A LNG send-out pump on the test rig. |
In response to the growing world demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG) Sulzer Pumps UK set out to present the JVCR pump range to key contractors and end users and also to exhibit at major LNG shows. To date this approach has resulted in numerous enquiries and firm orders from the Far East and Europe. The most recent order—five off stage JVCR units for Zeebrugge LNG Terminal, Belgium—will be the largest high-pressure send out pumps of their type in the world at 1600 KW, eclipsing by some 200 KW the previous largest (also of Sulzer manufacture) installed at Botas LNG, Turkey, in 1994. The pumps will ‘send out’ LNG at minus 163 °C through vaporizers turning the LNG back into gas and through pipelines to the national grid. |