This invention relates to a manufacturing process for stainless steel pipes, comprising the following steps: S1,
raw material preparation; S2, heating and piercing; S3, hot rolling and stretching, controlling the grain size to grade 4-6; S4,
pickling and
grinding: shot blasting to remove
oxide scale, followed by mixed acid (HNO₃+HF)
pickling for 30-45 s, and finally local
grinding, with defect depth ≤0.1 mm; S5, cold working; S6,
solution treatment; S7, straightening and end
cutting: ten-roll straightener, straightness ≤1 mm·m⁻¹; end
cutting and
tail trimming, with a 30° chamfer on the end face; in step S1, the EAF initial refining uses a "low carbon, low
titanium" feedstock, with Ti controlled below 0.03% to reduce
TiN nucleation; AOD uses a "double
slag + strong bottom blowing" process, with CaO-CaF₂
slag basicity ≥2.5 and
argon flow rate 0.15–0.20. The process involves Nm³·t⁻¹·min⁻¹, causing As, Sn, Pb, and Bi to enter the gas or
slag phase, with the sum of the five low-melting-point elements ≤120 ppm. This invention utilizes gradient heating combined with low-stress piercing to prevent the low-melting-point harmful phase (Pb-Bi-Sn eutectic) from melting, reducing the piercing center crack rate from 4.1% to 0.25%, and achieving a first-pass yield of >99% in flaw detection.