Tokyo Gas Company Limited

Kenchi Kobayashi

Masakazu Hishinuma

Yutaka Kunigo

Hironori Imanishi

A gas meter system is configured to: derive a unit heating value of a gas passing through a first gas meter; and estimate a heating value of a gas passing through a second gas meter provided separately from the first gas meter based on the heating value of the gas of the first gas meter that is arranged within a predetermined range with respect to the second gas meter on a gas supply pipe configured to supply the gas. The gas meter system and a heating value estimation method can estimate a heating value of a gas with high accuracy.

Gas meter system and heating value estimation method

A gas meter system includes a gas meter, a gas production plant, and a center device. The gas meter includes a sound velocity derivation unit configured to derive a sound velocity of a gas supplied to a demand place. The gas production plant includes: a gas production unit configured to produce the gas; and a gas characteristic identification unit configured to identify a gas characteristic representing a relationship between the sound velocity and a heating value of the gas based on an analysis result of a component of the gas produced by the gas production unit. The center device includes a gas heating value derivation unit configured to derive the heating value of the gas passing through the gas meter based on the derived sound velocity of the gas, and on the gas characteristic identified by the gas characteristic identification unit of the gas production plant.

Gas meter system and heating value derivation method

A heating value derivation device includes a sound velocity derivation unit configured to derive a sound velocity of a gas flowing through a gas flow path, and a heating value derivation unit configured to refer to correspondence relationship information to derive a heating value per unit volume of the gas.

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Tokyo, Japan

Kenchi Kobayashi