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SAPESCO Pipeline Engineering Services

Calculation of Contained Air

Customer Sapesco Engineering Department, Cairo

Location Typical pipeline

Pipeline Description: 12-inch Pipe.

Pipe Length (metres) 100000 Outside Diameter(mm) 300.0


Inside Diameter (mm) 275.0 Pipeline Lay Unrestrained
Total Vol. (imp. gals) 1.31E+06 Total Volume (m^3) 5939.6
Fill Fluid Water Salinity : 3.5 %

Pressure vs Pumped Volume

70

60

50
Pressure (bar)

40
Theory
Actual
30

20

10

0
5 10 15 20 25 30

Thousands
Pump Strokes

Calculation of trapped air volume.

Stroke volume: 0.7854 litres

Final slope : 0.0023256 bar/stroke. Theoretical slope : 0.0023818 bar/stroke.


Intercept : -23.02 bar. Discrepancy : -2.36 %.
Deduced Volume of Air 9900 strokes. Penultimate slope : 0.0022727 bar/stroke.
= 7.7754 m^3. Discrepancy : 2.27 %.

Trapped air = 0.131 %.

Sapesco Pipeline Services. Air SIS/TEC/04/12/2007

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