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Description |
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Substances transported in pipelines ![]() |
Group: Pipelines |
Used on these elements |
Documented values: 7 |
Useful combination |
See also |
Status: approved![]() |
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This tag is used to describe the substance transported in pipelines or processed in related facilities.
Key | Value | Description | Tag usage |
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substance | oil | Crude oil, as pumped out of the ground | |
fuel | Refined petroleum products. Most of those pipelines are switched between multiple substances, like gasoline, diesel, heating oil or others. | ||
gas | Natural gas | ||
water | Water, additionally see drinking_water=* | ||
rainwater | Water from rainfall et. al., not polluted. | ||
sewage | Sewage | ||
hot_water | Hot water | ||
lpg | Liquefied petroleum gas, a propane/butane mixture | ||
LNG | Liquefied natural gas, cooled and not pressurized | ||
hydrogen | Hydrogen - Mainly used as a natural gas replacement and chemical feedstock | ||
ethane | Eutane | ||
butane | Butane | ||
propane | Propane | ||
propylene | Propylene | ||
ethylene | Ethylene | ||
nitrogen | Nitrogen | ||
benzene | Benzene | ||
ngl | Natural gas liquid(s) | ||
y-grade | NGL-subclass, has to be fractionated | ||
carbon_dioxide | Carbon dioxide | ||
carbon_monoxide | Carbon monoxide | ||
cyclohexane | Cyclohexane | ||
isobutane | Isobutane | ||
isobutylene | Isobutylene | ||
butadiene | Butadiene | ||
naphtha | Naphtha | ||
methanol | Methanol | ||
acetone | Acetone | ||
chemicals | A generic tag that can be used if the specific chemical in the pipeline is not known. | ||
Consider using power=cable or communication=line. | |||
Heat is not a substance but a kind of energy and requires a medium to be transferred/stored. Consider using hot_water, steam. See heat distribution network pipelines. | |||
slurry | Fluid mixture of a pulverized solid with a liquid, for easy transport |
If the medium of a pipeline you are tagging is not listed here, please choose a meaningful value at your own discretion.