Previous in Forum: Air Flow Calculation   Next in Forum: What Ever Happened to the Cartwheel Space Station?
Close
Close
Close
4 comments
Rate Comments: Nested
Participant

Join Date: Jun 2011
Posts: 1

Turbine Fuel Gas Flow Rate Conversion

06/18/2011 5:27 PM

How to convert fuel gas flowrate from KW to MMSCFD.

Fuel is natural gas (Sour) with 8 Barg Pressure and 48 DegC temperature.

The fuel gas reading is 14487 Kw, I want to convert it to MMSCFD.

Register to Reply
Interested in this topic? By joining CR4 you can "subscribe" to
this discussion and receive notification when new comments are added.

"Almost" Good Answers:

Check out these comments that don't yet have enough votes to be "official" good answers and, if you agree with them, vote them!
Guru
Engineering Fields - Electrical Engineering - Been there, done that. Engineering Fields - Control Engineering - New Member

Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Long Island NY
Posts: 15600
Good Answers: 981
#1

Re: Turbine Fuel Gas Flow Rate Conversion

06/19/2011 1:10 AM

I don't know but I'll bet you that if you look up the physical meaning of your unit acronyms you'll find out one of two things. You will find out either how to switch between these two cryptic units or that you have a unit incompatibility that are actually measuring different things. For an example, one of these acronyms maybe a unit of power while the other maybe a volume of gas.

__________________
"Don't disturb my circles." translation of Archimedes last words
Register to Reply
Guru
Technical Fields - Technical Writing - New Member Engineering Fields - Piping Design Engineering - New Member

Join Date: May 2009
Location: Richland, WA, USA
Posts: 21017
Good Answers: 795
#2

Re: Turbine Fuel Gas Flow Rate Conversion

06/19/2011 4:21 PM

You'll have to find out the heating value of a weight of sour natural gas, use its density to find the corresponding MMSCFD; and then you will have the suitable conversion factor.

__________________
In vino veritas; in cervisia carmen; in aqua E. coli.
Register to Reply Score 1 for Good Answer
Commentator

Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Between India & Australia
Posts: 71
Good Answers: 3
#3

Re: Turbine Fuel Gas Flow Rate Conversion

06/20/2011 1:09 AM

14487 kJ/s x 1 /45000 kg/kJ (Heating value) x 22.414 m3/17.6 kg (MW) x (273+48)/273 x 35.3 ft3/m3 x (3600x24)s/day x 10^-6

You may do something like above to convert. Pls check as it's from the back of my sleeves!

__________________
Continuous Learning
Register to Reply Score 1 for Good Answer
Power-User

Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Tulsa, OK
Posts: 184
Good Answers: 2
#4

Re: Turbine Fuel Gas Flow Rate Conversion

06/20/2011 10:01 AM

I agree with SV3, but schek the density and specific heat of your sour gas to be able to convert it correctly.

Register to Reply
Register to Reply 4 comments

"Almost" Good Answers:

Check out these comments that don't yet have enough votes to be "official" good answers and, if you agree with them, vote them!
Copy to Clipboard

Users who posted comments:

redfred (1); sv13 (1); Tornado (1); vargaalex (1)

Previous in Forum: Air Flow Calculation   Next in Forum: What Ever Happened to the Cartwheel Space Station?

Advertisement