Geothermal Heating of Gas Pressure Reduction Station
- Key words
- Pressure Regulation Valve; Joule-Thompson Effect; Pre-Heater; Heat Pump; Borehole Heat Exchanger
- Location
- Hungary
- Conference
- Geothermal Resources Council Transactions
- Year
- 2008
- Session
- Geothermal heat pumps; Downhole heat exchangers
- Language
- English
Abstract
Pressure reduction is necessary between high pressure natural gas transporting pipelines and low pressure distributing networks. Pressure reduction requires the pre-heating of the gas to compensate the Joule-Thomson effect. Gas fired boilers will be replaced by geothermal heat pumps at more than 400 Hungarian pressure reduction stations. The necessary thermal power and the required temperatures of the system are determined.
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