The paper present the determination of the state parameters of natural gas at the pipeline inlet based on knowledge of the pressure and temperature at the receiving point. Natural gas transport will be carried out through an offshore section of a transmission pipeline. The equations of the Fanno flow model will be used to describe the thermodynamic parameters of the gas in the flow lines. The mathematical equations of the flow mentioned above models have been derived from an analysis of the mass, energy and momentum balance equations. They also take into account the viscous friction forces in the transported gas. Based on the carried out calculations, changes in the Mach number, pressure and velocity of methane transported along the analysed pipeline were determined. In addition, the total entropy gain in the analysed methane flow was determined. The novelty of the calculations presented is the use of the Fanno flow model, which considers a realistic adiabatic gas flow. This is in contrast to the isothermal flow model, which assumes an unchanging temperature of the transported gas. In the case under consideration, the adopting model was possible because of the similar temperature values of the gas flowing in the pipeline and the corresponding temperature values of the surrounding seawater. The fundamental advantage of the Fanno flow model is that it satisfies the mass balance of the flowing gas in each cross-section. Thus, the product of the velocity and density of the gas in a pipeline of constant diameter assumes a constant value.

A new method for measurement of local heat flux to water-walls of steam boilers was developed. A flux meter tube was made from an eccentric tube of short length to which two longitudinal fins were attached. These two fins prevent the boiler setting from heating by a thermal radiation from the combustion chamber. The fins are not welded to the adjacent water-wall tubes, so that the temperature distribution in the heat flux meter is not influenced by neighbouring water-wall tubes. The thickness of the heat flux tube wall is larger on the fireside to obtain a greater distance between the thermocouples located inside the wall which increases the accuracy of heat flux determination. Based on the temperature measurements at selected points inside the heat flux meter, the heat flux absorbed by the water-wall, heat transfer coefficient on the inner tube surface and temperature of the water-steam mixture was determined.