Buried Gas Transmission Pipelines: Temperature Profile Prediction through the Corresponding States Principle

Abstract

Abstract A new analytic technique for the prediction of temperature profile of buried gas pipelines is developed based on the corresponding states principle. The resulting equations are tested through prediction of the actual experimental data. It is demonstrated that the new technique can predict temperature profile quite accurately without using any additional chart or table. This technique can also be used for prediction of gas mixture temperature profile flowing in a buried pipeline.