• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.40 no.3
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• pp.174-179
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• 2016

To protect the ocean environment, the use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers, bunkering ships, and fueled ships is increasing. Recently, Korean shipbuilders have developed and supplied a partial reliquefaction facility for boil-off-gas (BOG). Despite reasonable insulation, heat leakage in vessel storage tanks causes LNG to be continuously evaporated as BOG. This research analyzed the maximum liquid yield rate for various partial reliquefaction systems (PRS) and considered related factors affecting yields. The results showed a liquid yield of 48.7% from an indirect PRS system (heat exchanges between cold flash gas and compressed natural gas), and 41% from a direct PRS system (BOG is mixed with flash gas and discharged from a liquid-vapor separator). The primary factor affecting liquid yield was heat exchanger effectiveness; the exchanger's efficiency and insulation characteristics directly affect the performance of BOG reliquefaction systems.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Marine Engineers Conference
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• 2011.06a
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• pp.276-276
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• 2011

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.721-722
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• 2010

• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.153-160
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• 1991

Heat transfer characteristics of a direct contact heat exchanger utilizing sieve trays and spray nozzles for steam condensation for the purpose of combining with a LNG evaporator have been investigated with various cooling water flow rates and different vacuum pressures within the heat exchanger for the purpose of steam condensation. Temperature profiles and the volumetric overall heat transfer coefficients in a direct contact heat exchanger have been obtained for comparisons. The results show that the temperature differences between cooling water and steam along the direct contact heat exchanger height are rapidly decreasing and the volumetric overall heat transfer coefficients of the exchanger improves greatly as the inside vacuum pressure increases. The values of the overall heat transfer coefficients at P=-680mmHg have been increased significantly compared with at atmospheric pressure. At given pressure conditions, it is found that the values of average volumetric overall heat transfer coefficients for the sieve tray are found to be approximately 10% higher than those of the spray nozzle.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.812-821
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• 2009

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.903-911
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• 1994

This study addresses the phenomena of bubbling, icing, eruption, component varieties of the evaporated natural gas, and volumetric heat transfer coefficients obtained during the operation of a proposed LNG evaporator between LNG and water in direct contact. In the present investigation, the explosive and eruption phenomena within the water column were not observed during the entire operation of the heat exchanger. Compared with the natural gas produced by conventional LNG evaporator, the analysis of the gas produced by the direct contact LNG evaporator shows that nitrogen, methane, and ethane components were reduced by 0.002~0.007mol%(4~14%), 1.6~1.92mol%(1.9~2.3%) and 0.17~1.28mol%(1.1~8.4%) respectively, while the moisture content was rather increased by 0.51~0.76mol%. The maximum volumetric heat transfer coefficient of the direct contact heat exchanger was found to be $21, 800kW/m^3\cdotK$.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Energy Engineering kosee Conference
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• 1997.10a
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• pp.3-8
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• 1997

본 연구에서는 복합발전시스템의 외기온도 변화로 인한 출력저하 문제를 극복할 수 있는 LNG 냉열 이용 복합발전 시스템을 제안하였다. 본 연구에 의해 제안된 LNG 냉열 이용 복합발전 시스템의 타당성을 검토하기 위해 ASPEN과 GateCycle을 이용한 시뮬레이션 모델을 구성하였고, 모델에 의해 예측한 결과를 실제 발전소 성능시험결과와 비교하여, 본 시뮬레이션 방법의 예측정확도를 검증하였다. 본 시뮬레이션 방법을 토대로 LNG 냉열을 이용하여 가스터빈의 유입공기를 냉각시켰을 경우의 복합발전 시스템 성능변화를 분석하였다. 그 결과 LNG 냉열을 이용하여 유입 공기를 원하는 온도까지 냉각시켜 하절기에도 출력을 일정하게 유지시킬 수 있음을 확인할 수 있었고, 이를 위한 기스터빈과 LNG 간의 열교환기 설계기준도 제시하였다.

• Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.659-667
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• 2008

The LNG carriers have been propelled by steam turbines and the LNG boil-off(BOG) has been used as fuel or vented. However, as the alternative propulsion systems such as diesel engines are being equipped on the LNG carriers for better fuel efficiency, a need for the LNG BOG re-liquefaction system that liquefies the BOG and sends the liquid BOG back to the LNG cargo has arisen in recent years. This study investigates the design of the BOG re-liquefaction system based on the reverse Brayton refrigeration cycle. The thermodynamic and heat exchanger analysis are carried out and the limitations to the system performance are discussed.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.22-28
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• 2013

The heat transfer characteristics of LNG(Liquefied Natural Gas) vaporizer on the ship was performed by numerical simulation to get the optimum NG(Natural Gas) generating condition. The glycol-water was used for heating in LNG vaporizer, and the cooling water of main engine was used as heating souse for glycol-water. This cooling water temperature increases again after recirculating from the main engine, and then it can be used to heat the glycol-water. The numerical analysis results has good agreement with the experimental results by liquid nitrogen for validation. So CFD technique was used to simulate the heat transfer characteristics of LNG vaporizer on the ship. The numerical results show that the operation condition of LNG vaporizer shows NG temperature of $6^{\circ}C$ in the outlet of LNG vaporizer, and the mass flow rates of LNG and glycol-water were showed 0.111 kg/s and 1.805 kg/s, respectively.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.44-48
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• 2009

In this paper, two different types of natural gas liquefaction cycle with 2 staged compression were designed and simulated to develop liquefaction process which is the core technology in the Industry of natural gas liquefaction plant. These include the cascade cycle with inter-cooler which is consisted of propane, ethylene and methane cycle. One of these is that liquid-gas heat exchanger is applied to between methane and ethylene cycles, and another is that liquid-gas heat exchanger is added to between ethylene and propane on the above process. Also, these cycles are compared with two staged cascade process using an inter-cooler. The COP of process2 is shown about 14.0% higher than that of process1, respectively. Also, the yield efficiency of LNG improved comparing with process1 with 11.5% lower specific power.