Operators manual
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Operators manual underground gas pressure reducing station
Type: COCON 13
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2.2WhatistheHONCOCON13
TheHONCocon13isacompleteself‐containedundergroundgasregulatingstationforthereductionofgaspressure.
Thestationcanbecompletelyburiedorinstalledabovegroundinanareamuchsmallerthanaconventional
regulatingstation.
Thestationensuresreliablegassupplyataconstantpressureindependent
ofthegasconsumption.
Thestationhavingallessentialelementsofaconventionalpressurereductionstationisdesignedforuseongas
distributionandindustrialapplications.
Onlyaveryrestrictedareaisrequiredforinstallingthestation.
Theworkingelementsarecontainedinaremovablecartridgeretainedbyasimpleclosing
construction.
Allbeinghousedinasteelbodythatisinstalledundergroundintothegasmain.
Abovegroundisaventstack,whichcontainsventpipesforatmosphericreferenceandthereliefvalve.
TheHONCoconissuppliedpre‐assembledintoaskidpackage,whichconsiderablyreducestheon‐site
installation
time.
Thestationismadeofsteel,aluminum,bronzeandsynthetics.Thestationcanbeproducedinothermaterialsupon
request.
2.3Construction
Remark: Forthelocationofthepartsofthegaspressurereducingstation,mentionedinthetext,wereferto
illustration2.4.1.
Theshortnumbersbetweenthebrackets,whicharementionedinthetext,
arepositionnumbersofthepartsinillustration2.1.
Thetopofthestationislocatedafewcentimetersaboveoratgroundlevel.Dependingonthecompositionofthe
soil,aconcretefoundation(plate)underthestationmaybeneeded.
ThegasregulatingstationHONCOCON13consistsoftwoparts:
‐ Thebody.
‐ Thegasregulatingandsafetyunit.(Cartridge)
Remark: The"gasregulatingandsafetyunit"willbereferredtoasthecartridgeintherestofthe
manual.