EP3945239B1 - System and process for recovering the cold of liquefied natural gas in regasification plants - Google Patents
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- the present invention can be included in the technical field of liquefied natural gas regasification plants.
- the system for recovering the cold of liquefied natural gas in regasification plants of the present invention proposes an alternative to the existing systems for recovering cold, at the same time that it guarantees the stability and reliability of the gas emission to the grid, and allows energy efficiency by not wasting energy nor minimising it, by using the extracted cold energy for other industrial uses.
- Another aim of the invention is the associated process for recovering the cold of liquefied natural gas in regasification plants.
- Liquefied Natural Gas (hereinafter LNG) reception and regasification terminals are facilities that receive LNG from a transporter, generally by sea, via carrier ships, from the terminals wherein the liquefaction process take place, from the gas state thereof received from the wells from which the natural gas is extracted.
- This LNG is stored in a cryogenic state under conditions of saturation temperature and at a pressure very close to atmospheric pressure, approximately at -162 °C, in the tanks for storing LNG.
- the document EP 0828925 A1 discloses a system for recovering the cold of liquefied natural gas in a regasification plant.
- the LNG from the storage tanks is pumped by low pressure pumps up to an intermediate pressure wherein it is mixed with the gas produced by evaporation during storage, previously compressed and, still in liquid state, it is subsequently pressurised by high pressure pumps and sent to the vaporisation systems, where it is vaporised at high pressure and sent to the high pressure natural gas grid from where it will be distributed to the end consumers.
- Liquefaction processes taking place in locations close to natural gas wells, require enormous amounts of energy necessary to generate the refrigeration cycles, generally by cascade systems, and to allow natural gas to cool from around 20-30 °C down to the final -162 °C, temperature at which natural gas liquefaction occurs. This allows LNG to be transported at a reasonable cost by sea.
- LNG arrives at the reception and regasification terminals in liquid state where it must be regasified prior to being introduced into gas pipelines.
- This regasification which is usually produced by vaporisers with seawater or submerged combustion, also requires significant amounts of energy, which are the inverse to those that were required in the liquefaction process at source.
- Seawater vaporisers achieve LNG vaporisation by means of heat exchange with enormous amounts of seawater, which are generally taken and returned to the sea in an open circuit so that the decrease in temperature does not affect the ecological environment in the vicinity of the regasification plant. Energy consumption is mainly required by the pumping systems.
- Submerged combustion vaporisers common in climatic environments wherein the low temperature of seawater makes the installation of the aforementioned vaporisers uneconomical, use the combustion energy of part of the natural gas to heat a water bath and vaporise the LNG. Energy consumption occurs mainly in the combustion of the natural gas stream used. In addition to this energy consumption, the exhaust gases produced in the combustion have an environmental impact.
- the present invention solves all the aforementioned drawbacks.
- the invention presented herein incorporates a novel system for recovering cold, at the same time that it guarantees the stability and reliability of the gas emission to the grid, and allows energy efficiency by not wasting the energy used in the regasification process, or minimising it, by using the cold extracted for other industrial uses.
- the first liquefied natural gas-second hot fluid heat exchanger comprises an intermediate fluid confined inside said first liquefied natural gas-second hot fluid heat exchanger.
- the second hot fluid uses the cold of the first liquefied natural gas stream to make use of the same in industrial processes and be sent to end users, while at the same time control of the first hot fluid is established, so that the flow rate thereof is reduced by the presence of the first liquefied natural gas-second hot fluid heat exchanger, thus contributing to lower consumption and higher energy efficiency.
- the first hot fluid is seawater or a heated water bath in the case of submerged combustion.
- cold is extracted from the first natural gas stream at a pressure greater than the critical pressure and it is returned to enter into the vaporiser at a final temperature suitable for it to be sent to the gas pipeline grid under operating conditions which guarantee the stability of flows.
- the system comprises control means configured to ensure that the first fraction of the first liquefied natural gas stream at the outlet of the first heat exchanger remains at supercritical conditions, such that they are suitable for subsequent mixing in the mixer with the second fraction of the first liquefied natural gas stream and that it does not drop below a first pressure threshold, and establishing a second minimum temperature threshold, avoiding the freezing of the second hot fluid to be sent to the end users and/or the instability of the closed circuit of said second hot fluid.
