EP3536599B1 - Refueling tanker ship for ships powered by liquefied natural gas (lng), as well as a liquefied natural gas lng loading station - Google Patents

Refueling tanker ship for ships powered by liquefied natural gas (lng), as well as a liquefied natural gas lng loading station Download PDF

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EP3536599B1
EP3536599B1 EP19382160.0A EP19382160A EP3536599B1 EP 3536599 B1 EP3536599 B1 EP 3536599B1 EP 19382160 A EP19382160 A EP 19382160A EP 3536599 B1 EP3536599 B1 EP 3536599B1
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Miguel DUVISON SANTIAGO
Roberto CERRATO ORTEGA
Francisco Javier GALLO CARRASCO
Juan ROMERO BLANCO
Jordi Josep ESPARBE MAINAR
Piedad GARCÍA DÍAZ
Mario BONAUT PRIETO
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B25/00—Load-accommodating arrangements, e.g. stowing, trimming; Vessels characterised thereby
    • B63B25/002—Load-accommodating arrangements, e.g. stowing, trimming; Vessels characterised thereby for goods other than bulk goods
    • B63B25/008—Load-accommodating arrangements, e.g. stowing, trimming; Vessels characterised thereby for goods other than bulk goods for wheeled cargo
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
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    • B63B25/02—Load-accommodating arrangements, e.g. stowing, trimming; Vessels characterised thereby for bulk goods
    • B63B25/08—Load-accommodating arrangements, e.g. stowing, trimming; Vessels characterised thereby for bulk goods fluid
    • B63B25/12—Load-accommodating arrangements, e.g. stowing, trimming; Vessels characterised thereby for bulk goods fluid closed
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B25/00—Load-accommodating arrangements, e.g. stowing, trimming; Vessels characterised thereby
    • B63B25/02—Load-accommodating arrangements, e.g. stowing, trimming; Vessels characterised thereby for bulk goods
    • B63B25/08—Load-accommodating arrangements, e.g. stowing, trimming; Vessels characterised thereby for bulk goods fluid
    • B63B25/12—Load-accommodating arrangements, e.g. stowing, trimming; Vessels characterised thereby for bulk goods fluid closed
    • B63B25/14—Load-accommodating arrangements, e.g. stowing, trimming; Vessels characterised thereby for bulk goods fluid closed pressurised
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B25/00—Load-accommodating arrangements, e.g. stowing, trimming; Vessels characterised thereby
    • B63B25/18—Detachable decks
    • B63B25/20—Detachable decks for motor vehicles or the like
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B27/00—Arrangement of ship-based loading or unloading equipment for cargo or passengers
    • B63B27/14—Arrangement of ship-based loading or unloading equipment for cargo or passengers of ramps, gangways or outboard ladders ; Pilot lifts
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B27/00—Arrangement of ship-based loading or unloading equipment for cargo or passengers
    • B63B27/19—Other loading or unloading equipment involving an intermittent action, not provided in groups B63B27/04 - B63B27/18
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B27/00—Arrangement of ship-based loading or unloading equipment for cargo or passengers
    • B63B27/30—Arrangement of ship-based loading or unloading equipment for transfer at sea between ships or between ships and off-shore structures
    • B63B27/34—Arrangement of ship-based loading or unloading equipment for transfer at sea between ships or between ships and off-shore structures using pipe-lines
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B35/00—Vessels or similar floating structures specially adapted for specific purposes and not otherwise provided for
    • B63B35/28—Barges or lighters
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63H—MARINE PROPULSION OR STEERING
    • B63H21/00—Use of propulsion power plant or units on vessels
    • B63H21/38—Apparatus or methods specially adapted for use on marine vessels, for handling power plant or unit liquids, e.g. lubricants, coolants, fuels or the like
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • 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
    • F17C2223/00—Handled fluid before transfer, i.e. state of fluid when stored in the vessel or before transfer from the vessel
    • F17C2223/01—Handled fluid before transfer, i.e. state of fluid when stored in the vessel or before transfer from the vessel characterised by the phase
    • F17C2223/0146—Two-phase
    • F17C2223/0153—Liquefied gas, e.g. LPG, GPL
    • F17C2223/0161—Liquefied gas, e.g. LPG, GPL cryogenic, e.g. LNG, GNL, PLNG
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • 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
    • F17C2265/00—Effects achieved by gas storage or gas handling
    • F17C2265/06—Fluid distribution
    • F17C2265/061—Fluid distribution for supply of supplying vehicles
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • 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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    • F17C2270/0102—Applications for fluid transport or storage on or in the water
    • F17C2270/0105—Ships
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • 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
    • F17C2270/00—Applications
    • F17C2270/01—Applications for fluid transport or storage
    • F17C2270/0165—Applications for fluid transport or storage on the road
    • F17C2270/0168—Applications for fluid transport or storage on the road by vehicles
    • F17C2270/0171—Trucks

