A natural gas liquefaction process suited for offshore liquefaction of natural gas produced in association with oil production is described.

An air-cooler assembly comprising a plurality of air-coolers (1), wherein the air-coolers (1) are arranged on a duct (15), the duct having the shape of a straight prism having a polygonal cross section, and wherein the duct has one air inlet (14) for taking in cooling air to be distributed to all air-coolers (1), is described. A floater (10) for LNG production and a method for LNG production using the air-cooler assembly is also described.

Provided is a natural gas processing facility for the liquefaction or regasification of natural gas. The facility includes a primary processing unit, e.g., refrigeration unit, for warming natural gas or chilling natural gas to at least a temperature of liquefaction. The facility also has superconducting electrical components integrated into the facility. The superconducting electrical components incorporate superconducting material so as to improve electrical efficiency of the facility by at least one percent over what would be experienced through the use of conventional electrical components. The superconducting electrical components may be one or more motors, one or more generators, one or more transformers, switch gears, one or more electrical transmission conductors, variable speed drives, or combinations thereof.

An offshore LNG processing plant includes a first module including a personnel accommodation facility on a first vessel, a second module including a gas treatment facility on a second vessel, and a third module including a gas liquefaction facility on a third vessel. Each of the first, second, and third modules are assembled on the corresponding vessels, and then transported to an offshore location in a body of water, such as a river, a lake, or a sea. At the offshore location, each vessel deploys legs to the bed of the body of water to raise a hull of each vessel out of the water. The first module is then coupled to the second module, and the second module is coupled to the third module. A fourth module on a fourth vessel is coupled to the third module to provide LNG storage.

A heat exchanger for indirect heat transfer between a first medium and a second medium having a shell which has a shell space to accommodate a liquid phase of the first medium, and at least one heat-exchanger block having first heat-transfer passages to accommodate the first medium and second heat-transfer passages to accommodate the second medium, such that indirect heat can be transferred between the first medium and the second medium. The heat-exchanger block is arranged in the shell space so that it can be surrounded with a liquid phase of the first medium in the shell space. A plurality of cylindrical channels are provided in the shell space laterally to the heat-exchanger block and parallel to each other to conduct the liquid phase of the first medium.

The present invention relates to a single cycle mixed refrigerant process for industrial cooling applications, for example, the liquefaction of natural gas. The present invention also relates to a refrigeration assembly configured to implement the processes defined herein and a mixed refrigerant composition usable in such processes.

System and methods for floating dockside liquefaction of natural gas are described. A system for floating dockside liquefaction of natural gas comprises a natural gas pretreatment facility located onshore proximate a dock, wherein the natural gas pretreatment facility is configured to process pipeline quality gas into pretreated natural gas, a floating liquefaction unit moored at the dock, wherein the floating liquefaction unit further comprises a natural gas liquefaction module on a deck, and an LNG storage tank for storing produced LNG below the deck, a pipeline coupling the onshore pretreatment facility to the dock, wherein the pipeline is configured to transport pretreated natural gas onto the dock, and a high pressure gas arm fluidly coupling the pipeline to the floating liquefaction unit, wherein the gas arm is configured to transfer pretreated natural gas to the floating liquefaction unit.

Described herein are apparatuses and systems related to at-shore liquefaction of natural gas. The at-shore water-based apparatuses can include a hull, an air-cooled electrically-driven refrigeration system (AER System), and a plurality of liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage tanks that are on a lower deck of the hull. The AER System can be supported by a plurality of support structures extending through an upper deck of the hull.

Disclosed are a method and a device for manufacturing liquid hydrogen by offshore off-grid superconducting wind turbine. The method comprises the following steps: electrolyzing seawater to obtain hydrogen based on electric energy output by an offshore off-grid superconducting wind turbine generator, liquefying the hydrogen into prepared liquid hydrogen, and outputting a part of the liquid hydrogen as the refrigerant of the offshore off-grid superconducting wind turbine generator. The device comprises a liquid preparation platform, an offshore off-grid superconducting wind turbine generator, a seawater electrolysis unit, a hydrogen liquefaction unit and a liquid hydrogen storage unit, wherein the power ends of the seawater electrolysis unit and the hydrogen liquefaction unit are connected with the output end of the offshore off-grid superconducting wind turbine generator, and the hydrogen liquefaction unit is connected with the coolant input end of the offshore off-grid superconducting wind turbine generator.

A system that integrates a power production system and an energy storage system represented by gas liquefaction systems is provided.