Conserving mixed refrigerant in natural gas liquefaction facilities

    公开(公告)号:US11326834B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-10

    申请号:US16519824

    申请日:2019-07-23

    IPC分类号: F25J1/02 F25J3/04

    摘要: A method of operating, during an at least partial shutdown of a refrigerant distribution subsystem in a natural gas liquefaction facility, can include: draining down at least a portion of a mixed refrigerant in one or more components of the refrigerant distribution subsystem into a high-pressure holding tank of a drain down subsystem, wherein draining down to the high-pressure holding tank is achieved by pumping the mixed refrigerant from the refrigerant distribution subsystem to the high-pressure holding tank or backfilling the refrigerant distribution subsystem with a backfill gas; and optionally, transferring at least a portion of the mixed refrigerant into a low-pressure drum from the high-pressure holding tank.

    BOIL-OFF GAS RECYCLE SUBSYSTEM IN NATURAL GAS LIQUEFACTION PLANTS

    公开(公告)号:US20200056838A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-20

    申请号:US16519846

    申请日:2019-07-23

    IPC分类号: F25J1/00 F25J1/02 F28F13/04

    摘要: A method of recycling liquefied natural gas (LNG) boil-off gas (BOG) in natural gas liquefaction plants can include: supplying a feed gas to a liquefaction subsystem; liquefying the feed gas to produce LNG and end-flash gas (EFG); compressing the EFG to compressed EFG; using the compressed EFG as fuel gas; storing the LNG in one or more LNG tanks; compressing LNG BOG from the one or more LNG tanks to produce compressed LNG BOG; and either (1) operating in a recycle mode by supplying at least a portion of the compressed LNG BOG to the feed gas via a bidirectional line, or (2) operating in a fuel mode by (a) supplying a portion of the feed gas to the fuel gas via the bidirectional line and (b) supplying the compressed LNG BOG to the fuel gas.