Industrial gas processing and liquefaction plant infrastructure
Gas liquefaction plants

From feed gas to liquid product.
Engineered around purity, pressure & energy.

Metalex supports gas liquefaction projects with refrigeration packages, pre-cooling systems, heat rejection equipment, vessels, auxiliary skids, controls, and balance-of-plant integration for industrial gases.

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Feedcomposition first
Purityproduct-spec driven
Energycycle optimisation
Safetycryogenic-ready design

Liquefaction is a complete process chain.
Not only a low-temperature machine.

A gas liquefaction plant must convert a variable feed into a stable liquid product while controlling purity, pressure, energy use, turndown, storage, boil-off, and safety. Reliable performance depends on treating the feed, liquefaction cycle, utilities, controls, and product handling as one system.

  • Selection based on gas composition, feed flow, pressure and temperature, contaminants, required liquid purity, production rate, operating hours, and turndown.
  • Feed preparation planned around moisture, carbon dioxide, hydrocarbons, oxygen, sulfur compounds, oil carryover, particulates, or other components that can freeze, react, or contaminate the product.
  • Liquefaction architecture coordinated with compression, pre-cooling, refrigeration cycle, heat-exchanger approach, expansion, phase separation, recirculation, and product subcooling.
  • Storage, insulated transfer, pressure control, boil-off handling, analyzers, alarms, relief, ventilation, gas detection, emergency shutdown, service access, and future expansion engineered together.
Industrial gas processing utilities, vessels and pipework
Feed + liquefaction + storage + safety

Different gases.
Different purification and cold-end duties.

The project architecture is developed around the molecular properties of the gas, feed composition, required product purity, production scale, operating profile, storage pressure, dispatch method, utilities, and local safety requirements.

Air separation and industrial gas production facility
Application 01

Industrial gases & air separation

Refrigeration and utility integration for liquid oxygen, nitrogen, and argon projects, including feed-air conditioning, pre-cooling, auxiliary refrigeration, heat rejection, vessels, controls, and storage interfaces.

Carbon dioxide purification and liquefaction process equipment
Application 02

CO₂ purification & liquefaction

Cooling and balance-of-plant support for purified liquid carbon dioxide production from suitable process streams, with feed treatment, compression, condensation, product control, storage, and loading considered as a complete chain.

Natural gas and specialty gas process engineering
Application 03

Natural gas & specialist gases

Project-specific support for LNG, hydrogen, helium, and other specialist-gas projects where the process cycle, cold-box equipment, storage technology, materials, safety systems, and technology partner must be selected for the exact gas and scale.

Selected from the feed and product specification.
Optimised as one process train.

Plant selection begins with a material and energy basis: feed composition and variability, pressure, contaminants, liquid-product specification, recovery, production rate, ambient conditions, utilities, operating schedule, turndown, storage, dispatch, and the consequence of an interruption.

01 / BASIS

Define the feed and liquid product

Gas source, full composition, flow, pressure, temperature, variability, contaminants, required liquid purity, recovery, production capacity, storage pressure, dispatch route, and applicable codes.

02 / PRE-TREAT

Protect the cold end

Compression and cooling, oil and particulate removal, drying, purification, contaminant limits, analyzers, regeneration, switching philosophy, and safeguards against freeze-out, corrosion, reaction, or product contamination.

03 / CYCLE

Select the liquefaction architecture

Pre-cooling level, refrigerant or mixed-refrigerant strategy, compression stages, intercooling, heat-exchanger approach, expansion method, phase separation, recirculation, product subcooling, turndown, and energy target.

04 / DELIVERY

Engineer storage, controls and uptime

Cryogenic or refrigerated storage, insulated transfer, pressure building, boil-off or vapor return, loading, relief, ventilation, detection, ESD, control philosophy, redundancy, maintenance access, documentation, and future expansion.

Supporting equipment forgas liquefaction plant utilities.

Information needed for
a proper gas liquefaction study.

Use this as a pre-RFQ checklist. Accurate inputs are needed to establish the process basis, purification requirement, liquefaction route, refrigeration duty, storage concept, utilities, safety systems, layout, and realistic performance guarantees.

Share these details with Metalex.

Early estimates are useful, but final capacity, purity, recovery, energy consumption, equipment selection, materials, pressures, temperatures, storage, safety systems, layout, and performance must be confirmed against the approved process design basis, applicable codes, technology-provider requirements, and site conditions.

