Natural Gas Pressure Regulation
Maximizing system uptime and ensuring safe and accurate gas supply to equipment and customers while reducing maintenance cost and emissions
Maximizing system uptime and ensuring safe and accurate gas supply to equipment and customers while reducing maintenance cost and emissions
For more than a century we’ve worked alongside customers to understand their challenges and design effective solutions. Our natural gas regulators ensure system reliability in gas distribution applications by providing uninterrupted, safe, and accurate gas supply. Reliable, easy-to-maintain gas regulators optimize ownership costs by reducing downtime and minimizing technician hours for installation and maintenance. We create value by delivering best-in-class pressure control equipment, solutions, and services for an unparalleled range of applications.
Our solutions maximize system uptime and ensure safe gas supply for your city gate stations, gas-fired turbine feed, and farm taps. Emerson’s innovative no-bleed technology helps you eliminate gas emissions and improve health, safety, and environmental performance. Our Whisper Trim™ noise reduction technology limits harmful noise generation at its source.
Reduce odorization maintenance costs and obtain exceptional low flow rangeability using our solenoid injection technology.
Emerson provides a large range of pressure regulator options designed for safe, reliable pressure control. Our robust designs reduce ownership cost with long-term reliability, simple installation, and easy maintenance. Extensive laboratory testing on the multiple noise attenuation options provides accurate noise prediction for the neighboring public.
Large single users such as power plants, manufacturing facilities, glass production facilities, and asphalt plants rely on dependable gas service to meet their business’ energy requirements. By design, fuel gas application start-ups and shutdowns can be abrupt. The pressure regulator needs to sense this load change and respond quickly. Emerson offers a extensive lineup of direct-operated regulators and pilot-operated regulators tailored to supply industrial equipment like turbines, furnaces, heaters, and boilers.
Every customer has a unique gas distribution system based on inlet pressures, delivery pressures, accuracy, flow and overpressure protection requirements. To meet these needs, Emerson’s Commercial Service regulator platform offers a modular, carefully engineered and highly configurable portfolio with the following advantages:
Any natural gas incident, no matter the size, is one incident too many. Our unparalleled portfolio of regulators, slam shuts, relief valves and monitors provide the last line of defense against over pressurizing the delivery lines. Combined with the industry’s broadest offerings in pervasive sensing, secure first mile connectivity and comprehensive range of analytics, we take pride in ensuring our customers and pipeline infrastructure are completely protected.
Digitization can create value across the entire gas distribution chain. Functions such as asset management, predictive maintenance, optimizing the usage of renewable natural gas, network reliability and overpressure protection can be optimized through automation. Emerson’s expertise in smart grid management solutions can help you achieve top quartile operational certainty.
Gas Regulators
Natural Gas pressure reducing regulators maintain desired outlet pressure providing the required flow to satisfy a variable downstream demand.
Gas Slam-Shut Valves
Gas Safety Shutoff valves shut off flow when pressure passes a set limit in response to a low-pressure condition, a high-pressure condition, or both.
Gas Relief Valves
Exhaust over-pressurization to protect natural gas systems.
Gas Safety Relief Valves
Pressure and safety relief valves for critical applications in natural gas distribution.
Gas Odorant Injection System
Provide automated uniform odorant distribution and redundancy and backup options for odorization in natural gas distribution.
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Frequently Asked Questions – Natural Gas Regulators
Natural gas pressure regulators, also known as pressure reducing valves, are mechanical devices which achieve automated pressure control without an external power source. Pressure regulators reduce a high, often variable upstream pressure to a lower, steady outlet pressure despite varying natural gas demand from the equipment it is supplying. To match this demand, the pressure regulator valve throttles, allowing more gas flow when demand increases and choking off gas flow when demand decreases.
Spring loaded
Pilot-operated
Increase the outlet pressure setting by turning the regulator’s adjusting screw clockwise. Decrease the outlet pressure setting by turning the adjusting screw counterclockwise.
