Simultaneous Underground Cavern Development and Fluid Storage
    72.
    发明申请
    Simultaneous Underground Cavern Development and Fluid Storage 审中-公开
    同时地下洞穴开发和流体储存

    公开(公告)号:US20090013697A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-01-15

    申请号:US11959951

    申请日:2007-12-19

    IPC分类号: F17C5/00

    摘要: An integrated energy hub facility capable of bringing together all aspects of hydrocarbon and other fluid product movement under controlled conditions applicable to the reception, storage, processing, collection and transmission downstream is provided. Input to the energy hub includes natural gas and crude from a pipeline or a carrier, LNG from a carrier, CNG from a carrier, and carrier-regassed LNG, as well as other products from a pipeline or a carrier. Storage can be above surface, in salt caverns or in subterranean formations and cavities, and include petroleum crude, natural gas, LPG, NGL, GTL and other fluids. Transmission downstream may be carried out by a vessel or other type of carrier and/or by means of a pipeline system. Cryogenic fluids are offloaded and sent to the energy hub surface holding tank, then pumped to the energy hub vaporizers and sent to underground storage and/or distribution.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种综合能源枢纽设施,能够将受控条件下的碳氢化合物和其他流体产品运动的各个方面汇集在一起​​,适用于下游的接收,储存,处理,收集和传输。 对能量集线器的输入包括天然气和来自管道或载体的原油,来自载体的LNG,来自载体的CNG和载体流化的LNG,以及来自管道或载体的其它产物。 储存可以在表面,盐穴或地下地层和空腔中,包括石油原油,天然气,液化石油气,NGL,GTL和其他流体。 传输下游可以由船只或其他类型的载体和/或通过管道系统进行。 低温流体被卸载并发送到能量轮毂表面储存罐,然后泵送到能量轮毂蒸发器并送到地下储存和/或分配。

    Thermal method for ice removal under ambient air cryogenic vaporizers
    75.
    发明申请
    Thermal method for ice removal under ambient air cryogenic vaporizers 审中-公开
    环境空气低温蒸发器下除冰的热法

    公开(公告)号:US20070012050A1

    公开(公告)日:2007-01-18

    申请号:US11182323

    申请日:2005-07-18

    申请人: Ross Brown

    发明人: Ross Brown

    IPC分类号: F17C9/02

    摘要: This invention relates prolonging operation duration of ambient air heated vaporizers of cryogenic fluids; and more particularly concerns a method for enhancing ice removal under such vaporizers. Ambient air vaporizers have been used in the past to convert cryogenic fluids into warm gas. Because of the very cold surfaces inherent in the construction of these vaporizers, they collect frost or ice, and are generally limited in the time they can be effective due to the reduction in heat transfer caused by the frozen atmospheric water collecting on vaporizer surfaces. Operators frequently seek to mitigate this effect by having multiple vaporizers, alternately switching units on and off, allowing them to defrost. A characteristic of these defrosting vaporizers, is the falling of the frost and ice off the heat transfer surfaces, collect at the base of the unit (the “Pile). This Pile of frozen water or slush generally can be melted by exposure to warm ambient air during the defrost cycle. The Pile also can be removed manually.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及低温流体的环境空气加热蒸发器的延长操作时间; 更具体地涉及在这种蒸发器下增强除冰的方法。 过去已经使用环境空气蒸发器将低温流体转换成暖气。 由于这些蒸发器的结构固有的非常冷的表面,它们收集霜或冰,并且由于在蒸发器表面上收集的冷冻大气水引起的热传递减少,因此在它们可以有效的时间内通常受到限制。 操作员经常设法通过使用多个蒸发器来减轻这种影响,交替开关单元可以开启或关闭,从而允许它们除霜。 这些除霜蒸发器的特点是霜冻和冰块从传热表面掉落,收集在设备的底部(“桩”),这堆冷冻水或泥浆通常可以通过暴露于温暖的环境中熔化 除霜期间空气也可以手动取出。