Economic Considerations Concerning the Use of Salt Caverns for Natural Gas Storage by an Integrated Natural Gas Transmission and Distribution System

1966 ◽  
Vol 5 (01) ◽  
pp. 29-34
Author(s):  
W.B. Clipsham ◽  
D.G. Olafson ◽  
B.G. Pratt ◽  
B.A. Steuart
2014 ◽  
Vol 1008-1009 ◽  
pp. 346-355
Author(s):  
Qi Lin Feng ◽  
Hao Cai ◽  
Zhi Long Chen ◽  
Dong Jun Guo ◽  
Yin Ma

Natural gas storages in salt caverns are receiving an increasingly important role in energy storage system of many countries. This study focuses on analyzing the consequence of jet fire associated with natural gas storages in salt caverns. A widely used software, ALOHA, was adopted as simulation tool. The reliability of ALOHA was validated by comparing the simulated results with the field data observed in real accidents and the values calculated by a simple model presented in a previous study. The China's first natural gas storage in salt cavern, Jintan natural gas storage, was selected for case study. The case study reveals that the hazard distance of jet fire decreased with the increase of pipeline length, as well as the decrease of pipeline diameter and operating pressure.


Author(s):  
Hamidreza Kakhsaz ◽  
Abdolhamid Ansari

Underground storage of natural gas is an inevitable necessity because of increasing growth of household energy consumption, the high share of natural gas in the energy basket, high costs of development of production resources, and refining. Considering the growth of demand and variation of natural gas consumption as a massive and inexpensive energy carrier, also unbalanced supply and demand for natural gas in cold seasons, there is a need for natural gas storage for preventing lack of gas during peak gas consumption. In this way, extra gas is injected into the underground reservoir during storage in summer and taken from that reservoir in the cold seasons. The creation of underground reservoirs for storing natural gas is scheduled to be implemented by the gas storage company and the vulnerability of the transmission and distribution system will be prevented by storing surplus gas in summer for reprocing in winter.


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