Key:substance
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Substances transported in pipelines  |
| Group: Pipelines |
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| Documented values: 7 |
| Useful combination |
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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 |
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