GAS-DISTRIBUTING STATION Russian patent published in 1997 - IPC

FIELD: gas supply to power-intensive industrial enterprises and populated areas. SUBSTANCE: gas- distributing station is provided with additional process unit and is built up of two units: process unit and monitoring-and-alarm unit with air gap between them. Process unit has change-over parts, expansion chamber with vortex generator, hot well, gas cleaning, flow metering, heating, and reducing assembly, odorant storage tank, all arranged in tandem. Monitoring-and-alarm unit has boiler for coolant treatment and supply to gas heating assembly. Odoriser of odorizing system is mounted outside process unit above outlet gas lines. EFFECT: improved reliability of hydrate elimination not only due to gas heating prior to reducing but also due to using gas heating assembly also as heater of process unit interior. 2 cl, 4 dwg