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US20080008602A1
US20080008602A1 US10/582,903 US58290305A US2008008602A1 US 20080008602 A1 US20080008602 A1 US 20080008602A1 US 58290305 A US58290305 A US 58290305A US 2008008602 A1 US2008008602 A1 US 2008008602A1
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Josef Pozivil
Helmut Gerstendoerfer
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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    • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
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    • 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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  • This invention relates to a rotary liquefied natural gas boil-off compressor.
  • the invention also relates to a method of compressing boiled-off natural gas.
  • Liquefied natural gas is required to be stored in thermally-insulated tanks. Notwithstanding the thermal insulation, there is always a discernible inflow of heat from the surroundings which causes the liquefied natural gas to boil at a modest rate.
  • the resulting boiled-off liquefied natural gas may be compressed and reliquefied or may be used as a fuel.
  • Use of the boiled-off natural gas as a fuel usually requires its compression.
  • Such a gas turbine typically requires the boiled-off natural gas to be compressed to a pressure in the order of 20 to 40 bar.
  • the natural gas is employed together with diesel fuel in an engine employing both fuels.
  • the natural gas may be compressed to a pressure in the range of 5 to 7 bar.
  • a rotary liquefied natural gas boil-off compressor having at least two compression stages in series, a gas passage passing through the series of compression stages, the gas passage extending through and being in heat exchange relationship with at least one cooling means between the or each pair of compression stages, characterised in that the cooling means or at least one of the cooling means is a cryogenic cooling means and in that there is valve means for controlling flow of cryogenic coolant into the cryogenic cooling means in response to the inlet temperature, or a related parameter, of the next compression stage downstream of the cryogenic cooling means so as, in use, to maintain said inlet temperature at a chosen sub-ambient temperature or between chosen sub-ambient temperature limits.
  • the invention also provides a method of operating a rotary liquefied natural gas boil-off compressor having at least two compression stages in series and a gas passage passing through the series of compression stages, the method comprising cooling the compressed boiled-off natural gas by means of a cryogenic coolant downstream of one of the compression stages and upstream of another, monitoring the inlet temperature, or a related parameter, of the compressed natural gas at the inlet to the other compression stage, and adjusting the flow rate of cryogenic coolant so as to maintain said inlet temperature at a chosen sub-ambient temperature or between chosen sub-ambient temperature limits.
  • cryogenic coolant in accordance with the invention, particularly between each pair of successive compression stages, it is possible to increase the ratio of the outlet pressure to the inlet pressure of each such stage, and thereby typically reduce the number of compression stages required to achieve a particular pressure.
  • the invention makes it possible in these circumstances to achieve the same increase of pressure with a smaller machine using fewer compression stages and a lower power consumption.
  • the or each cryogenic cooling means may be either an indirect cooling means, e.g. separate passes of a heat exchanger, or a direct cooling means, e.g. the gas passage may extend through a chamber into which a cryogenic liquid is introduced, for example, in the form of a spray. It is preferred to have a cryogenic cooling means intermediate each pair of compression stages. If there are three or more compression stages it is preferred that at least one of the cryogenic cooling means is an indirect cryogenic cooling means and at least one other is a direct cooling means. In one preferred arrangement a cryogenic liquid is only partially vaporised in an indirect cryogenic cooling means and there is a passage placing the inlet of a direct cryogenic cooling means in communication with the outlet of the indirect cryogenic cooling means.
  • cryogenic cooling means may also be a direct or indirect cryogenic cooling means downstream of the final compression stage. If indirect, the cryogenic cooling means may have an outlet communicating with an inlet to a direct cryogenic cooling means upstream thereof.
  • the source of the cryogenic coolant is preferably the same liquefied natural gas storage tank or array of storage tanks from which the boil-off gas is evolved. Such tanks are conventionally equipped with so-called stripping pumps which may be employed to supply the cryogenic liquid to the cryogenic coolant means. Alternatively, a dedicated cryogenic coolant supply pump may be used.
  • cryogenic cooling means upstream of the first compression stage.
  • a cryogenic cooling means will not normally be operated as the boiled-off natural gas is usually at a cryogenic temperature, but may be required when the liquefied natural gas storage tank is nearly empty, and the boil-off gas is therefore typically received at an undesirably high temperature, a condition that typically occurs after an ocean going LNG tanker has discharged its load of LNG to a shore-based terminal.
