METHOD FOR BUTT WELDING CROSS-LINKED POLYETHYLENE PIPES (PE-X PIPES)

摘要

The invention relates to a method for butt welding cross-linked polyethylene pipes in order to use these pipes in industrial and underground pipeline construction. The pipe faces are spatially melted on using a serrated heating element at a temperature >420° C. but <450° C. with a warming up time of greater than sixty seconds such that enlarged and serrated pipe faces are produced whose integral melt layers join during the joining process while under a welding pressure of 0.1 to 0.4 N/mm2.