CN1297777C - Method and apparatus for the regasification of liquified natural gas onboard a carrier - Google Patents
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Abstract
The present invention discloses a liquefied natural gas conveyer which has the capability of regasification. The liquefied natural gas conveyer comprises a main heat source (21), at least one auxiliary heat source, a vaporizer (23), a middle fluid and a pump (22), wherein the main heat source (21) is used for regasifying liquefied natural gas (24); the auxiliary heat source is used for regasifying the liquefied natural gas (21); the pump (22) circulates the middle fluid to pass through the vaporizer (23), the main heat source (21) and the auxiliary heat source.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to the transportation of LNG Liquefied natural gas (LNG) and gasification again.
Background technique
Rock gas generally is the land used that makes that is transported to it by pipeline from its grown place.Yet a certain area produces a large amount of rock gases, and its yielding capacity is considerably beyond demand.If not with the effective ways of natural gas transport to the place that has business demand, rock gas may be when it is produced falls with regard to burned, and this wastes very much.
Storage and transportation that rock gas is liquefied and helps rock gas.LNG Liquefied natural gas (" LNG ") only occupy the same amount rock gas under its gaseous state shared volume about 1/600.LNG is that its boiling temperature (under external pressure, being-259 ) is following produces by rock gas is cooled to.LNG can be stored in the low-temperature (low temperature) vessel that is under barometric pressure or a little higher than barometric pressure.By improving the temperature of LNG, can make it change back to its gas form.
The demand growth of rock gas stimulated utilized special oil tanker to transport LNG.At the rock gas that remote place produced, for example Algeria, Borneo or Indonesia can be liquefied, and adopt this mode to be transported to Europe, Japan or the U.S. to abroad.Usually, rock gas is collected in the land-based liquefaction (land-basedliquefaction facility) by one or more pipeline.By with pump suction LNG, make then, it is loaded into (this type of oil tanker can be known as LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier (LNG carrier) or " liquified natural gas carrier (LNGC) (LNGC) ") on the oil tanker that is equipped with low temperature chamber by a short relatively pipeline.After LNGC arrives destination port, with cryopump LNG is offloaded in the land gasification installation again, here, LNG can or gasify with the liquid state storage again.For LNG is gasified again, temperature is increased to boiling temperature above LNG, thereby makes LNG return to gaseous state.By pipe-line system, resulting rock gas can be distributed to the place of each consumption rock gas then.
From Security, ecology and/or aesthetic consideration, proposed to carry out off shore the gasification again of LNG.Gasification installation can be built in and be positioned on the marine fixed platform, perhaps on artesian well vessel (floating barge) or other offshore roadster oceangoing ship again.LNGC can be at gasify again near offshore platform (offshore regasification platform) or boats and ships place by landing pier or berthed, so that make LNG to store or gasification more subsequently with the traditional approach unloading.After the gasification, rock gas can be transferred to shore pipeline delivery system (onshorepipeline distribution system) again.
Also proposed on LNGC, to gasify again.This method has some advantage, and reason is that again gasification installation (regasification facility) and one of LNGC move.This makes this method be easier to adapt to have more seasonal Natural Gas Demand, perhaps to adapt to Natural Gas Demand different between place and the place.Because gasification installation and LNGC advance together again, therefore needn't be in each place that may pay LNG, provide or on the bank or the independent LNG of offshore stores and gasification installation again.On the contrary, but be equipped with again the LNGC offshore of gasification installation to berth, and link to each other with pipeline distribution system (pipeline distribution system) by buoyancy aid or the connector on the platform (connection) that is positioned at offshore.
When gasification installation was placed on the LNGC again, the thermal source of the LNG that is used to gasify can transmit by the central fluid (intermediate fluid) of using a kind of boiler through placing on the LNGC to heat.This fluid through heating then can be by the heat exchanger that contacts with LNG.
