How to choose the silicone tube correctly? How to disinfect silicone tube?

The market demand for silicone tube is booming, and it is more widely used in the medical silicone tube, food-grade silicone tube, industrial silicone tube, shaped silicone tube fittings, etc.

Silicone tube has high and low temperature resistance (-60℃ ~ 200℃), environmental protection, non-toxic, excellent heat resistance to oxygen aging, ozone aging, light aging and weather aging, soft, arc resistance, corona resistance.The biggest characteristic of silicone tube is temperature resistance range from -60 degrees to 250 degrees, but the cost is very expensive. Silicone tube also has good flexibility, making the shape of silicone tube is not easy to deformation, high transparency and good air permeability, to meet the needs of people’s life and social production. Due to its high temperature resistant, non-toxic & safety performance is also in a better level, high environmental protection grade, the environmental protection and technical level of silicone tube is constantly improving.

How long can silicone tube be used?

Generally speaking, the cause of shortening the life of silicone tube is affected by various external factors, such as excessive processing, photo-thermal reasons, oxidation reasons, radiation reasons, and mechanical fatigue reasons. Among these external causes, ozone activity is the most important. Because the performance of silicone itself is heat and oxidation resistance, it is also the material more commonly used in life, more food grade silicone tube is used for children to absorb water, drink, etc., food grade silicone is safe and environmentally friendly, non-toxic and tasteless, long life, soft and comfortable, easy to clean.

How to disinfect silicone tube?

There are many kinds of silicone tube disinfection, durable and effective method is to boil disinfection, using steam to kill viruses and bacteria.

How to choose the silicone tube correctly? 

When choosing the silicone tube, should be based on specific application occasions and select the appropriate silicone tube, connector and silicone tube assembly, etc., considering the factors are: the type of silicone tube, silicone tube, working environment, the length of the size of the silicone tube, system working pressure, fluid of the system and using environment, choice, please refer to the product standard.

There are many kinds of joints of silicone tube, and different joints should be selected according to different types of silicone tube. Note: the silicone tube can be divided into two types: stripping and no stripping, and the joint is not the same. The groove of the joint sleeve of the stripping type should not be too sharp, otherwise it will damage the enhanced layer of the silicone tube.

Correct clamping joint is very important for the safety and normal operation of silicone tube assembly. There are many types of joints, to choose the appropriate joint, socket design to standard, reasonable, sharp grooves, non-standard size will snap steel wire reinforcement layer. The clamping amount of the joint should be determined according to the inner and outer diameter of the silicone tube.