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  • the invention is comprised in the technical field of natural gas transport and logistics systems, more specifically in the transport of liquefied natural gas LNG from gas deposits or gas-producing countries to the end consumers or clients, when said consumers are in hard-to-access marine locations.
  • the transport and distribution ship of the invention is likewise comprised in the field of marine means used for the transport and distribution of liquefied natural gas between end consumers or clients who may be located close to or far from the coast, but are scatter about in a large are of islands, between which logistic transport can be done at sea.
  • the ship of the invention is also comprised in the technical field of refueling other ships, more specifically ships powered with liquefied natural gas LNG.
  • the transport of liquefied natural gas LNG from natural gas-producing countries to consumer countries is done through large ships called gas carriers.
  • gas carriers In these carriers, the gas must be kept at a temperature of -161° C for long journeys, with the gas natural being transported in liquid state at a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure.
  • the large gas carriers have a cargo capacity of between 30,000 and 266,000 m 3 .
  • LNG is transported in tanks that withstand these low temperatures, with the LNG being kept at the temperature at which it has been loaded, i.e., at about -161°C throughout the entire voyage, but depending on its temperature and pressure, part of the liquid evaporates due to boiling.
  • the evaporated gas is normally used to drive the carrier, either consuming it in boilers or using it in engines which use the gas as fuel.
  • PCT patent application WO2016/036690 is known, which relates to a system for small scale marine transportation of cryogenic hydrocarbons, i.e., it relates to small scale liquefied natural gas transportation, said system including a plurality of swap barges each having a cryogenic hydrocarbon capacity of 25,000 m 3 or less, and a transfer ship, where the plurality of small scale LNG swap barges and the transfer ship cooperate to distribute gas to facilities on land, where the liquefied gas is unloaded and regasified.
  • This system facilities the supply of natural gas to coastal regions which a shallow draft, rendering their use suitable in these circumstances, but there is still a need for a port infrastructure for the storage of liquefied natural gas and even a regasification plant from where the gas is distributed through pipelines to the end consumer or client.
  • EP3012185 A1 discloses a LNG ro-ro bunkering barge wherein the LNG tanker trucks are pre-filled and are used for re-fueling a LNG vessel.
  • a second problem in this type of consumers is that although they have port facilities for unloading LNG, they do not have large LNG tanker trucks; furthermore they lack pipelines distributing LNG among consumers.
  • An LNG transport and distribution system which does not depend on each specific island or area to be supplied, which is a completely autonomous system, is therefore advisable.
  • Spanish patent application P201730936 belonging to the same applicant discloses a carrier for liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker trucks provided solely for being supplied by a small LNG carrier and for the tanker trucks in the carrier to be loaded through the loading posts. Once the ship approaches land, the tanker trucks are distributed on land to supply users, and return to the carrier to be consequently filled and to subsequently initiate the cycle.
  • LNG liquefied natural gas
  • LNG liquefied natural gas
  • the object of the invention consisting of a ship for refueling ships powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG), as well as of a liquefied natural gas LNG loading station, comprising:
  • each tanker truck has at least one pump for the transfer of liquefied natural gas, preferably as many transfer pumps as there tanker trucks supplying LNG to the ship to be refueled being used.
  • the ship has a circuit in the ship itself, formed by a manifold joining the loading/unloading modules of the bays with the connection module linked to the ship to be refueled, which circuit has its own pump for the transfer of liquefied natural gas between the tanker trucks and the ship to be refueled with liquefied natural gas.
  • the means of access and means of exit for the tanker trucks can be the same, or the means of access can be located at the end opposite the means of exit for the tanker trucks in the ship, whereby small sized tanker trucks which can be maneuvered on the deck of the ship and can exit through the access through which they entered can be used, or when larger sized tanker trucks are used, which are difficult to maneuver as they require a large space, the most suitable arrangement would be the trucks entering at one end of the carrier and exiting at the opposite end according to the orientation of the tanker truck tractor heads.
  • the means of access and exit for the tanker trucks consist of drive-on ramps for the tanker trucks, as it will facilitate getting the trucks on and off the deck of the ship, with each tanker truck being located at its loading post for loading LNG.
  • connection module for connecting the ship to the LNG supply, which comprises:
  • connection module for connecting the ship to the LNG supply, which comprises:
  • This ship does not have LNG tanks for supplying fuel to a third party, but rather it is a means of transferring and distributing LNG from the small LNG carrier and the tanker trucks arranged on its deck.
  • the deck of the ship is divided into one or multiple loading posts for tanker trucks, since deck space can be optimized for loading multiple tanker trucks, where it can adopt configurations with four, six, nine, or more loading posts for tanker trucks, adapted to the size of the ship.
