool changes are quickly implemented.
Advanced Fabricating Machinery, 65 Route 125 Kingston, NH 03848, 603-642-4906, Fax: 603-642-4813, sales@advancedfab.com, advancedfab.com.
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