Design and analysis of a small-scale natural gas liquefaction process adopting single nitrogen expansion with carbon dioxide pre-cooling

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 64, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 139-146

  Yuan, Zongming ^a   Cui, Mengmeng ^a   Xie, Ying ^a   Li, Chunlin ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide pre cooling; Exergy analysis; Liquefaction process; Optimization; Single nitrogen expansion; Unit energy consumption

Indexed keywords

DESIGN AND ANALYSIS; DIFFERENT PRESSURES; ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES; EXERGY ANALYSIS; LIQUEFACTION PROCESS; NATURAL GAS LIQUEFACTION; PRE-COOLING; SAFETY OPERATIONS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON DIOXIDE PROCESS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; EXERGY; EXPANSION; GASES; OPTIMIZATION; PROVEN RESERVES;

NITROGEN;

EID: 84891767350     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2013.12.011     Document Type: Article

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