EP2005094B1 - Method and apparatus for pre-heating lng boil-off gas to ambient temperature prior to compression in a reliquefaction system - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to the field of re-liquefaction of boil-off gases from liquid natural gas (LNG). More specifically, the invention relates to a method and an apparatus for cooling an LNG boil-off gas (BOG) stream in a reliquefaction plant according to the preamble of claims 1 and 3 respectively. Such a method respectively apparatus is known from US2003/0182947 A .
- LNG RS LNG reliquefaction systems
- BOG boil off gases
- the new LNG RS opened the possibility to collect, cool down and reliquefy all BOG and hence preserve the total cargo volume throughout the laden and ballast voyages.
- US 2003/182947 A discloses a process for converting a boil-off stream comprising methane to a liquid having a preselected bubble point temperature.
- the boil-off stream is pressurized, then cooled, and then expanded to further cool and at least partially liquefy the boil-off stream.
- the preselected bubble point temperature of the resulting pressurized liquid is obtained by performing at least one of the following steps: before, during, or after the process of liquefying the boil-off stream, removing from the boil-off stream a predetermined amount of one or more components, such as nitrogen, having a vapor pressure greater than the vapor pressure of methane, and before, during, or after the process of liquefying the boil-off stream, adding to the boil-off stream one or more additives having a molecular weight heavier than the molecular weight of methane and having a vapor pressure less than the vapor pressure of methane.
- WO 03/081154 A1 relates to a method and apparatus for production of pressurized liquefied gas.
- a gas stream is cooled and expanded to liquefy the gas stream.
- the liquefied gas stream is then withdrawn as pressurized gas product and a portion is recycled through the heat exchanger to provide at least a part of the cooling and is returned to the stream. Recycling the pressurized liquefied gas product helps keep the cooling and compression of the gas stream in the supercritical region of the phase diagram.
- J-T valves in parallel with the expander permits running the system until the stream is in the supercritical region of its phase diagram and the hydraulic expander can operate.
- the process is suitable for natural gas streams containing methane to form a pressurized liquefied natural gas (PLNG) product.
- PLNG pressurized liquefied natural gas
- a method for cooling an LNG boil-off gas (BOG) stream in a reliquefaction plant comprising compressing the BOG; heat exchanging the compressed BOG against a coolant in a cold box; flowing substantially re-liquefied BOG from the cold box to the reservoir, characterized by prior to the compression step, pre-heating the BOG to substantially ambient temperatures, by heat exchanging the BOG with said coolant in a first heat exchanger, said coolant prior to the heat exchange having a higher temperature than the BOG, wherein the necessary duty to heat the BOG prior to compression is transferred from the coolant stream, downstream of a coolant compander aftercooler but upstream of the cold box, and wherein a portion of the coolant stream to the BOG pre-heater, at a point between the coolant compander and the pre-heater, is routed into a dedicated flow path in the cold-box before it is mixed with the coolant stream flowing from the pre-heater.
- BOG LNG boil-off gas
- the pressure of the reliquefied BOG between the cold box and the reservoir is controlled independently of the BOG compressor discharge pressure and the reservoir pressure, and the amount of vent gas generated and the vent gas composition thus may be controlled.
- an apparatus for cooling an LNG boil-off gas (BOG) in a reliquefaction system comprising a closed-loop coolant circuit for heat exchange between a coolant and the BOG; a BOG compressor having an inlet side fluidly connected to an LNG reservoir; a cold box having a BOG flowpath with a BOG inlet fluidly connected to the BOG compressor outlet side; said BOG flowpath having outlet for substantially re-liquefied BOG, fluidly connected to the reservoir; said cold box further comprising coolant flowpaths for heat exchange between the BOG and the coolant; characterized by a first heat exchanger in the fluid connection between the reservoir and the BOG compressor inlet side, said first heat exchanger having a coolant path fluidly connected to the closed-loop coolant circuit, at a point downstream of the coolant circuit's compander aftercooler but upstream of the coolant flow paths in the cold box, whereby the BOG compressor receives BOG with temperatures near or at the system ambient temperatures a selector valve in the coolant
- the invention provides a separator in fluid connection with the cold box outlet and with the reservoir, a first valve in the cold box outlet line and a second valve in a line connected to the reservoir, said separator also comprising a vent line, whereby the pressure in the separator may be controlled, and the amount of vent gas and the vent gas composition thus may be adjusted.
- the figure shows schematic a cargo tank 74, holding a volume of LNG 72.
- BOG evaporating from the LNG, enters a line 1 which is connected to a first heat exchanger H10. In this heat exchanger, the BOG is heated up to near-ambient temperatures, as will be described later.
- the BOG enters the first stage BOG compressor C11 via line 2.
