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http://dx.doi.org/10.7842/kigas.2018.22.4.74

Excess Flow Valves for Underground Gas Pipeline and their Performance Testing Equipment Development  

Lee, Ugwiyeon (Institute of Gas Safety R&D, Korea Gas Safety Corporation)
Joo, Yukyung (Institute of Gas Safety R&D, Korea Gas Safety Corporation)
Lee, Jinhan (Institute of Gas Safety R&D, Korea Gas Safety Corporation)
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Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas / v.22, no.4, 2018 , pp. 74-81 More about this Journal
Abstract
The Korean Government has proceeded petroleum gas pipeline construction business since 2014 for rural districts. The operating pressure of petroleum gas pipeline are from 25kPa to 75kPa which are different from that of natural gas pipeline. Petroleum gas pipeline pressure is ten or forty times higher than natural gas operating pressure. For this reason, petroleum gas pipeline has higher probability of accident occurrence from massive gas leakage. Korea Gas Safety Corporation begins to development excess flow valves and their performance testing equipment since 2017. The excess flow valves stop the gas flow when a overflow happened in gas pipeline. The excess flow valves are generally not installed in main pipeline, because that may block massive gas supply. So, the valves are installed in starting points of branch pipes. According to the number of house and amount of gas use, a shut-off point of exxcess flow valve is determined called as Trip Flow. The trip point is the most important thing of excess flow valve, so, it is required a equipment testing the performances of excess flow valve as trip point.
Keywords
Excess flow valve; Underground pipeline; Petroleum gas;
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