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tahanson43206

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Pipeline transport - Physics - Engineering - Practice on Earth

For SpaceNut .... There were several topics containing the word pipe*

This one is intended to be a repository for references covering the physics and engineering of pipelines in use on Earth, as well as such examples as members may contribute showing examples of Real Universe transport by pipeline...

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/nat … elines.php

The U.S. natural gas pipeline network is a highly integrated network that moves natural gas throughout the continental United States. The pipeline network has about 3 million miles of mainline and other pipelines that link natural gas production areas and storage facilities with consumers. In 2021, this natural gas transportation network delivered about 27.6 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of natural gas to about 77.7 million consumers.

What makes up this transportation network?
Transporting natural gas from production areas to consumers involves a series of steps that are generally carried out in the following order:

Gathering systems, primarily made up of small-diameter, low-pressure pipelines, move raw natural gas from the wellhead to a natural gas processing plant or to an interconnection with a larger mainline pipeline.
Natural gas processing plants separate hydrocarbon gas liquids, nonhydrocarbon gases, and water from the natural gas before the natural gas is delivered into a mainline transmission system.

Wide-diameter, high-pressure interstate transmission pipelines that cross state boundaries and intrastate transmission pipelines that operate within state boundaries transport natural gas from the producing and processing areas to storage facilities and distribution centers. Compressor stations (or pumping stations) on the pipeline network keep the natural gas flowing forward through the pipeline system.
Local distribution companies deliver natural gas to consumers through small-diameter, lower pressure service lines.

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tahanson43206

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Re: Pipeline transport - Physics - Engineering - Practice on Earth

Following up on #1

http://naturalgas.org/naturalgas/transport/

The interstate natural gas pipeline network transports processed natural gas from processing plants in producing regions to those areas with high natural gas requirements, particularly large, populated urban areas. As can be seen, the pipeline network extends across the entire country.

Interstate pipelines are the ‘highways’ of natural gas transmission. Natural gas that is transported through interstate pipelines travels at high pressure in the pipeline, at pressures anywhere from 200 to 1500 pounds per square inch (psi). This reduces the volume of the natural gas being transported (by up to 600 times), as well as propelling natural gas through the pipeline.

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tahanson43206

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Re: Pipeline transport - Physics - Engineering - Practice on Earth

Following up on #1:

30 miles per hour
How fast does natural gas move through a pipeline? Natural gas moves through the transmission system at a speed of up to 30 miles per hour, so it takes several days for Texas gas to reach a utility reception point in the northeast. With a maximum gas rating of 100 feet per second (30 mph), speed can be increased.
How fast does natural gas move through a pipeline?
www.aplusgalv.com/how-fast-does-natural-gas-move-through-a-pipeline

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Re: Pipeline transport - Physics - Engineering - Practice on Earth

This one has most of what you might be looking for
Power Distribution by pipelines on Mars. as voids topics cover much more ground.

tahanson43206

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Re: Pipeline transport - Physics - Engineering - Practice on Earth

For SpaceNut re #4

Thank you for bringing this topic from 2016 back into view!  it took place before I joined the forum.

Void was in good form at the time.  I had to chuckle a bit at his criticism of the responses he received from some members. 

Shooting from the hip is quite common in any forum (I deduce), and it seems to have happened now and then in this forum, when members are pressed for time and want to say something.

All that said, there may well be content in the topic you suggested that would fit into this topic.

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