Heat recovery system

Claim 2

In a heat recovery system which is associated with an electric power plant having a compressor, a burner, a gas turbine in which stator blades thereof are cooled by a cooling medium, and a main genrator driven by said gas turbine, wherein the improvement comprises: at least two exhaust gas boiler means each of which includes an economizer, an evaporator, and a drum the interior pressure of which is different from that in the drum of other exhaust gas boiler means; a steam turbine; an additional generator driven by said steam turbine; a condenser; means for circulating a feed-medium condensed by said condenser throughout said heat recovery system, said feed-medium being substantially the same as said cooling medium; and a plurality of heat exchanger means in which said feed-medium is adapted to be heated up by said cooling medium which is heated through said gas turbine, each of said heat exchanger means being provided in said heat recovery system in advance of said drums of the respective exhaust-gas boiler means.

Claim 3

A heat recovery system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the rotor blades of said gas turbine are also cooled by said cooling medium, and wherein said cooling medium for said rotor blade is used to pre-heat said feed-medium to be delivered into said boiler means.

Claim 4

A heat recovery system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said heat exchanger means are disposed in parallel with each other along a flow of said cooling medium.

Claim 5

A heat recovery system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said heat exchanger means are disposed in series along a flow of said cooling medium.

Claim 6

A heat recovery system as claimed in claim 1, whrein one of said heat exchanger means is disposed in advance of said economizer associated with said drum having a higher interior pressure.

Claim 7

A heat recovery system as claimed in claim 5, wherein one of said heat exchanger means is disposed in advance of said economizer associated with said drum having a lower pressure.

Claim 8

A heat recovery system as claimed in claim 1, wherein one of said heat exchanger means is disposed at an intermediate portion of said economizer associated with said drum having a higher interior pressure.

Claim 9

A heat recovery system as claimed in claim 7, wherein one of said heat exchanger means is disposed at an intermediate portion of said economizer associated with said drum having a lower interior pressure.

Claim 10

A heat recovery system as claimed in claim 1, wherein one of said heat exchanger means is disposed at a portion of said heat recovery system between said drum having a higher interior pressure and said economizer associated therewith.

Claim 11

A heat recovery system as claimed in claim 7, wherein another heat exchanger means is disposed in advance of said economizer associated with said drum having a lower interior pressure as well as in advance of said economizer associated with said drum having a higher interior pressure as viewed in the direction of flow of said feed-medium, so that not only the feed-medium directed to said lower interior pressure drum but the feed-medium directed to said higher interior pressure drum is heated up.

Claim 12

A heat recovery system as claimed in claim 2, wherein said stator blades of said gas turbine are cooled by a cooling medium branched out from an intermediate portion of said economizer associated with said drum having a lower interior pressure.

Claim 13

A heat recovery system associated with a gas turbine in which stator blades thereof are cooled by a cooling medium, said system comprising: high pressure boiler means for generating high pressure steam by exhaust heat energy from said gas turbine; low pressure boiler means for generating low pressure steam by exhaust heat energy from said gas turbine; a steam turbine driven by the steam from both of said boiler means; means for condensing exhaust steam from said steam turbine into condensation; means for supplying both of said boiler means with said condensation as feed water; heat exchanger means provided upstream, respectively, of said high pressure boiler means and said low pressure boiler means with respect to a direction of flow of said condensation; and means for circulating the cooling medium from said gas turbine first through the heat exchanger means associated with said high pressure boiler means, then through the heat exchanger means associated with said low pressure boiler means, and finally through said stator blades.

Claim 14

A heat recovery system associated with a gas turbine in which stator blades thereof are cooled by a cooling medium, said system comprising: high pressure boiler means for generating high pressure steam by exhaust heat energy from said gas turbine; low pressure boiler means for generating low pressure steam by exhaust heat energy from said gas turbine; a steam turbine driven by the steam from both of said boiler means; means for condensing exhaust steam from said steam turbine into condensation; means for supplying both of said boiler means with said condensation as feed water; heat exchanger means provided upstream, respectively, of said high pressure boiler means and said low pressure boiler means with respect to a direction of flow of said condensation; and means for circulating the cooling medium from said gas turbine first through the heat exchanger means associated with said high pressure boiler means, then through the heat exchanger means associated with said low pressure boiler means, and finally through said stator blades.

Claim 15

A heat recovery system according to claim 12, further including: an additional heat exchanger means disposed in the flow of said condensation between said condensing means and said low pressure boiler means; and means for supplying said cooling medium to rotor blades of said gas turbine and from said rotor blades to said additional heat exchanger means so as to pre-heat said condensation.