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The Netsys Gas Pipe sizing program considers Bouyancy and Residual Pressures during the calculation process.
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 sectionRequired pressure = Outlet pressure + Section pressure drop - Buoyancy effectResidual 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
The Netsys Gas program uses the following Gas densities:
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