- control means are further configured to control the flow rate of the second fraction of the first liquefied natural gas stream.
- the flow rate of the second fraction of the first liquefied natural gas stream is greater than the flow rate of the first fraction of the first liquefied natural gas stream.
- control means are further configured to regulate the flow rate of the first hot fluid based on the heat required to bring the temperature of the liquefied natural gas to the temperature required by a gas pipeline grid for the distribution thereof.
- the first hot fluid is seawater.
- the second hot fluid is a cooling fluid that can be used for using the cold in industrial processes.
- the system comprises a second intermediate fluid-third hot fluid heat exchanger, wherein the second hot fluid of the first liquefied natural gas-second hot fluid heat exchanger is an intermediate fluid and the third hot fluid of the second heat exchanger is a cooling fluid.
- the cooling fluid is water, a saline solution in water, NH3, or CO2.
- the present invention further relates to the process of recovering the cold of liquefied natural gas in regasification plants carried out with the system described above, wherein the process comprises the following steps:
- the process comprises a second step of intermediate fluid-third hot fluid heat exchange, wherein the second hot fluid of the first step of heat exchange is an intermediate fluid and the third hot fluid of the second step of heat exchange is a cooling fluid.
- LNG is pumped from at least one LNG tank (30) by first-stage or in-tank pumps (31) and is subsequently pumped up to pressures greater than the critical pressure by high-pressure pumps (32) outside the LNG tank (30).
- first-stage or in-tank pumps (31) is subsequently pumped up to pressures greater than the critical pressure by high-pressure pumps (32) outside the LNG tank (30).
- high-pressure pumps (32) outside the LNG tank (30).
- all (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) or part (12, 13, 14, 15) of the high-pressure stream or first stream is taken from these pumps (10).
- a first fraction (12) of the first stream (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) is sent to a first heat exchanger (39) in flow rate control (43) carried out by the control means, wherein said first fraction (12) of the first LNG stream (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) transfers the cold to the second hot fluid (20, 21) or cooling fluid in this exemplary embodiment, wherein an intermediate fluid (39') is confined in the first exchanger (39) and contributes to the cooling of the second hot fluid (20, 21) or cooling fluid and cold extraction of LNG by means of an arrangement of heat exchange coils, with a first coil through which LNG circulates (39a) it is placed in the vapour phase and produces the condensation of the intermediate fluid (39') which is evaporated by the heat input of the cooling fluid that circulates through a lower coil (39b), this being in the liquid zone that allows the partial or total flooding of the coil.
- this control (43) is to ensure on the one hand that the outlet stream (14) of the first heat exchanger (39) remains at supercritical conditions, which are suitable for stable subsequent mixing in a mixer (38) and, on the other hand, that it does not exceed a threshold (established by a control algorithm) that could cause the freezing of the fluid to be sent to end users and/or the instability of the closed circuit of the intermediate fluid).
- a second fraction (13) of the first stream (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) is sent to the mixer (38) in flow rate control (44) by the control means.
- This flow rate will be greater than a ratio with respect to the flow rate of the first fraction (12) of the first stream (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) sent to the first exchanger (39), ensured by means of a control function (42), preferably FY.
- the invention presented herein enables the instability of mixtures of supercritical fluids or liquid-vapour dual phase fluids to be reduced by means of sophisticated instrumentation and the described controls. This results in an operation compatible with the stability and reliability of the LNG vaporisation process.
- the required input of seawater or first hot fluid (26) will be modulated based on the heat required to bring the LNG temperature to that required by the gas pipeline grid.
- the invention presented herein establishes the flow rate control (47) of the seawater by means of the control means at a value lower than the value that would be necessary in the event of the cold retrieval described herein not occurring, thus contributing to lower consumption and higher energy efficiency.
- Another control function (46) carried out by the control means calculates, by means of a predictive algorithm based on the energy content of the LNG streams sent to the vaporiser (33), the necessary flow rate of seawater, which it sends to another controller (47).
- the temperature required by the end users is established in another controller (40). This will send, by means of a control function (41) carried out by the control means, the signal (set point) of the required LNG flow rate of the first fraction (12) of the first stream, and, by means of another control function (42), the minimum ratio of the second fraction (13) of the first stream (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16), as stated above.
