Flow Dynamics of Natural Gas in a Metering Station for Natural Gas Vehicles.

This is a Final Year Project entitled "Flow Dynamics of Natural Gas in a Metering
Station for Natural Gas Vehicles".
The main objective for this project is to derive an equation that represents the relationship
between pressure drop and energy loss in ametering station for natural gas vehicles. The
system was divided into two sections. The first section is the pipeline which is from the
source/reservoir till the end of pipe. The condition of flow in apipe was applied when
deriving the equation. The equation was tested against the data that was taken from a
PETRONAS natural gas metering station. The second section is the receiver tank which
is aclosed tank. Thermodynamic relations were used to derive arelationship between the
pressure drop and energy loss in the system. The equation was also tested against the
same data.
This report will highlight the steps in deriving the equations for the respective sections.
The graphical interpretation of the results lias been included in this report to gain abetter
understanding of the relationship. The steps in creating the program to calculate the
energy loss in the pipeline has also been included. This project is part of astudy on how
to improve the efficiency ofnatural gas metering stations.