Brian Wiese, CB&I, USA explores how innovations in liquid nitrogen (LIN) tank design are unlocking larger capacities and offering valuable lessons for the energy storage sector.
As hydrocarbon storage infrastructure evolves, operators are increasingly seeking larger, more efficient tanks to reduce footprint, optimise costs, and improve operational reliability. While liquid nitrogen (LIN) is most commonly associated with industrial gas applications, it plays a critical role in the energy storage sector, providing inerting and purging for facility safety systems, as well as providing feedstock for hydrogen energy processes.
At the same time, advances in cryogenic storage design are being driven by demand from other industries, most notably semiconductor fabrication. New processes require an increased volume of LIN to support modern cleanliness requirements as well as to meet the required low temperatures for certain parts of the process and provide an extremely dry and oxygen-free environment. Traditional LIN tank configurations cannot effectively meet this need, creating an opportunity to advance the technology solutions applied to LIN storage. In turn, this can offer valuable lessons for LNG, ammonia, and other cryogenic hydrocarbon storage applications.
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