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US 2011/0214839 A1Published application
Method to increase gas mass flow injection rates to gas storage caverns using lng
OwnerJose Lourenco, MacKenzie Millarinventors
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Abstract
A method to increase gas mass flow loading rates to a gas storage cavern includes using liquid natural gas (LNG) to cool natural gas in a natural gas flow line upstream of a compressor used to compress gas for storage in to a gas storage cavern.
Claims10
A method to increase gas mass flow injection rates to a gas storage cavern, comprising:
- using liquid natural gas (LNG) to cool natural gas in a natural gas flow line upstream of a compressor used to compress gas for storage in to a gas storage cavern.
A method to increase gas mass flow injection rates to a gas storage cavern, comprising:
- effecting a heat exchange between the natural gas in a natural gas flow line upstream of a compressor used to compress gas for storage in to a gas storage cavern and liquid natural gas (LNG) passing through an upstream heat exchanger to cool natural gas in the natural gas flow line upstream of a compressor used to compress gas for storage in to a gas storage cavern;
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- injecting LNG that has passed through the upstream heat exchanger into one of the natural gas flow line downstream of the compressor or into the gas storage cavern.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.