Smart Gas Pressure Regulation for Multi-Floor Pipeline Safety
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increased pressure burden on gas pipelines due to the higher density of natural gas at greater heights poses a safety risk for gas users, necessitating a method to regulate gas pressure effectively across multiple floors in buildings.
Innovation Solution
A smart gas management system utilizing a machine learning model to determine optimal pressure regulation parameters based on environmental, usage, and height information, generating pressure regulation instructions to maintain safe gas pressure levels across floors, and transmitting these instructions to user terminals.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If gas pressure is increased to meet demand on higher floors, then gas supply capability is improved, but pressure burden on pipelines increases causing safety risks
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic pressure regulation by continuously monitoring gas pressure at different floors and adjusting the pressure regulation device in real-time. The system transitions from static fixed pressure to dynamic adaptive pressure control, allowing the gas pressure to be optimized for each floor's actual demand while preventing excessive pressure accumulation in pipelines.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the pressure parameter dynamically based on floor height and gas demand. By adjusting the pressure regulation parameter according to real-time monitoring data, the system optimizes gas supply pressure for each floor while maintaining pipeline pressure within safe limits, thus resolving the contradiction between supply capability and safety.
2Reliability
If gas pressure is regulated dynamically based on real-time data, then gas safety is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback control mechanism where gas pressure is continuously monitored at different floors and the monitoring data is fed back to the pressure regulation device. This closed-loop feedback system automatically adjusts pressure based on actual conditions, improving gas safety through real-time adaptation while keeping the control logic relatively simple and intuitive.
Solution Approach 2:
The system achieves a degree of self-service by automatically monitoring pressure conditions and adjusting regulation parameters without requiring constant manual intervention. The pressure regulation device autonomously responds to pressure changes based on pre-set safety parameters and real-time monitoring data, reducing the need for complex external control systems.
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AI summary
The present disclosure provides a method and an Internet of Things system for managing a gas pressure based on smart gas. The method includes: determining a gas in-home pressure regulation scheme, and the gas in-home pressure regulation scheme including a pressure regulation parameter of a gas device; generating, based on the gas in-home pressure regulation scheme, a pressure regulation instruction; regulating, based on the pressure regulation instruction, a gas in-home pressure of at least one floor; and transmitting the gas in-home pressure regulation scheme to a smart gas user terminal.