- the intermediate fluid (39') in vapour phase, operating inside the first heat exchanger (39), is condensed to liquid phase due to the transfer of the LNG cold, and it will vaporise again due to the transfer of heat from the second hot fluid (20, 21) or cooling fluid, which is thus cooled to the temperature required by the users.
- a level controller (48) establishes the intermediate fluid level (39') inside the first heat exchanger (39), enabling greater or lesser flooding of the exchange surface that controls the transfer of heat between the intermediate fluid (39') and the second hot fluid (20, 21) or cooling fluid.
- a pressure controller (49) establishes a working pressure of the intermediate fluid (39'), which in turn conditions the saturation temperature of the intermediate fluid (39') which is the working temperature thereof, by working in liquid and vapour phase in a closed circuit.
- a first heat exchanger (35) wherein the cold transmitted to the intermediate fluid (36') by means of the first heat exchanger (35) is transferred to a second intermediate fluid-third hot fluid or cooling fluid heat exchanger (36) to users.
- the hot cooling fluid (20, 21) from the end users (20) is cooled to a lower temperature valid for use thereof in the required industrial processes and sent to the end users (21).
- the intermediate fluid (36') in vapour phase is condensed to liquid phase in the first heat exchanger (35) due to the transfer of the LNG cold, and it flows by gravity to the second heat exchanger (36) or intermediate fluid-cooling fluid exchanger. Here it will be evaporated again due to the transfer of heat from the cooling fluid, which is thus cooled to the temperature required by the users.
- the second heat exchanger (36) or intermediate fluid-cooling fluid exchanger is interconnected on the intermediate fluid (36') side thereof with a container (37) configured to control the flooding of intermediate fluid (36') in the second heat exchanger (36) in addition to constituting an expansion tank for possible increases in the density of the intermediate fluid (36') at temperatures greater than the working temperature.
- a level controller (48) establishes a liquid level in the container (37) configured to control the flooding of intermediate fluid (36'), and by means of communicating vessels, the corresponding level of intermediate fluid (36') in the second heat exchanger (36), enabling greater or lesser flooding of the exchange surface that controls the transfer of heat between the intermediate fluid (36') and the cooling fluid (20, 21).
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- The present invention can be included in the technical field of liquefied natural gas regasification plants.
- The system for recovering the cold of liquefied natural gas in regasification plants of the present invention proposes an alternative to the existing systems for recovering cold, at the same time that it guarantees the stability and reliability of the gas emission to the grid, and allows energy efficiency by not wasting energy nor minimising it, by using the extracted cold energy for other industrial uses.
- Another aim of the invention is the associated process for recovering the cold of liquefied natural gas in regasification plants.
- Liquefied Natural Gas (hereinafter LNG) reception and regasification terminals are facilities that receive LNG from a transporter, generally by sea, via carrier ships, from the terminals wherein the liquefaction process take place, from the gas state thereof received from the wells from which the natural gas is extracted. This LNG is stored in a cryogenic state under conditions of saturation temperature and at a pressure very close to atmospheric pressure, approximately at -162 °C, in the tanks for storing LNG. The document
EP 0828925 A1 discloses a system for recovering the cold of liquefied natural gas in a regasification plant. - The LNG from the storage tanks is pumped by low pressure pumps up to an intermediate pressure wherein it is mixed with the gas produced by evaporation during storage, previously compressed and, still in liquid state, it is subsequently pressurised by high pressure pumps and sent to the vaporisation systems, where it is vaporised at high pressure and sent to the high pressure natural gas grid from where it will be distributed to the end consumers.
- Liquefaction processes, taking place in locations close to natural gas wells, require enormous amounts of energy necessary to generate the refrigeration cycles, generally by cascade systems, and to allow natural gas to cool from around 20-30 °C down to the final -162 °C, temperature at which natural gas liquefaction occurs. This allows LNG to be transported at a reasonable cost by sea.
- In this manner, and as indicated above, LNG arrives at the reception and regasification terminals in liquid state where it must be regasified prior to being introduced into gas pipelines.
- This regasification, which is usually produced by vaporisers with seawater or submerged combustion, also requires significant amounts of energy, which are the inverse to those that were required in the liquefaction process at source.
