天然气长输管道火炬放空扩散规律研究

Study on Diffusion Law of Gas During Long Distance Gas Pipeline Venting

天然气的放空扩散非常危险,研究天然气长输管道火炬放空扩散的规律,可以为其安全放空提供指导依据。PHAST软件是公认的最权威最准确的后果分析软件,可以用于长输管道的天然气放空扩散计算。采用该软件建立天然气长输管道系统的亚临界流不点火放空的扩散模型,确定天然气在不点火放空过程中可能燃烧的危险区域。以某实际长输管道为例,计算两种工况下天然气扩散规律。结果显示,在放空过程中风速影响天然气的扩散。低风速时,天然气会向上扩散,在高风速时,天然气向水平方向扩散。天然气50%LFL云团水平距离随风速的增大而增加,云团高度随风速的增加而减小。

Diffusion of gas is very dangerous during flare venting. The research on the diffusion law of gas during long distance gas pipeline flare venting can provide guidance for gas blowdown.PHAST is recognized as the most authoritative and accurate consequence analysis software and can be used to calculate the flare venting. The software is adopted to establish subcritical flow diffusion model of gas during long distance gas pipeline venting. Danger zone of gas ignition can be determined. In this paper, taking a practical long-distance pipeline as an example, diffusion law of natural gas was calculated under the two conditions. The results show that wind speed can affect the gas diffusion.The gas upward diffuses when wind speed is low; the gas horizontally diffuses when wind speed is high.Natural gas 50% LFL cloud horizontal distance increases with the increase of wind speed and cloud height decreases with the increase of wind speed.