- the BOG compressor is shown as a three-stage centrifugal compressor C11, C12, C13, interconnected via lines 3 - 7 via intercoolers H11, H12 and aftercooler H13 as shown in the figure, but other compressor types may be equally applicable.
- the pre-heating ensures that the heat generated by the compression may be rejected through cooling water in the intercoolers H11, H12 and the aftercooler H13.
- Pressurized BOG is then, via a line 8, fed into a second heat exchanger (or "cold box") H20 where it is heat exchanged against a coolant, as will be described later.
- the coolant is preferably nitrogen (N 2 ).
- substantially reliquefied BOG exits the cold box H20 via a lines 9, 10 connected to a separator F10.
- the separator is provided with a vent line 11.
- a throttling valve V10 is arranged in the lines 9, 10 between the cold box and the separator, for expanding the reliquefied BOG.
- reliquefied BOG is fed into the LNG 72 in the cargo tank 74 via lines 12, 13, as shown in figure 1 .
- a valve V11 is arranged in the lines between the separator F10 and the tank 74, the purpose of which will be described later.
- the closed N 2 -Brayton cooling cycle is here represented by a 3-stage compressor C21, C22, C23 with intercoolers H21, H22, aftercooler H23, interconnected via lines 51 - 55 as shown in the figure, and a single expander stage E20.
- Pressurized coolant (N 2 ) exits the compressor and the aftercooler H23 via a line 56 connected to a three-way valve V12.
- the three-way valve V12 is controllable to selectively split the high-pressure N 2 stream flowing in the line 56 into two different streams in respective lines 57, 59, as further detailed below.
- a first outlet of the three-way valve V12 is connected to a coolant inlet in the first heat exchanger H10 via a line 59.
- a line 60 connects the coolant outlet of the first heat exchanger H10 with the second heat exchanger's H20 middle section, via line 61, as shown in figure 1 .
- a line 57 connects a second outlet of the three-way valve V12 to the inlet of a first coolant passage 82 in the second heat exchanger H20 upper section.
- the first coolant passage 82 outlet is connected via a line 58 to an entry point on the line 60 described above.
- a line 61 connects this entry point to the inlet of a second coolant passage 84 in the cold box, in the vicinity of the cold box' middle section, as illustrated by figure 1 .
- Coolant flows through the second coolant passage 84 and into an expander E20 via a line 62.
- the expanded coolant enters the second heat exchanger (cold box) H20 lower section via a line 63 connected to the inlet of a third coolant passage 86 before it exits the heat exchanger and flows back to the compressor C21, C22, C23 via the line 50.
- the flow split here described as a three-way valve V12 can equally be performed by other flow control configurations, such as normal single line control valves, orifices, etc.
- the important aspect is that the flow split can be controlled in order to cope with varying BOG flow conditions.
- the heat exchanger H10 upstream the BOG compressor C11, C12, C13 is installed to preserve the low-temperature duty in the BOG coming from the tanks 74, within the system.
- the BOG temperature should be allowed to increase up to near-ambient temperatures.
- the duty must be absorbed by another stream in the reliquefaction system, originating at a higher temperature than the BOG stream.
- This other stream will typically be a fraction of the warm high-pressure N 2 -stream 59 as shown in figure 1 .
- Other alternatives such as using the entire N 2 -stream (not only a part of it), or the BOG-stream from downstream the BOG compressor's aftercooler are also possible.
- the process of figure 1 will probably be the most beneficial, given the limitations and characteristics of commonly employed equipment for such processes. Consequently, only the process of figure 1 , involving a split of the high-pressure N 2 -stream 56 downstream the N 2 -compander's aftercooler H23 into two different streams 57, 59, will be discussed next.
- the BOG pre-heater control is based on controlling the coolant flow (N 2 ) on the secondary side.
- the energy which is transferred between the compressed N 2 and the BOG in the first heat exchanger H10 (pre-heater) will depend on the BOG flow and temperature, and consequently be a more or less fixed value [kW] as long as the BOG flow is constant. This means that the temperature of the N 2 flow exiting the pre-heater H10 will vary with the N 2 flow rate.
- the three-way valve V12 (or equivalent flow split constellations) in the N 2 stream upstream the pre-heater H10 can be used for two different purposes:
- the freedom represented by the flow split (three-way valve V12) can be used to ensure a very efficient heat exchange (low LMTD [log mean temp difference], and consequently low exergy losses) in the upper parts of the cold box H20.
- the heating and cooling curves can in theory be designed to be parallel with a constant temperature difference between streams at any temperature in the upper (warm) parts of the cold box.
- the Brayton cycle is based on the concept that pressurized N 2 has a higher heat capacity than low pressure N 2 , the heating curves can only be made parallel if the high pressure mass flow is smaller than the cold, low pressure flow.
