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    Gas pipe sizing - Bouyancy and Residual Pressures

      Product(s): Hevacomp Mechanical Designer
      Version(s): V8i
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      Area: Netsys Gas
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    Overview

    The Netsys Gas Pipe sizing program considers Buoyancy and Residual Pressures during the calculation process.

    Method

    This document explains how the buoyancy effect is considered in the Residual pressure report in the Netsys Gas program. Consider this small Netsys Gas system:

     This system will produce the following sizing results:

      And the Residual Pressures report for the system:

     The columns in the above report are calculated with the following methods:

    Available pressure = Source pressure - Pressure drop in section
    Required pressure = Outlet pressure + Section pressure drop - Buoyancy effect
    Residual pressure = Available pressure - Required pressure

    Where the buoyancy effect is calculated using this formula:


    The example system above uses Natural Gas with a buoyancy of 0.68


    So for Section 3 in our example Gas layout:

     The residual pressures report shows figures rounded to whole numbers.
    This is reflected in the calculation above.

    Notes

    The Netsys Gas program uses the following Gas densities:

    Natural Gas 0.68  Town Gas 0.54  Butane 2.48  Propane     1.85
    Air 1.22  Carbon Dioxide 1.72  Methane 0.67  Nitrogen 1.16
    Nitrous Oxide 1.84  Oxygen 1.33  Exhaust Gasses 1.00

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    • Duncan Brown Created by Duncan Brown
    • When: Mon, Jul 16 2012 7:16 AM
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    • When: Mon, Mar 13 2017 8:05 AM
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