Also proposed to adopt and be positioned near the seawater of LNGC as thermal source.Because the temperature of seawater is higher than boiling point and the minimum pipeline distribution temperature of LNG, the pumpable seawater makes it pass through heat exchanger, gasifies thereby LNG is heated up and take place again.Yet, when LNG intensification, gasification and overheated in, owing to making under the cooled with seawater in the result that heat exchange takes place between two kinds of fluids.Must be noted that and avoid making seawater to be cooled to it below freezing point temperature.This just requires carefully to control heated LNG and is used to heat the flowing velocity of the seawater of LNG.Appropriate balance between the flow velocity is subjected to the influence of the LNG gasification rate of the ambient temperature of seawater and expection.The ambient temperature of seawater is subjected to place that LNGC berths, pays the degree of depth that occurs in residing period, water in a year, even from the influence of the discharging modes of the refrigerated sea water of heating LNG.In addition, the discharging modes of refrigerated sea water may be changed by the environmental consideration factor, for example, attempt to avoid undesirable environmental impact, descend such as the environment water temperature in the vicinity of the discharging of refrigerated sea water.The concern of environment aspect can influence the speed of heating LNG, and therefore, influence in the preset time section with the volume that is loaded into the LNG that can gasify at equipment for gasification again on the LNGC.
Summary of the invention
On the one hand, the present invention relates to a LNGC, it has gasification system again, it comprises the board vaporizer (on-board vaporizer) of the LNG that is used to vaporize, a main thermal source (primary source ofheat), and one or more auxiliary thermal sources (secondary sourcesof heat), arrive described LNG and vaporizer.
According to an aspect of the present invention, provide a kind of LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier that has airborne vaporization ability again, it comprises: a main thermal source, and its airborne movably being fixed on the described LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier, and be used for the described LNG Liquefied natural gas that gasifies again; At least one auxiliary thermal source is used for the described LNG Liquefied natural gas that gasifies again; A vaporizer; A kind of central fluid; With a pump, its described central fluid that circulates is by described vaporizer and described main thermal source and described auxiliary thermal source.
According to a further aspect in the invention, a kind of method of the LNG Liquefied natural gas that is used for gasifying again on the LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier is provided, comprise: in airborne vaporizer on the LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier, an airborne movably main thermal source that is fixed on the described LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier, and between at least one auxiliary thermal source, the intercycle fluid; Use the entrained heat energy of described central fluid, heat the temperature of described LNG Liquefied natural gas on its vapourizing temperature; Heat energy with use is supplied by described main thermal source and described auxiliary thermal source heats described central fluid.
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Fig. 1 is the schematic representation of the keel cooler system (keel cooler system) of prior art.
Fig. 2 is the schematic representation as a submerged heat exchanger of vaporizer thermal source.
Fig. 3 is the schematic representation of two heat source systems of a replaceability.
Fig. 4 A is the partial section of LNGC, and the position shows that greatly about midship heat exchanger is laid in above deck.
Fig. 4 B is the partial section of LNGC, and the position shows that greatly about midship heat exchanger is lowered by in the water.
Fig. 5 is the partial section of the interchangeable preferred embodiment of LNGC, what show is, after LNGC is moored on the buoyancy aid, the hull of boats and ships by complete mooring on a buoyancy aid, but two heat exchangers are attached to moored float and are communicated with LNGC flow of liquid earthing.
Detailed Description Of The Invention
Can to LNG on the ship that carries out on the LNGC again gasification mode carry out various improvement.Particularly, have other thermal source, heat transfer component and combinations of sources of heat, these can be used, thereby are providing extra flexibility aspect place that airborne LNGC gasifies again and the environmental impact.
In the past, the equipment that is commonly called " keel cooler (keel cooler) " is used for offshore set-up provides cooling source, for example propelling motor cooler and air-conditioning.As shown in fig. 1, keel cooler 2 is submerged heat exchanger, it generally is positioned on the bottom of hull 1 of boats and ships or near the bottom, and adopt seawater as the equipment on board (as marine air-conditioning equipment 3) that needs cooling capacity (cooling capacity) " heat absorber (the heat sink) " of generation heat.
Keel cooler 2 is by using one or more gondola (not shown) operations, gondola embeds in the lower position of hull 1 or is attached to the outside of hull 1, gondola is as cools down central fluid (as fresh water or ethylene glycol), and this central fluid cycles through this gondola by pump 1.This central fluid is pumped to the one or more places on the ship then so that absorb superfluous heat.Described keel cooler is commercial available, from MANUFACTURER R.W.Fernstrum ﹠amp for example; Co. (Menominee, MI) (Hiram OH) locates and can obtain with Duranmax Marine LLC.
