QS Energy Inc (QSEP)

[Myrka]

Alkaline, I think Earth1 has settled our lengthy discussion on increased flow in a pipeline. I like the way he answered your question using incompressible flow terminology, while I was trying to explain the need for a constant flow using the conservation of mass. So thank you Earth1 for clearing that up.

Earth1
One pump station only
If you only deployed AOT on one pump station in the middle of the pipeline, then Option 1 from yesterday is the one that applies.
1. Fully Reduce pump power (on that individual pump station) so as to maintain the existing flow rate –Pumping the same amount of oil with much less power. Power saving directly proportional to the reduction in head loss.

All the other pump stations don’t have AOT and their friction head loss is that which occurs on their section of the pipe. This is not changed so they keep pump at exactly the same rate as before.

The station with AOT is the one that experiences the AOT benefits, the reduction of friction head loss downstream from that pump station. So, it is this station that is able to cut the power to the pumps while and very importantly maintaining EXACTLY the same flow rate as other pump stations. Liquids are incompressible so the flow rate at every pump station must be that same, BUT AOT enables Pump Station X to do this with far less power.

All stations
If you deploy AOT at all stations you have the full range of options as below. This is because as it is an entire pipeline you do have the option of increase flow rate for the entire pipeline, which you don’t have when you deploy AOT at only one station.