Create and Delete a Gas Storage

This guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to add and delete gas storage externals.

For more information on how to edit properties of a gas storage refer to Define Properties of a Gas Storage.

1. Create a gas storage

Select the node where to assign the gas storage and right-click on the background of the map window. From the context menu, select Add New External  Gas Storage (Figure 1). The property editor window for the new gas storage object opens automatically, and a new GSTR object is added to the list of storage externals in the model explorer.

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Figure 1. How to add a gas storage to a node in a gas network. If other externals are present in the selected node, the context menu will also show a delete external(s) menu. The Add New Branch sub-menu may or may not be present.

2. Delete a gas storage

There are different possible ways to delete a gas storage object. It is possible to select the node of the network where the object is associated from the map window (Figure 2) and, after right-clicking, use Delete external(s)  (External name) from the context menu. Or, after selecting the node, use the node bar and choose the object. Again, after right-clicking select Delete External(s) from the context menu.

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Figure 2. Example of how to delete the gas storage object GSTR.GSTR_0 from the map window.

Alternatively, use the model explorer and select the object from the ones in the list under Externals  Storages. From the context menu, select Delete External(s). Finally, open the "Table GSTR" from the table tab and select the row associated with the gas storage of interest (Figure 3). Right-click to open the context menu and select Delete External(s).

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Figure 3. Example of how to delete the gas storage object GSTR.GSTR_0 from the table of gas storage objects.