There are many compressor stations along long-distance natural gas pipelines. Natural gas can be transported using different boot programs and import pressures, combined with temperature control parameters. Moreover, different transport methods have correspondingly different energy consumptions. At present, the operating parameters of many pipelines are determined empirically by dispatchers, re...

In this paper, we consider the optimal design of a straight pipeline system. Suppose a gas pipeline is to be designed to transport a specified flowrate from the entry point to the gas demand point. Physical and contractual requirements at supply and delivery nodes are known as well as the costs to buy and lay a pipeline or build a compressor station. In order to minimize the overall cost of cre...

In order to solve the selection of the optimal wavelet basis for the gas pipeline leak monitoring, the feature of wavelet basis especially for gas pipeline leak monitoring and positioning has been summarized based on the analyze of wavelet basis parameters characteristic and gas pipeline leak negative pressure wave signal feature. A parameter which named reconstruction and mutation joint factor...

In this study, operation of compressor station has been investigated by exergy approach. Exergy analysis is a thermodynamic method which shows the irreversibility of a system quantitatively. Gas compressors are used to compensate the pressure drop along the gas pipeline significantly. The compression process causes temperature rise of gas; in this regard gas cooler is applied to reduce the temp...

With the growth of electricity generation from gas energy gas pipeline reliability can substantially impact the electric generation. A physical disruption to pipeline or to a compressor station can interrupt the flow of gas or reduce the pressure and lead to loss of multiple gas-fired electric generators, which could dramatically reduce the supplied power and threaten the power system security....

With the rapid development of natural gas pipeline, the safety of natural gas pipeline is paid more and more attention to. This paper presents a new safety assessment model based on fault tree and fuzzy neural network. Firstly, in the light of fault tree theory, fault tree analytical figure is established for buried natural gas pipeline system and the index system is established about buried na...

An increasing price and demand for natural gas has made it possible to explore remote gas fields. Traditional offshore production platforms for natural gas have been exporting the partially processed natural gas to shore, where it is further processed to permit consumption by end-users. Such an approach is possible where the gas field is located within a reasonable distance from shore or from a...

Thanks to recent progress in satellite-based remote sensing technologies and object oriented image analysis, as well as to the availability of new very high-resolution sensors, it is now possible to design gas pipeline monitoring systems, as has been demonstrated by the co-funded European “PRESENSE Pipeline REmote SENsing for Safety and the Environment” project. In parallel, the European Space ...

The knowledge and the forecast of the parameters which rule the down flow models in oil extraction and transport are today of paramount importance. In particular the extracted oil is mixed with water and gas in rates, which differ not only from different wells, but also on the same well during its life. The main problems involved with the measurement of the flow rates are: well exhaustion, crit...

When a natural gas pipeline ruptures, the adjacent upstream and downstream automatic control valves (ACV) should close quickly to prevent leakage or explosion. The differential pressure set point (DPS) at each valve location is the main criteria for value setting in ACV actions. If the DPS is not properly adjusted, the ACV may mistakenly close or it may not take any actions at a proper ti...