CA2670904A1 - Method and susbtance for refrigerated natural gas transport - Google Patents

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CA2670904A1
CA2670904A1 CA002670904A CA2670904A CA2670904A1 CA 2670904 A1 CA2670904 A1 CA 2670904A1 CA 002670904 A CA002670904 A CA 002670904A CA 2670904 A CA2670904 A CA 2670904A CA 2670904 A1 CA2670904 A1 CA 2670904A1
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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    • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
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    • C10—PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE; FUELS; LUBRICANTS; PEAT
    • C10L—FUELS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NATURAL GAS; SYNTHETIC NATURAL GAS OBTAINED BY PROCESSES NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C10G, C10K; LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS; ADDING MATERIALS TO FUELS OR FIRES TO REDUCE SMOKE OR UNDESIRABLE DEPOSITS OR TO FACILITATE SOOT REMOVAL; FIRELIGHTERS
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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    • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
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    • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
    • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
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    • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
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    • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
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    • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
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    • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
    • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
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Abstract

This invention relates to the storage under pressure in a container and subsequent transport of the filled pressurized container of particular natural gas or natural gas-like mixtures that contain methane or natural gas plus an additive, and which mixtures have been refrigerated to less than ambient temperature. (This invention also relates to a similar mixture which has been created by the removal of methane or a lean gas from a richer natural gas mixture.)

Claims (16)

1. A method for the storage of natural gas in a pressurized container for transport and the subsequent transport of said natural gas, said method comprising the refrigeration of natural gas below ambient temperature and the addition of C2+
(all ethane and heavier hydrocarbons, including all isomers and both saturated and unsaturated compounds) at a temperature between - 140 degrees F and + 30 degrees F and at a pressure between 75% and 150% of the Phase Transition Pressure of the resulting gas mixture.
2. The method of Claim 1, not using LNG as a form of refrigeration.
3. The method of Claim 1 where at a pressure between 100% and 150% of the Phase Transition Pressure of the resulting gas mixture.
4. A method for the storage of natural gas in a pressurized container for transport and the subsequent transport of said natural gas, said method comprising the refrigeration of natural gas below ambient temperature and the addition of C2 and related C2 hydrocarbons (hydrocarbons with 2 carbon molecules) at a temperature between-- 140 degrees F and + 30 degrees F and at a pressure between 75% of the Phase Transition Pressure of the resulting gas mixture and 1000 psia.
5. The method of Claim 4, not using LNG as a form of refrigeration.
6. The method of Claim 4, but at a pressure between 100% of the Phase Transition Pressure of the resulting gas mixture and 1000 psia.
7. A method for the storage of natural gas in a pressurized container for transport and the subsequent transport of said natural gas, said method comprising the refrigeration of natural gas below ambient temperature and the addition of C3 and related hydrocarbons (hydrocarbons with 3 carbon molecules) at a temperature between - 140 degrees F and + 30 degrees F and at a pressure between 75% of the Phase Transition Pressure of the resulting gas mixture and 1000 psia.
8. The method of Claim 7, but at a pressure between 100% of the Phase Transition Pressure of the resulting gas mixture and 1000 psia.
9. The method of Claim 7, not using LNG as a form of refrigeration.
10. A method for the storage of natural gas in a pressurized container for transport and the subsequent transport of said natural gas, said method comprising the refrigeration of natural gas below ambient temperature and the addition of C4+
and related hydrocarbons (hydrocarbons having 4 or more carbon molecules) at a temperature between - 140 degrees F and + 30 degrees F at a pressure between 75%
and 150% of the Phase Transition Pressure of the resulting gas mixture.
11. The method of Claim 10, not using LNG as a form of refrigeration.
12. The method of Claim 10, but at a pressure between 100% and 150% of the Phase Transition Pressure of the resulting gas mixture.
13. A method for the storage of natural gas in a pressurized container for transport and the subsequent transport of said natural gas, said method comprising the refrigeration of natural gas below ambient temperature and the addition of carbon dioxide to natural gas, with subsequent storage at a temperature between - 140 degrees F and + 30 degrees F, at a pressure between 75% and 150% of the Phase Transition Pressure of the resulting gas mixture.
14. A method for the storage of natural gas in a pressurized container and the subsequent transport of the natural gas and the container, said method comprising the refrigeration of natural gas below ambient temperature and the removal of methane or a lean gas from a richer natural gas, with said storage of the concentrated rich gas product at a temperature between - 140 F and + 30 F at a pressure between 75% and 150% of the Phase Transition Pressure of the resulting gas mixture.
15. The method of Claim 14, not using LNG as a form of refrigeration.
16. The method of Claim 14, but at a pressure between 100% and 150% of the Phase Transition Pressure of the resulting gas mixture.
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