Abstract:
An LNG fuel tank system for at least one gas engine used for ship propulsion is comprising at least one LNG fuel tank (4) and a gas vessel (8), the LNG fuel tank to be-bunkered from an onshore LNG pressure tank filling facility by means of an LNG filling line (1). According to the present invention the LNG fuel tank (4) is a ship low pressure controlled atmospheric pressure LNG tank, and the gas vessel (8) is a single shell non-insulated pressure vessel arranged to accumulate flashed and boil-off gas during LNG bunkering and pressure relieving the LNG fuel tank, respectively, and the gas engines are fuelled from either the gas vessel (8) or the LNG fuel tank (4), dependent on a predefined gas vessel pressure.
Abstract:
A plant for regasification of LNG comprises at least one pump (A1, A2) boosting LNG pressure; a LNG/coolant heat exchanger (B) producing NG from LNG being flowed from the boosting pumps; a closed coolant loop extending through the LNG/coolant heat exchanger (B) and including at least one heat exchangers (D, G1, G2), a coolant from the respective heat exchanger being passed through the LNG heat exchanger as a gas and leaving in a condensed state as to produce NG by thermal exchange; and a heating medium being used within the respective heat exchanger (D, G1, G2) as to provide coolant in a gaseous state. Moreover, a NG/coolant heat exchanger (C) is arranged in connection with the LNG/coolant heat exchanger (B) and is connected to the closed coolant loop, whereby LNG is preheated within the LNG/coolant heat exchanger and NG is trim heated within the NG/coolant heat exchanger using liquid coolant from at least one heat exchanger (D).
Abstract:
A gas supply system for gas engines adapted for integration with a boil-off gas relique- faction plant comprising a cryogenic heat exchanger, a boil-off gas compressor having a boil-off gas preheater, and a compander, the gas being in the form of liquefied natural gas from cargo tanks or condensate from the reliquefaction plant. To utilize in the reliquefation plant cold duty from gas to be combusted by the engines the system is provided with an evaporator (optimizer) extracting the cold duty and/or an evaporator being arranged in a closed loop comprising of a pump and a heating source for an intermediate medium used to optimize the cold duty extraction.
Abstract:
A system for producing liquefied and sub-cooled natural gas by means of a refrigeration assembly using a single phase gaseous refrigerant comprises at least two expanders; a compressor assembly; a heat exchanger assembly for heat absorption from natural gas; and a heat rejection assembly, in which the expanders are arranged in expander loops and the refrigerant to the respective expander is served in a compressed flow by means of the compressor assembly having compressors or compressor stages enabling adapted inlet and outlet pressures for the respective expander. According to the present the expanders and compressors assembly are assembled in two mechanically connected compressor and expander packages (200, 300) of which one is driven by a gas turbine (201) and the other is driven by a steam turbine (301), the steam primarily being generated by exhaust gases from the gas turbine in a waste heat recovery unit (202), and in that the expanders and compressors assemblies are distributed between the two compressor and expander packages to optimize the steam utilization and to balance the power generated by the gas turbine and the steam turbine.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for regulating a closed intermediate medium circuit when heat exchanging a primary medium within a heat exchanger (B) fed by means of a pump (Al) so as to be evaporated or condensed therein, the closed circuit is passing through the heat exchanger (B) and is comprising a tank (H) and pump (E) for condensed intermediate medium and at least one heat exchanger (Gl, G2) evaporising or condensing intermediate medium to be passed through the heat exchanger (B) for primary medium, wherein controlling flow of intermediate medium in the closed circuit as function of primary medium through the heat exchanger (B).
Abstract:
A method for storage and transport of LPG on LPG carriers, in particular two cargoes of different LPG types on same shipment, having reliquefaction units (300, 400) in which vaporized gases are condensed and then returned into at least one cargo tank (100) for the respective LPG cargo type. The method is further comprising: using the reliquefaction units (300, 400), at a minimum one running, as to condense vapour from the first cargo type; passing the condensed vapour through a heat exchanger (500); simultaneously flowing vapour from the second cargo type through the heat exchanger (500) as to condense vapour by means of heat exchanging with the condensed vapour; and returning the condensed vapours leaving the heat exchanger back into the respective cargo types. The present invention is also disclosing a system for storage and transport of LPG on LPG carriers.
Abstract:
A method and an apparatus of pre-heating LNG boil-off gas (BOG) stream (1) flowing from a reservoir (74) in a reliquefaction system, prior to compression (C11, C12, C13). The method comprises heat exchanging the BOG stream in a first heat exchanger (H10), against a second coolant stream (59) having a higher temperature than the BOG stream (1), where the second coolant stream (59) is obtained by selectively splitting a first coolant stream (56) into said second coolant stream (59) and a third coolant stream (57), said third coolant stream being flowed into a first coolant passage in a reliquefaction system cold box (H20), whereby the BOG has reached near-ambient temperatures prior to compression and the low temperature duty from the BOG is substantially preserved within the reliquefaction system, and thermal stresses in the cold box (H20) are reduced. Prior to the compression step, the BOG is pre-heated to substantially ambient temperatures, by heat exchanging (H10) the BOG with said coolant, said coolant prior to the heat exchange having a higher temperature than the BOG.
Abstract:
A plant for recovering BOG from LNG stored in tanks includes a recondenser (SD1) used to feed LNG into pumps (A1, A2, A3) boosting LNG to be passed through vaporizers units (VU1, VU2, VU3) as to produce NG by regasification of LNG, BOG being compressed using a compressor (C1). According to the present invention BOG is, after compression in the compressor (C1), passed through heat exchangers (B1, B2, B3) situated downstream the pumps (A1, A2, A3), in which BOG in heat exchange with LNG is condensed mainly into liquid and thereafter fed into the recondenser (SD1).
Abstract:
A system for producing liquefied and sub-cooled natural gas by means of a refrigeration assembly using a single phase gaseous refrigerant comprises at least two expanders; a compressor assembly; a heat exchanger assembly for heat absorption from natural gas; and a heat rejection assembly, in which the expanders are arranged in expander loops and the refrigerant to the respective expander is served in a compressed flow by means of the compressor assembly having compressors or compressor stages enabling adapted inlet and outlet pressures for the respective expander. According to the present the expanders and compressors assembly are assembled in two mechanically connected compressor and expander packages (200, 300) of which one is driven by a gas turbine (201) and the other is driven by a steam turbine (301), the steam primarily being generated by exhaust gases from the gas turbine in a waste heat recovery unit (202), and in that the expanders and compressors assemblies are distributed between the two compressor and expander packages to optimize the steam utilization and to balance the power generated by the gas turbine and the steam turbine.
Abstract:
A method and system for producing liquefied and sub-cooled natural gas by means of a refrigeration assembly using a single phase gaseous refrigerant comprising: at least two expanders (1-3); a compressor assembly (5-7); a heat exchanger assembly (8) for heat absorption from natural gas; and a heat rejection assembly (10-12). The novel features according to the present invention are arranging the expanders (1-3) in expander loops; using only one and the same refrigerant in all loops; passing an expanded refrigerant flow from the respective expander into the heat exchanger assembly (8), each being at a mass flow and temperature level adapted to de-superheating, condensation or cooling of dense phase and/or sub-cooling of natural gas; and serving the refrigerant to the respective expander in a compressed flow by means of the compressor assembly having compressors or compressor stages enabling adapted inlet and outlet pressures for the respective expander.