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Single-stage mixed refrigerant processes that can provide refrigeration at very low temperatures were first proposed nearly 70 years ago by Podbielniak [69] and were adopted for large-scale liquefaction of natural gas after the pioneering work of Kleemenko [50] of the former Soviet Union in the 1960s. Today most base-load natural gas liquefaction plants operate on mixed refrigerant processes. Mixed refrigerant processes have also been adopted for peak-shaving natural gas liquefaction plants.
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Venkatarathnam, G. (2008). Fundamental principles and processes. In: Timmerhaus, K., Rizzuto, C. (eds) Cryogenic Mixed Refrigerant Processes. International Cryogenics Monograph Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78514-1_1
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