How do you find out what the maximum flow rate of your gas supply is?
I heard somewhere that it's about 6 cubic metres per hour.
The "calorific value" of my gas is 39.4 according to my bill. Took me a while to work out it was megajoules/ cubic metre.
Shouldn't it say on the bill what the maximum capability of the supply is?
6 m3/hr gives me 65 kilowatts which tallies roughly with Andy Hall's figure given earlier.M.
It doesn't and only gives calorific values so that you can relate volume to kW to have a comparison with electricity.
It's defined by the meter and pipe size.
My meter says 212 cu.ft/h - which equates to about 67 kW.
However, I don't know whether the pipework can handle that flow - particularly since they lined the original iron domestic supply pipe with a much smaller bore plastic pipe. [It's probably ok since the original pipework was designed for Town Gas - rather than Natural Gas - at a much lower pressure and calorific value.]
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