EP3359867A1 - Method for supplying cryogenic liquid, and facility for implementing said method - Google Patents
Method for supplying cryogenic liquid, and facility for implementing said methodInfo
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- EP3359867A1 EP3359867A1 EP16793944.6A EP16793944A EP3359867A1 EP 3359867 A1 EP3359867 A1 EP 3359867A1 EP 16793944 A EP16793944 A EP 16793944A EP 3359867 A1 EP3359867 A1 EP 3359867A1
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- liquid
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Definitions
- the present invention relates to a method for delivering cryogenic liquid and an installation for implementing this method.
- the invention may relate to any type of cryogenic liquid, that is to say any liquid obtained by cooling at very low temperatures (generally below -100 ° C.) gases (pure or gas mixtures) such as, for example, nitrogen, helium or natural gas (methane).
- gases pure or gas mixtures
- methane nitrogen, helium or natural gas
- cryogenic liquids For some uses of cryogenic liquids, the liquid is stored in a relatively large vessel and means are provided for delivering relatively small amounts of liquid into containers, such as a tank of a truck.
- a refueling station with a storage tank and pressurized distribution means adapted to the container to be filled generally comprising a pump for transferring cryogenic liquid from the storage tank to a tank of a vehicle.
- the invention also relates to the transfer of cryogenic liquid to another type of container, for example a cryogenic liquid tank or a dewar.
- a container means any type of tank or container or the like adapted to contain liquid, and more particularly here a cryogenic liquid.
- the document FR-2 997 165 relates to a method for filling with a cryogenic liquid a tank, from an upstream storage, where there is a filling station through which passes a first channel connecting the reservoir storage and allowing the transfer of cryogenic liquid storage tank, and a second path connecting a gas outlet of the tank to the filling station and to bring the gas to be discharged from the tank to the filling station, the second line of return gas to the station being devoid of discharge but being provided with a solenoid valve or several solenoid valves arranged in parallel, normally closed (s), the filling being controlled by the action on the solenoid valve to open as much as necessary so as to obtain a desired pressure difference Delta P (between storage and tank), and a final pressure value in the tank complies with a desired setpoint, associated with the tank considered to be filled.
- the document FR-3,006,742 discloses a device for filling a tank with a liquefied gaseous fuel at a cryogenic temperature, comprising a source tank for storing gaseous fuel in the liquid state at a cryogenic temperature, a pipe extraction device comprising a pump, the withdrawal pipe comprising an upstream end connected to the source reservoir and a downstream end comprising a connection intended to be connected to a reservoir to be filled, the withdrawal pipe comprising, downstream of the pump, a portion of bypass passing inside the source reservoir and comprising a submerged heat exchanger, the withdrawal pipe comprising a bypass valve system (s) shaped to control the relative proportions of the pumped fluid transiting and not passing through the bypass portion , to regulate the temperature of the liquid withdrawn during filling and the device filling device comprises a cryocooler connected to the source reservoir for selectively liquefying gas present in the source reservoir.
- cryogenic liquid delivery station such as for example LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas)
- its reservoir is sometimes under pressure due to the evaporation of the cryogenic liquid in the tank.
- a degassing that is to say remove gas from the tank to lower the pressure therein.
- cryogenic liquid is brought under pressure to the reservoir.
- the liquid distribution stops when one of the following two conditions is met: the pressure in the tank exceeds a predetermined threshold or the liquid flow passes below a predetermined threshold.
- two main phenomena affect the pressure in the tank.
- the first tends to increase the pressure in the tank and the second tends to lower it. Indeed, when liquid comes to fill the tank, the available volume for the gas decreases and thus the gas is compressed causing the pressure to increase. On the other hand, as the liquid introduced into the reservoir is cold, a heat exchange with the gas is carried out and the latter then partially condenses. The quantity (mass or number of moles) of gas thus decreases tending to lower the pressure in the tank.
- the present invention therefore aims to allow a good filling of a tank, that is to say to automatically fill the tank at its nominal filling level, which may correspond for example to the maximum level of filling allowed.
- Another object of the present invention is to allow to determine quite precisely both the amount of liquid introduced into the tank and the amount of gas removed therefrom.
