A 26-in. piggable drip is installed in 1996 on the Union Gas Ltd. natural gas storage and transmission system at the Dawn compressor station near Chatham, Ont. Union’s system handles more than 1.2 tcf/year of gas, linking natural gas from Western Canadian and US supply basins to central Canadian and Northeast US markets. Click here to enlarge image Canadian gas-plant tests of a new design for in-line gas pipeline liquid separators (“drips”) have shown that efficiency of free liquid separation in a pipeline can be increased by a factor of close to ten.
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Natural gas transmission pipelines are far more susceptible to external corrosive attack than similar operating oil pipelines. To explain the difference, it is proposed that the internal liquid content of the natural gas transmission pipeline may actually promote corrosive chemical reactions on the outside steel surface of the pipeline.
Natural gas pipelines often contain liquids that can interfere with the proper operation of pipeline related equipment such as compressors, regulators, meters, and processing equipment. These liquid contaminants normally include hydrocarbon condensate, lubricating oils, glycols, water, and other chemicals used in the treatment, dehydration or compression of natural gas.
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