In all advantages of such system, to compare with the system that introduces and discharging is used as the seawater of cooling fluid subsequently, one of advantage is to have reduced with seawater and is circulated to the sinking danger that various piece is relevant on the ship (sinking hazard) and corrodes dangerous.Have only the outside of keel cooler pod 2 to be exposed in seawater, fresh water or another the non-corrosive comparatively speaking fluid, they circulate in the remaining part of described object, and this is equivalent to a locking system.Need not to make pump, pipeline, valve and other parts in this closed loop system (closed loop system) with the more special material of anti-seawater corrosion.Keel cooler 2 has also been avoided needs that seawater is filtered, and this may be necessary in the system within seawater being flow to ship inner machine element.
As shown in Figure 2, in a preferred embodiment of the invention, adopt one or more main thermals source, it is submerged heat exchanger 21 preferably---and or not for cooling capacity is provided, but provide heating efficiency (heating capacity), thereby be used for the LNG that gasifies again conversely again to closed circuit circulation of fluid.
In preferred embodiments, heat exchanger 21 is independent heat exchangers 21, after the LNG boats and ships arrive its offshore tapping equipment or offload jetty, heat exchanger 21 is lowered in the water, the situation that this is different from the hull 1 that heat exchanger is assembled in boats and ships resembles traditional keel cooler.In the most preferred embodiment, adopt two heat exchangers 21, wherein each all is about 20 inches * 20 inches * 40 inches, and satisfies the heating needs of LNGC jointly.In these heat exchangers 21 each all has the ability that is equivalent to about 100 traditional keel cooler.Heat exchanger 21 is connected to LNGC by the pipe-line system 66 that is fit to, and this pipe-line system can be flexible or rigidity.With reference to figure 4A and 4B, preferably be not used, heat exchanger 21 is stored above deck (referring to Fig. 4 A), and heat exchanger 21 can be stored in below the lid, in canopy (shed), perhaps (not shown) in some other structure.When being used, by machinery 64 heat exchanger 21 is reduced, wherein, machinery 64 is for example, but to be not limited to, capstan system (winch system) or lift tower (elevator system) are for the known equipment of those skilled in the art (referring to Fig. 4 B).Heat exchanger 21 is reduced enter in the water after, be heat exchanger 21 may collide boats and ships the time when what worry, heat exchanger 21 is preferred to the rigid attachment (rigid attachment) of boats and ships.
In the another one embodiment preferred, heat exchanger 21 is the devices of immersion type permanently at the place, offload jetty of offshore.For example, submerged heat exchanger system 21 can be mounted to the buoyancy aid 68 of the LNGC that is used to berth.Any situation in these interchangeable heat exchanger 21 configurations (Fig. 4 B, 5) is to be connected on the LNGC, so that allow central fluid to be recycled by submerged heat exchanger 21.
When heat exchanger 21 was attached on the moored float 68, the turret recess 78 of LNGC (turret recess) cooperated with buoyancy aid 68, made LNGC to rotate around buoyancy aid 68.By pipeline 74, heat exchanger 21 is connected to the hull 1 of boats and ships, thereby but is connected with any one auxiliary thermal source 26 flow of liquid earthing with vaporizer 23.Gas pipeline lifting device 72 (gaspipe riser 72) couples together LNGC and pipeline distribution system, is used to unload the LNG of gasification again.
In another one embodiment of the present invention, one or more submerged heat exchanger parts 21 are set at any suitable position of the water line that is lower than hull 1, directly are assemblied within the hull 1 of LNGC.Replacedly, heat exchanger 21 can be partially submerged, but not all submergences.
Central fluid, for example ethylene glycol, propane or fresh water cycle through vaporizer 23 and submerged heat exchanger 21 by pump.Also can adopt other to have proper characteristics, as the suitable thermal capacitance and the central fluid of boiling point, and be that the industry is known.LNG enters in the vaporizer 23 by pipeline 24, gasifies at this again, discharges by pipeline 25.
As mentioned above, submerged heat exchanger 21 can make heat be transmitted to the circuit central fluid from seawater on every side, and need not seawater is sucked or is pumped among the LNGC.The size of heat exchanger 21 and surface area can change widely, the volume of the LNG goods that depending on needs to be gasified pays, and LNGC carries out the temperature range that rock gas is paid waters of living in.
For example, if the temperature of circuit central fluid when getting back to submerged heat exchanger 21 is approximately 45 , ocean temperature is about 59 , and then temperature difference between the two is about 14 .This is a common relatively temperature difference, therefore, compare with above-mentioned keel cooler typical, that be designed to per hour to get rid of millions of Btus (BTUs), heat exchanger 21 will need a bigger surface area to adapt to heat transfer needs of the present invention.
