Patents by Inventor Joon Chae Lee

Joon Chae Lee has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10081413
    Abstract: A container ship and a layout structure thereof are disclosed. In the layout structure of the container ship of the present invention, an engine room, in which a propulsion engine receiving LNG as fuel is provided, is disposed under a main deck at the stern of the container ship, an LNG storage tank storing the LNG is disposed in a cargo hold adjacent to the engine room, a fuel supply part for receiving the LNG from the LNG storage tank and supplying the LNG to the propulsion engine is disposed right above the LNG storage tank inside the cargo hold, and a void space isolating the LNG storage tank and the fuel supply part from each other is disposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: DAEWOO SHIPBUILDING & MARINE ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joon Chae Lee, Dong Chan Kim, In Don Jung, Hyeong Won Kim, Chang Ho Je
  • Publication number: 20180201353
    Abstract: A ship comprises an engine; a first self-heat exchanger which heat-exchanges boil-off gas discharged from a storage tank; a multi-stage compressor which compresses, in multi-stages, the boil-off gas that passed through the first self-heat exchanger after being discharged from the storage tank; a first decompressing device which expands one portion of the boil-off gas compressed by the multi-stage compressor; a second self-heat exchanger which heat-exchanges the other portion of the boil-off gas compressed by the multi-stage compressor, with the boil-off gas expanded by the first decompressing device; and a second decompressing device which expands the boil-off gas pre-cooled by the second self-heat exchanger and cooled by the first self-heat exchanger, wherein the first self-heat exchanger uses the boil-off gas discharged from the storage tank as a refrigerant for cooling the boil-off gas that passed through the second self-heat exchanger after being compressed by the multi-stage compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Applicant: DAEWOO SHIPBUILDING & MARINE ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joon Chae LEE, Hae Won JUNG
  • Publication number: 20180194447
    Abstract: A ship comprising an engine is disclosed. The ship comprising an engine comprises: a self-heat exchanger which heat-exchanges boil-off gas discharged from a storage tank; a multi-stage compressor which compresses, in multi-stages, boil-off gas that passed through the self-heat exchanger after being discharged from the storage tank; a first decompressing device which expands one portion of boil-off gas that passed through the self-heat exchanger after being compressed by the multi-stage compressor; and a second decompressing device which expands the other portion of the boil-off gas that passed through the self-heat exchanger after being compressed by the multi-stage compressor, wherein the self-heat exchanger uses boil-off gas discharged from the storage tank and boil-off gas expanded by the first decompressing device as refrigerants for cooling boil-off gas compressed by the multi-stage compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Applicant: DAEWOO SHIPBUILDING & MARINE ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joon Chae LEE, Won Jae CHOI
  • Publication number: 20180170503
    Abstract: A ship including a storage tank for storing a liquefied gas includes: a boil-off gas (BOG) heat exchanger installed on a downstream of a storage tank and heat-exchanges a compressed BOG (“a first fluid”) by a BOG discharged from the storage tank as a refrigerant, to cool the BOG; a compressor installed on a downstream of the BOG heat exchanger and compresses a part of the BOG discharged from the storage tank; an extra compressor installed on a downstream of the BOG heat exchanger and in parallel with the compressor and compresses the other part of the BOG discharged from the storage tank; a refrigerant heat exchanger which additionally cools the first fluid cooled by the BOG heat exchanger; and a refrigerant decompressing device which expands a second fluid sent to the refrigerant heat exchanger, and then sends the second fluid back to the refrigerant heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: DAEWOO SHIPBUILDING & MARINE ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Jun SHIN, Dong Kyu CHOI, Young Sik MOON, Su Kyung AN, Hyun Min JANG, Jae Wook SON, Joon Chae LEE
  • Publication number: 20180170506
