Liquefaction Of Natural Gas

Liquefaction of Natural GasLNG is natural gas in its liquid form. Calling on more than 125years of experience as a cryogenic plant designer, Linde is ableto offer Natural Gas Liquefaction plants for a wide range of usesand capacities.Natural Gas is among the most important sources of energy in the world. Todayapproximately 25% of the world's energy demand is derived from natural gas.The majority of natural gas is delivered by pipeline in gaseous form. However, inthe past two decades Liquefied Natural Gas ("LNG") has gained importance inthe world's energy market. Natural gas and LNG in particular, is expected to playa growing role in world energy supply.LNG is natural gas in its liquid form. In order to liquefy natural gas, it must becooled. As a liquid, natural gas occupies only 1/600th of the volume of naturalgas (at atmospheric pressure) in its gaseous form and thereby allows for moreeconomic and practical transportation over great distances. Natural gas istypically transported in liquid state when vast distances, geological or politicalconditions do not allow for construction of pipelines.Natural gas typically contains a mixture of methane and heavier hydrocarbongases, as well as carbon dioxide, nitrogen, water and a range of other unwantedcomponents. Unwanted components must be removed and the heavierhydrocarbons separated prior to liquefying and transporting natural gas. Thisinvolves a combination of adsorptive, absorptive and cryogenic processes - all ofwhich are part of Linde's core competence.Calling on more than 125 years of experience as a cryogenic plant designer,Linde is able to offer Natural Gas Liquefaction plants for a wide range of usesand capacities:World-scale baseload LNG productionSmall to mid-scale LNG production for baseload and peakshaving operationLNG Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel (FPSO)Linde has developed and constructed a wide variety of tailor-made liquefactionprocesses and plants. Linde Engineering's range of experience includes smallto mid scale Natural Gas Liquefaction plants with annual LNG capacities of50.000 to 500.000 tonnes as well as a world-scale LNG export plant ("Snøhvit ")with a capacity of more than 4 million tonnes per year. The process portfolioincludes expander processes as well as single, dual and triple flow processeswith a variety of mixed refrigerant options suitable for plants with capacities up to10 mtpa. Linde holds patents for a number of natural gas liquefaction processessuch as the Mixed Fluid Cascade (MFC®) process and LIMUM (Linde Multi stageMixed refrigerant). Linde Engineering is a leading supplier of cryogenic equipment. It is also theonly supplier offering both coil wound and plate fin heat exchangers, which areLinde AG, EngineeringDivisionDr.-Carl-von-Linde-Strasse 6-14 82049 Pullach Germany Phone +49.89.7445-3784 Fax +49.89.7445-4928Send emailLNG Technology(PDF 1640 KB)More information 2012/03/20 Liquefaction of Natural Gas - Process Plants > Liquefaction of Natural Gas | Linde Engineeringintegral to the natural gas liquefaction process. Linde Engineering is uniqueamong EPC contractors in the LNG business in that it can offer the client its ownliquefaction technologies as well as its own core cryogenic equipment andcomplete EPC services.Linde AG, Engineering Division, Dr.-Carl-von-Linde-Str. 6-14 82049 Pullach, Germany Phone +49.89.7445-0, Fax +49.89.7445-4908, Email: info@linde-le.com