  • Each loading post for tanker trucks corresponds to at least one loading/unloading module for loading/unloading LNG in/from the tanker trucks.
  • These loading/unloading modules for loading/unloading LNG in or from the tanker trucks comprise:
  • a final detail to be taken into account is the discharge conduit for the gases coming from LNG vaporization of the tanker trucks, which in a preferable arrangement of the invention is removed from the ship to be liquefied outside of same, although being able to liquefy it in the ship itself or being able to use it for consumption of the drive engines thereof in the event they are powered by gas is not ruled out.
  • the refueling ship for ships powered by liquefied natural gas LNG, as well as a liquefied natural gas LNG loading station, is completed with the inclusion of systems that are essential for handling the ship and the products transported in it:
  • Figures 1 to 3 respectively depict a profile view, plan view, and cross-section view of a ship (1) for carrying tanker trucks (3) such as the one proposed by the invention, in which said ship has a planar surface which is the deck (2), which is accessed from either the bow access (4) or from the stern access (5), which bow (4) and stern (5) are indifferent in this case as the ship can navigate anyway as it has having propulsion systems (6) on both sides and is thus able to increase maneuverability.
  • said ship has nine loading posts (9) for tanker trucks, where the trucks are located in rows of three by three, covering the deck of the ship.
  • the cross-section view of the ship which is shown in Figure 3 , three of the tanker trucks (3) can be seen aligned with the loading/unloading modules (10) for the tanker trucks.
  • Figure 4 depicts a schematic bird's eye perspective view of a ship (1) like that of the invention loading or unloading tanker trucks (3) on or off the deck (2) of the ship. This depiction allows seeing how a tanker truck (3) accesses the bow access (4) through the bow ramp (7) and how another tanker truck (3) is already placed in its loading/unloading post (9) so that the LNG tanker truck can be filled from the loading/unloading module (10) or LNG can be unloaded for refueling another ship. These operations are carried out when the ship approaches the small LNG carrier and is connected to it for the operations for loading tanker trucks, or if another ship to be refueled in bunkering operations approaches, the tanks are unloaded to the ship to be refueled.
  • Figures 5 and 6 depict schematic plan views of the process of loading and unloading the trucks on the deck of the ship.
  • they are observed by means of arrows the flow of empty trucks entering in the ship (1) through the stern access (5), and it can also be observed how each tanker truck is located in its loading/unloading post (9) for being connected to the loading/unloading modules (10).
  • the ship (1) reaches port, its bow and the bow access (4) are facing the dock of the port, so that the trucks follow a flow without maneuvers on the ship (1), i.e., if the tanker trucks enter at the bow, they must exit through the stern (5), thereby avoiding maneuvers of the tanker trucks on the deck of the ship (2).
  • Figure 7 depicts a diagram of the layout of conduits existing in the ship (1) and how it is connected to the small LNG carrier (11) or to the ship to be refueled (11') through the connection module (12) of the ship.
  • This same figure shows the twelve loading modules (10), each of which will have
  • the distribution module (17) for distributing LNG in the ship is, and it is basically made up of LNG feed lines (15) and LNG vapor lines (16), which are connected to the small LNG carrier (11) or to the ship to be refueled (11').
  • Figure 8 depicts a diagram of the loading and unloading module for a tanker truck (3).
  • the loading/unloading area (20) of the tanker truck (3) has been separated from the area for the connection to the pumping module (21) from the tanker trucks (3) in the event of choosing the operation for refueling carriers by means of the pumping module.
  • the ship of the invention carries tanks in the two operations that can be performed.
  • the tanker trucks (3) are filled from an LNG carrier, which is done through area (20) of the loading and unloading module, where the LNG feed line (13) and the LNG vapor return line (14) can be seen.
  • LNG When the ship is performing refueling operations, LNG is unloaded from the tank (3) through the LNG line consisting of the LNG loader/unloader (13) of area (20), when it uses the pump of the tank for performing a transfer, or it uses the connection to the pumping module (21) when the pumping equipment of the ship of the invention is in charge of removing the LNG from the tanks for the transfer thereof to the ship to be refueled.
  • the vaporized gas connection formed by the boil-off gas BOG unloader (14) for maintaining pressure in the system will be the same in both cases of pumping.
  • FIG. 9 shows a diagram of pipes in the event of using the pumping module (23) for bunkering with the ship that is going to be refueled through the connection module (12) of the ship.
  • Said figure shows the connection between the loading/unloading posts (10) for the trucks to a manifold (22), the pumping equipment (23) for the liquefied natural gas aspirated from said manifold (22), and LNG pumping connections consisting of the LNG and boil-off gas pumping module (18) consisting of the boil-off gas BOG pumping module (19), to the connection module (12) of the ship as it appears in Figure 7 .

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SI201930010T SI3536599T1 (sl) 2018-03-06 2019-03-05 Tanker za dotakanje za ladje, ki so gnane z utekočinjenim zemeljskim plinom (LNG), in postaja za natovarjanje utekočinjenega zemeljskega plina LNG
HRP20201951TT HRP20201951T1 (hr) 2018-03-06 2020-12-07 Brod tanker, namijenjen opskrbi gorivom brodova pogonjenih ukapljenim zemnim plinom (lng), kao i postaja za utovar ukapljenog zemnog plina (lng)

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