  • the upstream cooling means may also be employed at start up when the piping is warm.
  • the compressor according to the invention may have an intermediate inlet communicating with a forcing liquefied natural gas vaporiser.
  • the forcing vaporiser and the cryogenic cooling means may if desired share a common pump for the supply of the cryogenic liquid.
  • each stage of the compressor is preferably maintained at a temperature in the range of minus 50 to minus 140° C.
  • a pressure ratio across each stage in the range of 2.15:1 to 3:1, and typically in the range 2.5:1 to 3:1. It is particularly desirable to avoid the presence of any droplets of liquid in the natural gas entering any stage of the compressor. Accordingly, if any direct cryogenic cooling means is employed, the resulting cooled gas may be passed through an apparatus for disengaging particles of liquid therefrom.
  • FIGS. 1 to 5 of the accompanying drawings which are all schematic flow diagrams
  • FIG. 6 shows a modification to any of the direct cooling stages of the compressors shown in FIGS. 2 , 4 and 5 .
  • FIG. 1 of the drawings there is shown an LNG storage tank 2 .
  • various pipes and valves associated with the tank 2 for example, its fill pipe and its LNG discharge pipe, are not shown in FIG. 1 and the other drawings.
  • the configuration and operation of such LNG tanks is however well known in the art.
  • the tank 2 is typically located on board an ocean-going tanker (not shown).
  • the tank 2 is shown containing a volume 4 of LNG.
  • the tank 2 is vacuum-insulated or has another form of thermal insulation associated therewith so as to keep down the rate of flow of heat from the ambient environment into the liquid 4 .
  • the passage 8 provides a flow of gas to a plural stage, centrifugal, natural gas compressor 10 .
  • the natural gas compressor 10 is built to be explosion- proof. Because many features of the natural gas compressor 10 are conventional they are not illustrated in FIG. 1 of the drawings. Thus, for example, the rotary devices within the individual compression stages are not shown.
  • the centrifugal compressor 10 has, as shown, four compression stages 12 , 14 , 16 and 18 in series.
  • the rotary member (not shown) of each of the compression stages 12 , 14 , 16 and 18 may be mounted on the same drive shaft 20 and driven by an electric motor 22 . It is not, however, necessary for all the compression stages to be mounted on the same shaft. If desired, some of the stages may be mounted on a first shaft and others on a second shaft with drive from one shaft to another being transmitted through a gear box. Similarly, it is not necessary for an electric motor 22 to be used to drive the shaft 20 . Other kinds of motor may be used instead, or other forms of drive such as a steam turbine may be used instead. If an electric motor 22 is employed, however, it is preferably of a kind that has a single speed or it employs a frequency converter to enable the speed of rotation to be varied and thus the performance of the compressor to be optimised.
  • a first cryogenic interstage heat exchanger 26 is located intermediate the first compression stage 12 and the second compression stage 14 ; a second cryogenic interstage heat exchanger 28 is located intermediate the second compression stage 14 and the third compression stage 16 , and a third cryogenic interstage heat exchanger 30 is located intermediate the third compression stage 16 and the final compression stage 18 .
  • the heat exchangers 26 , 28 and 30 are employed to effect cryogenic interstage cooling of the natural gas as it flows through the series of compression stages 12 , 14 , 16 and 18 in sequence.
  • a further cryogenic heat exchanger 32 is located downstream of the final compression stage 18 and a yet further cryogenic heat exchanger 24 is located upstream of the first compression stage 12 in the sequence.
  • the passage 8 extends in sequence through the upstream cryogenic heat exchanger 24 , the first compression stage 12 , the first cryogenic interstage heat exchanger 26 , the second compression stage 14 , the second cryogenic interstage heat exchanger 28 , the third compression stage 16 , the third cryogenic interstage heat exchanger 30 , the final compression stage 18 and the downstream cryogenic heat exchanger 32 .
  • Cooling of the boiled-off natural gas evolved from the volume of liquid 4 in the tank 2 is effected in each of the interstage heat exchangers 26 , 28 and 30 .
  • the cooling is cryogenic so as to reduce the temperature of the gas entering the next compression stage in the sequence to a temperature in the range minus 50 to minus 140° C.