- Seawater vaporisers achieve LNG vaporisation by means of heat exchange with enormous amounts of seawater, which are generally taken and returned to the sea in an open circuit so that the decrease in temperature does not affect the ecological environment in the vicinity of the regasification plant. Energy consumption is mainly required by the pumping systems.
- Submerged combustion vaporisers, common in climatic environments wherein the low temperature of seawater makes the installation of the aforementioned vaporisers uneconomical, use the combustion energy of part of the natural gas to heat a water bath and vaporise the LNG. Energy consumption occurs mainly in the combustion of the natural gas stream used. In addition to this energy consumption, the exhaust gases produced in the combustion have an environmental impact.
- The aforementioned regasification processes must guarantee stable and reliable operation at all times given the importance of the energy supply that falls on these facilities.
- The present invention solves all the aforementioned drawbacks.
- The invention presented herein incorporates a novel system for recovering cold, at the same time that it guarantees the stability and reliability of the gas emission to the grid, and allows energy efficiency by not wasting the energy used in the regasification process, or minimising it, by using the cold extracted for other industrial uses.
- The present invention solves the technical problems posed by means of a system for recovering the cold of liquefied natural gas in regasification plants comprising:
- at least one tank of liquefied natural gas from which at least one first liquefied natural gas stream is extracted;
- a vaporiser configured to regasify at least the first liquefied natural gas stream, causing it to return to the gaseous state thereof by means of a first hot fluid;
- a first liquefied natural gas-second hot fluid heat exchanger wherein a first fraction of the first liquefied natural gas stream exchanges heat with a second hot fluid which is cooled;
- a liquefied natural gas mixer configured to mix the first fraction of the first liquefied natural gas stream with a second fraction of the first liquefied natural gas stream;
- In this way, LNG vaporisation together with the use of cold can be implemented in the terminals, offering a guarantee of stability and reliability and always preserving the priority objective of supplying the regasified natural gas to the high-pressure national gas grid.
- Preferably, the first liquefied natural gas-second hot fluid heat exchanger comprises an intermediate fluid confined inside said first liquefied natural gas-second hot fluid heat exchanger.
- This way, the second hot fluid uses the cold of the first liquefied natural gas stream to make use of the same in industrial processes and be sent to end users, while at the same time control of the first hot fluid is established, so that the flow rate thereof is reduced by the presence of the first liquefied natural gas-second hot fluid heat exchanger, thus contributing to lower consumption and higher energy efficiency.
- Optionally, the first hot fluid is seawater or a heated water bath in the case of submerged combustion.
- In other words, cold is extracted from the first natural gas stream at a pressure greater than the critical pressure and it is returned to enter into the vaporiser at a final temperature suitable for it to be sent to the gas pipeline grid under operating conditions which guarantee the stability of flows.
- Optionally, the system comprises control means configured to ensure that the first fraction of the first liquefied natural gas stream at the outlet of the first heat exchanger remains at supercritical conditions, such that they are suitable for subsequent mixing in the mixer with the second fraction of the first liquefied natural gas stream and that it does not drop below a first pressure threshold, and establishing a second minimum temperature threshold, avoiding the freezing of the second hot fluid to be sent to the end users and/or the instability of the closed circuit of said second hot fluid.
- Optionally, the control means are further configured to control the flow rate of the second fraction of the first liquefied natural gas stream. Preferably, the flow rate of the second fraction of the first liquefied natural gas stream is greater than the flow rate of the first fraction of the first liquefied natural gas stream.
- In this manner, the instability of the mixtures of supercritical fluids or liquid-vapour dual-phase fluids is reduced by means of sophisticated instrumentation and the described control means. This results in a process compatible with the stability and reliability of the vaporisation process of the liquefied natural gas in the vaporiser.
- Optionally, the control means are further configured to regulate the flow rate of the first hot fluid based on the heat required to bring the temperature of the liquefied natural gas to the temperature required by a gas pipeline grid for the distribution thereof.
- Preferably, the first hot fluid is seawater.
- Optionally, the second hot fluid is a cooling fluid that can be used for using the cold in industrial processes.
- The advantages of the system for using the cold of liquefied natural gas in regasification plants explained above are:
- operation with LNG at pressures greater than the critical pressure thereof, which provides stability in the flows and avoids double phase flows, which avoids noise and vibrations (which in many cases lead to equipment failure)
- mixing of LNG streams at different temperatures in flow rates established by a minimum ratio to additionally guarantee stability in the flows.
