Fluid transfer installation
AssigneeL'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude
InventorsStephane Duval, Stephane Crevatin, Peter de Maeyer
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Abstract
An installation transfers fluid between a source (e.g., a cryogenic fluid reserve) and a receiving unit (e.g., a boat reservoir). It includes a beam framework tower housing a fluid transfer circuit with a pipe extending from a lower connection to an upper connection. The tower is composed of at least two separable stacked modules, enabling different height configurations (two modules stacked or a single module). The transfer circuit within the tower has two sections, one in each module, connected by demountable connectors to adapt the circuit's height to the tower's configuration.
Claims13
An installation for transferring fluid between a fluid source and a receiving unit, the installation comprising:
- a tower with a beam framework structure, the tower comprising a fluid transfer circuit comprising at least one pipe provided with a first pipe extending between a first lower end configured to be connected to the fluid source and a second upper end intended to be connected to the receiving unit, at least part of the transfer circuit situated between the first and second ends being housed within the volume delimited by the tower,
- wherein the tower is composed of at least two separable stacked modules allowing two different configurations of the tower respectively having different heights:
- a first configuration with the two stacked modules, and a second configuration with a single module, and
- wherein the transfer circuit situated within the volume delimited by the tower comprises two sections situated respectively in the two modules, the two sections being connected to one another via a system of demountable connectors configured to make it possible to adapt the height of the transfer circuit to the two configurations.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.