What is a stainless capillary tube used for?

Aug 20, 2025Leave a message

Stainless steel capillaries are tubular products made of stainless steel with a small inner diameter (typically between 0.1 mm and 10 mm). Due to their corrosion resistance, high strength, and high precision, they have a wide range of important uses in various fields. The following is a detailed introduction to their main application scenarios:

 
Puncture needles

Medical Applications

Capillary Stainless Steel Tube is used in the medical field because of its excellent biocompatibility, resistance to corrosion by body fluids and disinfectants, and its ability to meet the strict medical requirements for tubing precision, cleanliness, and structural stability. Specific applications include:

 

Medical device components: such as infusion needles, injection needles, and puncture needle tubing, endoscopic instrument catheters, etc.
Medical device tubing: blood or dialysate delivery tubing, ventilator airway tubing components.

Aerospace Applications

Capillary Stainless Steel Tube offers high strength, high and low temperature resistance, and corrosion resistance, making it suitable for the extreme operating conditions of aerospace applications and meeting the stringent requirements for precision and reliability in fluid control and signal transmission. Specific applications include:

 

Fluid control systems: Precision piping in aircraft and spacecraft hydraulic, fuel, and lubrication systems.

Instrumentation and sensor support: Pressure monitoring piping within the engine compartment, temperature sensors.

temperature sensors

flow restrictor

Refrigeration and Air Conditioning

Capillary stainless steel tubes offer excellent corrosion resistance, a small inner diameter that allows precise control of refrigerant flow, and adaptability to the high-temperature and low-temperature cycling and pressure fluctuations found in refrigeration and air-conditioning systems. Specific applications include:


Refrigeration systems: Capillary tube throttling elements in refrigerators, air conditioners, cold storage, and other refrigeration equipment, flow restrictor.
Heat exchangers: Small heat exchangers.

Industrial and Mechanical Applications

Capillary Stainless Steel Tube offers high strength, wear resistance, and corrosion resistance. It can withstand the complex working conditions of fluid transmission and precision control in the industrial and mechanical fields, meeting the requirements for pipeline refinement and reliability. Specific applications include:

 

Precision Instruments: Fluid or gas transmission piping for precision measuring and analytical instruments.

Hydraulic and Pneumatic Systems: Control piping for small hydraulic or pneumatic equipment, pressure gauges and manometers.

pressure gauges

 

In conclusion, Stainless steel capillary tubing is a small-diameter tube used to precisely control the flow of liquids or gases. It offers high strength, corrosion resistance, and durability. It is commonly used in applications such as refrigeration and air conditioning, medical and pharmaceutical equipment, chemical and petrochemical processes, and precision instrumentation, where reliable, sanitary, and accurate fluid handling is required.

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