Specifications

30 Fuels
compositions used today. Limit values for the individual components, unless they are explicitly restricted,
are based on the general requirements of freedom from fluid elements, the exclusion of condensate and
hydrocarbons and the global parameters of gas mixing in accordance with Table 18.
Main elements of natural gases (Table 15)
Name
Components
Unit Value range
Natural gas
CO
CO
2
CH
4
C
2
H
6
C
3
H
8
C
4
H
10
N
2
O
2
%byvol.
%byvol.
%byvol.
%byvol.
%byvol.
%byvol.
%byvol.
%byvol.
<2
<10
80-100
<12
<9
<1
<20
<3
Examples fo
r natural gases
Typical natural gas compositions, natural gas H (according to DVGW worksheet G260) (Table 16)
Russia
North Sea I North Sea II
Network gas
CO %byvol.
0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
CO
2
%byvol.
0.1000 0.0000 0.3000 1.4000
CH
4
%byvol.
98.3000 88.6000 83.0000 88.6000
C
2
H
4
%byvol.
0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
C
2
H
6
%byvol.
0.5000 8.4000 11.6000 5.3000
C
3
H
6
%byvol.
0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
C
3
H
8
%byvol.
0.2000 1.7000 3.1000 1.4000
C
4
H
6
%byvol.
0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
C
4
H
8
%byvol.
0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
C
4
H
10
%byvol.
0.1000 0.7000 0.5000 0.6000
C
5
H
12
%byvol.
0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
C
X
H
Y
%byvol.
0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
N
2
%byvol.
0.8000 0.6000 1.5000 2.7000
O
2
%byvol.
0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
H
2
%byvol.
0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
H
2
O %byvol.
0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
H
2
S %byvol.
0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
SO
2
%byvol.
0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
AR
%byvol.
0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
Σ
%byvol.
100.000 100.000 100.000 100.000
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