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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2018
Sorin Lupascu, Spring, TX (US);
Yow-yeen Lee, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Sorin Lupascu, Spring, TX (US);
Yow-Yeen Lee, The Woodlands, TX (US);
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Spring, TX (US);
Abstract
A system and method for producing liquefied natural gas (LNG) from a natural gas stream. Each of a plurality of LNG trains liquefies a portion of the natural gas stream to generate a warm LNG stream in a first operating mode, and a cold LNG stream in a second operating mode. A sub-cooling unit is configured to, in the first operating mode, sub-cool the warm LNG streams generated by each of the plurality of LNG trains to thereby generate a plurality of cold LNG streams. The warm LNG streams have a higher temperature than a temperature of the cold LNG streams in the second operating mode and the plurality of cold LNG streams. The combined flow rate of the plurality of cold LNG streams has, in the first operating mode, a higher flow rate than the combined flow rate of the cold LNG streams in the second operating mode.