Study of the dispersion of natural gas issuing from compressor stations through silencers with upper cover

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 152, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1060-1072

  Garcia J ^a   Migoya, E ^a   Lana, J A ^b   Crespo, A ^a  

^a Laboratorio de Mecánica de Fluidos   (Spain)

^b Direction of Engineering and Gas Technology   (Spain)

Author keywords

CFD; Compressor station; Natural gas; Turbulent dispersion

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSORS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW RATE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TURBULENT FLOW;

COMPRESSOR STATION; TURBULENT DISPERSION;

NATURAL GAS;

NATURAL GAS;

COMPRESSORS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW RATE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL GAS; TURBULENT FLOW;

DISPERSION; FLOW VELOCITY; NATURAL GAS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TURBULENCE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DISPERSION; FLOW RATE; MODEL; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SIMULATION; VALIDITY;

FOSSIL FUELS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 40749162782     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2007.07.089     Document Type: Article

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