    Abstract: A ship includes: a boil-off gas heat exchanger which is installed on a downstream of a storage tank and heat-exchanges a compressed boil-off gas (“a first fluid”) by a boil-off gas discharged from the storage tank as a refrigerant to cool the boil-off gas; a compressor installed on a downstream of the boil-off gas heat exchanger and compresses a part of the boil-off gas from the storage tank; an extra compressor which is installed on a downstream of the boil-off gas heat exchanger and in parallel with the compressor and compresses the other part of the boil-off gas from the storage tank; a refrigerant heat exchanger which additionally cools the first fluid; and a refrigerant decompressing device which expands a second fluid, which is sent to the refrigerant heat exchanger, and then sends the second fluid back to the refrigerant heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: DAEWOO SHIPBUILDING & MARINE ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Jun SHIN, Dong Kyu CHOI, Young Sik MOON, Su Kyung AN, Hyun Min JANG, Jae Wook SON, Joon Chae LEE
  • Publication number: 20180170504
    Abstract: A ship includes: a boil-off gas heat exchanger installed on a downstream of a storage tank and heat-exchanges a compressed boil-off gas (“a first fluid”) by a boil-off gas discharged from the storage tank as a refrigerant, to cool the boil-off gas; a compressor installed on a downstream of the boil-off gas heat exchanger and compresses a part of the boil-off gas discharged from the storage tank; an extra compressor installed on a downstream of the boil-off gas heat exchanger and in parallel with the compressor and compresses the other part of the boil-off gas discharged from the storage tank; a refrigerant heat exchanger which additionally cools the first fluid which is cooled by the boil-off gas heat exchanger; and a refrigerant decompressing device which expands a second fluid, which is sent to the refrigerant heat exchanger, and then sends the second fluid back to the refrigerant heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: DAEWOO SHIPBUILDING & MARINE ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Jun SHIN, Dong Kyu CHOI, Young Sik MOON, Su Kyung AN, Hyun Min JANG, Jae Wook SON, Joon Chae LEE
  • Publication number: 20180170507
    Abstract: A ship includes: a boil-off gas heat exchanger which heat-exchanges a compressed boil-off gas (“a first fluid”) by means of a boil-off gas discharged from the storage tank as a refrigerant; a compressor installed on the downstream of the boil-off gas heat exchanger and compressing a part of the boil-off gas discharged from the storage tank; first and second extra compressors provided in parallel with the compressor on the downstream of the boil-off gas heat exchanger and compressing the other part of the boil-off gas discharged from the storage tank; a refrigerant heat exchanger which additionally cools the first fluid cooled by means of the boil-off gas heat exchanger; a refrigerant decompressing device which expands a second fluid, which has been sent to the refrigerant heat exchanger and cooled by means of the refrigerant heat exchanger, and then sending the expanded second fluid back to the refrigerant heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: DAEWOO SHIPBUILDING & MARINE ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Jun SHIN, Dong Kyu CHOI, Young Sik MOON, Su Kyung AN, Hyun Min JANG, Jae Wook SON, Joon Chae LEE
  • Publication number: 20180162492
    Abstract: A ship includes: an boil-off gas heat exchanger installed on a downstream of the storage tank such that compressed boil-off gas (“first fluid”) is made to exchange heat and cooled using boil-off gas discharged from the storage tank as a refrigerant; a compressor installed on a downstream of the boil-off gas heat exchanger so as to compress a part of the boil-off gas discharged from the storage tank; an extra compressor installed on a downstream of the boil-off gas heat exchanger in parallel with the compressor so as to compress the other part of the boil-off gas discharged from the storage tank; a refrigerant heat exchanger for additionally cooling the first fluid that is cooled by the boil-off gas heat exchanger; and a refrigerant decompressing device which expands the second fluid sent to the refrigerant heat exchanger and cooled by the refrigerant heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: DAEWOO SHIPBUILDING & MARINE ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Su Kyung AN, Dong Kyu CHOI, Young Sik MOON, Hyun Jun SHIN, Hyun Min JANG, Jae Wook SON, Joon Chae LEE
  • Publication number: 20180148138
    Abstract: A system for reliquefying a boil off gas generated in a storage tank includes a first compressor compressing a partial amount (hereinafter, referred to as ‘fluid a’) of boil off gas discharged from the storage tank, a second compressor compressing another partial amount (hereinafter, referred to as ‘fluid b’) of boil off gas discharged from the storage tank, a second expanding unit expanding a partial amount (hereinafter, referred to as ‘fluid c’) of a flow formed as the fluid a and the fluid b join, a heat-exchanger cooling another partial amount (hereinafter, referred to as ‘fluid d’) of the flow formed as the fluid a and the fluid b join, and a first expanding unit expanding the fluid d cooled by the heat-exchanger, wherein the heat-exchanger heat-exchanges the fluid d with the fluid c as a coolant expanded by the second expanding unit to cool the fluid d.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Applicant: DAEWOO SHIPBUILDING & MARINE ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Jun SHIN, Dong Kyu CHOI, Young Sik MOON, Su Kyung AN, Joon Chae LEE