- energy efficiency, since it allows for the reduction of the flow rates of the first hot fluid, preferably seawater, needed for increasing the temperature of the LNG to the temperature required for entering the gas pipeline. As a result of the above, the environmental impact caused by the cooled seawater stream that is returned to the sea is reduced.
- Optionally, the system comprises a second intermediate fluid-third hot fluid heat exchanger, wherein the second hot fluid of the first liquefied natural gas-second hot fluid heat exchanger is an intermediate fluid and the third hot fluid of the second heat exchanger is a cooling fluid.
- The additional advantages to the presence of the second heat exchanger are the following:
- control of the possible freezing of the second hot fluid or cooling fluid by establishing a control on the maximum flow rate of LNG sent to the LNG-intermediate fluid exchanger;
- control of the input of cold to the cooling fluid by means of controlling the flooding of the heat exchange area in at least one intermediate fluid-cooling fluid heat exchanger.
- Preferably, the cooling fluid is water, a saline solution in water, NH3, or CO2.
- The present invention further relates to the process of recovering the cold of liquefied natural gas in regasification plants carried out with the system described above, wherein the process comprises the following steps:
- a step of extracting at least a first liquefied natural gas stream from at least one tank of liquefied natural gas;
- a step of regasifying at least the first liquefied natural gas stream, causing it to return to the gaseous state thereof by means of a first hot fluid, carried out by means of the vaporiser;
- a first step of heat exchange between a first fraction of the first liquefied natural gas stream and a second hot fluid which is cooled, carried out in the first heat exchanger;
- a step of mixing the first fraction of the first liquefied natural gas stream with a second fraction of the first liquefied natural gas stream in the mixer; and
- a step of introducing the first liquefied natural gas stream that leaves the mixer in the vaporiser.
- Optionally, the process comprises a second step of intermediate fluid-third hot fluid heat exchange, wherein the second hot fluid of the first step of heat exchange is an intermediate fluid and the third hot fluid of the second step of heat exchange is a cooling fluid.
- To complement the description that is being made and for the purpose of helping to better understand the features of the invention, according to a preferred practical exemplary embodiment thereof, a set of drawings is attached as an integral part of said description, wherein the following has been depicted in an illustrative and non-limiting manner:
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Figure 1 shows a schematic view of the system for using the cold of liquefied natural gas in regasification plants of the present invention according to a first preferred exemplary embodiment. -
Figure 2 shows a schematic view of the system for using the cold of liquefied natural gas in regasification plants of the present invention according to a second preferred exemplary embodiment. - Next, the system for using the cold of liquefied natural gas in regasification plants of the present invention is described in detail.
- In a first preferred exemplary embodiment shown in
Figure 1 , LNG is pumped from at least one LNG tank (30) by first-stage or in-tank pumps (31) and is subsequently pumped up to pressures greater than the critical pressure by high-pressure pumps (32) outside the LNG tank (30). In this preferred exemplary embodiment, all (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) or part (12, 13, 14, 15) of the high-pressure stream or first stream is taken from these pumps (10). - A first fraction (12) of the first stream (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) is sent to a first heat exchanger (39) in flow rate control (43) carried out by the control means, wherein said first fraction (12) of the first LNG stream (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) transfers the cold to the second hot fluid (20, 21) or cooling fluid in this exemplary embodiment, wherein an intermediate fluid (39') is confined in the first exchanger (39) and contributes to the cooling of the second hot fluid (20, 21) or cooling fluid and cold extraction of LNG by means of an arrangement of heat exchange coils, with a first coil through which LNG circulates (39a) it is placed in the vapour phase and produces the condensation of the intermediate fluid (39') which is evaporated by the heat input of the cooling fluid that circulates through a lower coil (39b), this being in the liquid zone that allows the partial or total flooding of the coil. The function of this control (43) is to ensure on the one hand that the outlet stream (14) of the first heat exchanger (39) remains at supercritical conditions, which are suitable for stable subsequent mixing in a mixer (38) and, on the other hand, that it does not exceed a threshold (established by a control algorithm) that could cause the freezing of the fluid to be sent to end users and/or the instability of the closed circuit of the intermediate fluid).
