gas piping
gas piping
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dies anyone know a good reference for sizing natrual gas pipelines starting with either 90 or 600 psi, we will be tieing into a new main for a prposed plant expansion
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RE: gas piping
The tie-in piping has to be the same class as the main line, you don't need additional calculations for that. The sizing as diameter concerns, that's the local code requirements, fluid dynamics and configuration, pressure losses, etc...I guess the mentioned plant is somewhere in Europe, hence you should look for the locally applicable gas transmission pipeline code, the American or Japanese code might not suit your needs. I can help with some Australian codes for reference if you can use them...
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gr2vessels
RE: gas piping
RE: gas piping
RE: gas piping
johngerhart are you just needing an equation for diameter and flowrate? If so, you can use any one you like, there's no "standard" equation and no standard for sizing. If you need a flow-diameter-length equation, there is Colebrook-White or a number of others. Some equations have application ranges. Weymouth is for larger diameter lines. There are others for very low pressures (in-water column). Choose a formula that suits your application. I'd suggest Churchill as it works well for any type of flow, laminar, transition or turbulent.
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RE: gas piping
NFPA might not apply, but it all depends on where the piping is located. At the pressures he mentioned it probably would not be applicable.
What is the Churchill equation?
I have not seen that one before - just the ones in Crane 410.
RE: gas piping
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RE: gas piping
I haven't done a lot of higher pressure or longer pipelines with gases, so forgive my ingnorance.
I understand that as long as the dp<10%, you can assume ideal gas and don't have to be concerned with the change in density of the gas.
But I don't understand why you would break the pipe into segments where the dp<10% just so you can use the same equations.
According to Crane 410, if 10%<dP<40%, you use darcy with the average of the initial and final conditions.
If the dP>40%, you have to use compressible gas equations.
I understand this happens on long pipelines.
What am I missing here?
RE: gas piping
With spreadsheets its pretty easy to recalculate density and viscosity (using the compressibility factor at average conditions of the segment), so whenever dP >= 10%, I recalculate.
BTW, you do know that the average is not (Pi+Po)/2, right?
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