In a preferred embodiment, two submerged heat exchanger 21 that are designed to per hour absorb on the whole about six dried 2,000,000 Btus (BTUs) have been adopted, about 450,000 square feet of its surface area.These heat exchangers 21 are about 20 inches * 20 inches * 40 inches, and it preferably comprises a lot of beam tube (tube), and these pipes are exposed, allowing, when middle fluid in pipe circuit the time, water can pass through above pipe.This big or small surface area can then, comprise with various configuration settings, in this preferred embodiment, multitubular bundles arrange with traditional keel cooler 2 in the multitubular bundles homotaxis.Heat exchanger 21 of the present invention also can be shell and tube heat exchanger, the bent-tube fixed exchanger, spiral-type exchanger, plate heat exchanger, or well known to a person skilled in the art other heat exchanger, their satisfy the required temperature of gasification LNG, volume with the thermal absorption requirement.
Vaporizer 23 is preferably the shell pipe type vaporizer, and this vaporizer 23 schematically is depicted among Fig. 2.This type of vaporizer 23 is known in the industry, be similar to kind reach several beat be used in water heating shell pipe type evapourator in the land gasification installation again.The vaporizer of other kinds that can adopt includes, but are not limited to, central fluid vaporizer (intermediate fluidvaporizers) and submerged combustion vaporizer (submerged combustion vaporizers).In on the ship of replaceability, using, wherein seawater may be one of heat medium or may contact with equipment, preferably, in the vaporizer 23 with the contacted moist surface of seawater be with proprietary AL-6XN super-Austenitic Stainless Steel (super-austenitic stainless steel) (ASTMA-240, B688, UNS N08367) make, other surface of vaporizer 23 is to make with 316L type stainless steel.Vaporizer can adopt multiple material, includes but not limited to titanium alloy and compound.
In preferred embodiments, adopt shell pipe type vaporizer 23, the molecular weight that produces about 100,000,000 standard cubic foots (mmscf/d) its every day is about 16.9 LNG.For example, operate LNGC in the seawater that is about 59 in temperature, and the temperature of central fluid is when being 45 , vaporizer 23 desired flow heated water amounts are about per hour 2000 cubic metres.Be about the single tube bundle that 40 feet pipe is formed by employing, the pipe diameter preferably approximately is 3/4 inch, and the transmission of heat that is produced can per hour preferably reach about 62,000,000 BTUs.In vaporizer 23, be integrated into specific characteristic, in pipe, evenly distribute, thereby the thermal-shrinkage differential between mediation pipe and the shell prevents freezing of hot aqueous medium, and adapt to because the load that quickens on the ship to be increased so that guarantee LNG.In the most preferred embodiment, the vaporizer 23 of 100mmscf/d yielding capacity is arranged as and be arranged in parallel, to reach total need output capability of the boats and ships that gasify again.These types of vaporizer 23 comprise Chicago Power and Process in the supplier of the U.S., Inc. and Manning and Lewis, Inc..
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the recycle pump 22 that acts on central fluid is by the electric motor driven conventional single stage centrifugal pumps 22 of synchronous speed.Single stage centrifugal pump 22 is used for pump up water/fluid at sea with in the commercial Application continually, and is conventionally known to one of skill in the art.The capacity of recycle pump 22 is to select according to the quantity of the vaporizer of installing 23 and the required remaining (degree ofredundancy) that is equipped with.
For example,, made one and be approximately on the ship that the vaporizer 23 of 100,000,000 mmscf/d forms by 6 each self-capacities and install, wherein, provide a standby vaporizer for the design capacity with 500,000,000 standard cubic foots/every day (mmscf/d) adapts.The required total hot water circuit amount of this system is about 10,000 cubic metres/hour at the design point place, and is about 12,000 cubic metres/hour at peak rating value (peak rating).Consider the spatial constraints on the ship, adopted 3 separately flow be 5,000 cubic metres/hour pump 22, and to require in the design point circulation be under 10,000 cubic metres/hour, and complete standby unit (fully redundant unit) is provided.If adopt 5 vaporizers, so only need 2 pumps.These pumps 22 have about 30 meters total dynamic head (TDH) (totaldynamic head), the power requirements of every pump 22 be about 950kw (kilowatt).The suction of every pump 22 and discharge conduit preferably diameter are the pipeline of 650mm, but also can adopt the pipe-line system of other size.