- A second fraction (13) of the first stream (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) is sent to the mixer (38) in flow rate control (44) by the control means. This flow rate will be greater than a ratio with respect to the flow rate of the first fraction (12) of the first stream (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) sent to the first exchanger (39), ensured by means of a control function (42), preferably FY.
- The invention presented herein enables the instability of mixtures of supercritical fluids or liquid-vapour dual phase fluids to be reduced by means of sophisticated instrumentation and the described controls. This results in an operation compatible with the stability and reliability of the LNG vaporisation process.
- Once the second fraction (13) of the first stream (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) and the outlet stream (14) of the first exchanger (39) have been mixed (15), this will be finally mixed with a third fraction (11) of the first stream (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) (in the event that this is not null) and sent (16) to the vaporiser (33), whether this is of the seawater or submerged combustion type.
- The required input of seawater or first hot fluid (26) will be modulated based on the heat required to bring the LNG temperature to that required by the gas pipeline grid.
- The invention presented herein establishes the flow rate control (47) of the seawater by means of the control means at a value lower than the value that would be necessary in the event of the cold retrieval described herein not occurring, thus contributing to lower consumption and higher energy efficiency.
- Another control function (46) carried out by the control means calculates, by means of a predictive algorithm based on the energy content of the LNG streams sent to the vaporiser (33), the necessary flow rate of seawater, which it sends to another controller (47).
- The temperature required by the end users is established in another controller (40). This will send, by means of a control function (41) carried out by the control means, the signal (set point) of the required LNG flow rate of the first fraction (12) of the first stream, and, by means of another control function (42), the minimum ratio of the second fraction (13) of the first stream (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16), as stated above.
- The intermediate fluid (39') in vapour phase, operating inside the first heat exchanger (39), is condensed to liquid phase due to the transfer of the LNG cold, and it will vaporise again due to the transfer of heat from the second hot fluid (20, 21) or cooling fluid, which is thus cooled to the temperature required by the users.
- A level controller (48) establishes the intermediate fluid level (39') inside the first heat exchanger (39), enabling greater or lesser flooding of the exchange surface that controls the transfer of heat between the intermediate fluid (39') and the second hot fluid (20, 21) or cooling fluid.
- A pressure controller (49) establishes a working pressure of the intermediate fluid (39'), which in turn conditions the saturation temperature of the intermediate fluid (39') which is the working temperature thereof, by working in liquid and vapour phase in a closed circuit.
- In a second preferred exemplary embodiment shown in
Figure 2 , instead of only a first heat exchanger, there is a first heat exchanger (35) wherein the cold transmitted to the intermediate fluid (36') by means of the first heat exchanger (35) is transferred to a second intermediate fluid-third hot fluid or cooling fluid heat exchanger (36) to users. In this second heat exchanger (36), the hot cooling fluid (20, 21) from the end users (20) is cooled to a lower temperature valid for use thereof in the required industrial processes and sent to the end users (21). - The intermediate fluid (36') in vapour phase, operating in a closed circuit (18, 19), is condensed to liquid phase in the first heat exchanger (35) due to the transfer of the LNG cold, and it flows by gravity to the second heat exchanger (36) or intermediate fluid-cooling fluid exchanger. Here it will be evaporated again due to the transfer of heat from the cooling fluid, which is thus cooled to the temperature required by the users.
- The second heat exchanger (36) or intermediate fluid-cooling fluid exchanger is interconnected on the intermediate fluid (36') side thereof with a container (37) configured to control the flooding of intermediate fluid (36') in the second heat exchanger (36) in addition to constituting an expansion tank for possible increases in the density of the intermediate fluid (36') at temperatures greater than the working temperature.
- A level controller (48) establishes a liquid level in the container (37) configured to control the flooding of intermediate fluid (36'), and by means of communicating vessels, the corresponding level of intermediate fluid (36') in the second heat exchanger (36), enabling greater or lesser flooding of the exchange surface that controls the transfer of heat between the intermediate fluid (36') and the cooling fluid (20, 21).
