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Record W2072772261 · doi:10.2118/133722-pa

LNG for Petroleum Engineers

2011· article· en· W2072772261 on OpenAlex
Michael S. Choi

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Bibliographic record

VenueSPE Projects Facilities & Construction · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicSpacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies
Canadian institutionsConocoPhillips (Canada)
FundersUniversity of Southern CaliforniaConocoPhillips
KeywordsLiquefied natural gasLiquefactionNatural gasRefrigerationEnvironmental scienceWaste managementRefrigerantGas compressorMethanePropanePetroleum engineeringFuel gasEngineeringChemistryMechanical engineering

Abstract

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Summary While remote parts of the world are awash with hundreds of trillions of cubic feet (Tcf) of natural gas, the industrialized West and emerging economies of the East cannot get enough of the clean-burning, environmentally friendly fuel. The problem is transporting this compressible fluid long distances and across major bodies of water. For markets more than 1,500 miles distant, liquefied natural gas (LNG) has proved to be the most economic option. By refrigerating natural gas (primarily methane) to–260°F (–162°C), thereby shrinking its volume by 600:1, natural gas in the form of LNG can be transported in large insulated cryogenic tankers at a reasonable cost. Natural-gas liquefaction is a series of refrigeration systems similar to home air-conditioning (AC) systems, consisting of a compressor, condenser, and evaporator to chill and condense the gas. The difference is in the scale and magnitude of the refrigeration. A typical single-train LNG plant may cost USD 1.5 billion and consume 6 to 8% of the inlet gas as fuel. Because many of the impurities (e.g., water vapor, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide) and heavier hydrocarbon compounds in natural gas would freeze at LNG temperatures, they must first be removed and disposed of or marketed as separate products. This paper will provide an overview of LNG liquefaction facilities, from inlet gas receiving to LNG storage and loading. However, the focus is on the liquefaction process and equipment. Differences among the commercially available liquefaction processes (e.g., cascade, single mixed refrigerant, propane precooled mixed refrigerant, double-mixed refrigerant, nitrogen) will be discussed. The aim is to provide SPE members with a clear understanding of the technologies, equipment, and process choices required for a successful LNG project.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.604
Threshold uncertainty score0.714

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.026
GPT teacher head0.195
Teacher spread0.169 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it