Project: Development of a dynamic simulator for the transport gas network

Title:	Development of a dynamic simulator for the transport gas network
Authors:	R. Palacios E.F. Sánchez-Úbeda A. García-Cerrada J. Zamora L. Mochón A. Berzosa
Dates:	June 2007 - October 2007
Contractor:	Socoin ingeniería y construcciones industriales
Description:	The project consists on developing a simulator of a nation-wide natural gas network. The system reads the topology of the network from a database and allows the user to define the operational parameters of each network node as a function of the time. Then, a simulation of the dynamic behavior of the network is performed by solving many quasi-static scenarios and the results are shown graphically. An optimization module is included in order to obtain the operational parameters that yield the best performance for a given scenario. In addition, fluid dynamics equations are analyzed and finite element tools will be used to determine in which conditions the simulator can be used to study the behavior of the network it run with CO2 instead of natural gas.
Short name:	socoin2007

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