Pipeline compressors are indispensable machines for natural gas transportation. Natural gas pipeline transportation has the advantages of low transportation cost, small land occupation, fast construction, large oil and gas transportation volume, high safety performance, less transportation loss, small risk of leakage, less environmental pollution, and less impact from bad weather.
Natural gas compressor station uses pipeline compressors to pressurize natural gas, so that they can obtain motive power and finally flow from the mining site or oil field to distant cities or countries through pipelines.
Natural gas pipelines and natural gas compressor stations
In the 1920s and 1930s, dual-fuel engine-driven gas compressors were first used to pressurize natural gas, and the gas transmission pressure rose from the original 5883.6 Pa to 27440 Pa to 41160 Pa.
Since the 1960s, many cross-border pipelines have been built between natural gas importing and exporting countries, such as the 1,780-kilometer gas pipeline from the Soviet Union through the former Czech Republic and Slovakia, Austria, and Germany.
The 774-kilometer pipeline from Austria to Italy; the 2,500-kilometer pipeline from Algeria through Tunisia, the Mediterranean Sea and the Strait of Tunisia to Italy.
After that, many large-scale natural gas pipeline systems appeared. For example, the Soviet Central Asia-Central Region Gas Pipeline System consists of 4 gas pipelines with a total length of more than 94,000 kilometers and an annual transmission volume of 65 billion cubic meters; by 1983, the total length of the world’s gas pipelines had reached an astonishing 913,400 kilometers.
Usually, a natural gas compressor station is set up every 200 kilometers or so. At these stations, pipeline compressors will make up for the inevitable pressure loss of natural gas during long-distance transmission to ensure stable pressure in the pipeline.
If the altitude difference between the two places is too large, the compressor can also ensure that the difference between the gas pressure in the pipeline and the external atmospheric pressure is within a safe range.
Pipeline compressors in natural gas industry
With the development of modern science and engineering technology, as well as the increasing demand for natural gas in the world, the transmission distance is getting longer and longer, which has prompted the natural gas pipeline to develop in the direction of large diameter and high pressure. Long-distance gas pipelines generally use compressors for pressurized transmission. Pipeline air compressors have also developed rapidly in terms of compression principles, structural design, work efficiency, and full-line automation.
From reciprocating piston air compressors to oil-free screw compressors, and then to centrifugal compressors, pipeline compressors continue to develop and progress, transforming energy into sustainable economic and technological progress and prosperity.
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When considering pipeline compressors for natural gas pipelines and gas compressor stations, your main focus is an efficient process, ensuring that pressure losses are kept to a minimum, and applications that require natural gas require equipment that guarantees continued reliable and safe operation.
Our booster air compressors for compressed natural gas, methane, ethylene, hydrogen, ammonia and carbon dioxide can help, reducing unloading time and increasing the amount of gas unloaded, thereby significantly reducing energy consumption, as it automatically adjusts the inlet pressure and prevents pressure losses through the regulator. And ensures the same high efficiency you would expect when filling directly from the supply pipeline.
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