The material that is used for pump 22 and associated conduit preferably tolerates the corrosive action of seawater, has a variety of materials to be utilized.In preferred embodiments, make pump case with nickel aluminum bronze, impeller has monel metal pump shaft (Monel pump shafts).Monel metal is the nickel-base alloy with high corrosion resistance, contains the 60-70% nickel of having an appointment, 22-35% copper and small amounts of iron, magnesium, silicon and carbon.
Though the preferred embodiments of the invention relate to single stage centrifugal pump 22, can adopt the pump 22 of the many types that satisfy the flow velocity requirement, these pumps can be buied from the pump suppliers.In the embodiment of replaceability, pump 22 can be smooth flow and pulsed flow pump, velocity head (velocity-head) or positive-displacement pump, screw pump, rotary pumps, wing pump, gear pump, radial plunger pump, swash-plate pump, plunger pump and reciprocating pump, perhaps other satisfy the discharge head (dischargehead) of central fluid and the pump that flow velocity requires.The driver that is used for pump can be fluid power motor (hydraulicmotors), diesel engine, direct current motor or other prime mover (prime movers) with necessary speed and power features.
Immersion type or partially submerged formula heat exchanger 21 can be used as unique thermal source of LNG gasification, perhaps, in a kind of interchangeable embodiment as shown in Figure 3, can unite use with one or more auxiliary thermal sources.In the ability that immersion type or part are soaked formula heat exchanger system 21, or local ocean temperature is not enough to provide again under the situation of the needed heat of gasification operation expected degree, and this embodiment of the present invention provides operational advantage.
In a kind of preferred replaceable embodiment, central fluid is driven by pump 22 and cycles through steam heater 26, vaporizer 23 and one or more immersion type or partially submerged formula heat exchanger 21.In the most preferred embodiment of the present invention, heat exchanger 21 is immersion types.The steam that comes from boiler or other source enters steam heater 26 by pipeline 31, and discharges by pipeline 32 as condensation product.Valve 41,42 and 43 makes the isolation of steam heater 26 and the opening of bypass duct 51 become possibility, and this just allows, after steam heater 26 is removed from circulation, and operation vaporizer 23.Replacedly, valve 44,45 and 46 makes the isolation of submerged heat exchanger 21 and the opening of bypass duct 52 become possibility, and this just allows, after submerged heat exchanger 21 is removed from circulation, and operation vaporizer 23.The valve that is adopted is to be used to isolate traditional gate valve of purpose (gate valves) or fly valve (butterfly valves), is with the material formation that is suitable for being recycled fluid.In the situation that is suitable for seawater, preferably, disc valve is made with cast steel or ductile iron (ductile iron), and is configured with cushions (resilient liner) material, and this material is neoprene (neoprene) or fluorine rubber (viton) for example.Preferably, gate valve is made with bronze, is configured to have Stainless Steel Valve internals (trim) or monel metal trim.
Preferably, steam heater 26 is equipped with the traditional shell tubular heat exchanger of drain cooler, can Heating Cyclic water, LNG can be provided the desired all or part of heat that gasifies again.Preferably, provide pressure to be about the desuperheating steam (desuperheated steam) that 10bars, temperature are about 360 to steam heater 26.In steam heater 26 and drain cooler, steam carries out condensation and low temperature refrigeration (sub-cooled), afterwards between the steam of getting back to boats and ships under about 160 (steam plant).
In another embodiment, the hot aqueous medium that adds in steam heater 26 and the drain cooler is seawater.All with add the contacted moist surface of hot aqueous medium and all preferably adopt the 90-10 corronil.Be preferably carbon steel with steam and the contacted shell side components of condensation product (shell side components).
For installing on the above-mentioned ship, adopt three steam heaters 26 with drain cooler, preferably, wherein each provides 50% of whole desired volume.Each steam heater 26 that has drain cooler has the flow heated water flow that is about 5,000 cubic metres/hour and is about 50,000 kilograms/hour steam flow.Suitable steam heat-exchanger 26 be similar to many aboard ship, employed steam surface condenser in the application on the industrial and public utilities, and can buy from global heat exchanger MANUFACTURER.
For fluid by sea water service system, can increase by 61 and seawer outlets 62 of a seawater inlet, make seawater can be used as direct heat source of vaporizer 23 or be used as an additional heating source in the use uniting, to replace submerged heat exchanger 21 with steam heater 26.This situation is shown in the dotted line among Fig. 3.
