Gas Regulators

FluidFlow includes a Gas Regulator component/node which is available from the Controllers tab as shown below:

Gas Regulators can be solved to ISA Equation or Universal Gas equations. The choice can be set when defining your regulator in the database (Database | Gas Regulators) as shown below:

There is some further information at the link below:

https://blog.fluidflowinfo.com/gas-distribution-systems-pressure-regulator-stations

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