Gas Safety (Gas Quality) (Amendment) Regulations 2000 (Vic)

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Gas Safety (Gas Quality) (Amendment) Regulations

2000

S.R. No. 83/2000

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Regulation Page
1. Objective 1
2. Authorising provision 1
3. New definition inserted 1
4. New Schedules 1 and 2 substituted 2

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NOTES 4

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STATUTORY RULES 2000

S.R. No. 83/2000

Gas Safety Act 1997

Gas Safety (Gas Quality) (Amendment) Regulations

2000

The Governor in Council makes the following Regulations:
Dated: 22 August 2000

Responsible Minister:

CANDY BROAD

Minister for Energy and Resources

HELEN DOYE

Clerk of the Executive Council

1. Objective

The objective of these Regulations is to prescribe new standards of quality for natural gas conveyed in transmission and distribution pipelines.

2. Authorising provision

These Regulations are made under section 118 of the Gas Safety Act 1997.

3. New definition inserted

In regulation 4 of the Gas Safety (Gas Quality)
Regulations 19991, after the definition of "heating
value" insert—

' "inert gas" means any substance which exists

predominantly in a gaseous state at 15ºC
temperature and 101·325 kPa absolute
pressure and which remains substantially

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unchanged during the combustion process of

gaseous fuel;'.

4. New Schedules 1 and 2 substituted

For Schedules 1 and 2 to the Gas Safety (Gas

Quality) Regulations 1999 substitute—

"SCHEDULE 1

Reg. 5(1)

STANDARD FOR NATURAL GAS CONVEYED

IN A TRANSMISSION PIPELINE

Parameter Specification limit
Maximum water (mg/m3) 112·0

Maximum water dew point at maximum pipeline operating pressure (oC)

0·0

Maximum hydrocarbon dew point
at 3500 kPa gauge pressure (oC) 2·0
Maximum oxygen (mole %) 0·2
Maximum total inert gas
(mole %) 7·0
Maximum hydrogen sulphide
(mg/m3) 5·7
Minimum gas temperature (oC) 2·0
Maximum gas temperature (oC) 50·0

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SCHEDULE 2

Reg. 5(2) and 5(4)

STANDARD FOR NATURAL GAS CONVEYED

IN A DISTRIBUTION PIPELINE

Parameter Specification limit
Minimum Wobbe Index (MJ/m3) 46·0
Maximum Wobbe Index (MJ/m3) 52·0
Maximum oxygen (mole %) 0·2
Maximum total inert gas
(mole %) 7·0
Maximum total sulphur (mg/m3) 50·0
Maximum hydrogen sulphide
(mg/m3) 5·7".

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Gas Safety (Gas Quality) (Amendment) Regulations 2000

S.R. No. 83/2000 Notes

NOTES

1 Reg 3: S.R. No. 4/1999.

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