An Efficiently Decoupled Implicit Method for Complex Natural Gas Pipeline Network Simulation

Peng Wang, Shangmin Ao, Bo Yu, Dongxu Han and Yue Xiang
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Peng Wang: School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Key Laboratory of Pipeline Critical Technology and Equipment for Deepwater Oil & Gas Development, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Beijing 102617, China
Shangmin Ao: School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Key Laboratory of Pipeline Critical Technology and Equipment for Deepwater Oil & Gas Development, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Beijing 102617, China
Bo Yu: School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Key Laboratory of Pipeline Critical Technology and Equipment for Deepwater Oil & Gas Development, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Beijing 102617, China
Dongxu Han: School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Key Laboratory of Pipeline Critical Technology and Equipment for Deepwater Oil & Gas Development, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Beijing 102617, China
Yue Xiang: Research Center of Cloud Simulation and Intelligent Decision-making, Tsinghua Sichuan Energy Internet Research Institute, Chengdu 610042, China

Energies, 2019, vol. 12, issue 8, 1-28

Abstract: The simulation of a natural gas pipeline network allows us to predict the behavior of a gas network system under different conditions. Such predictions can be effectively used to guide decisions regarding the design and operation of the real system. The simulation is generally associated with a high computational cost since the pipeline network is becoming more and more complex, as well as large-scale. In our previous study, the Decoupled Implicit Method for Efficient Network Simulation (DIMENS) method was proposed based on the ‘Divide-and-Conquer Approach’ ideal, and its computational speed was obviously high. However, only continuity/momentum Equations of the simple pipeline network composed of pipelines were studied in our previous work. In this paper, the DIMENS method is extended to the continuity/momentum and energy Equations coupled with the complex pipeline network, which includes pipelines and non-pipeline components. The extended DIMENS method can be used to solve more complex engineering problems than before. To extend the DIMENS method, two key issues are addressed in this paper. One is that the non-pipeline components are appropriately solved as the multi-component interconnection nodes; the other is that the procedures of solving the energy Equation are designed based on the gas flow direction in the pipeline. To validate the accuracy and efficiency of the present method, an example of a complex pipeline network is provided. From the result, it can be concluded that the accuracy of the proposed method is equivalent to that of the Stoner Pipeline Simulator (SPS), which includes commercially available simulation core codes, while the efficiency of the present method is over two times higher than that of the SPS.

Keywords: natural gas; pipeline network; continuity/momentum and energy equations coupled; efficient simulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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