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Renewable energy requires investments in power generation, transmission, and storage. Storage is the big issue and lagging behind the other renewable building blocks. Lithium ion and other batteries have a horrible carbon footprint throughout their life cycles. CRCES™, the Carbon Reduction Clean Energy Storage technology, provides economic solutions for the clean energy storage challenge.

The global movement towards clean energy is a complex issue. Finding a solution that we can afford while balancing environment concerns, human rights, and our current energy enterprise, combined with the involvement of multiple governments, seems impossible. Yet the answer will present itself; one idea, one technology, and one solution at a time.

Having helped design the first successful LNG export project, William J. Cutts, CEO of American Tank & Vessel (AT&V), was a key factor in establishing the future of LNG exporting. A plethora of professionals can reference different points in history as the birth of LNG, but “Constock Breakthrough,” a phrase first coined by C.M. Sliepcevich, established the birth of LNG flat bottom storage and LNG shipping.

With gas emerging as the practical energy solution that satisfies environmental aspects, as well as economic ones, the energy industry has more questions than ever about making the correct choice for gas storage. A significant portion of the US gas storage is underground. This article will deal specifically with the choices for aboveground storage and the decision- making process for small and bulk gas storage.

American Tank & Vessel’s (AT&V) research will be utilized to create a model for gas type selection based on minimizing greenhouse gas emissions. This model, combined with cost data, will give customers the ability to choose a best fit gas type consistent with their corporate environmental goals.

With global pressure on petroleum storage, it is as important as ever to make good, economic choices in your LNG/NGL storage selection. Often Full Containment storage systems can support better economics and similar schedules versus Single Containment or Double Containment systems. Each job and design case are unique, and the overall system needs to be designed for each project. However, on multiple occasions an outer concrete containment structure is a better economic choice and quickly becoming the new standard.

The following is a review of potential issues that affect the storage selection type for gas products. This example is associated with LNG and CNG. Other gas products can be performed in a much simpler fashion, due to the reduced regulations.