Optimization of fuel gas network in an Lng plant

Abstract

Natural gas is a combustible, odorless, and colorless hydrocarbon gas largely composed of methane. Natural gas has to be transported across multinations route from exporting countries to importing countries. One of the most common way of transporting natural gas in long distance is through LNG. One of the most essential facilities of liquefaction plant is the fuel gas system. The problem of finding the optimal design of fuel gas networks is represented, modeled, and solved in a systematic way. Other challenging issues regarding the dynamic operations of the networks are also elucidated. This is an abstract of a paper presented at the 2006 AIChE Annual Meeting (San Francisco, CA 11/12-17/2006).