Methods and apparatus for compressed gas
    5.
    发明授权
    Methods and apparatus for compressed gas 有权
    压缩气体的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US06725671B2

    公开(公告)日:2004-04-27

    申请号:US10316475

    申请日:2002-12-11

    申请人: William M. Bishop

    发明人: William M. Bishop

    IPC分类号: B65B120

    摘要: The methods and apparatus for transporting compressed gas includes a gas storage system having a plurality of pipes connected by a manifold whereby the gas storage system is designed to operate in the range of the optimum compressibility factor for a given composition of gas. The pipe for the gas storage system is preferably large diameter pipe made of a high strength material whereby a low temperature is selected which can be withstood by the material of the pipe. Knowing the compressibility factor of the gas, the temperature, and the diameter of the pipe, the wall thickness of the pipe may be calculated for the pressure range of the gas at the selected temperature. The gas storage system may either be modular or be part of the structure of a vessel for transporting the gas to the storage system. Since the pipe provides a bulkhead around the gas, the gas storage system may be used in a single hull vessel. The gas storage system further includes enclosing the pipes in a nitrogen atmosphere. A displacement fluid may be used to offload the gas from the gas storage system. A vessel with the gas storage system designed for a particular composition gas produced at a given location is used to transport gas from that producing location to offloading ports hundreds, or thousands, of miles from the producing location.

    摘要翻译: 用于输送压缩气体的方法和装置包括具有通过歧管连接的多个管道的气体存储系统,由此气体存储系统被设计成在给定的气体组成的最佳可压缩因子的范围内操作。 用于气体存储系统的管道优选是由高强度材料制成的大直径管,由此选择可以被管材材料承受的低温。 知道气体的压缩系数,管道的温度和直径,可以根据选定温度下的气体的压力范围来计算管道的壁厚。 气体存储系统可以是模块化的或者是用于将气体输送到存储系统的容器的结构的一部分。 由于管道围绕气体提供隔板,气体存储系统可以用于单个船体容器。 气体存储系统还包括将管道封闭在氮气气氛中。 位移流体可用于从气体存储系统卸载气体。 使用专为在给定位置生产的特定组成气体设计的储气系统的船舶将气体从该生产地点输送到从生产地点数百或数千英里的卸载港口。

    Offshore storage facility and terminal
    6.
    发明授权
    Offshore storage facility and terminal 失效
    离岸存储设施和码头

    公开(公告)号:US5129759A

    公开(公告)日:1992-07-14

    申请号:US734576

    申请日:1991-07-23

    申请人: William M. Bishop

    发明人: William M. Bishop

    IPC分类号: B65G5/00

    CPC分类号: B65G5/00

    摘要: The offshore facility and terminal includes a plurality of underground salt caverns located beneath the ocean floor. An offshore platform is located above the caverns and includes a flow line to a single point mooring for connection to a supertanker. A well extends from the platform into the underground salt caverns for the flow of hydrocarbons. The hydrocarbons are stored in the underground salt caverns with an immiscible displacing fluid, such as brine. The hydrocarbons and brine are immiscible and have different densities such that the brine settles at the bottom of the underground cavern. Another well extends from the underground cavern to a displacing fluid reservoir. This reservoir is a brine pond located in a depression in the ocean floor. The brine is pumped to and from the brine pond and into the underground cavern to assist in the off-loading and removal of the hydrocarbons.

    Method and system for solution mining

    公开(公告)号:US08936320B2

    公开(公告)日:2015-01-20

    申请号:US12959377

    申请日:2010-12-03

    申请人: William M. Bishop

    发明人: William M. Bishop

    IPC分类号: E21C41/00 F16L9/19 E21B43/28

    CPC分类号: F16L9/19 E21B43/281

    摘要: A relatively warm mineral deposit is solution mined by injecting fluid through a well drilled into the deposit and dissolving the mineral to form a production brine. Warm production brine is cooled at the surface using a heat exchanger as a crystallizer to precipitate the mineral in the exchanger and form a slurry. Crystals of the mineral in the slurry are recovered in a separation plant leaving a relatively cool, dilute or depleted brine, which is conveyed through the heat exchanger for cooling the production brine and then injected into the mineral deposit to dissolve more mineral thereby providing a continuous process. A pipe-in-pipe heat exchanger is preferably used and in a manner so that the heat exchanger also serves as a primary means for conveying the production fluid and/or slurry from the well to the separation plant. This method extracts and recovers the desired mineral(s), recovers much of the heat in the production brine, accelerates the solution mining process since the injection fluid has been warmed, reduces salting in the production string, is relatively inexpensive to install and maintain, and does not require a source of energy for cooling the production brine such as electricity for a refrigeration system.

    Direct injection of cold fluids into a subterranean cavern
    9.
    发明授权
    Direct injection of cold fluids into a subterranean cavern 失效
    将冷流体直接注入地下洞穴

    公开(公告)号:US5511905A

    公开(公告)日:1996-04-30

    申请号:US143359

    申请日:1993-10-26

    IPC分类号: B65G5/00

    CPC分类号: B65G5/00

    摘要: The subterranean storage facility includes a subterranean cavern forming an underground cavity in which is disposed an immiscible displacing liquid. A plurality of concentric pipes extend from the surface into the cavity. As a cold fluid at a sub-zero temperature is passed down a first flow bore formed by the concentric pipes, the immiscible displacing fluid is passed in heat exchange relationship up a second flow bore formed by the concentric pipes. The cold fluids are then stored within the cavity at a temperature and pressure consistent for safe storage.

    摘要翻译: 地下储存设施包括形成地下空腔的地下洞穴,其中设置有不混溶的置换液体。 多个同心管从表面延伸到空腔中。 当低于零温度的冷流体向下流过由同心管形成的第一流动孔时,不混溶的排出流体与由同心管形成的第二流动孔的热交换关系通过。 然后将冷流体以恒定的温度和压力储存在空腔内,以保证安全储存。