Abstract:
A method for the consumption dependent complete vaporization of liquid nitrogen oxide is shown where the liquid nitrogen oxide under pressure is passed through a buffer tank and is charged into a falling film evaporator. The unevaporated residual amount of nitrogen oxide is then subjected to heat in an after evaporator in order to completely vaporize the nitrogen oxide. The combined streams are then led out of the falling film evaporator and after evaporator through at least one safety trap to the ultimate take-off points. This results in the charge of the liquid material to the falling film evaporator being controlled through the pressure in the conduit system between the falling film evaporator and the points of utilization and permits a constant, previously determined pressure to be maintained in the system independently of the amount of material withdrawn.
Abstract:
Pressure containment vessel apparatus includes a cylinder which receives a leaking gas cylinder and which includes an outwardly extending flange for receiving a dome. The dome includes a valve for venting the gas which leaks out of the leaking interior gas cylinder and locking elements which mate with fasteners on the outwardly extending flange to secure the top dome onto the cylinder.
Abstract:
In a ship for carrying a low temperature liquid storage tank which is supported on the bottom of a ship's hold by especially horizontal displacement preventive tank supporting structures, a leaked liquid receiving pan is disposed below an engaging member which is extended downwardly from the bottom of the tank. The low temperature liquid leaked from the tank and falling between the engaging member and a heat insulating layer surrounding the tank is received by the leaked liquid receiving pan and does not reach the bottom of the ship's hold, whereby the bottom of the hold is prevented from being cooled.
Abstract:
Cryogenic insulation system for containers for storage of cryogenic liquefied gases such as LNG, comprised of a low temperature resistant metal, preferably high nickel steel, primary membrane or liner supported by a primary layer of reinforced foam insulation, and a secondary liner positioned adjacent to and sandwiched between the primary layer of foam insulation and a secondary layer of reinforced foam insulation. The preferably high nickel steel primary liner or membrane is attached to the primary layer of foam insulation by tongues of high nickel steel connected to the primary membrane at spaced positions therealong, and engaged in plywood retainers positioned within and bonded to the primary foam insulation layer. The plywood retainers for such tongues include spaces or channels in communication with a manifold for detection of cryogenic gas leakage. There is provided at corners, particularly at 90.degree. corners, and disposed within the primary and secondary foam insulation layers, a cooperating system of a plastic coupler, threaded rod and plywood supports, the plywood supports being attached to the primary high nickel steel liner and the coupler to the container wall or ship hull. For oblique corner angles such as 135.degree. angles of the cryogenic container or tank, there is provided a system of high nickel steel corner members welded to the primary high nickel steel liner, such corner members being supported on angular plywood corner supports positioned in the primary foam layer. Support systems at three way corners are also provided, including a trihedron angle member connected to the primary liner, plywood supports for the primary liner at such corners, such plywood supports being positioned in the primary foam insulation adjacent the primary high nickel steel liner, and a combination of tubes, e.g. fiber glass tubes, connected at one end to the trihedron angle member and at the other end to the container or tank wall. Stand-off or insulation support panels can also be provided for the entire insulation system, together with means to maintain the panels spaced from the container wall or ship hull.
Abstract:
Fluid-fluid explosive self-mixing of water and liquid natural gas contained in a cryogenic tank located in a hold of a ship is inhibited, in the event that the hold of the ship and the cryogenic tank are ruptured, by confining an inert gas under pressure in a multiplicity of tubes surrounding the cryogenic tank, the pressure of the inert gas in the tubes being such that the inert gas flows from the tubes to form a blanket of inert gas between liquid natural gas and water upon rupture of any tube or tubes.
Abstract:
An insulating construction for a low temperature liquified gas storage tank consists of a plurality of heat insulating blocks or plates of rigid foam, each covered with a gas-tight sheet bonded thereto and each bolted at its approximate center to the outer wall of the tank. The joints between adjacent plates are filled with a heat insulating material and a gas-tight cover is applied to the exposed portions of this filler material and to the exposed ends of the bolts. Preferably, the inner surfaces of the plates are separated from the outer wall of the tank by spacers, providing a space which is filled with a soft foam resin and which forms a passage for conducting any leakage gas from the tank to a pipe located in a plate below the bottom of the tank and discharging such gas to the outside of the insulating construction.
Abstract:
A system for the storage and/or transportation of liquefied gases, especially liquefied natural gas, oxygen or nitrogen, comprises a thermally insulated enclosure having a battery of upright individual vessels (bottles, flasks or cylinders) containing the liquefied gas at least in a bottom portion of each vessel while a top portion thereof serves as a vapor space. A conduit network leads from each vapor space and communicates, externally of the chamber with a source of pressurizing gas for discharging the liquid or with a receptacle, reliquefaction apparatus or the like when liquid is pumped into the vessels. A second conduit network opens into the bottom portion of each vessel for introducing the liquefied gas or removing same. The safety of the system is improved by providing the conduit communicating with the liquid space wholly within the conduit communicating with the vapor space at least in regions in which the networks lie in the spaces between receptacles of the enclosure, thereby eliminating the need for a separate safety valve at each vessel for liquid conduits.
Abstract:
A method of maintaining the ullage of a previously inerted aircraft fuel tank in the inert condition under which combustion cannot take place within the tank during the after filling of the tank with liquid fuel, and during flight of the aircraft. The method utilizes the oxygen lean ullage gases for scrubbing oxygen from incoming fuel during filling of the tank, separating the gases having scrubbed oxygen therein from the incoming fuel and venting the same to the exterior of the tank so as not to raise the oxygen content of the gases remaining in the ullage.
Abstract:
1,176,714. Carrying liquefied gases. J.J. McMULLEN. 20 April, 1967] [25 April, 1966], No. 18238/67. Heading B7A. [Also in Division F4] In a liquefied gas tanker comprising a hull 12 having a cargo section, a load carrying deck 15 in the cargo section, a plurality of doublewalled, generally rectangular, liquefied gas storage tanks 14 free standing on the deck and extending above the cargo section, a metal weather shield 19 extends over the top of each tank and downwardly for part of the height, a downwardly and outwardly directed flashing 22 being provided on the weather shield, and a flexible seal 28 extends between the flashing and the hull. The seal prevents entry of water between a tank and the hull whilst permitting relative movement due to expansion and contraction of the tank. In the embodiment shown an upstanding flange 26 lies inboard of the flashing and the flexible seal is located between them.