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How and why natural gas has become such an important branch of marine engineering.
This book describes the way in which natural gas technology has developed and how it has become a well established, highly sophisticated and safe branch of modern marine engineering.
Contents Foreword and Acknowledgements to 1st Edition
Foreword and Acknowledgements to 2nd Edition
Chart: Periods covered by Chapters and Some Landmarks
1. How it All Started
2. First Attempts at a Solution
3. Wide Participation and Further Testwork in the USA
4. Activities Outside the USA
5. The Role of the Classification Societies
6. The First Prototype — Methane Pioneer
7. The Second Prototype — Beauvais
8. Cargo Handling Arrangements
9. The First Commercial LNG Ships
10. Patents and Politics
11. Membranes — Breakthrough?
12. Two More Projects and a Speculative Ship
13. The Spheres
14. Market Prospects Generate Many New Designs
15. The IMO Code
16. A Decade of Consolidation
17. Projects Past, Present and Future
18. A Look Ahead
Appendices
1 What is Natural Gas?
2 Some Approximate Physical Properties of Constituents of Natural Gas
3 US Coast Guard Tentative Standards for Transportation of Liquefied Inflammable Gases at Atmospheric Pressure (August 22, 1956)
4a Lighter moments at the
4b Gastech Conferences
5 SIGTTO Publications Relating to LNG