- Below is a list of the references used in the exemplary embodiments shown in the Figures. The following references are indicated in said Figures (
Series series 30 for equipment andseries -
Series 10 and 20-- 10.- LNG flow rate pumped at high pressure (above the critical Pressure thereof)
- 11.- LNG flow rate sent directly to Vaporisers
- 12.- LNG flow rate sent to exchanger for cold transfer
- 13.- LNG flow rate to Mixer
- 14.- "Hot" LNG flow rate to Mixer
- 15.- Mixed LNG flow rate to Vaporisers
- 16.- Final LNG flow rate sent to Vaporisers
- 17.- Vaporised Natural Gas flow rate to Gas Pipeline Grid
- 18.- Intermediate Fluid Liquid flow rate in flow by gravity to Exchanger
- 19.- Intermediate Fluid Vapour flow rate to Exchanger
- 20.- "Hot" Cooling Fluid flow rate from end users
- 21.- "Cold" Cooling Fluid flow rate to end users
- 22.- Intermediate Fluid Inlet
- 23.- Intermediate Fluid Outlet
- 24.- Liquid phase equilibrium line between Exchanger and Intermediate Fluid Container
- 25.- Vapour phase equilibrium line between Exchanger and Intermediate Fluid Container
- Series 30-
- 30.- LNG tank
- 31.- Low pressure pumps (First-stage pumps or In-Tank Pumps)
- 32.- High-pressure pumps (Second-stage pumps or Send-out Pumps)
- 33.- Vaporisers
- 34.- Regulation and Measurement Station of Natural Gas to Grid
- 35.- LNG-Intermediate Fluid Exchanger
- 36.- Intermediate Fluid-Cooling Fluid Exchanger
- 36'.- Intermediate fluid for the second exemplary embodiment 37.- Intermediate Fluid Container
- 38.- Inline mixer
- 39.- Integral LNG-Cooling Fluid Exchanger with internal Intermediate Fluid
- 39a.- LNG-Intermediate Fluid Exchange Coil
- 39b.- Intermediate Fluid-Cooling Fluid Exchange Coil
- 39'.- Intermediate fluid for the first exemplary embodiment
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Series 40 and 50-- 40.- TC1 Temperature Controller
- 41.- Calculation function of required LNG flow rate control
- 42.- Calculation function of LNG flow rate ratio control
- 43.- FC1 Flow Rate Controller
- 44.- FC2 Flow Rate Controller
- 45.- FC3 Flow Rate Controller
- 46.- Calculation function of the sum of LNG flow rates and required Seawater flow rate control
- 47.- FC4 Flow Rate Controller
- 48.- LC1 Level Controller
- 49.- Pressure Controller PC1
- 50.- Calculation function of required Flooding
- 60.- Natural gas Grid
Claims (15)
- A system for recovering the cold of liquefied natural gas in regasification plants comprising:- at least one tank (30) of liquefied natural gas from which at least one first liquefied natural gas stream (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) is extracted;- a vaporiser (33) configured to regasify at least the first liquefied natural gas stream (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16), causing it to return to the gaseous state thereof by means of a first hot fluid (26);characterised in that the system additionally comprises:- a first liquefied natural gas-second hot fluid (20, 21) heat exchanger (35, 39) wherein a first fraction (12) of the first liquefied natural gas stream (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) exchanges heat with a second hot fluid (18, 19, 20, 21) which is cooled;- a liquefied natural gas mixer (38) configured to mix the first fraction (12) of the first liquefied natural gas stream (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) with a second fraction (13) of the first liquefied natural gas stream (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16); wherein the first liquefied natural gas stream (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) that leaves the mixer (38) is introduced in the vaporiser (33).
- The system for recovering the cold of liquefied natural gas in regasification plants according to claim 1, characterised in that the first liquefied natural gas-second hot fluid (20, 21) heat exchanger (39) comprises an intermediate fluid (39') confined inside said first liquefied natural gas-second hot fluid heat exchanger (39).
- The system for recovering the cold of liquefied natural gas in regasification plants according to claim 2, characterised in that it comprises control means (48) configured to control the level of intermediate fluid (39') inside the first heat exchanger (39), enabling greater or lesser flooding of the exchange surface that controls the transfer of heat between the intermediate fluid (39') and the second hot fluid (20, 21) or cooling fluid.
