- Patent Title: Natural gas liquefaction device and natural gas liquefaction method
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Application No.: US16981135Application Date: 2019-03-25
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Publication No.: US11549746B2Publication Date: 2023-01-10
- Inventor: Makoto Irisawa
- Applicant: TAIYO NIPPON SANSO CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: TAIYO NIPPON SANSO CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: TAIYO NIPPON SANSO CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
- Priority: JPJP2018-060261 20180327
- International Application: PCT/JP2019/012449 WO 20190325
- International Announcement: WO2019/188957 WO 20191003
- Main IPC: F25J1/02
- IPC: F25J1/02 ; F25J1/00 ; F25B11/02

Abstract:
One object of the present invention is to provide a natural gas liquefaction device which uses noncombustible gas as a refrigerant, and can reduce the power consumption a range of relatively low refrigerant pressure, and the present invention provides a natural gas liquefaction device including a compressor which is configured to compress a refrigerant containing noncombustible gas by a plurality of compression stages; a heat exchanger which is configured to cool and liquefy a natural gas to be a liquefied natural gas; a natural gas liquefaction line which is configured to introduce the natural gas into the heat exchanger and supply the liquefied natural gas to an outside; a first refrigerant line which is configured to introduce a refrigerant-1 passed through the compressor into the heat exchanger, and then further introduce the refrigerant-1 into a decompressor; a second refrigerant line which is configured to introduce the refrigerant-2 decompressed by the decompressor into the heat exchanger, and further introduce the refrigerant-2 into any one of a second compression stage and subsequent stages of the compressor; a third refrigerant line which is configured to be branched from the first refrigerant line and introduce at least a part of the refrigerant-1 into an expansion turbine; and a fourth refrigerant line which is configured to introduce the refrigerant-3 expanded by the expansion turbine into the heat exchanger, and further introduce the refrigerant-3 into a first compression stage of the plurality of compression stages provided in the compressor.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210048243A1 NATURAL GAS LIQUEFACTION DEVICE AND NATURAL GAS LIQUEFACTION METHOD Public/Granted day:2021-02-18
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