Dimensions and weight of asbestos-cement pipes

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Standard sizes
How much do the pipes weigh?
How to determine?
How to choose?

Asbestos cement pipe, also commonly known as transit pipe, is a tank for transporting cement liquid, drinking water, waste water, gases and vapors. Asbestos is used to improve its mechanical properties.

Despite its high resistance to corrosion, the product becomes thinner over time, so the replacement of existing systems is becoming more frequent. Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipes are now being used as a less hazardous alternative to health.

Standard sizes

An asbestos-cement product is a special type that uses asbestos to provide improved mechanical properties. Plain cement pipe often lacks tensile strength. The added asbestos fibers provide increased strength.

The asbestos pipe was mainly used in the middle of the 20th century. In the 1970s and 1980s, it became less widely used, mainly due to the health risks of the workers who made and installed the pipe. Dust during cutting was considered particularly hazardous.

According to GOST, such products are of the following parameters.

Properties	Unit rev.	Conditional passage, mm

Length	mm	3950	3950	5000	5000	5000	5000
Outside diameter	mm	118	161	215	309	403	508
Inner diameter	mm	100	141	189	277	365	456
Wall thickness	mm	9	10	13	16	19	26
Crushing load, not less	kgf	460	400	320	420	500	600
Bending load, not less	kgf	180	400	—	—	—	—
The value is tested. hydraulics pressure	MPa	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4

If the length is usually 3.95 or 5 meters, then it is more difficult to choose a product according to the cross section, since there are much more types:

100 and 150 mm - this diameter is ideal when you need to make ventilation or a water supply system to the house;
200 mm and 250 mm - a product used when organizing a network line;
300 mm - an option ideal for gutters;
400 mm - also used when organizing water supply;
500 mm is one of the largest diameters required in the construction of industrial structures.

There are other standard sizes, if we talk about the diameter of asbestos pipes in mm:

110;
120;
125;
130;
350;
800.

The manufacturing plant produces, as a rule, a whole range of asbestos-cement products. This includes a gravity pipe.

Each product is labeled based on what working pressure the pipe can withstand:

VT6 - 6 kgf / cm2;
VT9 - 9 kgf / cm2;
VT12 - 12 kgf / cm2;
VT15 - 15 kgf / cm2.

One of the most demanded options is external products for 100 mm. The fiber contains chrysotile and water.

All finished pipes are subject to mandatory testing, which determines the quality of the finished product in the future. They are crushed and water hammer tested. Many modern manufacturers perform additional bending tests.

How much do the pipes weigh?

The weight of the free-flow pipe can be found in the table below.

Nominal diameter, mm	Length, mm	Weight of 1 m pipe, kg
100	3950	6,1
150	3950	9,4
200	5000	17,8
300	5000	27,4
400	5000	42,5
500	5000	53,8

Pressure:

Nominal diameter, mm	Inner diameter, mm		Wall thickness, mm		Length, mm	Weight of 1 m pipe, kg
Nominal diameter, mm	VT-9	VT-12	VT-9	VT-12	Length, mm	VT-9	VT-12
150	141	135	13,5	16,5	3950	15,2	17,9
200	196	188	14,0	18,0	5000	24,5	30,0
300	286	276	19,0	24,0	5000	47,4	57,9
400	377	363	25,0	32,0	5000	81,8	100,0
500	466	450	31,0	39,0	5000	124,0	151,0

How to determine?

The deviation in dimensions during production can be no more than the indicated ones:

Conditional passage	Deviations
	on the outer diameter of the pipe	by wall thickness	along the length of the pipe
100	±2,5	±1,5	-50,0
150
200
300	±3,0	±2,0
400

To understand whether a product is being purchased, all attention must be directed to the labeling. It contains information regarding the purpose of the pipe, its diameter and compliance with the standard.

BNT-200 GOST 1839-80 can be taken as an example. This marking means that it is a non-pressure product with a diameter of 200 mm. It was manufactured according to the specified GOST.

How to choose?

Pipes can be made from two types of asbestos:

chrysotile;
amphibole.

The material itself is not harmful, it is not radioactive, but if you have to work with it, it is very important to observe safety precautions. It is the dust that is most harmful to humans when it enters the respiratory system.

For the past few years, the extraction of acid-resistant amphibole asbestos has been banned. Products made from chrysotile material are safe, since fibers are removed by the human body from two hours to 14 days.

