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Single Shaft Turbocompressor for
BOG Recovery in LNG Terminals
Author: Sven-Erik BRINK (Feed Team Manager
BOG compressor market specialist)
Siemens AG Energy, Sector Oil & Gas Division
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Lets talk about a paradigm switch
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Lets talk about a paradigm switch
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Worlwide increase in LNG demand leading to:
LNG tanker sizes are increasing this results in an
increased maximum BOG volume rate at LNG Receiving
Terminals during SHIP UNLOADING.
LNG send out rates are increasing and often totally
compensate BOG volume during HOLDING the GAP
between max. and min. BOG flow is becoming larger.
Todays LNG storage tanks are most often of full contain-
ment design which allow for pressure fluctuations inside
tanks.
Todays BOG single shaft centrifugal compressor design
are customized for start/stop operation featuring variable
Inlet Guide Vanes (IGV) and heated seal carriers.
The combination of above facts implementing a change of
compressor concept.
LNG Receiving Terminals
Situation have changed plus Progress in Advanced Technology
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Over 30 years experience with BOG handling at
LNG export plants as a market-leader
Siemens has developed an innovative concept for
LNG import terminals.
This concept features a single-body, single-shaft, multi-
stage, centrifugal compressor optimized for small and
medium BOG volume flows and capable of automatic
start/stop operation from ambient as well as from cold
conditions with no cool-down required.
This concept opens the door for the paradigm switch to
maintenance-free, safe, economic and environmentally
friendly BOG handling within Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)
import terminals (onshore as well as offshore), improving
significantly the Total Cost of Ownership (TCoO)
LNG Receiving Terminals
Siemens opens the door for the paradigm switch
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Simplyfied BOG Generation Profile
along the LNG chain
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
BOG Volume /
Massflow
LNG Chain Transport Production Regas
LOADING Mode
UNLOADING Mode
HOLDING Mode HOLDING Mode
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Todays LNG Plants
E
LP HP
1 bar
-160 C 22 41 bar g
Fuel Gas
System
7 10 bar
Early LNG Plants and
Todays LNG Receiving
Terminals
E
LP
6 10 bar
Recondenser or Fuel Gas System
1 bar
-160 C
BOG Turbocompressors
(two casing vs. single casing)
Export Plant (tandem)
Start / Stop Operation
8000 to 39000 m3/h
- 163 to - 120 C
1.00 to 1.15 bar
2200 to 7500 kW
Import Terminal (single)
Start / Stop Operation
5000 to 33000 m3/h
- 163 to - 100 C
1.00 to 1.25 bar
2200 to 7500 kW
800 to 3500 kW
Siemens world
market leader for
cryogenic
temperature BOG
applications for LNG
Loading Plants
New market for LNG
Receiving Terminals
(onshore and
offshore) applying
same technology as
for LNG Loading
(Export) Plants
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TC
IGV setting
-10 to +75
FC
2nd stage
HP Pumps
To Vaporizer and
Gas Pipeline
Recondenser
Suction
Drum
BOG
Compressor
Desuperheater
BOG at 1 bar
BOG at 8 bar
LNG at 8 bar
-162 C (-260 F)
LNG Storage
Tank
1st stage LP
Pumps
Simplified Flow Schematic
The onboard BOG recondensing concept
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Compressor selection for import terminals
BOG handling concepts
Concept B
1 x 100%
Concept A
2 x 50% or
3 x 33%
Concept D
Concept C
2 x 50%
Increasing LNG sendout / ship size
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UNLOADING
Mode
HOLDING
Mode
1 x 100 % hybrid concept
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Application range of different compressor types
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Actual suction volume [m/h]
Integrally geared type
BOG references range
for LNG Carriers
Siemens single shaft
BOG references range
1.000.000
1.000 10.000
20.000 100.000
70.000 200.000
Turbo radial
Reciprocating
Screw /
Rotary vane /
Roots
Turbo
axial-(radial)
3500
1000
600
250
100
50
10
100
BOG volume flows
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Among all possible
compressor designs,
the single-shaft
concept ensures
highest reliability
and availability.
BOG compressor concept
Single shaft turbocompressor with vertically split casing
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Single shaft BOG compressor cross sectional drawing
Oil heated Seal Carrier
3D Impeller
Dry Gas Seal
Inlet Guide Vane Unit (IGV)
Special Design Features
Single shaft turbo compressor for cryogenic temperature BOG
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IGV Animation
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L x W x H [mm]: 9,500 X 3,000 X 3,000
weight [kg]: 55,000
BOG single shaft Turbocompressor Layout
Compact single lift package concept
step-up gear
compressor
seal gas panel
oil unit
single lift
baseplate
electric drive
motor
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Single shaft turbo compressor guarantees
highest reliability and availability plus
maximum safety
No spare units required
Virtually maintenance free
Lowest weight, minimum footprint (ideal for
offshore)
No gas to atmosphere low noise 85 bD(A)
Easy erection and installation due to fully
piped, wired and teates singel lift compressor
packages
Improving significantly the Total Cost of
Ownership
Conclusion
Why optimize the compressor concept?
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Our competence
drives your profit
Sven-Erik Brink
Feed Team (BOG Market Specialist)
Energy Sector, Oil & Gas Division
Wolfgang Reuter Platz
P.O. Box.10 15 07
47053 Duisburg, Germany
E-mail: sven.brink@siemens.com
cell phone +49 172 250 9405
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