| Preface |
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| Nomenclature |
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| 1 Fundamental principles and processes |
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1.3 Ideal refrigeration and liquefaction processes |
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1.3.1 Ideal constant-temperature refrigeration process |
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1.3.2 Ideal gas-cooling/liquefaction process |
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1.5 Exergy loss and exergy efficiency |
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1.6 Exergy efficiency of processes without any work interaction |
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1.7 Performance of an ideal gas cooler operating with a non-ideal expander |
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1.8 Precooled ideal liquefaction process |
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1.9 Linde–Hampson refrigerators and liquefiers |
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1.10 Joule–Thomson coefficient |
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1.11 Exergy efficiency of a Linde–Hampson liquefier |
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1.11.1 Exergy losses in a non-ideal Linde–Hampson liquefier |
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1.12 Temperature profiles in heat exchangers operating with single phase fluids |
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1.13 Heat exchanger effectiveness |
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1.14 Exergy efficiency of the Solvay and Linde–Hampson liquefaction processes |
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1.15 The Kapitza liquefaction process and its variants |
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1.17 Types of refrigerant mixtures |
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| 2 Simulation of cryogenic processes |
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2.1 Sequential modular simulators |
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2.1.1 Example: Open-cycle Linde—Hampson nitrogen liquefier |
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2.1.2 Tearing of recycle streams |
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2.2 Equation-oriented simulators |
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2.3 Simultaneous modular simulators |
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2.4 Simulation of heat exchangers with pinch points |
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2.5 Optimization of a Kapitza nitrogen liquefier |
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| 3 Need for refrigerant mixtures |
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3.1 Refrigeration systems |
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3.2 Exergy efficiency of ideal Linde—Hampson refrigerators operating with refrigerant mixtures |
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3.3 Cooling of gases using mixed refrigerant processes |
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3.4 Linde gas cooler operating with mixtures |
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3.5 Liquefaction of natural gas |
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| 4 Constant-temperature refrigeration processes |
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4.1 Gas refrigerant supply and liquid refrigerant supply (GRS/LRS) processes |
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4.2 Linde—Hampson refrigerators operating with refrigerant mixtures |
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4.3 Mixed refrigerant Linde—Hampson refrigerator operating at 90 K in GRS mode |
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4.3.1 Effect of pressure drop in the heat exchanger |
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4.3.2 Effect of compressor discharge pressure |
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4.4 Mixed refrigerant Linde—Hampson refrigerator operating at 100 K in LRS mode |
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4.5 Effect of the addition of neon or helium |
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4.5.1 Mixed refrigerant Linde—Hampson refrigerator operating at 85 K in GRS mode with N2-He-HC mixtures |
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4.6.1 Precooled mixed refrigerant process refrigerator operating at 100 K |
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4.7 Mixed refrigerant process refrigerator with a phase separator |
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4.7.1 Mixed refrigerant process with a phase separator operating at 100 K |
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4.7.2 Effect of separation efficiency |
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4.8 Mixed refrigerant process refrigerators with multiple phase separators |
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| 5 Optimum mixture composition |
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5.1 Choice of mixture constituents |
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5.2 Optimization of mixture composition for refrigeration processes |
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5.2.1 Optimization methods proposed in the literature |
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5.2.2 Maximization of exergy efficiency |
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5.2.4 Example: Linde–Hampson refrigerator operating in GRS mode at 92 K with a mixture of nitrogen, methane, ethane, and propane |
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5.3 Example: Linde–Hampson refrigerator operating in GRS mode at 80 K |
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5.4 Comparison of performance of a Linde–Hampson refrigerator operating in GRS mode at 92 K with mixtures obtained using the method of Dobak et al. [ 32] and the present method |
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5.5 Optimization of mixture composition and operating pressures of liquefaction processes |
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| 6 Natural gas liquefaction processes |
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6.1 Classification of natural gas liquefaction processes |
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6.2 Classical cascade processes |
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6.4 Single-stage mixed refrigerant LNG process without phase separators |
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6.5 Precooled LNG process without phase separators |
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6.6 LNG processes with a phase separator |
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6.7 Precooled LNG process with a phase separator |
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6.8 Propane precooled phase separator (C3-MR) process |
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6.9 Mixed refrigerant precooled phase separator (DMR) processes |
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6.10 LNG process with multiple phase separators (Kleemenko process) |
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6.11 Cascade liquefaction process operating with mixtures |
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6.12 LNG processes with turbines |
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| 7 Cooling and liquefaction of air and its constituents |
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7.1 Single-stage processes for the sensible cooling of a pure fluid such as nitrogen |
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7.2 Single-stage process for the liquefaction of pure fluids such as nitrogen |
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7.3 Mixed refrigerant precooled Linde–Hampson liquefaction process |
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7.4 Mixed refrigerant precooled Kapitza liquefaction process |
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7.5 Liquefaction of nitrogen using the Kleemenko process |
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7.6 Other liquefaction processes and refrigerants |
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| References |
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| Index |
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