Quality of natural gas draws increasing complaints by Armenian consumers

The consumers of natural gas have been recently raising complaints about the quality of the blue fuel.
Most say that the blue fuel no longer ensures the same degree of heat as it used to before, with the flow of dirty gas often impairing the operation of the reduction gears.
"We switch on our gas boiler on the same degree as we did last year, but it is relatively cooler in our house. While the bulk water transport used to take 30 seconds, it now takes 1-1.5 minutes. But the climate outside is almost the same," Gayane Aghababyan, a resident of Yerevan's Pushkin street, told Tert.am.
Arthur Hakobyan, who installs heating supply systems in apartments, says people often complain of the system's poor operation which is caused by unclean gas.
"The flow of dirty gas often impairs the work of the reduction gears, and the population often turns to us as they have to be changed by a specialist," he said, adding that the lower gas burning temperature is caused by the presence of air in the fuel.
A chief engineer at Hayrusgazard, Hrant Tadevosyyan, had earlier dismissed the reports about supplying the population natural gas mixed with air.
The pressure of natural gas often drops in winter, the problem requiring an intervention by specialists.   Read more... (221 words)

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