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Basics of Pipe, Valves & Fittings
• Pipe is a hollow tube whose primary function is to transport material. Meets specific published size
standards.

• Fittings are connections for joining pipe, changing directions, reducing size of lines, closing lines, draining lines.
• Nipple is a piece of pipe cut to length and typically threaded.  A nipple may have several types of
ends, see the specials section.
• Flanges are steel rings designed to join two sections of a piping system by bolting (to a vessel, pump, valve,
fitting or pipe sections).
• Valves are mechanisms to control fluid handling systems.
• Starting stopping flow (gate, ball, plug, butterfly).
• Regulations flow or throttling (globe, butterfly).
• Prevent back blow (check valves).
• Relieving regulating pressure (relief valve).

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