LNG regasifier

Natural gas in liquid form occupies 600 times less volume than natural gas in gaseous form. Because of this feature, LNG can be easily transported and stored.

LNG makes it possible to overcome the absence of a city distribution network or pipeline to supply utilities. It is also used to replace traditional fuels such as heavy oils or LPG to reduce air pollution.

The main uses of LNG can be summarized as follows:

• Facilities for industrial use
• installations for civil use;
• systems for automotive use.

CPL CONCORDIA builds complete plants on a turn-key basis, following the client from the business plan through design, implementation and commissioning to ongoing management of the plant.

Through a remote control system and Control Room support, our company is able to operate as a 24/7 service.

Industrial use

The main applications of LNG within an industrial plant can be:

• thermal utilities (chemical and petrochemical industries, metal processing, ceramics factories, food, textiles, etc.);
• replacement of fuels for production of thermal energy until now produced by traditional fuels;
• Back-up facilities for sensitive utilities;
• facilities to respond to increased electrical and thermal consumption;
• Plants for the production of: Electric Power and Electric + Thermal Energy (Cogeneration and Trigeneration);

Civil use

When we talk about Liquid Natural Gas facilities for civil use, we mean the use of natural gas to supply city networks or buildings used for civil use.

• city distribution networks: in areas not reached by the natural gas pipeline, each city can be methanized through the use of an LNG regasification plant, thus replacing present fuels (LPG or Propane Air);
• buildings used for civil use: CPL CONCORDIA has equipped the civil hospital in Vallo della Lucania (SA) with a satellite LNG regasification plant to power the Thermal Power Plant.

Motor vehicle use

Currently in Italy, fueling stations located near distribution networks or methane pipelines are almost all equipped with refueling facilities for natural gas-powered cars.
LNG also allows refueling stations located in outlying areas to equip themselves with facilities for dispensing natural gas in both gaseous and liquid forms, this allows CNG engines a capillarity of refueling comparable to that of classic fuels.
Stations equipped with liquid methane systems can dispense compressed methane (L-CNG) to fuel cars and light commercial vehicles, and/or methane in liquid form (L-LNG) for the latest generation of heavy road vehicles and buses equipped with an on-board cryogenic tank.