Liquified Natural Gas Receiving Terminal

Project goal: To design a receiving terminal for large cargo ships carrying liquefied natural gas, or LNG, and a plant to vaporize it back to a gaseous state for distribution via pipeline. Natural gas has to be liquefied cryogenically for transoceanic transportation by large cargo vessels. It then has to be vaporized so it can be transported in distribution pipelines.Design optimization and regulatory factors were considered in the design of the LNG receiving terminal. Aspen Plus was used to model and optimize the thermodynamics of the process, which includes cryogenic factors. This allowed the team to determine the economic feasibility of the plant and to decide which vaporization process would be ideal for a plant of this nature. A plant was designed that can accommodate 12 LNG carriers and deliver 1.2 trillion MMBtus per day of vaporized natural gas.