  • the upstream heat exchanger 24 may also be used to cool the gas to a similar temperature upstream of the first compression stage 12 , although, typically, the gas is already at this temperature so the heat exchanger 24 will during normal operation be by-passed or not operated.
  • normal practice when discharging LNG from the tank 2 is to leave a small proportion of the liquid therein so as to maintain the tank 2 on the return journey.
  • the temperature of the boil-off gas tends to be much higher than when the tank 2 is full and it is then desirable to operate the upstream heat exchanger 24 .
  • the downstream heat exchanger may be operated to cool the gas leaving the final stage 18 of the compressor 10 to a temperature in the range minus 50 to minus 140° C. if the gas is required at such a cryogenic temperature. If it is required at ambient temperature, however, the cryogenic heat exchanger 32 may be omitted.
  • all the cryogenic heat exchangers 24 , 26 , 28 , 30 and 32 are indirect heat exchangers. As will be discussed below, some or all may alternatively be direct heat exchangers, that is to say heat exchangers in which the coolant fluid is mixed with the fluid to be cooled. It should also be noted that it is possible in accordance with the invention to operate only one of the interstage heat exchangers 26 , 28 and 30 cryogenically, but such a mode of operation is not preferred. It is also possible in accordance with the invention to provide a single indirect heat exchanger unit that provides cryogenic cooling of the boiled off natural gas intermediate two or more pairs of compression stages. For example, the heat exchangers 26 , 28 and 30 may be combined in a single unit. Further, if desired, the heat exchangers 24 and 32 may be included in that unit.
  • the source of the cryogenic fluid for cooling the heat exchangers 24 , 26 , 28 , 30 and 32 is the storage tank 2 itself.
  • a submerged pump 34 within the tank 2 pumps liquefied natural gas (LNG) to a main pipeline 36 .
  • the main pipeline 36 communicates with cooling passages in the heat exchangers 24 , 26 , 28 , 30 and 32 by distributor pipes 38 , 40 , 42 , 44 and 46 , respectively. Cooling is effected in each of these heat exchangers by partial or total vaporisation of the LNG in indirect heat exchange with the boil-off gas being compressed.
  • the first interstage heat exchanger 26 has in the distribution pipe 40 associated therewith a flow control valve 50 operatively associated through a valve controller 70 with a temperature sensor 60 positioned in the passage 8 at a region intermediate the exit for compressed boil-off gas from the heat exchanger 26 and the inlet to the second compression stage 14 .
  • valve 50 may be so arranged as to maintain the temperature sensed by the sensor 60 at a chosen value, say minus 130° C., or between chosen limits, say, minus 125° C. and minus 135° C.
  • a chosen value say minus 130° C.
  • Essentially identical flow control equipment is provided for the two other interstage heat exchangers 28 and 30 and for the upstream heat exchanger 24 and the downstream heat exchanger 32 .
  • Control of the LNG flow to the heat exchanger 28 is provided by a flow control valve 52 in the distribution pipe 42 .
  • a temperature sensor 62 is positioned in the passage 8 intermediate the outlet of the heat exchanger 28 and the inlet to the next compression stage 16 .
  • a valve controller 72 is adapted to adjust the valve 52 so as to hold the sensed temperature at a chosen value or between chosen temperatures; an essentially identical arrangement of flow control valve 54 , temperature sensor 64 and valve controller 74 is provided for the third interstage heat exchanger 30 ; an essentially identical arrangement of flow control valve 56 , temperature sensor 66 and valve controller 76 for the downstream heat exchanger 32 , and an essentially identical arrangement of flow control valve 48 , temperature sensor 58 and flow controller 68 for the upstream heat exchanger 24 .
  • a return pipeline 78 which branches off from the main pipeline 36 .
  • a flow control valve 79 in the pipeline 78 which is operatively associated via a valve controller 82 with a pressure sensor 80 in the main pipeline 36 at a region of it upstream of all the distributor pipes 38 , 40 , 42 , 44 and 46 so as to maintain the LNG supply at constant pressure.
  • the rate of pumping LNG from the tank 2 to the pipeline 36 may always be in excess of that required for the purposes of the heat exchangers 24 , 26 , 28 , 30 and 32 so that there is always LNG returned to the tank 2 via the pipeline 78 .
