US 11,906,111 B2
Delivery tank with pressure reduction, saturation and desaturation features
Radek Rosenbaum, Decin (CZ); and Jan Kubica, Liberec (CZ)
Assigned to Chart Inc., Ball Ground, GA (US)
Filed by Chart Inc., Ball Ground, GA (US)
Filed on Feb. 26, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/186,069.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/983,901, filed on Mar. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0270420 A1, Sep. 2, 2021
Int. Cl. F17C 7/02 (2006.01); F17C 1/12 (2006.01)
CPC F17C 7/02 (2013.01) [F17C 1/12 (2013.01); F17C 2201/0119 (2013.01); F17C 2203/0391 (2013.01); F17C 2203/0619 (2013.01); F17C 2205/0134 (2013.01); F17C 2205/0352 (2013.01); F17C 2221/014 (2013.01); F17C 2221/033 (2013.01); F17C 2223/0161 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cryogenic liquid delivery tank system, comprising:
a vessel comprising an inner shell and an outer shell wherein the inner shell defines an interior configured to contain a first cryogenic liquid with a first cryogenic liquid headspace above the first cryogenic liquid;
a transfer pipe passing through the interior of the vessel, said transfer pipe including a head space coil positioned within an upper portion of the interior and a liquid side coil positioned in a lower portion of the interior;
the transfer pipe having a first port adjacent to the head space coil and a second port adjacent to the liquid side coil; and
a second cryogenic tank including:
a second tank interior configured to hold a second cryogenic liquid with a second head space above the second cryogenic liquid,
a gas outlet pipe in fluid communication with a top portion of the second tank interior and configured to removably connect directly to the second port so that a second gas from the second head space flows through the liquid side coil of the transfer pipe prior to flowing through the head space coil of the transfer pipe, and
a liquid outlet pipe in fluid communication with a bottom portion of the second tank interior and configured to removably and alternately connect to the first port and directly to the second port so that the second cryogenic liquid flows through the liquid side coil of the transfer pipe prior to flowing through the head space coil of the transfer pipe when the liquid outlet pipe is connected to the second port.