  • Publication number: 20170267318
    Abstract: A container ship and a layout structure thereof are disclosed. In the layout structure of the container ship of the present invention, an engine room, in which a propulsion engine receiving LNG as fuel is provided, is disposed under a main deck at the stern of the container ship, an LNG storage tank storing the LNG is disposed in a cargo hold adjacent to the engine room, a fuel supply part for receiving the LNG from the LNG storage tank and supplying the LNG to the propulsion engine is disposed right above the LNG storage tank inside the cargo hold, and a void space isolating the LNG storage tank and the fuel supply part from each other is disposed therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: DAEWOO SHIPBUILDING & MARINE ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joon Chae LEE, Dong Chan KIM, In Don JUNG, Hyeong Won KIM, Chang Ho JE
  • Patent number: 9751606
    Abstract: A system for supplying fuel to an engine of a ship. The system includes a high pressure pump pressurizing a liquefied natural gas (LNG) and supplying the pressurized LNG to the engine, a hydraulic motor driving the high pressure pump and a chamber carrying the high pressure pump and the hydraulic motor. The chamber is substantially free of electric sparks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: DAEWOO SHIPBUILDING & MARINE ENGINEERIG CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joon Chae Lee, Jae Ho Jang, Chang Woo Lee, Nak Hyun Kim, Dong Eok Kang
  • Patent number: 9738368
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is arrangement of a fuel gas tank in a fuel gas supply system that supplies liquefied natural gas to an engine. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, a fuel gas supply system of a ship includes an engine generating driving force using fuel gas; and a fuel gas tank storing the fuel gas to be supplied to the engine, wherein the engine is disposed in an engine room placed at the stern of the ship and the fuel gas tank is disposed above the engine room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: DAEWOO SHIPBUILDING & MARINE ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joon Chae Lee, Dong Eok Kang, Cheong Gi Park
  • Patent number: 9739420
    Abstract: Provided is a liquefied gas treatment system for a vessel, which includes a cargo tank storing liquefied natural gas (LNG), and an engine using the LNG as fuel. The liquefied gas treatment system includes: a compressor line configured to compress boil-off gas (BOG) generated in the cargo tank by a compressor and supply the compressed BOG to the engine as fuel; a high pressure pump line configured to compress the LNG stored in the cargo tank by a pump and supply the compressed LNG to the engine as fuel; and a heat exchanger configured to liquefy a part of BOG, which is compressed by the compressor, by exchanging heat with BOG that is discharged from the cargo tank and transferred to the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: DAEWOO SHIPBUILDING & MARINE ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joon Chae Lee, Soon Been Kwon, Nam Soo Kim, Dong Kyu Choi, Jeheon Jung, Young Sik Moon, Dong Chan Kim
  • Publication number: 20170217554
    Abstract: A fuel supply control system and control method are disclosed. In a fuel supply control system of a high-pressure gas injection engine provided in a ship or an offshore structure, the fuel supply control system of the present invention includes: a gas supply mode for supplying gas to the high-pressure gas injection engine through a gas supplying part for receiving LNG from a storage tank so as to compress and vaporize the LNG; and an oil supply mode for supplying oil as fuel to the high-pressure gas injection engine, wherein the mode is switched into the oil supply mode during an emergency including a device malfunction in the gas supply mode such that the oil supply mode can be configured as a redundancy of the gas supply mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: DAEWOO SHIPBUILDING & MARINE ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joon Chae LEE, Dong Eok KANG, Cheong Gi PARK
  • Patent number: 9683518
    Abstract: A system for supplying fuel to an engine of a ship. The system includes a high pressure pump pressurizing a liquefied natural gas (LNG) and supplying the pressurized LNG to the engine, a hydraulic motor driving the high pressure pump and a chamber carrying the high pressure pump and the hydraulic motor. The chamber is substantially free of electric sparks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: DAEWOO SHIPBUILDING & MARINE ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang Woo Lee, Nak Hyun Kim, Joon Chae Lee, Jae Ho Jang
