The CryoMet project welcomes Tunable as a new project collaborator. Tunable will join forces with our partner RISE in WP2 to determine the reliability of (bio-) Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) composition and the online determination of LNG density.
Tunable will contribute to our project with equipment, technical support, and expertise related to the measurement of fuel gas quality. Tunable will provide a calibrated T1000-20 analyser for measuring LNG quality. This advanced infrared transmission spectroscopy-based analysis instrument will be used to support high-resolution and time-resolved composition measurements during the composition and variation experiments, and also for validation activities regarding the development of an online/offline method for the analysis of six components: methane, ethane, propane, n-butane, i-butane, C5+ and carbon dioxide). Gases that do not absorb in the infrared, such as nitrogen and oxygen, are calculated by mass balance based on the measured infrared-active components.
TUBITAK and VSL will prepare static reference gas standards representing a classical LNG composition, biomethane composition, and natural gas composition for calibration. RISE will perform the gas compositional variability experiments that mimic in-field variations from potential LNG sampling and vaporization errors. Tunable AS device will be tested in a laboratory environment using certified gas standards containing methane, carbon dioxide, oxygen, nitrogen, and ethane.
The results from this collaboration will support CryoMet’s LNG composition monitoring by providing useful data for the definition of uncertainty budgets of gas composition measurements in cryogenic and LNG-relevant applications. This will be a key milestone to develop reliable measurement methods for (bio-)LNG, one of the main goals of CryoMet.
About Tunable
Tunable is expanding the information universe by turning invisible gases into valuable data. Tunable provides advanced gas analysers and infrared transmission spectroscopy-based gas analysis systems trusted by industries worldwide. Thanks to this technology, Tunable can include real-time and historical gas data across applications and categories.
