Evaluation of Performance and Service Life of Low Pressure LPG Regulators for Home Use

  • Kim Young-Gyu (Institute of Gas Safety R&D, Korea Gas Safety Corporation) ;
  • Cho Seok-Beom (Institute of Gas Safety R&D, Korea Gas Safety Corporation) ;
  • Kim Pil-Jong (Institute of Gas Safety R&D, Korea Gas Safety Corporation) ;
  • Kwon Boo-Kil (Institute of Gas Safety R&D, Korea Gas Safety Corporation)
  • 발행 : 2006.03.01

초록

This paper presents the evaluation of LPG (Liquefied petroleum gas) regulators for home use. For the evaluation, several properties of the regulators were experimentally analyzed, such as the operation of safety device, the adjusting and lock-up pressure, the adjusting spring and the diaphragm, with respect to the used time of the regulators. Experimental results showed that the initial operation performances of regulators were degraded with increase of the service time and also showed that the degradation of the performance and material property could become serious after about six-year-use of the regulators.

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참고문헌

  1. BS 3016, 1989, 'Pressure Regulators and Automatic Changeover Devices For Liquefied Petroleum Gases'
  2. JIS B 8238, 1994, 'Pressure Regulators for Liquefied Petroleum Gas'
  3. KS B 6213, 2004, 'Liquefied Petroleum Gas Regulators For Domestic Use'
  4. KS M 6518, 1994, 'Physical Testing Methods For Liquefied Petroleum Gas'
  5. Korea Gas Safety Corporation, 2004, 'The Liquefied Petroleum Gas Safety Control and Business Law'