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GAS PRESSURE DROP

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member22

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Jun 25, 2008
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Need to find the gas pressure drop thru each segment of the system. Low pressure, Natural gas, pipe sizes from 2" to 6"? What will be the most acurate metod?
 
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If your pressure drop is less than 10% of your absolute pressure then you can safely use incompressible models e.g. Darcy-Weisbach. But there are plenty of online calculators for gas flow out there, so it is hardly worth making any simplifying assumptions. Google is your friend.

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Or try using some tables, such as these,

But which table you might use depends on how low a pressure you mean.


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