The Travels of Natural Gas Answers
Group One:
Processing plant – A place where natural gas is treated to remove impurities.
Transmission pipes – A network of large steel pipes that carries natural gas from processing plants to utilities.
Compressor station – A station that pressurizes (“squeezes”) the natural gas as it flows through the transmission pipes so that the volume is reduced and it can flow faster.
Group Two:
Storage tanks – Holding tanks at gas distribution companies that store extra gas that has been brought up from the ground but is not yet needed by individual utilities.
Utility – A company that delivers natural gas to homes and businesses.
Distribution main – Small pipes originating at the gas utility that run below the street to the service line.
Group Three:
Service line – A narrow pipeline leading from the distribution main to a house.
Gas meter – A device for measuring the amount of gas used in the home.
Gas line – A pipe leading from a house’s gas meter to the individual appliances within.
Group Four:
Pressure regulator – A device that reduces the pressure of the gas traveling along a service line just before entering a house’s gas meter.
Valve – A movable part that controls the flow of a liquid or gas through a pipe or other channel.
Pilot light – A small flame or spark used to ignite gas at a burner. Most new appliances have electric pilots; older appliances have a small permanent flame.