Throughout the world from about the 1900s to the 1970s, chrysotile asbestos (white) was mainly used in pipe insulation and wrapping to retain heat in heating and hot water systems and to prevent condensation on pipelines that only cold water.

Chrysotile is a serpentine form of asbestos that makes up the majority of such products in the world.

Chrysotile asbestos has also been widely used in bends and boilers as an asbestos-like gypsum coating or compound.

It has also been used in roof siding, brake pads, boiler seals, and in paper form as a wrapper or seal for air ducts.

Crocidolite (blue asbestos) is a material for sprayed insulating coatings of boilers, steam engines, and sometimes as insulation for heating or other pipes. It is an amphibole (needle-like fibrous) material that is especially dangerous.

Amosite asbestos (brown asbestos) has been used in roofing and siding, as well as in softer ceiling and insulation boards or panels. It is also a form of amphibole asbestos.

Anthophyllite (gray, green, or white asbestos) was less widely used but is found in some insulation products and as an unwanted substance in talc and vermiculite.

Newly built houses do not have asbestos pipes. However, they are present in the older ones.

When buying a property, buyers should check existing communications for the presence of products from this material.

Building documentation may indicate whether the pipes used in the structure are lined with asbestos. Look for damage when inspecting water and sewer lines. They allow the surveyor to see the asbestos fibers in the cement. If the pipeline cracks, asbestos will enter the water stream, causing pollution.

When selecting the required product, it is required to take into account the marking. It is she who indicates the scope of application. It is impossible to replace a pipe with an unsuitable type and technical characteristics.

Always, in the manufacture of such products, the national standard GOST 1839-80, ISO 9001-2001, ISO 14001-2005 is used.

If you plan to install a chimney, then a special type is necessarily used - ventilation. The cost of such products is higher, but they justify themselves perfectly.

The advantages are:

light weight;
cleanliness and comfort;
high temperature resistance;
no assembly seams.

When considering intake-type asbestos pipes, it should be said that their main field of application is garbage disposal systems, foundations, drainage and cable routing.

It is important to understand that if some pipes are used for the sewer or plumbing system, then others are exclusively for the chimney, and they cannot be replaced with each other, since the level of strength plays a very important role.

Non-pressure products are used for the sewerage system of the same type. The advantage is cost savings. A manhole can be made from cut elements if its depth is small.

It is not uncommon to find non-pressure asbestos-cement pipes when organizing sewerage systems, where waste flows by gravity. There is no question of any soil contamination when using such material, and all because it is resistant to microorganisms.

The asbestos pipe is assembled using a special coupling consisting of a pipe sleeve and two rubber rings, which are compressed between the pipe and the inside of the sleeve.

The joint is just as corrosion resistant as the pipe itself and is flexible enough to accommodate up to 12 ° deflection when routed around curves.

Asbestos cement pipe is lightweight and can be assembled without the need for specialists. It can be attached to a cast iron product. It is easy to cut, and the hydraulic efficiency of the asbestos pipe is high.

When buying an asbestos product, you need to clearly know what pipe diameter is required. It depends on the system in which it is supposed to be used.

If this is ventilation, first calculate the volume of the available room. A mathematical formula is used in which the three overall dimensions of the room are multiplied.

Subsequently, using the formula L = n * V, the volume of air is found. The resulting number must additionally be increased to a multiple of 5.

With plumbing, everything is different. Here, a complex formula is used to calculate, taking into account not only the speed with which water moves through the system, but also the hydraulic slope, the presence of roughness, the diameter inside and much more.

If such a calculation is not available to the user, then a standard solution can be taken. Install pipes ¾ "or 1" on the risers; 3/8 "or ½" is suitable for routing.

As for the sewage system, for it the pipe standard is determined by SNIP 2.04.01085. Not everyone will be able to make a calculation using the formula, so experts have developed several useful recommendations. For example, for a sewage pipeline, a pipe with a diameter of 110 mm or more is used. If this is an apartment building, then it is 100 mm.

When connecting plumbing, it is allowed to use pipes with a diameter of 4-5 cm.

Certain parameters are also available for the chimney. In the calculations, it is necessary to take into account the height of the chimney, the volume of fuel that is planned to be burned, the speed at which the smoke moves out, as well as the temperature of the gas.

It is worth knowing that it is impossible to put an asbestos-cement pipe on the chimney, where it is planned that the gas temperature will be more than 300 degrees.

If the system is planned correctly, and the product meets the requirements of the standards, then the asbestos-cement pipe will last at least 20 years, and it will not require maintenance.