The Dynamic Gas Infrastructure

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The dynamic gas infrastructure should consist of ready to use elements like hoses and appliances. All connections should contain double sided self closing valves. So there is no gas leakage when you disconnect a hose. All connections should of course be standardized and fool-proof. 

It is important that the infrastructure is based on hoses rather than pipes. A pipe will always have to be fitted to the right size. This requires skilled workers and labor on the building site. A hose can be prefabricated in standard lengths en be bend into place by layman. Excess hose can be rolled up or zigzagged in ducts. A hose ending in standardized connectors only requires clicking together.

In part this technology is available.

____Gas Outlet____  

The next gas outlet is now being tested in Holland. It is used for plugging in gas appliances in the kitchen. You can plug in the usual stove and furnace. 

 

In Japan you would plug in your rice cooker. 

Apparatus which are now electric, could be in the future be gas fired, like a water boiler. This would save energy by diminishing conversion losses.

 

(Courtesy of GGR Gas, ir. D.H. Recter)

This is a desktop model.

Some other desktop models. All these outlets have a built in safety valve to stop gas flow when the gas hose is ruptured.

This is the outdoors model. For your gas fired barbeque or gas fired heater in the garden or on the terrace.

The gas hose is fitted and disconnected very easy. It is disconnected by pulling a ring back.

 In Holland, the gas company Obragas installed these gas connectors in a recent project "De Akkers".

  ____Gas Meter____  

The gas meter in this system would be "intelligent". This means for instance that:

• it can perform a leak test; 

• it can sense a rupture and close the main valve; 

• it can be read from a remote place, f.i. by telephone;

• it has self closing plug-in valves at inlet and outlet;

• it is fool proof. 

Artist 

Impression of intelligent gas meter.