- The system for recovering the cold of liquefied natural gas in regasification plants according to claim 1, characterised in that it comprises a second intermediate fluid-third hot fluid heat exchanger (36), wherein the second hot fluid of the first liquefied natural gas-second hot fluid heat exchanger is an intermediate fluid (36') and the third hot fluid of the second heat exchanger (36) is a cooling fluid (20, 21).
- The system for recovering the cold of liquefied natural gas in regasification plants according to claim 4, characterised in that the intermediate fluid (36') is in vapour phase and operates in a closed circuit (18, 19), being condensed to liquid phase in the first heat exchanger (35) due to the transfer of cold from the liquefied natural gas from the first fraction (12) of the first liquefied natural gas stream (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16), and it flows by gravity to the second heat exchanger (36).
- The system for recovering the cold of liquefied natural gas in regasification plants according to claim 5, characterised in that it comprises a container (37) configured to control the flooding of intermediate fluid (36') in the second heat exchanger (36) in addition to constituting an expansion tank for possible increases in the density of the intermediate fluid (36') at temperatures greater than the working temperature, wherein the container (37) is interconnected on the intermediate fluid (36') side of the second heat exchanger (36).
- The system for recovering the cold of liquefied natural gas in regasification plants according to claim 6, characterised in that it comprises a level controller (48) configured to establish a liquid level in the container (37) configured to control the flooding of intermediate fluid (36'), and by means of communicating vessels, the corresponding level of intermediate fluid (36') in the second heat exchanger (36), enabling greater or lesser flooding of the exchange surface that controls the transfer of heat between the intermediate fluid (36') and the cooling fluid (20, 21).
- The system for recovering the cold of liquefied natural gas in regasification plants according to any of the preceding claims, characterised in that it comprises control means configured to ensure that the first fraction (12) of the first liquefied natural gas stream (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) at the outlet of the first heat exchanger (35, 39) remains at supercritical conditions, such that they are suitable for subsequent mixing in the mixer with the second fraction (13) of the first liquefied natural gas stream (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) and that it does not drop below a first pressure threshold, and establishing a second minimum temperature threshold.
- The system for recovering the cold of liquefied natural gas in regasification plants according to any of the preceding claims, characterised in that it comprises control means configured to control the flow rate of the second fraction (13) of the first liquefied natural gas stream (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16).
- The system for recovering the cold of liquefied natural gas in regasification plants according to claim 9, characterised in that the flow rate of the second fraction (13) of the first liquefied natural gas stream (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) is greater than the flow rate of the first fraction (12) of the first liquefied natural gas stream (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16).
- The system for recovering the cold of liquefied natural gas in regasification plants according to any of the preceding claims, characterised in that it comprises a grid of gas pipelines and control means configured to regulate the flow rate of the first hot fluid (26) based on the heat required to bring the temperature of the liquefied natural gas to a temperature required by the gas pipeline network for the distribution thereof.
- The system for recovering the cold of liquefied natural gas in regasification plants according to any of the preceding claims, characterised in that the first hot fluid (26) is seawater.
- The system for recovering the cold of liquefied natural gas in regasification plants according to any of the preceding claims, characterised in that the second hot fluid (20, 21) is a cooling fluid.
- A process for recovering the cold of liquefied natural gas in regasification plants carried out with the system of any of the preceding claims, characterised in that it comprises the following steps:- a step of extracting at least a first liquefied natural gas stream (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) from at least one tank (30) of liquefied natural gas;- a step of regasifying at least the first liquefied natural gas stream (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16), causing it to return to the gaseous state thereof by means of a first hot fluid (26), carried out by means of the vaporiser (33);- a first step of heat exchange between a first fraction (12) of the first liquefied natural gas stream (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) and a second hot fluid (18, 19, 20, 21) which is cooled, carried out in the first heat exchanger (35, 39);- a step of mixing the first fraction (12) of the first liquefied natural gas stream (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) with a second fraction (13) of the first liquefied natural gas stream (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) in the mixer (38); and- a step of introducing the first liquefied natural gas stream (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) that leaves the mixer (38) in the vaporiser (33).
- The process for recovering the cold of liquefied natural gas in regasification plants according to claim 14, characterised in that it comprises a second step of intermediate fluid-third hot fluid heat exchange, wherein the second hot fluid of the first step of heat exchange is an intermediate fluid and the third hot fluid of the second step of heat exchange is a cooling fluid.
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