Re: [Vo]:Extreme pipes, extreme pumps: Nord Stream

2012-07-17 Thread David L Babcock
Huh ? Oh! Couldn't be mm. Meters? Ol' Bab On 7/17/2012 3:29 PM, David Jonsson wrote: Nord Stream is 1200 km long, 1200 mm wide and transfers 55 billion m^3 of gas per year. At 150 bar that's 10 m/s. And pumping that amount consumes the power 170 MW. The power content of the gas flow compa

Re: [Vo]:Extreme pipes, extreme pumps: Nord Stream

2012-07-17 Thread Robert Lynn
The pumps will be multistage and intercooled to reduce compression costs, the temperature will never get that high. With that size pipe and pressure I can see why pipe breaks are so devastating. On 17 July 2012 20:29, David Jonsson wrote: > Nord Stream is 1200 km long, 1200 mm wide and transfer

[Vo]:Extreme pipes, extreme pumps: Nord Stream

2012-07-17 Thread David Jonsson
Nord Stream is 1200 km long, 1200 mm wide and transfers 55 billion m^3 of gas per year. At 150 bar that's 10 m/s. And pumping that amount consumes the power 170 MW. The power content of the gas flow compares to 70 GW. Where is all heat going in the compression stage of the gas? The gas (with Cp/Cv