Aluminum joints are essential components in fluid transfer systems, ensuring reliable and corrosion-resistant articulated connections.
Thanks to their lightweight and durability, they are used in various industrial applications, including:
- Top-loading arms: used to transfer fluids from storage tanks to mobile tankers through the upper hatch.
- Floating arms: designed to draw clean product near the liquid surface inside tanks.
- Fall prevention systems: tools that ensure operator safety during fluid loading/unloading operations.
- Additive injection skids: modular systems for the precise injection of additives into products during loading operations.
Our range of aluminum joints is designed to meet the specific needs of each application, offering tailor-made solutions that ensure efficiency and safety in fluid transfer.
Our Swiwel Joints
Zipfluid manufactures a wide range of aluminum swivel joints, from 3” to 20”, with different peculiarities, for different applications.
- 94/9/EC Directive (ATEX)
- 97/23/EC Directive (PED)
- API – ASTM – ANSI – TTMA standards
- Single or double ball races
- Alluminium alloy
- Operating pressure > 10 bar
- Test pressure > 15 bar
- Hydrocarbons loading arms
- Hoses
- Floating suction units
- Skimmers
- Draining systems
- Aluminum alloy + FKM (-15/ +65°C)
- Aluminum alloy + PTFE (-60 / +100°C)
SJ200/400 – Swivel Joint Low Temperature
Zipfluid manufactures a wide range of steel swivel joints, from 2” to 6”, with different seals and in any style, to meet different requirements for petroleum, chemical, industrial, food and many other applications.
- Standards and Regulation
- Technical features
- Typical application
- Materials & Seals
- End connections
- Other available seals
- Manual
- 94/9/EC Directive (ATEX)
- 97/23/EC Directive (PED)
- API – ASTM – ANSI – TTMA standards
- Single or double ball races
- Hardened and rectified races
- Double seal
- Leakage detection port
- Design pressure > 40 bar
- Test pressure > 60 bar
- Hydrocarbons loading arms
- Chemical loading arms
- Aviation skids
- LPG loading arms
- Flexible Hoses
- Carbon steel + FKM (-26 / +130°C)
- Carbon steel + PTFE (-29 / +130°C)
- Killed carbon steel + PTFE (-45 / +130°C)
- AISI304 + PTFE (-60 / +130°C)
- AISI316 + PTFE (-60 / +130°C)
- Butt weld ends sch.40
- BSP thread (male or female)
- NPT thread (male or female)
- ANSI150/300 flanges
- PN16/40 flanges
- TTMA flanges
- HNBR (Hydrogenated NBR)
- FVMQ (Fluorosilicone)
- FFKM (Perfluorurated)
- FKM-F (Viton GLT)