Design of Cooling Water Scheme of Gas Compressing Station in West-to-East Gas Pipeline

Abstract

This document focuses on motors and frequency conversion equipments of stations of West-to-East Gas Pipeline, and introduces the present main cooling ways. Against water consumption, power consumption, and other economical index, analyze the selection process of cooling scheme in engineering design. Compare with the cost, workload of operation and maintenance of water cooling, air cooling and motor cooling. The result shows that water cooling is practicable in West-to-East Gas Pipeline and has validated in the established engineering. The method of scheme comparison proposed by this paper provides a reference for subsequent design.With the development of electronics technology, medium voltage high power frequency conversion speed regulation technology is increasingly mature. The technology that frequency conversion motor drives compressor unit has been gradually used in the long distance pipeline pressure field of oil and gas under the condition of reliable power supply, to replace the traditional gas turbine, and becomes the first choice of the pressurization equipment of the long distance pipeline, because of advantages of high technology, high efficiency, energy conservation and environment protection, economic benefits and so on[1-3].Stations of West-to-East Gas Pipeline are usually electrical driven. When the compressors operate, motors and frequency converters will produce large amounts of heat, which affects running state and equipment life. So choosing the economic and technological cooling water scheme is important for stations and the whole network to operate safely and stably[4-6].