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JOURNAL OF LOSS PREVENTION IN THE PROCESS INDUSTRIES
Volume 23, Issue 5, Pages 637-645Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlp.2010.06.015
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Hydrogen-natural gas mixtures; Leaks detection; Transient flow; Method of characteristics
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This paper presents a technique for detection and location of leaks in a single pipe, by means of transient analysis, of hydrogen natural gas mixtures flows. The method uses transient pressure waves initiated by the sudden closure of a downstream shut-off valve. The presence of a leak in a pipe partially reflects these pressure waves and allows for the location of the leak. Pressure waves are governed by two coupled non-linear, hyperbolic partial differential equations with pressure dependent coefficients. The fluid pressure and velocity are considered as two principal dependent variables. To determine the leak location, the mathematical formulation has been solved by the characteristics method of specified time intervals. The computed results describe the influence of the leak on pressure time-history and the effect of hydrogen mass fraction in the mixture on the leak discharge behaviour. It was found that transient pressure is much important in the case of hydrogen than that in the case of natural gas. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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