  • Such return can be arranged to ameliorate or control the effects of stratification of the LNG in the tank 2 .
  • LNG coolant passing through the heat exchangers 24 , 26 , 28 , 30 and 32 flows in totally or partially vaporised form to a main return pipeline 84 via pipes 86 , 88 , 90 , 92 and 94 associated with the heat exchangers 24 , 26 , 28 , 30 and 32 respectively.
  • the pipeline 84 as shown returns the cold natural gas from these heat exchangers to the ullage space of the tank 6 .
  • the pipeline 84 may terminate in a region of the passage 8 upstream of the heat exchanger 24 or even downstream of the heat exchanger 32 if the pressure of the LNG supply is high enough.
  • the compressed boiled-off natural gas can, as stated above, be arranged to leave the heat exchanger 32 at a temperature in the range of minus 60 to minus 140° C. If the gas is to be reliquefied, then a lower temperature is favoured. If the gas is, however, to be used as fuel for running an engine that provides propulsion for the ocean-going vessel, then a higher temperature is acceptable and indeed, if desired, the final heat exchanger 32 may be omitted or have a conventional water-cooled heat exchanger substituted for it.
  • the pressure ratio across each of the compression stages 12 , 14 , 16 and 18 may be selected according to the required final outlet pressure.
  • each compression stage may have a pressure ratio of 2.6:1. If, however, the gas turbine requires natural gas at a pressure of only 20 bar, the pressure ratio across each compression stage may be 2.1:1.
  • One particular advantage of the invention is that it is difficult to achieve pressure ratios as high as 2.6:1 with natural gas when conventional cooling is used. If desired, the pressure ratio across each compression stage may be tailored by appropriately setting the inlet temperature to that stage.
  • FIGS. 2 to 5 of the accompanying drawings Some of the possible alternative embodiments of the compressor according to the invention are shown in FIGS. 2 to 5 of the accompanying drawings. Like parts shown in FIGS. 1 to 5 of the drawings are indicated by the same reference numerals.
  • FIG. 2 the compressor and associated equipment shown therein, and their operation, are essentially the same as for the corresponding compressor and equipment shown in FIG. 1 with the exception that the indirect heat exchangers 24 , 26 , 28 , 30 and 32 of FIG. 1 are replaced by direct heat exchangers 202 , 204 , 206 , 208 and 210 respectively.
  • the LNG is sprayed directly into the stream of boil-off gas from the storage tank 2 and therefore augments that stream.
  • the pipes 86 , 88 , 90 , 92 and 94 and the return pipeline 84 are omitted from the equipment shown in FIG. 2 .
  • the outlet pressures of the compression stages 12 , 14 , 16 and 18 are 2.6, 6.3, 15.4 and 40 bar, respectively.
  • the LNG supplied by the pump 34 will normally contain these impurities.
  • mixing of the boiled off natural gas with the LNG in the direct heat exchangers 202 , 204 , 206 , 208 and 210 will tend to raise the dewpoint of the boiled-off natural gas. It is thus desirable to ensure that the temperature control is exerted so as to prevent particles of liquid being carried from a mixing chamber into a compression stage.
  • the compressor shown in FIG. 2 can be provided with a device for disengaging liquid particles from the boiled off natural gas intermediate any chosen direct heat exchanger and the compression stage immediately downstream thereof.
  • phase separation vessel 604 having a demister pad 608 or the like inserted therein above an inlet 606 .
  • the natural gas passes through the pad 608 and has any particles of liquid disengaged therefrom.
  • the phase separation vessel 604 has an outlet 612 at its bottom for disengaged liquid.
  • a flow control valve 614 is located in the outlet 612 and may be arranged to open whenever the level of the liquid in the vessel 604 reaches that of a level sensor 616 .
  • a valve controller 618 may be programmed so as to transmit the necessary signals to the valve 614 .
  • the LNG may be returned to the storage tank 2 .
  • An arrangement such as that described above with reference to FIG. 6 may be employed upstream of one or more of the compression stages shown in FIG. 2 of the drawings.
  • FIG. 3 Another alternative to the equipment shown in FIG. 1 is illustrated in FIG. 3 .
