Overview
This publication describes the way in which natural gas technology has developed and discusses how and why it has become a well-established, highly sophisticated and safe branch of modern marine engineering.
This publication charts the history of LNG transportation by seas, from the early tank and ship designs, to the development of membranes and spheres. It discusses the involvement of IMO and Classification Societies.
This book is extensively illustrated with detailed design drawings and photographs.
Content
Contents
Foreword and Acknowledgements to 1st Edition
Foreword and Acknowledgements to 2nd Edition
Chart: Periods covered by Chapters and Some Landmarks
1. How it All Started
2. First Attempts at a Solution
3. Wide Participation and Further Testwork in the USA
4. Activities Outside the USA
5. The Role of the Classification Societies
6. The First Prototype — Methane Pioneer
7. The Second Prototype — Beauvais
8. Cargo Handling Arrangements
9. The First Commercial LNG Ships
10. Patents and Politics
11. Membranes — Breakthrough?
12. Two More Projects and a Speculative Ship
13. The Spheres
14. Market Prospects Generate Many New Designs
15. The IMO Code
16. A Decade of Consolidation
17. Projects Past, Present and Future
18. A Look Ahead
Appendices
1 What is Natural Gas?
2 Some Approximate Physical Properties of Constituents of Natural Gas
3 US Coast Guard Tentative Standards for Transportation of Liquefied Inflammable Gases at Atmospheric Pressure (August 22, 1956)
4a/4b Lighter moments at the Gastech Conferences
5 SIGTTO Publications Relating to LNG
Details
Title: Natural Gas by Sea
Subtitle: The Development of a New Technology, 2nd Edition
Edition: Second
Number of Pages: 245
Product Code: 4400W097
ISBN: ISBN 13: 978-1-85609-052-0 (9781856090520), ISBN 10: 1-85609-052-3 (1856090523)
Published Date: January 1993
Binding Format: Hardback
Book Height: 245 mm
Book Width: 170 mm
Book Spine: 20 mm
Weight: 0.70 kg
Author: Barbara Ffooks