- the split of the high pressure stream will consequently cause a very efficient heat exchange in the upper parts of the cold box, and since the branch flow also is cooled independently in the BOG pre-heater, the energy penalty which otherwise would have been associated with the mixing of the two high pressure N2 streams at a lower temperature is reduced to a minimum.
- the flow split will typically be controlled based on the BOG compressor suction temperature.
- Another benefit of the flow split control made possible by the three-way valve V12 is that the temperature of the high pressure N 2 stream exiting the pre-heater H10 and flowing in the line 60, can be monitored and, if necessary, controlled in order to avoid rapid temperature fluctuations in the flow which is reintroduced to the cold box via the line 61.
- the cold box is normally made in aluminium and is sensitive to thermal stress.
- a safety control function which changes the flow through the pre-heater based on undesirable conditions, the temperature of all streams entering the cold box can be carefully controlled. This would not have been possible if the pre-heater was a low pressure BOG vs. high pressure BOG heat exchanger, as the high temperature BOG outlet temperature would change synchronously with the fluctuation in the low pressure incoming BOG.
- the split ratio defining the flows of streams 57 and 59 will be adjusted in order to extract as much low temperature duty as possible from the low temperature BOG.
- this configuration also opens for controlling the split ratio with respect to the temperature of the nitrogen stream 61 entering the cold box' middle section. Doing so, conditions which may expose the main heat exchanger H20 to damaging thermal stresses can easily be eliminated.
- the heat exchangers H10 and H20 can be combined in one single multi-pass heat exchanger.
- the main heat exchanger (cold box) H20 typically will be a plate-fin heat exchanger, which to some extent is sensitive to both rapid temperature fluctuations and large local temperature approaches, it can be feasible to extract some of the heat transfer to an external heat exchanger of a more robust type, as shown at the pre-heater H10 in figure 1 .
- the heat exchanger configuration shown in figure 1 will also dampen the temperature fluctuations of the flow 61 entering the main heat exchanger's H20 middle section, since the N 2 -coolant stream will be very large compared to the BOG flow. This will ensure a much safer operation with respect to thermal stresses in the cold box.
- the main incentive for employing ambient temperature BOG compression is the possibility this offers for rejecting heat to the ambience. While today's commonly used BOG compressors preserves the compression heat within the BOG stream, the compression heat can now be delivered to an external source operating at ambient or near ambient temperatures (e.g. cooling water).
- ambient or near ambient temperatures e.g. cooling water
- Ambient temperature compression also offers other benefits. Since an aftercooler H13 as shown in figure 1 typically will be associated with this system, the temperature of the compressed stream 8 entering the cold box is stabilized relative to the heat rejection source's temperature. After- and intercooling also represent major advantages with respect to operation in recycle and/or anti surge modes, where the external cooling media ensures stable operation, normally without any additional temperature control.
- Ambient temperature BOG compression is especially favourable for LNG vessels where boil-off rates, compositions, temperatures and pressures may vary considerably with the type of voyage (ballast or laden voyages) and cargo. Inter- and aftercooling towards ambient conditions will stabilize the compression conditions and ease capacity control (recycling, etc.)
- a "higher" pressure ratio over the BOG compressors C11,C12,C13 will in this context relate to a higher cold box inlet pressure in the line 8 than what is strictly necessary to provide a sufficient differential pressure for forcing the LNG back to the cargo tanks.
- cryogenic separator F10 to be placed at an intermediate pressure level, typically limited to a zone between two valves V10, V11 as shown in figure 1 .
- the pressure in this zone can then be controlled independently of the BOG compressor discharge pressure and the cargo tank pressure. Accordingly, some of the overall system's capacity control can be performed by pressure adjustments in this region. It will consequently enable the operator or the automated control system to adjust both the amount of vent gas generated as well as the vent gas composition in order to operate under the most economically favourable conditions during all LNG price fluctuations.
- a dedicated line can also be placed in order to bypass the separator under conditions where reliquefied BOG is so much subcooled that the separation pressure otherwise will drop below a defined minimum value.
- the pressure differential between the main heat exchanger H20 and the separator F10 ensures that the separator can be placed more independent of the main heat exchanger.
- a higher BOG compressor discharge pressure will increase the gain (either in form of a higher adiabatic temperature change or reduced flash gas generation) during the throttling processes down to tank pressure.
- the purpose of the three-way valve V12 is to selectively control the flow split between (i) the line 59 connected to the first heat exchanger H10 and (ii) the line 57 connected to the cold box H20.
- the three-way valve V12 described above may be replaced by e.g. a controllable choke valve in the line 60, downstream of the first heat exchanger H10, and a fixed-dimension restriction in the line 57.
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