  • the equipment shown in FIG. 3 is for use when the normal boil-off rate from the LNG stored in the tank 2 is too small to create enough energy for the ship's propulsion.
  • the boil-off may be burnt in a gas turbine or injected into a dual fuel diesel engine.
  • approximately 50% to 60% of the propulsion power can be covered by the natural boil-off gas.
  • the rest of the propulsion power is raised by oil or diesel fuel.
  • the equipment shown in FIG. 3 can be used when a greater proportion or all of the energy for propulsion of the ship is to be generated by combustion of the gas.
  • the equipment shown in FIG. 3 provides forced boiling in addition to the natural boiling of the LNG with the forced vapour being used for cryogenic cooling between at least one pair of stages of the compressor.
  • the equipment shown in FIG. 3 adds to that shown in FIG. 1 a forcing vaporiser 302 which has an inlet for LNG communicating with the pipeline 36 upstream of its union with the distributor pipe 38 and which also has an outlet communicating with a region of the gas passage 8 intermediate the outlet of the first compression stage 12 and the compressed natural gas inlet to the first interstage heat exchanger 26 .
  • the forcing vaporiser 302 is used to augment the flow of compressed natural gas from the outlet of the first compression stage 12 .
  • the forcing vaporiser 302 includes a shell-and-tube heat exchanger 304 in which liquefied natural gas from the storage tank 2 is vaporised by indirect heat exchange with steam or a hot mixture of water and glycol, and a mixing chamber 306 in which the thus vaporised natural gas is mixed with a flow of LNG which by-passes the shell-and-tube heat exchanger 304 .
  • a by-pass passage 308 having a flow control valve 310 disposed therein.
  • the flow control valve 310 is operatively associated with a valve controller 312 which receives signals from a temperature sensor 314 in a pipeline 316 extending from the outlet of the chamber 306 to the region of the gas passage 8 intermediate the compression stage 12 and the first interstage heat exchanger 26 .
  • the arrangement is such that the amount of by-pass LNG can be adjusted so as to maintain the temperature of the flow to the gas passage at a chosen temperature or between chosen temperature limits.
  • the flow of LNG into the shell-and-tube heat exchanger 304 is controlled by a flow control valve 318 which is operatively associated with a valve controller 320 responsive to demand signals for extra gas from a pressure sensor 322 in the pipeline 316 or downstream of the heat exchanger 32 .
  • the arrangement is such that the flow of vaporised natural gas from the forcing vaporiser 302 is at essentially the same pressure as the outlet pressure of the first compression stage 12 .
  • FIG. 4 there is shown a modification to the equipment illustrated in FIG. 3 , in which a combination of indirect and direct heat exchangers is used.
  • the indirect heat exchangers 24 , 26 and 28 shown in FIG. 3 are replaced by direct heat exchangers 402 , 404 and 406 , respectively.
  • the pipes 38 , 40 , 42 , 86 , 88 and 90 are replaced by partially vaporised natural gas recycle pipes 408 , 410 and 412 and the valves 48 , 50 and 52 , respectively are located in these pipes.
  • the forcing vaporiser 302 now communicates with a region of the gas passage 8 intermediate the outlet of the second compression stage 14 and the inlet to the direct interstage heat exchanger 406 .
  • the apparatus shown therein is essentially the same as that shown in FIG. 2 but in addition employs a forcing vaporiser 302 essentially the same as that shown in FIG. 3 except that it communicates with the gas passage 8 at a region thereof downstream of the outlet of the final compression stage 18 but upstream of the direct heat exchanger 210 .
  • the forcing vaporiser 302 is operated so as to provide a flow of natural gas to the gas passage 8 at a pressure essentially the same as the outlet pressure of the final stage 18 of the compressor 10 .
  • the compressor shown in FIG. 3 employs a relatively low pressure forcing vaporiser
  • that shown in FIG. 5 employs a relatively high pressure forcing vaporiser
  • that shown in FIG. 4 employs a forcing vaporiser operating at a pressure between the operating pressure of the other two compressors.
  • the compressors shown in FIG. 4 and FIG. 5 may be modified by having a phase separation vessel placed upstream of any stage thereof which receives directly cooled natural gas, the phase separation vessel being essentially the same as the vessel 604 shown in FIG. 6 and being fitted with a demister.

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