MODELING AND SIMULATION FOR GAS PIPELINE SYSTEMS

  • Yoshida, Makoto (Dept. of Precision Machinery Systems Tokyo Institute of Technology) ;
  • Kawato, Takashi (Pipeline Engineering and Development center) ;
  • Fujita, Toshinori (Precision and Intelligence Laboratory Tokyo Institute of Technology) ;
  • Kawashima, Kenji (Precision and Intelligence Laboratory Tokyo Institute of Technology) ;
  • Kagawa, Toshiharu (Precision and Intelligence Laboratory Tokyo Institute of Technology)
  • Published : 2001.10.01

Abstract

City gas is one of the most important necessities of daily city life and social infrastructures. City gas is delivered to every user through a pipeline network. The gas pressure in the pipeline is regulated by gas regulator. In the pressure control system, characteristics of gas pipeline is as important as characteristics of regulator. There are many reports about the transfer function model of the fluid pipeline. But suitable model about the gas transmission pipeline is not known. In this paper, as the transfer function model of the gas pipeline, new model considering the heat transfer between pipe wall and gas and temperature change of gas is proposed. To evaluate this model, frequency response tests are used. As the result, the proposed model shows a better agreement when compared with the experimental result than conventional models. The results show the effectiveness of the model.

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