Natural Gas Pipelines Leakage, Toxicity and its Safety Measures by Papiya Mandal in (MAOPS)-Lupine Publishers
A fugitive emission of natural gas during the extraction of oil and gas
and its transportation through the pipeline has potential threat to the
environment. Natural gas (NG) is the mixture of hydrocarbon gases
consisting primarily of methane and other varying hydrocarbons, a small
fraction of carbon dioxide, hydrogen, nitrogen, hydrogen sulphide and
rare trace gases like helium, neon, xenon etc. The colorless and
odorless NG has a wide range of applications as a cleaner fuel. The
rapid urbanization, industrialization and economic growth all over the
world demand the increasing transportation capacity of NG. Though the
transportation pipeline are laid with well-equipped sophisticated
technology and leak detection sensors, however still there are risk
factor associated for leakage of the gases and explosion. The impacts of
man-made disaster are in terms of deaths, injury, losses in economics,
property and also having the adverse effect on ecology. The integrity of
the NG pipeline system can be achieved by adopting continuous
sophisticated up gradation technology. It also requires operation and
maintenance of the pipeline at regular interval.
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