发明名称 Method of extracting ethane from liquefied natural gas
摘要 Methods and systems for recovery of natural gas liquids (NGL) and a pressurized methane-rich sales gas from liquefied natural gas (LNG) are disclosed. In certain embodiments, LNG passes through a heat exchanger, thereby heating and vaporizing at least a portion of the LNG. The partially vaporized LNG passes to a fractionation column where a liquid stream enriched with ethane plus and a methane-rich vapor stream are withdrawn. The withdrawn methane-rich vapor stream passes through the heat exchanger to condense the vapor and produce a two phase stream, which is separated in a separator into at least a methane-rich liquid portion and a methane-rich gas portion. A pump pressurizes the methane-rich liquid portion prior to vaporization and delivery to a pipeline. The methane-rich gas portion may be compressed and combined with the vaporized methane-rich liquid portion or used as plant site fuel.
申请公布号 AU2005285436(B2) 申请公布日期 2010.09.16
申请号 AU20050285436 申请日期 2005.08.17
申请人 EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY 发明人 ALLEN E. BRIMM;ROBERT D. DENTON;RUSSELL H. OELFKE
分类号 F25J3/00;F17C9/02 主分类号 F25J3/00
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