A carbon steel flange is one of the most commonly used pipe fitting, Carbon steel flanges are utilized when pipe joints need disassembling for maintenance or other purposes. In a way, use of flange offers more adaptability to a piping system. Carbon steel flanges are used to connect the pipe with different types of fittings, pipes and valves. A flange is generally used along with related gaskets and nut bolts. Special attention needs to be placed, for selection of type of flange and the materials, to ensure 100% leak proof piping framework.

A flange is an external or internal ridge, or rim (lip), for strength, as the flange of an iron beam such as an I-beam or a T-beam; or for attachment to another object, as the flange on the end of a pipe, steam cylinder, etc., or for a flange of a rail car or tram wheel. Thus flanged wheels are wheels with a flange on one side to keep the wheels from running off the rails. The term “flange” is also used for a kind of tool used to form flanges.  The type of flange to be used for a piping application depends, mainly, on the required strength for the flanged joint. Flanges are used, alternatively to welded connections, to facilitate maintenance operations – Pipes with flanges can be assembled and disassembled easily. The flange is the second most used joining method after welding. A flanged joint is composed of three separate and independent although interrelated components; the flanges, the gaskets, and the bolting; which are assembled by yet another influence, the fitter.

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