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April 10, 2015
Assessment of Frost Impact on Cast Iron Pipes
Principle Investigator: Khalid Farrag, Ph.D., PE
Presented by:
Paul Armstrong
GTI Report Project: 21345
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Company Overview ESTABLISHED 1941
Independent, not-for-profit established by the natural gas industry
Providing natural gas research, development and technology deployment services to industry and government clients
Performing contract research, program management, consulting, and training
Wellhead to the burner tip including energy conversion technologies
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Introduction
About 33,600 miles of cast iron mains are estimated to be in service in 2011.
About 50% of these pipes are located within four states: New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania.
Most of the states have replacement programs. However, replacement efforts in urban areas can be technically difficult, extremely expensive, and will take time to complete.
Consistent with the 49 CFR federal requirements, LDC’s have developed procedures for surveillance of their cast iron to identify leaks, damages, and take appropriate actions.
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Introduction
The objective of the study was to enhance LDC’s winter surveillance programs, based on an engineering-supported approach which evaluates the weather, soil, and pipe parameters.
The approach consisted of the following:
Review leak surveillance data, inspection, and repair records.
Correlate CI leaks and damage due to freeze with local site conditions.
Statistical modeling and assessment to enhance the winter leak surveillance procedure.
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Introduction
The project reviewed the cast iron pipeline inventory in the eastern region of MA.
This region included towns in four counties (Essex, Middlesex, Suffolk, and Norfolk) and had a total of 2,258 miles of CI main, which is about 20% of the CI inventory in the gas distribution system in New England and NY.
Investigated leak-database records during the winter months in the period from 2001 to 2012.
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CI Inventory Database
The area was divided into grids (275 grids of area about 1.2 square miles each).
7 CI Inventory Database – Attributes of each grid
CI Inventory Database
CI-mileage inventory was added in each grid (red lines) in the study area.
8 CI- Leak Database (2001-2012)
CI Leak Database
CI leak inventory was added in each grid (yellow dots) in the study area.
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All Leaks: from 2001-2012 Leak Cause: Natural Force = 6 Leak Type: Broken Main = 1 Pipe Leaks = 2, 4, and 5
CI Leak Database
Filter to
Filter to
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CI Leaks by: Pipe Size
Leak Type Data from 2001 - 2012 Histograms, Program: Statistica Note: Data in graph is not normalized with length of CI for each pipe size
11 All Data from 2001 – 2012
No.
of B
reak
s [N
orm
alize
d]
CI Damage by: Pipe Size
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CI Leak/Damage – Monthly Records
2003 2005
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2007 2009
CI Leak/Damage – Monthly Records
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* Weather Stations (in red) Records: http://gis.ncdc.noaa.gov/map/cdo/?thm=themeAnnual
Weather Records
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Monthly ‘Freeze Days’ [DX32] : Number of days per month with the High daily temperature
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Monthly ‘Freeze Days’ [DX32] : Number of days per month with the High daily temperature
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Weather Records
Example of the annual variation of ‘Freeze Days’ [DX32]
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* AASHTO Guide for Design of Pavement Structures, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, Washington, D.C, 1993
Soil Records
19 Soil Data – Example: Essex County
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Soil Records
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* Statistical Program: Design-Expert®, Stat-Soft Inc.
ANOVA for Response Surface Linear Model Response-2 : Break Ratio
Analysis of variance table [Partial sum of squares - Type III]
Sum of Mean F p-value Source Squares df Square Value Prob. > F Model 8.29 6 1.38 14.84 < 0.0001 significant A-DT00 0.24 1 0.24 2.58 0.1084 B-DT32 2.20 1 2.20 23.63 < 0.0001 C-DX32 6.72 1 6.72 72.18 < 0.0001 D-%Sand 1.437E-03 1 0.0014 0.015 0.9012 E-%Silt 0.33 1 0.33 3.55 0.0596 F-%Clay 0.26 1 0.26 2.83 0.0927
The Model F-value of 14.84 implies the model is significant. There is only a 0.01% chance that a "Model F-Value" this large could occur due to
noise. P-Values less than 0.050 indicate model terms are significant. Terms DT32 & DX32 were significant model terms.
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Pipe size did not correlate to leaks.
Pipe size correlated to pipe breaks: Smaller diameters had more breaks.
No breaks were recorded for pipes > 18-inch diameter.
No correlations with age of pipes.
Data Analysis
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Soil properties were obtained from the ‘Web Soil Survey’ database of the U.S. DOA.
Soil with high silt and clayey-silt contents are more susceptible to freeze and heave. However, soil data could not be used as a ‘trigger’ to predict pipe damage or initiate winter surveillance.
Some of the factors are: (a) soil variations make it difficult to estimate soil-frost susceptibility, and (b) backfill around the pipes in the urban areas differs from native soils listed in the database.
Data Analysis
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Freeze-Days: Number of days per month with the High-Daily temperature
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Monthly Freeze Records
Records of ‘Freeze-Days’ periods (Sample in NW MA)
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Monthly Freeze Records
Records of pipe damages in ‘Freeze-Days’ periods
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Monthly Freeze Records
Records of pipe damages in ‘Freeze-Days’ periods
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Conclusions
The correlation between the ‘Freeze-Days’ and pipe damage was evaluated in 18 towns in the NE. Most of the winter pipe damages (90%) occurred after 5 days accumulation of the Freeze-Days.
This correlation can be used to establish a criterion for initiating winter patrols and to optimize the probabilities of detecting winter damage.
Soil freeze-depth varies widely and is highly dependent on soil type, moisture condition, and type and thickness of the pavement cover. This makes it difficult to have a representative soil freeze-depth for the whole region.
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Conclusions
‘Freeze-Days’ provides a better correlation than using ‘Average Daily Temperature’ to correlate to CI.
Utilities may use the weather data in their service areas to establish similar winter surveillance plans.
The following slides provide a suggested procedure for the scheduling winter patrol as an illustration of the approach to implement weather data.
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Initiation of Winter Patrol: Initiate winter patrols when the Freeze-Days (No. of days
with Hi-daily temperature
31 *Note: Initial figures, may change with further work in other areas
The thaw period occurring after sustained duration of freeze may causes significant stress variations and, consequently, additional breaks.
About 6 percent of the damage records occurred in the months following extended periods of freeze records.
The records did not show ‘after-freeze’ damage when the duration of the freeze season was short (i.e., when all ‘Freeze-Days’ occurred in less than 3 months of the winter season).
Conclusions
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Termination of Winter Patrol: The survey plan may be suspended when the ‘Freeze-Days’ cycles occur
for a duration less than 3 months and are no longer present.
When the ‘Freeze-Days’ occur for 3 months or longer, the winter survey plan may be extended for one month after the ‘Freeze-Days’ are no longer present.
Example: A company-approved weather forecast shows 8 ‘Freeze-Days’ in early December, 20 ‘Freeze-Days’ from January to mid-February, and no Freeze forecasted in the following months. This results in a freeze duration of 2-½ months and the winter surveillance plan may be suspended by the end of February. If ‘Freeze-Days’ are extended to the end of February, the freeze period is 3 months and the winter surveillance plan continues for one more month (i.e., to the end of March).
Conclusions
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Tackling Important Energy Challenges and Creating Value for Customers in the Global Marketplace
Paul Armstrong Director Business Development, GTI [email protected] 781-449-1141 www.gastechnology.org
@gastechnology
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