What is difference between Pipe and Tube?

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What is difference between Pipe and Tube?..

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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What is difference between Pipe and Tube?..

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)

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What is difference between Pipe and Tube?..

Answer / bommuraj

pipe must be thick according to this formula d/t>10,tube shoul
be thin

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What is difference between Pipe and Tube?..

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)

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What is difference between Pipe and Tube?..

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.

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What is difference between Pipe and Tube?..

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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What is difference between Pipe and Tube?..

Answer / ajay kumar

In the pipe may with thread 9 internal/external But in tube
thread never require.

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What is difference between Pipe and Tube?..

Answer / hardik

mr vikas said that is right

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What is difference between Pipe and Tube?..

Answer / chkr

vikas ans. in correct.

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What is difference between Pipe and Tube?..

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.

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