Quality assurance and risk management company DNV GL has opened an LNG test centre in the Netherlands to enable safer and more efficient use of LNG.
The facility, located at the organisation’s existing renewable energy technology and gas laboratory site in Groningen, is the first type of facility with a capacity compatible for the downstream sector. Its capacity is up to 250kg of liquefied gas and boasts a heat exchanger that allows the temperature of the LNG – and therefore its boil-off – to be precisely regulated.
Johan Holstein, Head of Gas Testing and Analysis at DNV GL – Oil & Gas, said the testing of new sensor technology to rapidly identify the composition of LNG would be a priority. “The current accredited technology, gas chromatography, can take three to five minutes to show the composition of LNG,” Holstein explained. “Sensors can give an answer in a second.”
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