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Weight

If light weight and high performance are your ambitions, then selecting aluminium for your HVACR application will provide you with equipment lighter than devices using copper tubes – and you will always benefit from the space saved.
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Outside diameter
[mm]
Wall thickness
[mm]
Density

[g/cm³]

Tensile strength
[N/mm²]
Weight

[kg/m] 

Internal volume
[cm³/m] 
Burst pressure
[Bar]

Copper tube
9.52     0.28  8.9 205 0.072  63 123

Aluminium tube
9.52   0.6 2.73   95 0.046   54 126

 

Weight saving with aluminium tube for an equivalent burst pressure: 36%

Updated: February 25, 2009
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