Equipment safety management device, equipment safety management method, and natural gas liquefaction device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10378762-B2
Application number	US-201415532480-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 1, 2014
Priority date	Dec 1, 2014
Publication date	Aug 13, 2019
Grant date	Aug 13, 2019

Abstract

An equipment safety management device for managing safety of equipment capable of holding fluid is provided. The equipment safety management device includes: a safety means configured to be in fluid communication with an outlet of the equipment, the safety means being brought into a released state when pressure of the equipment reaches a previously set pressure, the safety means delivering the fluid to a flare pipe, which is fluidly communicated; and, as the flare pipe, at least one first flare pipe allowing a low-temperature fluid to flow therethrough and at least one second flare pipe allowing an aqueous fluid to flow therethrough. The safety means can deliver the fluid to both the first flare pipe and the second flare pipe.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An equipment safety management device for managing safety of equipment capable of holding a fluid, the equipment safety management device comprising:
a safety means configured to be in fluid communication with an outlet of the equipment, the safety means being brought into a released state when pressure of the equipment reaches a previously set pressure, the safety means delivering the fluid to a flare pipe, which is fluidly communicated; and
the flare pipe including at least one first flare pipe allowing a low-temperature fluid to flow therethrough, but blocking an aqueous fluid to flow and at least one second flare pipe allowing an aqueous fluid to flow therethrough, but blocking the low-temperature fluid to flow,
wherein the safety means delivers the fluid to both the first flare pipe and the second flare pipe when the fluid held in the equipment is neither a low-temperature fluid nor an aqueous fluid.

2. The equipment safety management device according to claim 1 , wherein the safety means includes a plurality of valves, and the plurality of valves are released in stages according to an increase in pressure of the equipment.

3. The equipment safety management device according to claim 1 , further comprising a determination portion configured to determine whether the fluid held in the equipment can be delivered to both the first flare pipe and the second flare pipe.

4. The equipment safety management device according to claim 1 , wherein the equipment is a compressor.

5. An equipment safety management method in which a safety means connected in a fluid communicable manner to an outlet of equipment capable of holding fluid is brought into a released state when pressure of the equipment reaches a previously set pressure so that the fluid is delivered to a flare pipe, which is fluidly communicated, the flare pipe including at least one first flare pipe allowing a low-temperature fluid to flow therethrough, but blocking an aqueous fluid to flow and at least one second flare pipe allowing an aqueous fluid to flow therethrough, but blocking the low-temperature fluid to flow, the equipment safety management method comprising:
delivering the fluid from the safety means to both the first flare pipe and the second flare pipe when the fluid held in the equipment is neither a low-temperature fluid nor an aqueous fluid.

6. The equipment safety management method according to claim 5 , wherein the safety means includes a plurality of valves, and the plurality of valves are released in stages according to an increase in pressure of the equipment.

7. The equipment safety management method according to claim 5 , wherein the equipment is a compressor.

8. A natural gas liquefaction device comprising:
equipment capable of holding fluid; and
the equipment safety management device according to claim 1 .

9. The natural gas liquefaction device according to claim 8 , wherein the equipment is at least one of a C3 compressor, an MR compressor and a C3-MR compressor.

10. The equipment safety management device according to claim 2 , further comprising a determination portion configured to determine whether the fluid held in the equipment can be delivered to both the first flare pipe and the second flare pipe.

Assignees

• Chiyoda Corp

Inventors

• Shimizu Yasunori
• Watanabe Tsuneo

Classifications

• F25J2290/90

  Details about safety operation of the installation · CPC title

• F25J1/0298

  Safety aspects and control of the refrigerant compression system, e.g. anti-surge control · CPC title

• F25J1/0216

  using a C3 pre-cooling cycle · CPC title

• F25J1/0087

  Propane; Propylene · CPC title

• F17D5/02

  Preventing, monitoring, or locating loss · CPC title