Abstract:
A system for containing and transporting natural and compressed gas by ship, with cylindrical containers arranged vertically with parallel axes characterized by the fact that the said containers (100, 200) have equal heights but at least two different diameters, wherein two of the said diameters fall between 1 m and 6 m, the containers being combined in standardized modules (40), where the said cylindrical containers (100, 200) have a diameter respectively between 3 m and 6 m for a larger size of the containers (100) and between 1 and 2.5 m for a smaller size of the containers (200).
Abstract:
An ISO modal container for storage and transportation of a CNG pressure vessel comprises a main longitudinal portion and two end caps, one at each end of the main longitudinal portion. The container comprises a frame body for housing the pressure vessel inside said frame body. The frame body comprises two sides connected by longitudinally extending beams. A pair of attachments, one at each end of the pressure vessel, holds the pressure vessel suspended in place inside the frame body, with the longitudinal portion of the pressure vessel substantially parallel to the longitudinally extending beams of the frame body of the container. The pressure vessel is supported at, or in cooperation with, its end caps rather than being supported on its longitudinal main body.
Abstract:
A pressure vessel is produced for storing and transporting CNG. The vessel comprises a body defining an internal volume in which the CNG can be stored, and an inlet for loading the CNG into the vessel. The body of the vessel comprises a structural shell made entirely of a fibre-reinforced filament-wound composite material, which is provided with fibres to carry mechanical loads and a matrix to keep the fibres together and to make the composite impermeable to the CNG. Because the vessel is not provided with any liner, the CNG is in direct contact with an inner side of the structural shell.
Abstract:
A ship comprising a plurality of pressure vessels, there being a first set of pressure vessels of a first length, a second set of pressure vessels of a second length, and a third set of pressure vessels of a third length, the first, second and third lengths differing from one another. The vessels are typically arranged vertically, and the ship can be a multi-hull ship.
Abstract:
Conditioning a fluid in the gaseous state by cooling it, for the sea transportation of CNG, during filling (fig. 1b) and during storage (fig. 3, 4) inside containers of the vertical pressure-vessel type, including multiple treatment steps for lowering the temperature, including a) air-jet cooling; b) seawater cooling using an exchanger for the seawater/gas, or seawater cooling; c) chilling with refrigerating cycle using an improved compressor/evaporator, or cryogenic cycle; where said treatment steps are combined with the aim to decrease the working pressure carrying the same quantity of gas or increase the gas density (so the capacity) maintaining the same working pressure; and where the gas stored and transported inside the said pressure vessels is thermally insulated from the exterior thereof.
Abstract:
A buoy system for loading natural gas from a gas well to a ship, wherein the gas is compressed by a compressor of the buoy system, prior to loading, to a transportation pressure in the hundreds of bar, i.e. a high operating pressure of at least 200 bar.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a high pressure vessel for containing or transporting gas at ultra-high pressures. More particularly it relates to such vessels for containing or transporting compressed natural gas at these pressures and methods of manufacturing them. The present invention also relates to a method of storing or transporting gas onshore or offshore.
Abstract:
A device in the form of a pressure vessel for use in an application other than a combustible fuel application, the pressure vessel being for storing a fluid at a pressure in excess of 30 bar, and being for connection to a user interface so as to supply the fluid to the user's desired application. The pressure vessel may have one or more composite nozzle integrated in the vessel structure, or it may be either a type 3, 4 or pressure vessel, or a pressure vessel of a design having a lower weight per fluid capacity ratio than both approved type 1 pressure vessels of an equivalent size and approved type 2 pressure vessels of an equivalent size.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method of preparing a pressure vessel for containing or transporting pressurized gas such as compressed natural gas. The present invention also relates to a pressure vessel for containing or transporting pressurized gas such as compressed natural gas.