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Stephane Crevatin

Jean-Marc Peyron

Stephane Duval

Peter De Maeyer

An installation transfers fluid between a source (e.g., a cryogenic fluid reserve) and a receiving unit (e.g., a boat reservoir). It includes a beam framework tower housing a fluid transfer circuit with a pipe extending from a lower connection to an upper connection. The tower is composed of at least two separable stacked modules, enabling different height configurations (two modules stacked or a single module). The transfer circuit within the tower has two sections, one in each module, connected by demountable connectors to adapt the circuit's height to the tower's configuration.

Fluid transfer installation

Method for filling a liquefied gas tank with pressurized liquefied gas from a source of liquefied gas using a filling apparatus comprising a transfer circuit that is provided with first and second pipes, each connecting between the source via respective first ends and the tank via respective second ends, third and fourth pipes each connecting between the first and second pipes, and a set of valves controlling flows of fluid in the pipes. The tank is depressurized and at least part of the circuit is cooled by transferring pressurized vaporization gas from the tank to the first end of the second pipes via the second end of the second pipe, the third pipe, the first pipe, and the fourth pipe.

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Sassenage, France

Stephane Crevatin