公开(公告)号：US3886885A

公开(公告)日：1975-06-03

申请号：US35488773

申请日：1973-04-26

Applicant: LINDE AG

Inventor： BECKER RUDOLF ,  BECKER WOLFGANG

IPC: F17C3/04 ,  F17C1/00 ,  B63B25/12

CPC classification number: F17C1/002 ,  F17C2201/0109 ,  F17C2201/032 ,  F17C2201/052 ,  F17C2201/054 ,  F17C2201/056 ,  F17C2203/0617 ,  F17C2203/0639 ,  F17C2205/013 ,  F17C2205/0142 ,  F17C2205/0323 ,  F17C2205/0332 ,  F17C2205/0358 ,  F17C2209/221 ,  F17C2221/011 ,  F17C2221/014 ,  F17C2221/033 ,  F17C2223/0153 ,  F17C2223/0161 ,  F17C2223/033 ,  F17C2223/047 ,  F17C2225/0153 ,  F17C2225/0161 ,  F17C2225/033 ,  F17C2225/047 ,  F17C2227/0135 ,  F17C2227/0192 ,  F17C2250/036 ,  F17C2260/036 ,  F17C2260/037 ,  F17C2260/04 ,  F17C2265/032 ,  F17C2265/034 ,  F17C2270/0105 ,  F17C2270/0134 ,  F17C2270/0173 ,  F17C2270/0178 ,  Y10S220/901

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.