• Proceedings of the Korea Committee for Ocean Resources and Engineering Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.119-123
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• 2002

Liquefied Natural Gas(LNG) continues to attract modern gas industries as well as domestic markets as their main energy source in the recent years. This is mainly because LNG is inherently cleaner and more energy efficiency than other fuels. Offshore LNG production plant is of interest to many oil producing companies all over the world. This article discuss about the production process encountered while developing such a production facility. Typical offshore oil and gas processing required for oil stabilization and other optional units that can be added to the facilities. The production process can broadly be divided into five major units namely, (i) Oil Stabilization unit, (ii) Gas Treatment unit, (iii) Methane Recovery unit, (iv) Distillation unit and (v) LNG Liquefaction unit. The process simulation was carried out for each unit with a given wellhead composition. The topside facilities of offshore LNG production plant will be very similar to the process adopted in offshore processing platform along with the typical onshore LNG production plant. However, the process design problems associated with FPSO motion to be taken care of while developing floating LNG production plant.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.5 no.3 s.15
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• pp.23-28
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• 2001

BOG(Boil Off Gas) is formed about 0.05 vol$\%$/day from LNG tanks of LNG receiving terminal. To recycle the BOG using LNG cold energy, the quantities of LNG and BOG is mixed at the ratio of 11 : 1 by mass in the recondenser of mixing drum type. However, this process is inefficient in the view of energy. It is the most necessary for improvement BOG recondensing process to reduce LNG quantities supplying to recondense system. Therefore, this study has aimed to propose heat exchanger type and suggest results through the analysis of ASPEN PLUS simulator and feasibility study.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2001.06d
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• pp.683-688
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• 2001

Cryogenic LNG(Liquefied Natural Gas) which is stored in the cylindrical storage tanks of $100,000m^{3}$ has very complex flow phenomena and the changes of thermal properties with exterior conditions and operation mdoes. These complex thermofluid behaviors are affected by the storage, exterior conditions of LNG, design specifications and heat transfer characteristics of tanks, Also, those have influence on the stable storage and supply of LNG in the storage tanks. Thus this study performed the analysis on the 2-D heat transfer of the tank with exterior conditions, on the Cool Down Process in order to cool down the LNG Storage Tank at the initial normal state, and on the Filling Process considered for incoming and rising of LNG. The analysis on the Mixing LNG Storage was studied too. At last, the visualized program on the complex thermofluidodynamic analysis was developed on the basis of the above analyses. The development of this program becomes to be used to the basic design of the commercial tanks as well as to assure technical skill of the analysis on the thermal stability of the stored LNG in the LNG Storage Tank.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.8 no.4 s.25
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• pp.15-22
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• 2004

This study has been carried out to improve the conditions of process operation through the adjustment to the flow rate and outlet pressure of LNG HP pump, one of the main process facilities, in LNG receiving terminal. We have determined optimum flow rate and applied it to the field operation by analyzing the field operating performance for all the HP pumps and the load of natural gas supply in seasonal using the ASPEN PLUS. As a results, we have get the electric cost saving for the HP pump operation and derived contribution to safety operation by reduced the LNG Process pressure.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.276-281
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• 2019

The process of separating oxygen and nitrogen from the air is mainly performed by electric liquefaction, which consumes a lot of electricity, resulting in higher operating costs. On the other hand, when used for cold energy of LNG, electric power can be reduced compared to the electric Linde cycle. Currently, LNG cold energy is used in the cold refrigeration warehouse, separation of air-liquefaction, and LNG cold energy generation in Japan. In this study, the system using LNG cold energy and the Linde cycle process system were simulated by PRO/II simulators, respectively, to cool the elevated air temperature from the compressor to about $-183^{\circ}C$ in the air liquefaction separation process. The required amount of electricity was compared with the latent heat utilization fraction of LNG, the LNG supply pressure, and the LNG cold energy usage. At the air flow rate of $17,600m^3/h$, the power source unit of the Linde cycle system was $0.77kWh/m^3$, compared with $0.3kWh/m^3$.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.90-95
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• 2018

