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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2022
L'air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour L'etude ET L'exploitation Des Procedes Georges Claude, Paris, FR;
Cecile Gondrand, Sassenage, FR;
Fabien Durand, Sassenage, FR;
Abstract
An installation and method for storing liquefied gas, comprising a plurality of separate storage tanks each configured to contain liquefied gas, comprising a cooling circuit provided with a refrigeration device, a withdrawal pipe and a plurality of first injection pipes towards each of the tanks in order to cool the withdrawn fluid flow, the tanks comprising a degassing line, the installation comprising a set of controlled valves situated at least in the cooling circuit, wherein the first tank contains liquid and at least one other tank is empty, containing essentially boil-off gas, that is to say containing little or no liquid, wherein there is cooling of the fluid contained in the first tank, re-injection into the first tank, injection of liquid cooled by the refrigeration device into at least one other empty tank and transfer of boil-off gas generated in the or the other tanks to the first tank.