As a kind of selection, immersion type or partially submerged formula heat exchanger system 21 can be used as auxiliary thermal source, and another thermal source can be used as the main thermal source of gasification operation again.The example of another this type of thermal source, comprise the steam that derives from boiler or the sea water service system of circulation, wherein seawater is imported from ocean (or residing other water body of LNGC) as thermal source, after being used for heating LNG or be used to be discharged go back to after heating central fluid the ocean, wherein central fluid is used to heat LNG subsequently.Other thermal source comprises submerged combustion vaporizer or solar energy.Except that main thermal source, also have auxiliary or replaceability thermal source, no matter whether it is the immersion type heat-exchange system, all be considered to useful.
Adopt and at least one available auxiliary thermal source main thermal source linked together, reaching at heating LNG on the mode of the purpose that gasifies again provides extra flexibility.Do not increase thermal source in proportion with when adapting to generable all environmental conditionss that gasify again requiring, can use main thermal source.Alternatively, auxiliary thermal source only can use under the situation of additional heating source requiring.
Compare with main thermal source,, guaranteed that also at least some heats are available under the situation that main thermal source breaks down based on the usability of the auxiliary thermal source of a diverse behavior.Under the situation that main thermal source lost efficacy, though vaporization ability may reduce greatly again, auxiliary thermal source can provide the vaporization ability again of operable at least a portion when repairing main thermal source or in other words correcting obstructive cause.
In an embodiment of this system, main thermal source can be the steam that comes from boiler, and auxiliary thermal source is a submerged heat exchanger.Alternatively, main thermal source can be the steam that derives from boiler, and auxiliary thermal source can use a sea water service system opening, circulation.According to usability, economic conditions or other Consideration, also can adopt other combinations of sources of heat.Other potential thermal source comprises employing hot water heating boiler, or submerged combustion heat exchangers, and wherein each all is can be by the product of commercial sources acquisition.
In another embodiment of this system, LNGC can be equipped with main thermal source, and gets the increase auxiliary thermal source owing to include pipeline in advance ready with other part, and this may require ship is made substantial modifications so that available under different situations.For example, can be equipped with LNGC so that use from the steam of boiler as main thermal source, the position that also can be equipped with suitable pipeline and be used to place pump or other device, so that the sea water service system of subsequent installation submerged heat exchanger system or circulation, and do not require the bigger structure of modification of ship work itself.Although it is this may increase initial cost of building LNGC or the capacity that reduces LNGC slightly, more desirable than allowing ship stand bigger structure of modification economically on date after a while.
The preferred method of the present invention is improving one's methods of the LNG that gasifies again on the LNG carrier.LNGC is equipped with aforesaid gasification installation again, but offshore berth, and be connected with the pipeline distribution system by a bindiny mechanism, for example be positioned at the bindiny mechanism on offshore buoyancy aid or the platform.In case on connecting, central fluid, for example ethylene glycol or fresh water can cycle through immersion type or partially submerged formula heat exchanger or heat exchanger 21 and vaporizer 23 by pump 22.Also can adopt other central fluid with proper characteristics, the central fluid that for example has acceptable thermal capacity and boiling point also can be used as mentioned above.
Preferably, heat exchanger 21 is complete immersion types, and can make heat conduct to the circuit central fluid from seawater on every side, and reason is temperature difference between the two.Central fluid is circulated to vaporizer 23 subsequently, and vaporizer is preferably shell pipe type vaporizer 23.In preferred embodiments, central fluid is by parallel vaporizer 23, so that increase the output flow of LNGC.LNG enters in the vaporizer 23 by pipeline 24, is gasified at this LNG again, and discharges by pipeline 25.From pipeline 25, LNG enters attached to the platform of LNGC berth or the pipeline distribution system on the buoyancy aid.
In most preferred method of the present invention, central fluid cycles through submerged heat exchanger 21, this heat exchanger is assemblied in the one or more structures that are connected with LNGC by suitable pipeline, and after LNGC was docked in offshore buoyancy aid or destination, this heat exchanger was lowered in the water.In another interchangeable method of the present invention, submerged heat exchanger 21 is assemblied in the buoyancy aid 68 or other Offshore Structures of mooring LNGC, and is connected on the ship after landing pier.
