Single-cycle mixed-fluid LNG process Part II: Optimal operation
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Considering the large amount of work that goes into the design of LNG processes, there is surprisingly little attention to their subsequent operation. This partly comes from the assumption that optimal design and optimal operation are the same, but this is not generally true. In this paper we study the optimal operation of a relatively simple LNG process, namely the PRICO process.
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