PC-00129-EPCM Services for LPG Bottling Plants at HPCL Warangal

Hydraulic Calculation for LPG Liquid Pipelines for pumps

Fittings
Standard Pressure Pressure Total Pump
Selected Calculated Final Line
Sr. Flow rate Pipe pipeline size Ball Gate Drop in Drop due to Pressure NPSHa Discharge
Description Pipeline Velocity Velocity Length 90⁰ 45⁰ EFCV Strainer NRV Remark
No. M3/hr Class # (int. Dai. ) Valve Valve pipeline fittings Kg/ Drop Kg/ (MLC) Pressure
Size (NB) (M/Sec) (m/sec) (M)
(mm) Kg/ cm2 cm2 cm2 Kg/cm2g
Filling Pump suction
1 Pump suction header to pump suction nozzle 75 150 1.18 300 154 1.12 10 2 0 1 1 0 1 0 0.0036 0.0536 0.0572
Filling Pump Discahrge
1 Pump Discharge Nozzle to Pump Discharge Header 75 100 2.65 300 102 2.55 10 2 0 1 1 0 0 1 0.0317 0.0386 0.0703
2 Pump Minimum Flow Pipeline 27 50 3.82 300 52 3.53 50 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0.7799 0.052 0.8319 PUMP MINIMUM FLOW SHOULD BE CONFIRM BY PUMP VENDORE
3 Pump Discharge header to Carousal 150 150 2.36 300 154 2.24 300 5 0 1 1 0 0 0 0.4437 0.0349 0.4786 75 m3 for present & 75 m3 for future
4 Individual Carousal pipeline 75 100 2.65 300 102 2.55 50 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0.15 0.0468 0.1968
5 Carousal Return Pipeline 40 80 2.21 300 78 2.33 250

Combind Flow to Filling & Loading Pump suction

1 Bullet to Pump suction header 225 250 1.27 300 254 1.23 50 2 0 1 1 1 0 0 0.006 0.0544 0.0604 2 pumps for Bottling (1 Present + 1 Future), 1 pump for Loading

Liquid Unloading Pipeline

1 Tanker to Unloading Header 33.3 80 1.84 300 78 1.94 20 5 0 2 0 1 0 0 - - 0.1393
2 Unloading Header to Bullet 266.67 200 2.36 300 203 2.29 350 20 0 3 0 1 0 0 - - 0.4946

Liquid LPG Unloading Flow (Density = 540 kg/M³ Flow Unit

18 MT
Road tanker Capacity
33.33 M³
Total Unloading Bays 8 Nos. Considering future bays
Total Unloading Flow 266.67 M³
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Hydraulic Calculation for LPG Vapor & Liquid Pipeline & LPG Unloading Compresor

Standard
Selected Calculated Pipe Final Line
Sr. Flow rate pipeline size
Description Pipeline Velocity Class Velocity Length Remark
No. M3/hr (int. Dai. )
Size (NB) (M/Sec) # (m/sec) (M)
(mm)
LPG Unloading Compressor
1 Vapour Balancing Pipeline
Vapour line to Unloading compressor Suction or Vapour Recovery line
2 314.5 100 8.7361111 300 203 2.119952 250
from Road tank to Compressor suction considering only one compressor is running
Com. Vapour line to Road tanker inlet or Com. Vapour recovery line from
3 267 100 7.4166667 300 203 1.799769 250
compressor disch. To bullet considering only one compressor is running

LPG Evacuation Compressor

1

LPG Unloading compressor (Density = 540 kg/M³) Flow Unit

18 MT
Road tanker Capacity
33.33 M³
Total Unloading Bays 8 Nos. considering future bay
Liquid Unloading Flow 266.67 M³
Total Vapour Flow to Unload Liquid LPG 9416.00 CF
21.17647 MT
Considered 18 MT is 85% filled Tanker capacity so 100% capacity
39.21569 M³
Total Vapour Unloading Flow 313.7255 M³
Total Vapour Unloading Flow 11077.65 CF
Compressor Capacity for Liquid LPG unloading 156.9333 CFM
Compressor Capacity for Vapour LPG unloading 184.6275 CFM
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Hydraulic Calculation for LPG Vapor Pipelines
Total
Line size Flowrate Flowrate Inlet pressure Lenth Velocity Outlet
Sr No Route Service Pressure
(inch) (CFM) (m3/hr) (kg/cm2g) (m) (m/s) pressure
drop
1 TLD Bay to Comp suction LPGV 4 185.00 314.63 10 250 10.79 0.55 9.45
2 Bullets to Comp suction LPGV 4 185.00 314.63 10 20 10.79 0.07 9.93
Comp discharge to 4 way
3 LPGV 3 157.00 267.01 12 10 16.27 0.042 11.958
valve
3 4 way valve to TLD Bay LPGV 4 157.00 267.01 12 250 9.15 0.43 11.57
4 4 way valve to Bullets LPGV 4 159.30 270.92 12 20 9.29 0.05 11.95

Compressor capacity= 185 cfm at 10 kg/cm2g press & 40 deg C temp

Adiabatic Temp raise = 318.21 K (45.21 Deg C)
Compressor ratio = 12/2 = 6
Cp/Cv = K = 1.11