Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus, system and method for the capture, utilization and sendout of latent heat in boil off gas onboard a cryogenic storage vessel
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Application No.: US15024285Application Date: 2014-09-26
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Publication No.: US10267457B2Publication Date: 2019-04-23
- Inventor: Kenneth D. Nelson , Graeme David Trotter , Alan B. Nierenberg , Kenneth Hugh McGeachie
- Applicant: Excelerate Energy Limited Partnership
- Applicant Address: US TX The Woodlands
- Assignee: Excelerate Energy Limited Partnership
- Current Assignee: Excelerate Energy Limited Partnership
- Current Assignee Address: US TX The Woodlands
- Agency: Frederick Dorwart, Lawyers PLLC
- Agent Penina Michlin Chiu
- International Application: PCT/US2014/057683 WO 20140926
- International Announcement: WO2015/048420 WO 20150402
- Main IPC: F17C7/02
- IPC: F17C7/02 ; F17C9/04 ; F17C9/02 ; B63B25/16 ; F17C13/00 ; F17C13/08 ; B63J99/00

Abstract:
An apparatus, system and method for capture, utilization and sendout of latent heat in boil off gas (“BOG”) onboard a cryogenic storage vessel is described. A liquefied gas vessel comprises a cryogenic cargo tank onboard a liquefied gas vessel, the cargo tank comprising a liquefied gas and a BOG, a latent heat exchanger fluidly coupled to a stream of the liquefied gas and a stream of the BOG, wherein the latent heat exchanger transfers a heat between the BOG stream and the liquefied gas stream to produce a condensed BOG, means for combining the condensed BOG and the liquefied gas stream to obtain a combined stream, the means for combining the condensed BOG and the liquefied gas stream fluidly coupled to the latent heat exchanger, and a liquefied gas regasifier onboard the vessel and fluidly coupled to the combined stream, wherein the liquefied gas regasifier regasifies the combined stream.
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