A process design was performed for a removal of acid gases using membrane-absorption hybrid system in LNG-FPSO. Commercial process simulator Promax version 4.0 was utilized for comparing acid gases removal capabilities of amine absorption process and hybrid process. Simulation results show hybrid process could be small amine solvent circulate rate, energy consumption, equipment sizing compared to typical amine absorption process. As a result, hybrid process which is small footprint and energy saving process may be a good solution for the pre-treatment of natural gas in LNG-FPSO.

• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.120-131
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• 1995

Thermodynamic analysis of extraction process from the constant pressure LNG(Liquefied Natural Gas) vessel was performed in this study. LNG was assumed as a binary mixture of 90% methane and 10% ethane by mole fraction. The thermodynamic properties such as temperature, composition, specific volume and the amount of cold energy were predicted during extraction process. Pressure as a parameter ranges from 101.3kPa to 2000kPa. The result shows the peculiar phenomena for the LNG as a mixture. Both vapor and liquid extraction processes were investigated by a computer model. The property changes are negligible in the liquid extraction process. For the vapor extraction process, the temperature in the vessel increases rapidly and the extracted composition of methane decreases rapidly near the end of extracting process. Specific volume of vapor has the maximum and that of liquid has the minimum during the process. When pressure is increased, specific volume of vapor decreases and that of liquid increases. It was found that specific volume of vapor phase had a major effect on the heat absorption at constant pressure during vapor extraction process. If the pressure of the vessel increases, the total cold energy which can be utilized from LNG decreased.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.372-379
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• 2018

High-pressure gas injection engines (HPGI) took center stage in LNG carrier propulsion systems after their advent. The HPGI engine system can be easily modified to include a re-liquefaction system by adding several devices, which can significantly increase the economic feasibility of the total system. This paper suggests the optimal operating conditions and capacity for a re-liquefaction system for an LNG carrier, which can minimize increases in the total annualized cost. The installation of a re-liquefaction system can save 0.23 million USD per year when the cost of LNG is 5 USD/Mscf. A sensitivity analysis with different LNG costs showed that the re-liquefaction system is profitable when the LNG cost is higher than 3.5 USD/Mscf.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.42-46
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• 2010

BOG(Boil Off Gas) is formed about 0.05 vol%/day from LNG(Liquefied Natural Gas) tanks of LNG receiving terminal. To recycle the BOG using direct contacting, Previously the quantities of LNG and BOG is mixed at the ratio of 11:1 by mass. However simple this process uses, there is the difficulty of processing operation resulted from decrease of using LNG in summer. To complement these shortcomings, Advantages of the process are investigated by comparison of cost and analysis of the indirect contact method using LNG cold energy. It was studied that principles and types of development using LNG cold energy which is abandoned in the carburettor and found how to contact each to find the appropriate cold energy development process. Therefore, in this research, the indirect contact method will be investigated the feasibility of a comparative analysis by using HYSYS.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.825-833
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• 2018

In this study, one calculated the range of damage to the combustion characteristics according to the composition of LNG and the size of leaking holes, and analyzed the damage effect in case of leakage accidents caused by pipe damage in the re-gasification process for the LNG supply system. In order to confirm the combustion characteristics according to LNG composition, there was no significant difference in the result of risk analysis by LNG-producing areas. However, the higher the methane content of the components, the lower the risk of flash fire, hazardous areas of overpressure due to explosion, and thermal radiation damage caused by jet fire. In addition, one investigated the effect of leakage, holes, and ruptures on the risk range and explosions according to the size of the pipe-leakage hole. Also, the influence of overpressure and the range of damage from radiant heat could be predicted. One confirmed the effect of LNG composition and pipe-leakage size on fire and explosion.