6. Examples of natural gas liquefaction calculations
6.1 Constraints
A large-scale natural gas liquefaction plant is located by the sea, usually far from anywhere else. All that is available is the gas to be liquefied, transported by pipeline from the production sites, and seawater. The rest has to be brought in via the LNG port built for the first liquefaction train.
SCROLL TO TOPThe first decision to be taken is the type of compressor drive machines, and the exact liquefaction capacity set according to the power available from...
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- (1) - L'AIR LIQUIDE, Division scientifique - Encyclopédie des gaz. - Amsterdam, Elsevier (1976) http://encyclopedia.airliquide.com/encyclopedia.asp?CountryID=3=2 .
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GNL11 – Birmingham United Kingdom, 1 volume, July 3-6, 1995
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World natural gas reserves
According to CEDIGAZ, proven reserves as of July 1 2008 amounted to 179.6 × 10 12 m 3 distributed as shown in the table 1 :...
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