摘要:
The systems and methods integrate energy storage with cryogenic carbon capture, providing effective grid management and energy-efficient carbon capture capabilities to power plants. The systems store energy during off-peak demand by using off-peak energy to compress natural gas to form liquefied natural gas (LNG) and storing the LNG for use as a refrigerant. The systems use the stored LNG as a refrigerant in a cryogenic carbon capture (CCC) process to isolate carbon dioxide from light gases in a flue gas. The systems supply energy during peak demand by burning the natural gas warmed by the CCC process to generate power.
摘要:
Natural gas boiling off from LNG storage tanks 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12, typically located on board a sea-going vessel, is compressed in a plural stage compressor 24 comprising compression stages 26, 28, 30 and 32. At least part of the flow of compressed natural gas is sent to a liquefier 47, typically operating on a Brayton cycle in order to be reliquefied. The temperature of the compressed natural gas from the final stage 32 is reduced to below 0°C by passage through a heat exchanger 22. The first compression stage 26 is operated as a cold compressor and the resulting cold compressed natural gas is employed in the heat exchanger 22 to effect the necessary cooling of the flow from the compression stage 32. Downstream of its passage through the heat exchanger 22 the cold compressed natural gas flows through the remaining stages 28, 30 and 32 of the compressor 24. If desired, a part of the compressed natural gas may be supplied to the engines of the sea-going vessel as a fuel.
摘要:
Provided is a liquefaction method, a liquefying apparatus, and a floating liquefied-gas production facility equipped with the same, with which it is possible to suppress a decrease in liquefaction efficiency when gas to be liquefied is liquefied, to ensure safety, and to make the facility compact. Gas to be liquefied that has been subjected to heat exchange with a high-pressure heating medium composed of a single component is reduced in pressure, after which the gas to be liquefied that has been reduced in pressure is made to exchange heat with a low-temperature-side heating medium that is lower in temperature than and of the same type as the high-pressure heating medium.
摘要:
Nitrogen is removed from a cryogenic hydrocarbon composition (8) comprising nitrogen and a methane-containing liquid phase. A by-product vapour (60) from the cryogenic hydrocarbon composition, at a low pressure of between 1 and 2 bar absolute, is compressed (260) to a separation pressure in the range of between 2 and 15 bar absolute. The such compressed vapour is partially liquefied by heat exchanging (235) the compressed vapour (70) against an auxiliary refrigerant stream (142,132) and thereby passing heat from the compressed vapour to the auxiliary refrigerant stream at a cooling duty. The condensed fraction (40) of the partially liquefied compressed vapour is depressurized (45) and at least a portion of it is reinjected into the cryogenic hydrocarbon composition (8). An off gas (80) consisting of a, non condensed, vapour fraction of the partially liquefied compressed vapour is discharged from the first gas/liquid separator (33). The cooling duty is adjusted (34) to regulate a heating value of the vapour fraction (80) being discharged.
摘要:
Process for efficiently operating a natural gas liquefaction system with integrated heavies removal/natural gas liquids recovery to produce liquefied natural gas (LNG) and/or natural gas liquids (NGL) products.
摘要:
Method and apparatus for liquefying a hydrocarbon stream. A liquefaction system comprises at least an NGL recovery system 12, a main refrigerant circuit 42 and a first refrigerant circuit 100, a pressure reduction device 52 followed by an end gas/liquid separator 62. The main refrigerant circuit 42 comprises at least one or more main refrigerant compressors 45, 45a, 45b, and the first refrigerant circuit comprises one or more first refrigerant compressors 101. A hydrocarbon feed stream 10 is passed through the NGL recovery system 12 to produce a methane-enriched overhead stream 20, which is subsequently cooled and liquefied by the first and second refrigerant circuits. The pressure of the liquefied stream is reduced and the resulting mixed-phase stream 60 is passed through the end gas/liquid separator 62 to provide an end gaseous stream 70 and a liquefied hydrocarbon product stream 80. The loading power of the one or more main refrigerant compressors and the one or more first refrigerant compressors is maximized to their maximum load by adjusting temperature of the liquefied stream to change the amount of end gaseous stream and by controlling an amount of the end gaseous stream being fed into the methane-enriched overhead stream 20 in a recycle stream 90b.