Keeping it Simple: Liquefaction Trains for Modern LNG Facilities
Today’s LNG market is motivated by critical demand for worldwide energy security and the rapid transition to fuels and manufacturing facilities with ever-decreasing carbon intensity. These demands require liquefaction trains with high efficiency and availability, coupled with construction methods that offer reduced CAPEX and the shortest time between final investment decision and first shipment of product.
With the trend toward highly modularised liquefaction trains rising to meet those project delivery objectives, the LNG industry is turning its attention to electrically-driven liquefaction plants to achieve custom-tailored, low-carbon production capacity. Electrically-driven processes in conjunction with more widespread modularisation capability enables more freedom to ‘right-size’ a liquefaction plant’s production capacity. With more degrees of design freedom than ever before, one size rarely fits all. EPCs and owners may wonder, “what is the best way to configure modules for optimal plant production for baseload facilities?” A configuration that is simple, elegant, and efficient at one capacity can become complicated, cumbersome, and inefficient at other sizes.
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