Patent ID: 11859772
Assignee: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
Field: Mechanical elements (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC F  G | IPC F

Claim 11:
12. A gas network under pressure or under vacuum, the gas network is at least provided with:
one or more sources of compressed gas or vacuum;
one or more consumers, consumer areas of compressed gas or vacuum applications;
pipelines or a network of pipelines to transport the gas or vacuum from the sources to the consumers, consumer areas or applications;
a plurality of sensors providing one or more physical parameters of the gas at different times and locations within the gas network;
wherein the gas network is further provided with:
a number of controllable or adjustable throttle valves;
one or more status sensors capable of recording the state or status of one or more throttle valves;
a data acquisition control unit for the collection of data from the sensors and for controlling or adjusting the aforementioned throttle valves;
a computing unit for carrying out the method according to claim 1.