The frost heave program of the Alaskan natural gas transportation system

Conference · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1982 · Am. Soc. Mech. Eng., (Pap.); (United States)

OSTI ID:5323531

Myrick, J E; Issacs, R M; Liv, C Y; Luce, R G

Frost heave plays a critical role in the design of a chilled natural gas pipeline buried in certain regions of Alaska and Canada. Current plans call for the design and construction of a natural gas transportation system to move gas from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, through Alaska and Canada to the West and Midwest of the United States. The Northwest Alaskan Pipeline Company has the design and construction responsibility for the Alaskan segment of the pipeline. To develop the needed frost heave data, Northwest Alaskan Pipeline Company initiated a comprehensive frost heave program. The overall frost heave program consists primarily of three complementary technical approaches to understand better the specific soil and environmental conditions in Alaska: a field test program to investigate the heave behavior of pipe sections buried in selected soils along the pipeline route, a laboratory test program to test heave characteristics of various soils under controlled conditions, and a computerized heave simulation program to aid in the design of the pipeline. Success of the overall effort will require effective interaction among these individual programs as well as with other programs for the pipeline design and construction project. Toward this end, a data collection, storage, and management effort is included in the program. Brief descriptions of the three program areas and of the data base task are provided in this paper.

• Research Organization: Northwest Alaskan Pipeline Company, Irvine, CA
• OSTI ID: 5323531
• Report Number(s): CONF-821101-
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Am. Soc. Mech. Eng., (Pap.); (United States) Journal Volume: 82-WA/HT-12
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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03 NATURAL GAS
032000* -- Natural Gas-- Transport
Handling
& Storage
ALASKA GAS PIPELINE
CANADA
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
CONSTRUCTION
DATA ACQUISITION
DATA BASE MANAGEMENT
DESIGN
ENERGY SYSTEMS
ENVIRONMENT
FIELD TESTS
FROST
ICE
MANAGEMENT
NATURAL GAS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS
NORTH AMERICA
PIPELINES
PROGRAMMING
SIMULATION
SOILS
TECHNOLOGY UTILIZATION
TEMPERATURE EFFECTS
TESTING