The invention primarily concerns a facility for storing and cooling a liquefied gas, for example a liquefied natural gas, the facility comprising at least one tank configured to contain the liquefied gas, a closed cooling circuit configured to be supplied with liquefied gas in the liquid state coming from the tank, at least one injection member configured for reinjecting cooled liquefied gas into the tank, the facility being characterized in that it comprises at least one connection line configured to recover a cooled gas from at least one remote container that is separate and independent from the facility.

The present invention relates to a system for the thermal compression of a gas, characterized in that it comprises a source (1), a target (2) and at least one group of reservoirs (3) each one comprising at least two reservoirs (3), the system comprising a heating means (4) and a cooling means (5) for heating and cooling the contents of each reservoir, each group further comprising: transfer means (6a, 6b) allowing gas to be transferred directly from the source to each reservoir and directly from each reservoir to the target, andfor each reservoir (3) of the group, two-way transfer means (7) allowing gas to be transferred directly between this reservoir (3) and at least one other reservoir (3) of the group. The present invention also relates to a cyclic method for the thermal compression of a gas in a plurality of reservoirs (3) of at least one group of a system according to the invention.

Proposed is an apparatus for supplying hydrogen to various mobility products using hydrogen as fuel, that is, a hydrogen station. An integrated and mobile automatic hydrogen station achieves miniaturization by increasing space efficiency by adopting a structure that can supply high-pressure hydrogen directly from a hydrogen generating source without having a hydrogen storage tank so as to facilitate movement to sites operating hydrogen-fueled mobility products and ensure the airtightness of a gas supply path at the same time, and measures physical state variables such as pressure and temperature of gas being supplied in real time and automatically controls a supply process on the basis of the measurement so as to increase gas filling efficiency while improving safety and user convenience of a filling process.

Apparatus comprising a source of a first fluid (204), a fluid displacement device (210) for moving the first fluid from the source to a sealed storage chamber (214), means for introducing a second fluid (207), different from the first fluid into the first fluid prior to reaching the storage chamber, the arrangement being such that the sealed storage chamber receives a mixture of the first and second fluids under a pressure greater than the pressure at the point at which the second fluid is introduced into the first fluid and includes a first fluid outlet (220) for directing the first fluid separated from the second fluid in the storage chamber externally of the storage chamber.

[Object] To enable a gas supply system to be easily transported and to increase a degree of freedom when the gas supply system is installed. [Solution] A hydrogen station includes: a filling facility for filling a tank-mounted device with a gas; and a gas supply system for supplying the gas to the filling facility. The gas supply system includes: a compressor for compressing the gas; a compressor accommodating body for accommodating the compressor; a refrigerator for cooling the gas flowed into the filling facility or the gas just before being flowed into the filling facility, the refrigerator including an evaporation part, an expansion part, and a compression part; and a cooler accommodating body for accommodating the evaporation part, the expansion part, and the compression part. The compressor accommodating body and the cooler accommodating body are detachable from each other.

A fuel cell system including a hydrogen tank configured to store hydrogen supplied to a fuel cell stack, a heater configured to heat the hydrogen tank, a cooler configured to cool the hydrogen tank by circulating cooling water, and a controller configured to adjust a temperature of the hydrogen tank by controlling the heater and the cooler responsive to a measured temperature of the hydrogen tank.

Disclosed is a re-liquefying device using a boil-off gas as a cooling fluid so as to reliquefy the boil-off gas generated from a liquefied gas storage tank provided in a ship. A boil-off gas re-liquefying device for a ship comprises: a multi-stage compression unit for compressing boil-off gas generated from a liquefied gas storage tank; a heat exchanger in which the boil-off gas generated from the storage tank and the boil-off gas compressed exchange heat; a vaporizer for heat exchanging the boil-off gas cooled by the heat exchanger and a separate liquefied gas supplied to a fuel demand source of a ship, and thus cooling the boil-off gas; an intermediate cooler for cooling the boil-off gas that has been cooled by the heat exchanger; and an expansion means for branching a part of the boil-off gas, which is supplied to the intermediate cooler, and expanding the same.

Disclosed is a re-liquefying device using a boil-off gas as a cooling fluid so as to re-liquefy the boil-off gas generated from a liquefied gas storage tank provided in a ship. A boil-off gas re-liquefying device for a ship comprises: a multi-stage compression unit for compressing boil-off gas generated from a liquefied gas storage tank; a heat exchanger in which the boil-off gas generated from the storage tank and the boil-off gas compressed exchange heat; a vaporizer for heat exchanging the boil-off gas cooled by the heat exchanger and a separate liquefied gas supplied to a fuel demand source of a ship, and thus cooling the boil-off gas; an intermediate cooler for cooling the boil-off gas that has been cooled by the heat exchanger; and an expansion means for branching a part of the boil-off gas, which is supplied to the intermediate cooler, and expanding the same.

A ship comprises: a tank; a multistage compressor for compressing a boil-off gas discharged from a storage tank and comprising a plurality of compression cylinders; a first heat exchanger for heat exchanging a fluid, which has been compressed by the multistage compressor, with the boil-off gas discharged from the storage tank and thus cooling the same; a first decompressing device for expanding a flow (flow a1) partially branched from the flow (flow a) that has been cooled by the first heat exchanger; a third heat exchanger for heat exchanging, by flow a1 which has been expanded by the first decompressing device as a refrigerant, the remaining flow (flow a2) of flow a after excluding flow a1 that has been branched and thus cooling the same; and a second decompressing device for expanding flow a2 which has been cooled by the third heat exchanger.

Method for filling a tank with pressurized hydrogen via a filling station comprising at least one buffer container and a fluid circuit connected to said at least one buffer container, the circuit of the filling station comprising a first end connected to at least one source of hydrogen gas, the circuit comprising a second end fitted with a transfer pipe intended to be connected removably to the tank that is to be filled, the method involving a step of cooling the hydrogen supplied to the tank by transferring negative calories between a cold source and the hydrogen, the method being characterized in that it comprises a step of purifying the hydrogen supplied by the source in a purification member before transferring it to the at least one buffer container, and in that it comprises a step of transferring negative calories from said cold source to the hydrogen before and/or during the purification step.