- the implementation of the present invention will have an excess cost preferably zero compared to a cryogenic liquid delivery station (including LNG).
- the present invention provides a method for delivering cryogenic liquid comprising the following steps:
- the method further comprises the following steps:
- a degassing operation may be stopped, for example, when the pressure in the tank passes below a predetermined threshold and / or if a quantity of gas, predetermined depending in particular on a quantity of liquid delivered and / or a quantity of gas removed in previous steps, is removed from the tank.
- the delivery process can also be stopped, for example, if the quantity of gas withdrawn during the last degassing operation performed is below a predetermined threshold and if the quantity of cryogenic liquid delivered during the last liquid delivery operation cryogenic is above a predetermined threshold, after a last delivery of cryogenic liquid was then performed.
- the present invention also relates to a cryogenic liquid delivery installation comprising a cryogenic liquid supply pipe and possibly a degassing pipe, characterized in that it further comprises a management system for the implementation of each of the steps a method as described above.
- such a delivery facility may include:
- means for delivering cryogenic liquid including means for sealingly connecting a reservoir,
- a management and control system acting, on the one hand, on the means for delivering and stopping the delivery as a function of the liquid pressure in the reservoir and / or the flow of liquid delivered to the reservoir and / or the quantity of gas removed during the previous degassing and, secondly, on the degassing means for controlling a degassing of the tank after at least one delivery of cryogenic liquid.
- an installation comprising:
- a first flexible pipe downstream of the first flowmeter for connecting the supply line to a tank for delivering cryogenic liquid thereto
- a degassing line connected to the supply line between the first flowmeter and the first valve
- an installation according to the invention may comprise :
- a first flexible pipe downstream of the second valve intended to connect the supply line to a tank for delivering cryogenic liquid to the latter
- a degassing line connected to the supply line between the first flowmeter and the second valve
- degassing pipe intended to be connected to the tank in order to make it possible to withdraw gas from the latter, said degassing pipe being connected to the supply line downstream of the second valve via a link.
- FIG. 1 is a logic diagram illustrating a preferred variant embodiment of a method according to the invention
- FIG. 2 diagrammatically illustrates a cryogenic liquid delivery installation that can advantageously be used for carrying out the method illustrated in FIG. 1, and
- FIG. 3 schematically illustrates a delivery installation for implementing the method illustrated in FIG. 1, simplified with respect to that of Figure 2.
- the method described below is implemented when a tank 2 is connected to a cryogenic liquid delivery station.
- the tank 2 can be a tank of a vehicle or an independent container (bottle, dewar, ).
- the cryogenic liquid is for example LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) but it can be any other type of cryogenic liquid (liquid nitrogen, ).
- LNG Liquefied Natural Gas
- the first step R thus consists in connecting the tank 2 to an LNG delivery station.
- the latter allows the transfer of a limited amount of LNG from a storage tank (not shown) to tanks, or the like, of smaller sizes.
- the connection between the tank 2 and the delivery station is carried out by a flexible pipe which comprises two pipes: a first pipe, called the supply line 4, which is intended to bring the LNG from the storage tank to tank 2 of the truck and a second pipe, called degassing pipe 6 for evacuating the gas phase elements present in the tank 2.
- the user who wishes to obtain the filling of his tank then requests this filling by pressing for example a button (not shown).
- step: P? This pressure must be greater than the saturation pressure of the liquid (LNG) to prevent immediate evaporation of the liquid introduced into the tank 2. This condition is most often fulfilled because there is usually still liquid in the tank 2. It should be however, also make sure that this pressure is not too high. Indeed, if the pressure is too close to the maximum permissible pressure of the tank or if this pressure is too close to the maximum pressure that can be delivered by the filling system, then it will be advisable not to send liquid to the tank 2.
- LNG saturation pressure of the liquid
- the method then provides a predetermined pressure (P 0 ) from which it is expected to carry out a degassing of the tank 2.
- P 0 a predetermined pressure
- P> Po a degassing operation
- gas is removed from the tank 2.
- the gas is returned to the cryogenic liquid network.
