Port Manatee ships out Air Products’ LNG heat exchanger

Port Manatee on Wednesday said the 500-ton LNG heat exchanger manufactured by Air Products has been shipped from the port in late October. 

LNG equipment maker Air Products, rolled out the heat exchanger, the first from its new production facility in Manatee County, Florida, in September and delivered it to the Port Manatee, to be loaded on a barge and shipped to a customer for a major liquefied natural gas project along the United States Gulf Coast.

Port Manatee said in its statement that the heat exchanger has been loaded onto a vessel by Logistec USA stevedores for shipment.

The new facility at Port Manatee also doubles the company’s production capacity.

Typically an LNG heat exchanger can be as large as over 15 feet in diameter and 180 feet long, or about two-thirds of the size of a football field.

Air Products has already shipped 116 LNG heat exchangers to 17 countries around the world, this first unit produced here at Port Manatee is the company’s first shipment to a Gulf Coast location and the second U.S. location for Air Products’ LNG technology.

LNG World News Staff