Gas / feed source
Gas name and source; complete normal, minimum, maximum, and upset composition; expected variability; upstream process; available analysis; and any hazardous or reactive components.
Liquid product specification
Required liquid product, purity, allowable impurities, recovery, production rate, storage pressure, delivery condition, end use, applicable product standard, and whether gaseous co-products are required.
Capacity & operating profile
Nominal and peak flow, TPD or kg/h target, annual operating hours, continuous or batch operation, start-stop frequency, turndown, ramp rate, seasonal demand, standby philosophy, and future capacity.
Feed conditions & contaminants
Feed pressure and temperature, moisture, CO₂, hydrocarbons, sulfur compounds, oxygen, hydrogen, oil, particulates, and other contaminants; available pre-treatment; and allowable pressure drop.
Process & refrigeration basis
Preferred or licensed liquefaction technology if defined, pre-cooling levels, refrigerant restrictions, heat-exchanger data, product subcooling, recovery target, energy target, process interfaces, and technology-partner battery limits.
Storage, transfer & boil-off
Required storage volume and hold time, vessel type, operating pressure, loading or filling rate, insulated piping, vapor return, pressure building, boil-off handling, vent destination, tanker or cylinder interface, and metering.
Utilities & controls
Power availability and quality, cooling water or air-cooled duty, water chemistry, instrument air, nitrogen, fuel, backup power, PLC / DCS / SCADA interface, analyzers, remote monitoring, alarm philosophy, and data requirements.
Safety, site & project status
Ambient design conditions, plot plan, access, hazardous-area classification, ventilation, gas and oxygen detection, relief and flare or vent philosophy, ESD, firefighting, seismic and wind basis, local codes, new plant, tender, retrofit, service, or spare requirement.

Common questions before
process and equipment selection.

Feed composition and variability, pressure, contaminants, required liquid purity and recovery, capacity, operating hours, turndown, ambient conditions, utilities, storage pressure, dispatch method, and safety basis. A gas name and daily capacity alone are not enough to select the process.
Usually not without major process changes. Each gas has different phase behaviour, purification limits, materials, compression requirements, refrigeration temperatures, storage conditions, and hazards. Multi-product operation is possible only when intentionally engineered for defined compositions and operating modes.
A cryogenic air-separation unit separates air into products such as oxygen, nitrogen, and argon and may deliver them as gas or liquid. A gas-liquefaction plant can also refer to condensing a prepared gas stream such as CO₂, natural gas, hydrogen, or helium. The process blocks and temperatures are gas-specific.
Moisture, carbon dioxide, hydrocarbons, sulfur compounds, oil, and particulates can freeze, block passages, damage equipment, create unsafe reactions, or contaminate the liquid product. Pre-treatment and online analysis protect the cold end and help maintain product specification.
The method depends on the gas, storage pressure, tank heat leak, loading method, product demand, and emissions or safety requirements. Options may include return to the process, recompression, reliquefaction, use as fuel or product gas, controlled venting to an approved system, or another project-specific recovery route.
Typical considerations include pressure relief, blocked-in liquid protection, emergency shutdown, ventilation, oxygen-deficiency or oxygen-enrichment monitoring, combustible or toxic gas detection where applicable, hazardous-area equipment, fire protection, controlled vent or flare routing, cryogenic PPE, operating procedures, and trained personnel.
Metalex refrigeration compressors, condensers, compatible vessels, controls, and auxiliary skids may support pre-cooling or balance-of-plant duties where the operating conditions and materials are suitable. The core gas-process package, cryogenic heat exchangers, expanders, process-gas compressors, cold box, and cryogenic storage must be confirmed with the specialist process technology provider.
Send the gas analysis, source, flow, feed pressure and temperature, required liquid product and purity, capacity, operating schedule, contaminants, available utilities, preferred process route if any, storage and dispatch requirement, site location, plot constraints, safety basis, project stage, and existing equipment details.

Planning a gas liquefaction project?

Share the gas composition, feed conditions, liquid-product specification, capacity, purity and recovery, operating profile, storage and dispatch, utilities, safety basis, location, project stage, and timeline.

Discuss the integration scope

Talk to Metalex about compatible refrigeration compressor packages, pre-cooling, condensers, vessels, auxiliary skids, controls, balance-of-plant integration, expansion, retrofit, service, and spare support.

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