In another method for optimizing of the present invention, one or more auxiliary thermal sources are provided, be used for the gasification again of LNG.In one embodiment, central fluid is cycled through steam heater 26, vaporizer 23 and one or more immersion type or partially submerged formula heat exchanger 21 by pump 22.The steam that comes from boiler or other source enters steam heater 26 by pipeline 31, discharges with condensation product by pipeline 32.Valve 41,42 and 43 allows, and is using or is not using under the situation of steam heater 26, and operation vaporizer 23 becomes possibility.In addition, vaporizer 23 runnings can be carried out under the situation of using auxiliary thermal source separately, as steam heater 26.Valve 44,45 and 46 allows the isolation of these submerged heat exchanger 21, thereby vaporizer 23 can be turned round under the situation that they do not move.
In another method of the present invention, have inlet 61 and outlet 62 circulation sea water service system allows to adopt the direct heat source of seawater as vaporizer 23, perhaps with steam heater 26 uses linked together in additional heating source, to substitute submerged heat exchanger 21.Certainly, can adopt immersion type or partially submerged formula heat exchanger 21, adopt one of other thermal source of describing simultaneously as main thermal source as auxiliary thermal source.The embodiment of this situation as mentioned above.
Below showed and described various exemplary embodiment of the present invention.Yet the present invention so is not restricted.On the contrary, should think that the present invention only is subjected to the restriction of appending claims scope.
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1. LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier that has airborne vaporization ability again comprises:
(a) main thermal source, its airborne movably being fixed on the described LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier, and be used for the described LNG Liquefied natural gas that gasifies again;
(b) at least one auxiliary thermal source is used for the described LNG Liquefied natural gas that gasifies again;
(c) vaporizer;
(d) a kind of central fluid; With
(e) pump, its described central fluid that circulates is by described vaporizer and described main thermal source and described auxiliary thermal source.
2. the described LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier of claim 1 comprises valve and at least one bypass duct, is used for described main thermal source and at least one described auxiliary thermal source are isolated.
3. the described LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier of claim 1, wherein said main thermal source is at least one heat exchanger, it is immersed in the water at least in part.
4. the described LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier of claim 3, wherein said heat exchanger is complete submergence.
5. the described LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier of claim 3, wherein said heat exchanger is attached to the outside of described LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier.
6. the described LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier of claim 5, wherein said heat exchanger is laid on described LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier, and when using described heat exchanger, it is lowered in the water.
7. the described LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier of claim 6, wherein said heat exchanger is configured to when described heat exchanger is used, can be reduced in the water inlet by machinery.
8. the described LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier of claim 6, wherein said heat exchanger in being lowered into water after, be attached to rigidly on the described LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier.
9. the described LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier of claim 6, wherein said heat exchanger in being lowered into water after, be attached to flexibly on the described LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier.
10. the described LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier of claim 3, wherein said heat exchanger is incorporated on the described LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier.
11. the described LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier of claim 10, wherein said heat exchanger is assembled in the fuselage of described LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier.
12. the described LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier of claim 1, the described main thermal source of the described LNG Liquefied natural gas that wherein is used for gasifying again is assembled in the offshore terminal, is connected on the described LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier but be equipped to the flow of liquid earthing.
13. the described LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier of claim 12, wherein said offshore terminal is a moored float.
14. the described LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier of claim 12, wherein said main thermal source is at least one heat exchanger, and this heat exchanger is immersed in the water at least in part.
15. the described LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier of claim 1 comprises:
(a) at least two auxiliary thermal sources; With
(b) valve and at least one bypass duct, they are used at least one described auxiliary thermal source and at least one remaining thermal source are isolated.
16. the method for the LNG Liquefied natural gas that is used for gasifying again on the LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier comprises:
(a) in airborne vaporizer on the LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier, an airborne movably main thermal source that is fixed on the described LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier, and between at least one auxiliary thermal source, the intercycle fluid;
(b) use the entrained heat energy of described central fluid, heat the temperature of described LNG Liquefied natural gas on its vapourizing temperature; With
(c) use the heat energy of supplying by described main thermal source and described auxiliary thermal source, heat described central fluid.
17. the described method of claim 16, wherein said main thermal source is attached on the body of LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier.
18. the described method of claim 16, wherein said main thermal source is incorporated on the body of described LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier.
19. the described method of claim 17 comprises:
(a) after described LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier arrives at the destination, connect described LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier to described main thermal source; With
(b) before described LNG Liquefied natural gas carrier leaves described destination, disconnect being connected of described LNG carrier and described main thermal source.
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