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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)
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Journal of Energy Engineering / v.15, no.1, 2006 , pp. 23-27 More about this Journal
Abstract
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 performance 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 six-year-use of the regulator.
Keywords
LPG regulator; Adjusting pressure; Lock-up pressure;
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