  • Publication number: 20170050713
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a fuel gas supply system (FGSS) of a ship supplying natural gas to an engine as fuel. The fuel gas supply system of a ship may include: a cargo tank storing a liquid cargo; a vent mast connected to the cargo tank; a fuel supply line connected to the engine to supply fuel; and a vent line connected to the fuel supply line, in which the vent line may be connected to the vent mast.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Applicant: DAEWOO SHIPBUILDING & MARINE ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joon Chae LEE, Dong Eok KANG, Cheong Gi PARK
  • Publication number: 20160356424
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a boil-off gas treatment system. The boil-off gas treatment system includes a compressor compressing boil-off gas generated in an LNG storage tank of a ship or a floating structure, a heat exchanger cooling the compressed boil-off gas through heat exchange with boil-off gas to be supplied to the compressor, an expansion unit performing adiabatic expansion of the boil-off gas cooled by the heat exchanger, a gas-liquid separator performing gas/liquid separation of the boil-off gas subjected to adiabatic expansion by the expansion unit and supplying liquefied natural gas to the LNG storage tank, and a bypass line through which the boil-off gas subjected to adiabatic expansion is supplied from a downstream side of the expansion unit to a downstream side of the gas-liquid separator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: DAEWOO SHIPBUILDING & MARINE ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joon Chae LEE, Nam Soo KIM, Je Heon JUNG, Cheong Gi PARK
  • Patent number: 9447751
    Abstract: A hybrid fuel supply system for an engine of a vessel is provided. The hybrid fuel supply system for the engine of the vessel includes: a compression device configured to compress boil-off gas (BOG) generated from liquefied natural gas (LNG) stored in an LNG cargo tank; a high pressure pump configured to compress LNG supplied from the LNG cargo tank; a vaporizer configured to vaporize the LNG compressed by the high pressure pump; and a dual fuel (DF) engine to which the BOG compressed through the compression device is supplied as fuel. The engine of the vessel uses high pressure gas compressed at 150 to 400 bar as fuel and is driven by at least one of the BOG compressed in the compression device and the LNG compressed in the high pressure pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: DAEWOO SHIPBUILDING & MARINE ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joon Chae Lee, Dong Kyu Choi, Young Sik Moon, Seung Kyo Jung, Jeheon Jung, Nam Soo Kim
  • Publication number: 20160215929
    Abstract: A liquefied gas treatment method for a vessel is performed by a liquefied gas treatment system for the vessel including a cargo tank storing LNG, and a main engine and a sub engine using the LNG stored in the cargo tank as fuel. The liquefied gas treatment system includes a compressor line configured to compress BOG generated in the cargo tank by a compressor and supply the compressed BOG to the engines as fuel, and a pump line configured to compress the LNG stored in the cargo tank by a pump and supply the compressed LNG to the engines as fuel. In a laden condition in which an amount of the LNG stored in the cargo tank is larger than in a ballast condition, the BOG generated in the cargo tank is supplied as fuel to at least one of the engines through the compressor line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Joon Chae LEE, Soon Been KWON, Dong Kyu CHOI, Young Sik MOON, Dong Chan KIM, Jeheon JUNG, Nam Soo KIM
  • Publication number: 20160114876
    Abstract: In a BOG treatment system, boil-off gas (BOG) discharged from a storage tank is compressed, most of the BOG is used as the fuel of vessel engines, and a remaining part of the BOG is liquefied by cold energy of BOG newly discharged from the storage tank and is returned to the storage tank, thereby efficiently utilizing the BOG. The BOG treatment system for a vessel includes a compressor compressing the BOG discharged from the storage tank; a medium pressure gas engine receiving at least a part of the BOG compressed by the compressor, as fuel; a heat exchanger exchanging heat between the remaining part of the BOG, which is not supplied to the medium pressure gas engine as fuel, and the BOG, which is discharged from the storage tank and is not compressed; and an expander decompressing the remaining part of the BOG cooled by the heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Joon Chae LEE, Dong Kyu CHOI, Young Sik MOON, Seung Kyo JUNG, Je Heon JUNG