For instance a 2 inch galvanized steel pipe has an inside diameter of about 2 1 8 inches and an outside diameter of about 2 5 8 inches.
Copper pipe sizes inches to mm pdf.
1 cal 4 2 j.
Confusingly for pipe sizes with a nb of 12 inch dn 300 mm and below the nominal bore and outside diameter are different.
Energy units pressure units.
For example when you say 6 pipe the 6 is the nominal size of that pipe.
In plumbing pipe size is referred to as nominal pipe size nps or nominal pipe size.
1 atm 0 101 mpa 1 013 bar.
For pipe sizes with a nb of 14 inch dn 350 mm and above the nominal bore is the same as the pipe outside diameter od.
The metric equivalent is called dn or diametre nominel.
Nominal size carbon steel pipe od mm inch metric ks jis astm iso din metric inch other standard rule europe size 1 8 3 2 10 5 10 3 10 2 10 2.
1 kj 0 28 w h.
1 w 1 j s.
To understand this concept you have to learn the way pipes are manufactured.
For example a pipe with a 12 inch nb dn 300 mm has an od of 12 75 inches or 324 mm.
What is nominal pipe size.
However for the pipe sizes nps 14 and above outside diameter is the same as nps.
1 m 10 76 sq.
1 j 0 24 cal.
Note that all whole number inch designations on the following chart convert to multiples of 25 mm except for 3 inch pipe which iso designates as 80 mm.
Metric rules of thumb 1 mm about 1 25 inch thickness of a dime 25 mm about 1 inch 1 25 4 mm 300 mm about 1 foot 12 304 8 mm 1 m roughly 10 sq.