For the chromatography industry, the natural gas market is one of the fastest growing in the world. There are a variety of reasons for this. While global energy requirements are increasing, there is a parallel trend of fossil fuel reserves being depleted. Natural gas is one type of fossil fuel that can still be found in vast, untapped reserves. In addition to this, the market is becoming increasingly liberalized, and the number of participants has risen considerably as a result - from the production stage, across the entire distribution network, right through to the end customer. In turn, this has generated more transfer points at which the quality and quantity of natural gas need to be determined for accounting purposes.

The market requires a reliable complete system which is specially designed for natural gas. With the Set CV, Siemens offers a system that covers all the requirements of such applications, from sampling to pressure reduction, sample preparation and determination of quality, supplying carrier and calibration gases, right through to expansion of the communication interfaces.

The set offers various modules to cover market requirements. Using the different versions, the set can be adapted, and the modules can be freely-combined.

Such a system can be used wherever the quality of natural gas has to be determined. For example, during the conditioning of natural gas and feeding into the pipeline network, during transportation and distribution in the network, and when extracting it for supply purposes.