US 12,325,622 B2Granted

Gas supply refueling facility

AssigneeTritec Marine Ltd

InventorsGeorgios Mermiris, Jamie Roberts

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Abstract

A gas supply marine vessel and a refueling facility are described. The gas supply marine vessel includes a hull with an upper deck having an elongated cargo cavity formed therein. Gas interface modules are disposed in the cavity and extend between hull sides, each module having a plurality of fuel vessel docking stations. A plurality of stacked fuel container assemblies are fluidically coupled to the docking stations. A gantry, is movable along the length of the cavity, straddles the cargo cavity between hull sides. An articulating crane is mounted on the gantry and it utilized to move fuel container assemblies to a fuel container depression formed in the deck of a floating refueling facility. The floating refueling facility includes a concave side to facilitate mooring adjacent a shoreline, the concave side forming angled extensions at corners of the deck with a linkspan extending from each of the angled extensions.

Claims30

Dependent claims

A gas supply marine vessel comprising:

a buoyant, elongated hull with a first hull side and an opposing second hull side, a first hull end and a second hull end;
an upper deck extending between the first and second hull sides with an elongated cargo area defined along the upper deck between the first and second hull sides;
one or more gas interface modules positioned in the elongated cargo area, each gas interface module having an elongated frame extending across the elongated cargo area between the first and second hull sides, the elongated frame having a first frame side and a second frame side and at least two spaced apart, horizontal levels with each level having a substantially horizontal access walkway positioned between the two frame sides;
a plurality of spaced apart fuel vessel docking stations disposed along a length of at least one of the first or second frame sides;
and
a plurality of fuel container assemblies disposed along at least one frame side of each gas interface module and extending perpendicularly away from said gas interface module, the plurality of fuel container assemblies arranged in a plurality of columns adjacent one another, whereby each column comprises at least a first fuel container assembly stacked on top of a second fuel container assembly, with at least a first portion of the plurality of fuel container assemblies fluidically coupled to the fuel vessel docking stations of at least one gas interface module along at least one of the frame sides and at least one of the frame levels, each fuel container assembly comprising a fuel container frame supporting an ISO tank container.

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A gas supply marine system comprising

a buoyant, elongated hull with a first hull side and an opposing second hull side, a first hull end and a second hull end;
an upper deck extending between the first and second hull sides with an elongated cargo area defined along the upper deck between the first and second hull sides;
a first gas interface module positioned in the elongated cargo area and a second gas interface module positioned in the elongated cargo area and spaced apart from the first gas interface module, each gas interface module having an elongated frame extending across the elongated cargo area between the first and second hull sides, the elongated frame having a first frame side and a second frame side and at least two spaced apart, horizontal levels with each level having a substantially horizontal access walkway positioned between the two frame sides;
a plurality of fuel vessel docking stations disposed along at least one frame side of each gas interface module, the plurality of fuel vessel docking stations spaced apart from one another horizontally and vertically;
and
a first row of side-by-side fuel container assemblies adjacent a frame side of each of the first and second gas interface modules, each fuel container assembly of the first row extending perpendicularly away from a respective adjacent gas interface module frame side, wherein at least a portion of the fuel container assemblies of the first row are fluidically coupled to an adjacent gas interface module by individual fuel vessel docking stations;
and
a second row of side-by-side fuel container assemblies adjacent a frame side of each of the first and second gas interface modules, each fuel container assembly of the second row extending perpendicularly away from a respective adjacent gas interface module frame side and stacked on top of a fuel container assembly of the first row.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/919,563Filed 18 Oct 2024 · continuation
Priority: 10 Apr 2020
Published: US 2025/0042716 A16 Feb 2025
Granted: 10 Jun 2025
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification53 codes

B67D 9/00
Apparatus or devices for transferring liquids when loading or unloading ships
B60S 5/02
Servicing, maintaining, repairing, or refitting of vehicles: supplying fuel to vehicles; General disposition of plant in filling stations
B63B 17/0027
Vessels parts, details, or accessories, not otherwise provided for: tanks for fuel or the like ; Accessories therefor, e.g. tank filler caps
B63B 25/004
For goods other than bulk goods: for containers

Family

Application63/008,377Us provisional application · filed 10 Apr 2020
Application17/006,653Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 28 Aug 2020
Application17/805,495Parent of this continuation · filed 6 Jun 2022
US 11,352,250 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 7 Jun 2022
US 2025/0042716 A1Pre-grant publication · published 6 Feb 2025
US 12,122,662 B2Parent of this continuation
Application17/805,495Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 2021/0317954 A1Published application
US 2022/0298003 A1Published application
US 12,325,622 B2This patent

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