Paper: Theory And Practice Of Natural Gas Compression

The purpose of this paper is to provide practical information on the selection of natural gas compressors. No claim is made that this selection procedure is unique -- this information is drawn from experience and data from many sources. The intent was to keep the commercial aspect out of the paper and to try to provide a valuable source of information to be used by anyone. The paper will present practical design calculations used to size natural gas compressor packages for field application. The first part of the paper will be a combination of definitions and concepts that are involved in compression and the second part will concern itself with the sizing of the compressor package.