SME shares operational considerations for LNG stations
Nowadays, natural gas, which ordinary people usually use for cooking and heating, is also used as vehicle fuel. Compared with diesel, natural gas combustion produces very little pollution and does not produce any smell or smoke. Another advantage is that vehicles that use natural gas as fuel produce three times less noise than those that use diesel, so the vehicle can drive in urban areas without noise pollution. When natural gas is liquefied as fuel, it is commonly referred to as liquefied natural gas (LNG) . Specifically, it is obtained by condensation at -162°C. Compared with the gaseous state, the liquid volume is reduced by about 600 times. In other words, fuel tanks with highly enriched natural gas can provide trucks with a distance of more than 1,000 kilometres . When the vehicle is running, natural gas is injected into the engine in a gaseous state and converted into the power required by the...