Kobe Steel, Ltd.

Jong Yoon Cho

Kenichiro Mitsuhashi

Yasuhiro Mitarai

Provided is a cooling device with which it is possible to cool a fluid to be cooled, even before maintenance work, if a fault such as a blockage or a breakage occurs in a part of a channel. The cooling device () is provided with four heat exchangers (A-D) and a plurality of heat exchanger connection parts (-), each of the heat exchanger connection parts allowing natural gas to flow therethrough. Each of the heat exchangers has: a drum (, fourth drum), a refrigerant reservoir (T), a plurality of heat exchanger core parts () immersed in liquid propane in the refrigerant reservoir (T), and a demister (). A plurality of cooling channels allowing natural gas to flow therethrough are installed, independent of each other, from the first heat exchanger (A) to the fourth heat exchanger (D).

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Yokohama, Japan

Jong Yoon Cho