- the amount of gas withdrawn is measured. This measurement can be done precisely with a flowmeter adapted to the nature of the gas and the measurement conditions. Since the pressure of the gas is known (measured) as well as the pipe dimensions and the downstream pressure, the quantity of gas withdrawn from the tank 2 can be estimated as a function of the duration of the degassing operation. Other methods can be used to determine the amount of gas removed from the tank 2.
- step L1 When the pressure in the tank 2 has returned to below the predetermined pressure P 0 , then the filling of the tank 2 with LNG can begin (step L1). As illustrated in the logic diagram, this filling step is performed without degassing beforehand if the pressure in the tank 2 is less than P 0 .
- a step of cooling the system Before allowing LNG to enter the tank 2, a step of cooling the system, not planned on the flowchart to make it simpler, may be necessary to cool the elements of the delivery station and to avoid the risk of injecting gas. in the tank 2.
- This cooling operation, or also called cooling operation, of the system will be described later with reference to FIG. 2.
- the degassing is stopped so that the gas contained in the tank 2 can not exit to the delivery system and remains in the tank 2.
- the amount of cryogenic liquid introduced into the tank 2 tank 2 is measured in order to know the quantity delivered in order to be able to establish a fair price of the transaction.
- step L1 The filling operation (step L1 but also subsequently the other steps / filling / delivery operations that will be provided) stops when one of the following two conditions is fulfilled:
- the liquid flow (for example expressed in liters per second l / s) passes below a second threshold D2.
- the first threshold value P1 may correspond to the predetermined value P 0 defined above, but it may be another limit value.
- the quantity QL of LNG dispensed during this filling operation is preferably measured.
- the method proposed here provides systematically a degassing step (step G2) after this first filling step (step L1). During this degassing step, the quantity Q G of gas withdrawn from the tank 2 is measured and / or estimated.
- a flow meter can measure the quantity Q G, but it is also possible to provide a measurement of the time that the degassing step lasts in order to estimate, quite precisely, the quantity QG. Other methods of measurement or estimation may be considered.
- the rest of the process depends on the amount of gas removed from the tank 2 during this degassing operation. If this quantity is large, that is to say greater than a predetermined quantity Q 0, it is estimated that there is still space in the tank 2 and a new filling step can then be started.
- step F1 the cryogenic liquid delivery process is terminated (step F1).
- the present case corresponds for example to a tank 2 which was almost filled when it was connected to the delivery station before the filling operation.
- step L 2 a final filling step is carried out before terminating the filling process (step F 2).
- step Ln a new filling step is started during which the quantity Q L of cryogenic liquid is measured.
- step Li a new filling step
- step G2 A loop is thus created in which filling and degassing operations are repeated as long as the quantity of gas withdrawn from the tank 2 remains greater than the predetermined value Q 0 and the quantity of liquid transferred to the tank 2 remains below the value predetermined Qi.
- the flow diagram of FIG. 1 does not manage the initialization and the incrementation of the number of filling / degassing loops.
- Steps Ln the quantity Q L of liquid introduced into the tank 2 passes below the threshold Qi and it can thus be ended the filling process.
- step G3 is performed followed by a final filling step (corresponding to step L2 described above).
- the filling process thus ends here also in the final step F2 which corresponds to the end of a filling
- step F1, F2 and F3 the flexible pipe with the filling line 4 and the degassing pipe 6 can then be uncoupled from the tank 2.
- FIG. 2 schematically illustrates a delivery station for implementing the method that has just been presented.
- the latter firstly comprises a supply line 8 in cryogenic liquid which connects the storage tank (not shown) containing the LNG reserve to the supply line 4.
- a first valve 10 is disposed on the supply line 8 and controls the arrival of cryogenic liquid in the delivery system.
- a first flow meter 12 is disposed on the feed line 8 downstream of the first valve 10 to measure the amount of LNG fed to the delivery system. Downstream of this flowmeter is a non-return valve
- a second valve 16 is then disposed on the supply line 18 downstream of the first flow meter 12.
- the delivery system shown in Figure 2 also comprises a degassing line made of several sections.
- a first section 20 of the degassing line connects the supply line 8 between the non-return valve 14 and the second valve 16 to a conduit (not shown) making it possible to reinject the gas to the storage tank or to another recovery system. or possibly to a combustion device.
