US 12,474,019 B2
Fluid transfer installation
Stephane Duval, Sassenage (FR); Stephane Crevatin, Sassenage (FR); and Peter de Maeyer, Sassenage (FR)
Assigned to L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude, Paris (FR)
Appl. No. 18/564,704
Filed by L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude, Paris (FR)
PCT Filed May 18, 2022, PCT No. PCT/EP2022/063375
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 28, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/248295, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 1, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. FR 2105566 (FR), filed on May 28, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0255104 A1, Aug. 1, 2024
Int. Cl. F17C 5/00 (2006.01); B67D 9/02 (2010.01)
CPC F17C 5/007 (2013.01) [B67D 9/02 (2013.01); F17C 2205/0364 (2013.01); F17C 2205/0367 (2013.01); F17C 2221/012 (2013.01); F17C 2223/0161 (2013.01); F17C 2270/0171 (2013.01); Y10T 137/8807 (2015.04)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An installation for transferring fluid between a fluid source and a receiving unit, the installation comprising:
a tower with a beam framework structure, the tower comprising a fluid transfer circuit comprising at least one pipe provided with a first pipe extending between a first lower end configured to be connected to the fluid source and a second upper end intended to be connected to the receiving unit, at least part of the transfer circuit situated between the first and second ends being housed within the volume delimited by the tower,
wherein the tower is composed of at least two separable stacked modules allowing two different configurations of the tower respectively having different heights: a first configuration with the two stacked modules, and a second configuration with a single module, and
wherein the transfer circuit situated within the volume delimited by the tower comprises two sections situated respectively in the two modules, the two sections being connected to one another via a system of demountable connectors configured to make it possible to adapt the height of the transfer circuit to the two configurations.