Chart Heat Exchangers
Vacuum Insulated Piping (VIP)
Core-In-Kettle Heat Exchangers
Plate Heat Exchangers
About Chart

Chart Vacuum Insulated Pipe (VIP) for LNG Applications

The benefits VIP bring to the LNG industry have only just begun to be realized. At grade, below grade, and sub-sea options are available. VIP can optimize the design, installation and performance of a LNG Liquefaction plant, LNG Carrier, and LNG Re-Gas Unit.

Advantages:

  • High Quality

  • Fewer Field Joints

  • Low Heat Leak

  • Minimal Liquid Losses

  • Lower Installation Costs

  • Long Lasting Construction

  • Limited Maintenance Costs

For over 40 years Chart VIP has improved the bottom line for our customers in markets such as, Atmospheric Gas Production, Aero Space and Military, Biological and Laboratory Science Centers and LNG Fueling Stations as a low heat leak transfer system.

Chart VIP provides a robust design for greater safety and performance of the life of the plant. The design and construction of Chart VIP meets the stringent needs of the LNG industry, VIP provides tremendous savings realized through lower installation and life-cycle costs. Savings are realized through minimal liquid losses, limited maintenance costs, and reduced deployment time when compared with mechanical insulation.

Chart VIP is a static vacuum-insulated, laminar radiation-shielded pipe offered in rigid and flexible styles with inner-line diameter ranging from 3/8 inch through 48 inches. Its stainless steel construction, TIG welding, mass spectrometer leak checking and extensive vacuum retention testing help to ensure reliable, maintenance-free services.

 

VIP Flexible Installation Options

Buried Under Ground - Underground installations keep VIP out of sight and prevents potential tampering and reduces exclusion zones and setbacks.

Above Ground - Multiple VIP pipe sizes provide greater flexibility in plant piping layout while taking up less space on existing trestle and jetty infrastructure. In addition, optimum performance is realized due to larger pipe sizes and longer runs of plant piping.

 

Sub-Sea - Shallow water applications with long distance from land mass provides an excellent opportunity for VIP to reduce the amount of trestle and jetty hardware and provide the efficient liquid transfer from ship to shore.

 

Key Benefits of Vacuum Insulated Pipe

  • Pre Fabricated Tank Risers are shipped to site as one assembly and reduce installation cost and reduce stresses transferred to the tank.

  • Pre Fabricated Shop Spools reduce the field installation time dramatically.

  • Internal Bellows Design eliminates the need for expansion loops.

  • Double wall construction provides a higher degree of safety and the jacket construction can consist of different alloy materials.

Bayonets reduce field welds and simplify installation.

Long, straight runs of VIP eliminate bowing of pipes.

VIP removes the need for costly expansion loops.

Click for more detailed information on the history, benefits
and applications of Vacuum Insulated Piping for LNG Service

 

Chart Heat Exchangers - Download Product Information:

Chart Heat Exchangers division
Bi-Braze Metallurgically Bonded Bimetallic Transition Couplings (1451 KB)
  Adobe Acrobat Reader (direct from Adobe) is needed to view files.


Chart Information Request Form

Select the items that apply, and then let us know how to contact you.

Send product literature
Send company literature
Have a salesperson contact me.
   
Name
Title:
Company:
Address:
Email:
Phone:
Comments:

 
Products | Manufacturers | Catalogs | About SME | Contact SME | Home
 
Copyright © 2001 SME Associates, LLC