- a third valve 22 controls the flow of gas in this first section 20.
- a measuring device 24 makes it possible to know the pressure and the temperature of the gas in this first section 20.
- a second section 26 of the degassing line connects the supply line 8 to the flexible pipe, and more particularly to the degassing pipe 6. This second section 26 is connected to the supply line 8 downstream of the second valve 16 This second section 26 has a second flow meter 28.
- a link 30 communicates the second section 26 to the supply line 8 near the supply line 4 and the degassing line 6.
- the connection 30 is connected to the second section. 26 upstream of the second flowmeter 28 and the supply line 8 downstream of the non-return valve 18.
- a third nonreturn valve 32 is provided in the second section 26 between the second flowmeter 28 and the connection of the second section 26 to the supply line 8. It ensures that the gas flowing in this second section 26 is discharged out of the reservoir. 2.
- the first valve 10 is closed to prevent LNG from flowing while the second valve 16 and the third valve 22 are open (continuously or alternately) for allow a return of gas, for example from evaporation of liquid present in the pipes, to the storage tank (or any other gas recovery system).
- step G1 When the hose is connected to the tank 2, the third valve 22 closes to control the flow of gas leaving the tank 2. If a degassing operation (step G1) is provided, then this third valve 22 is opened to allow the gas to be removed from the tank 2. The second flow meter 28 measures then the amount of gas removed from the tank 2.
- step L1 a cooling operation of the delivery system could be envisaged to bring the system to operating temperature.
- LNG is admitted into the delivery system by opening the first valve 10.
- the LNG then flows through the first flow meter 12 and returns to the storage tank by the third valve 22.
- the second valve 16 remains closed during this cooling operation and the control and management system associated with the delivery system does not take into account the amount of LNG measured by the first flow meter 12.
- the first valve 10 and the second valve 16 are open to allow the LNG to pass through the supply line 8 of the storage tank to the tank 2.
- the third valve 22 remains closed so as to prevent a return of gas to the storage tank during the filling steps.
- the first valve 10 is closed first, then the second valve 16.
- a delay is provided for the liquid remaining in the line to evaporate. In this way, it is ensured that the flexible pipe is handled only when it contains gas, which improves the safety of the delivery system.
- the time delay is here determined according to parameters related to the delivery station from calculations and / or experimental tests.
- the first valve 10 is closed so that the delivery system is no longer supplied with cryogenic liquid and the second valve 16 as well as the third valve 22 are open to allow the circulation gas to the storage tank (or other).
- the present device can thus be used to ensure a good filling of the tank 2 by implementing the method described above.
- a simplified embodiment of the delivery station of Figure 2 is illustrated in Figure 3.
- the references used in Figure 2 are shown in Figure 3 to designate similar elements.
- the delivery station illustrated in this FIG. 3 firstly comprises a supply line 8 for cryogenic liquid. It is connected to a storage tank (not shown).
- a first valve 10 is disposed on the supply line 8.
- a first flow meter 12 disposed on the supply line 8 downstream of the first valve 10 is used to measure the amount of liquid (LNG) delivered. This delivery is performed by a first flexible pipe 4 connected to the supply line 8 downstream of the first flow meter 12.
- a degassing line 20 is connected to the supply line 8.
- the connection is made between the first flow meter 12 and the first valve 10.
- the control of the gas flow in the degassing line is realized by a second valve 22 arranged on the degassing line 20.
- the filling process ensures a nominal filling of the tank. Degassing performed after a first filling operation makes it possible to estimate whether the reservoir is well filled, knowing the quantity of gas removed during the degassing and advantageously also the quantity of liquid transferred into the reservoir. If a large amount of liquid has been transferred and little gas has been removed, the tank is probably filled and then just fill up.
- the proposed method also makes it possible to manage intermediate situations between these two situations.
- the proposed device allows the implementation of the method according to the invention. It also makes it possible to precisely measure the quantity of LNG provided to the customer taking into account also gas removed from the tank. This device and method can thus be used for commercial transactions.
- the proposed system is also a safe system for which it is intended to manipulate the connecting pipe to the tank that when the latter is filled with gas (no liquid).
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