Abstract:
Method and device of treatment of natural gas contained in storage tanks, for producing liquid nitrogen by extraction of nitrogen from the vapours resulting from the evaporation of said liquefied natural gas in said tanks, liquefaction of a portion of said extracted nitrogen and storage thereof for forming a reserve of cold.
Abstract:
A device for protecting the environment of a storage tank against failures thereof, said tank containing liquefied gas at low temperature and at a pressure about atmospheric pressure and being housed in a heat-insulated compartment of a ship hold, said device comprising a fluid-tight, concave dished structure forming a reduced secondary barrier arranged below and about the lower portion of said tank.
Abstract:
1,155,116. Liquefied gas storage containers. TECHNIGAZ. 19 Sept., 1966 [22 Sept., 1965], No. 41704/66. Heading F4P. The fluid-tight inner vertical cylindrical shell 13, Fig. 1, of a heat insulated double-walled liquefied gas container and having a top 22 and generally flat bottom 21 is constructed of flexible sheet metal plates welded at their overlapping edges and having a first group of spaced parallel corrugations intersected at right angles by a second group of similar corrugations, and the inner shell is secured at spaced points to the external shell 2 by brackets 47, Fig. 7, extending through the heat insulation 14 between the two shells; the outer cylindrical shell which may be of steel or concrete having a flat bottom 3 resting on a prepared earth base 4. The first group of corrugations 16 of the lateral cylindrical wall 17 of the shell 13 extend continuously and vertically whilst the corrugations 18 of the second group extend round circumference of wall 17. The first group of corrugations of the base 21 comprise alternate radially extending corrugations 23, 23 1 which divide the base into sectors 24 and those sectors on either side of a corrugation 23 1 have further continuous corrugations 25 parallel thereto but of differing lengths and are intersected at right angles by parallel corrugations 26 which form the second group. The roof 22 of shell 13 is similarly constructed and all corrugations project inwardly. The bracket 47 shown in Fig. 7 comprises four radial ribs welded at one end to a steel plate 50 embedded in the concrete wall of shell 2 and secured at the other end of a screw 52 to the shell 13. A modified bracket shown in Fig. 11 comprising a tube 60 welded at its outer end to a steel plate 50 and closed at its inner end by a plate 62 carrying a stud 63 which projects through the shell 13 and secured by a nut 66. The heat insulation 14 comprises panels 58, 59 of rigid expanded polyurethane or expanded polyvinylchloride. A central orifice 28 in the roof of the container is closed by a plate 29 having filler pipes 32 and a manhole 31.
Abstract:
A device for treating at least a portion of the exhaust fumes emitted by at least one fuel-consuming apparatus, the treatment device includes at least one compression member designed to raise a pressure of at least a portion of the exhaust fumes emitted by the fuel-consuming apparatus, and at least one unit for capturing carbon dioxide present in the exhaust fumes, the compression member and the unit for capturing carbon dioxide being arranged between the fuel-consuming apparatus and a turbocharger, a turbine of which is designed to be powered by the exhaust fumes and a compressor of which is designed to supply the fuel-consuming apparatus with oxidizer.
Abstract:
A method for checking the sealing of a sealed tank for storing a liquefied gas at low temperature, the tank having an inner hull and a secondary sealing membrane, a secondary space that is arranged between the inner hull and the secondary sealing membrane, a primary sealing membrane and a primary space that is arranged between the primary sealing membrane and the secondary sealing membrane is disclosed. The method has the following main steps: generating a pressure lower than the pressure of the primary space in the secondary space using a suction device, measuring the temperature of an outer surface of the inner hull, and detecting the location of a sealing defect of the secondary sealing membrane in the form of a cold spot on the outer surface of the inner hull.
Abstract:
A support device for an instrument on a loading/offloading tower of a tank of a ship is disclosed. The tower has multiple vertical masts linked to one another, pairwise, by struts extending on a strut axis, and a distal portion extending on a first axis, the distal portion being terminated by a first surface capable of forming a first surface contact with a strut extending on its strut axis substantially at right angles to the first axis. The installed first surface has a degree of freedom in rotation about the strut axis, a proximal portion extending on a second axis substantially at right angles to the first axis, linked to the distal portion. An installed fixing surface immobilized by fixing to the instrument has a degree of freedom in rotation about the second axis and a degree of freedom in translation on a third axis parallel to the second axis.
Abstract:
A sealed and thermally insulating tank incorporated in a supporting structure (2), the tank including at least one inclined tank wall (1) forming an angle with a horizontal direction and fixed to a supporting wall of the supporting structure (2) is disclosed. The tank wall (1) has a multilayer structure including successively, in the direction of thickness from the outside to the inside of the tank, a thermally insulating barrier (3) held against the corresponding supporting wall and a sealed membrane (4) carried by the thermally insulating barrier (3). The tank includes sealed strips (15) in the space formed between the thermally insulating barrier (3) and the supporting wall.