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Method for operating a combined gas turbine/steam turbine process
Assignee: Hitachi Zosen Inova Steinmueller GmbH
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Filing: 1990-03-06
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Granted: 1993-05-25
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Expires: 2010-03-06
Abstract
Abstract In a method for operating a combination of a gas turbine process and a steam turbine process, in which the superimposed boosted gas turbine process is operated with compressed air and a combustible fluid, and the steam turbine process is operated via a fluidized bed furnace with a carbonaceous solid fuel, whereby the combustion in the fluidized bed furnace is performed with the oxygen-containing exhaust gases of the superimposed gas turbine process and electrical energy is generated with both processes, the efficiency is increased by expanding the exhaust gases of the superimposed gas turbine process only to an extent to which the fluidized bed furnace is operable as a pressurized fluidized bed and subjecting the exhaust gases of the pressurized fluidized bed furnace, after removing solid particles, to a second gas turbine process for further expansion and then to a heat exchange with the compressed air of the superimposed gas turbine process; the air for the superimposed gas turbine process is subjected to a two-stage compression with recooling, whereby the compressing energy for the first stage is derived from the second gas turbine process and the compressing energy for the second stage is derived from the superimposed gas turbine process.
Inventors
- 👤 Raimund Croonenbrock
- 👤 Hubert Steven
- 👤 Reinhold U. Pitt
Bibliographic Details
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Jurisdiction
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2026-10-28 04:36
CPC Classifications
F; F02; F02C; F02C3/00; F02C3/20; F02C3/205; F01; F01K; F01K23/00; F01K23/02; F01K23/06; F01K23/061; F01K23/062; F02C6/00; F02C6/003
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 14
Claim 1
Independent Claim
186 words
A method for operating a combination of a superimposed boosted gas turbine process and a steam turbine process for generating electrical energy, comprising the steps of: operating said superimposed boosted gas turbine process with compressed air and combustible fluid; operating said steam turbine process with a fluidized bed furnace with a carbonaceous solid fuel; performing combustion in said fluidized bed furnace with oxygen-containing exhaust gases from said superimposed boosted gas turbine process; expanding said oxygen-containing exhaust gases to such an extent that said fluidized bed furnace is operable as a pressurized fluidized bed; removing solid particles from flue gases of said fluidized bed furnace; expanding said flue gases in a second gas turbine process; in a first step, compressing air for said superimposed boosted gas turbine process with recooling, and in a second step, repeating compressing, whereby compressing energy for said first step is derived from said second gas turbine process and compressing energy for said second step is derived from said superimposed boosted gas turbine process; and performing a heat-exchange of said flue gases with said compressed air of said superimposed boosted gas turbine process.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
186 words
A method for operating a combination of a superimposed boosted gas turbine process and a steam turbine process for generating electrical energy, comprising the steps of: operating said superimposed boosted gas turbine process with compressed air and combustible fluid; operating said steam turbine process with a fluidized bed furnace with a carbonaceous solid fuel; performing combustion in said fluidized bed furnace with oxygen-containing exhaust gases from said superimposed boosted gas turbine process; expanding said oxygen-containing exhaust gases to such an extent that said fluidized bed furnace is operable as a pressurized fluidized bed; removing solid particles from flue gases of said fluidized bed furnace; expanding said flue gases in a second gas turbine process; in a first step, compressing air for said superimposed boosted gas turbine process with recooling, and in a second step, repeating compressing, whereby compressing energy for said first step is derived from said second gas turbine process and compressing energy for said second step is derived from said superimposed boosted gas turbine process; and performing a heat-exchange of said flue gases with said compressed air of said superimposed boosted gas turbine process.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
31 words
A method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of: in addition to said oxygen-containing exhaust gases, feeding partially compressed air of said first step into said fluidized bed furnace.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
27 words
A method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of performing a second heat-exchange of said flue gases with feed water for said steam turbine process.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
13 words
A method according to claim 1 wherein said combustible fluid is natural gas.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
38 words
A method according to claim 1, wherein said combustible fluid is a gas, that is generated from a solid carbonaceous material by a pressurized gasification process, with carbonaceous residual particles being combusted in said pressurized fluidized bed furnace.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
20 words
A method according to claim 5, wherein said carbon containing residual particles are combusted in the presence of additional fuel.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
19 words
A method according to claim 5, wherein said solid carbonaceous material is dried in a fluidized bed steam dryer.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
27 words
A method according to claim 1, wherein during start-up of said second gas turbine process at a low introduction temperature a corresponding gas turbo unit is idling.
Claim 10
Independent Claim
170 words
An apparatus for operating a combination of a superimposed boosted gas turbine process and a steam turbine process for generating electrical energy, said apparatus comprising: a pressurized fluidized bed furnace that is operated with carbonaceous solid fuel; a superimposed boosted gas turbine connected to said fluidized bed furnace at an up-stream position; a second gas turbine connected to said pressurized fluidized bed furnace at a down-stream position; a steam turbine connected to said fluidized bed furnace; electrical generators associated with said superimposed boosted gas turbine, said second gas turbine and said steam turbine, respectively; a hot gas filter disposed between said pressurized fluidized bed furnace and said second gas turbine; a first compressor drivingly connected to said second gas turbine; a second compressor drivingly connected to said superimposed boosted gas turbine; an air preheating unit connected via inlets thereof to said first and said second compressors and connected with an outlet thereof to said superimposed boosted gas turbine; and a cooling unit disposed between said first and said second compressors.
Claim 11
Independent Claim
170 words
An apparatus for operating a combination of a superimposed boosted gas turbine process and a steam turbine process for generating electrical energy, said apparatus comprising: a pressurized fluidized bed furnace that is operated with carbonaceous solid fuel; a superimposed boosted gas turbine connected to said fluidized bed furnace at an up-stream position; a second gas turbine connected to said pressurized fluidized bed furnace at a down-stream position; a steam turbine connected to said fluidized bed furnace; electrical generators associated with said superimposed boosted gas turbine, said second gas turbine and said steam turbine, respectively; a hot gas filter disposed between said pressurized fluidized bed furnace and said second gas turbine; a first compressor drivingly connected to said second gas turbine; a second compressor drivingly connected to said superimposed boosted gas turbine; an air preheating unit connected via inlets thereof to said first and said second compressors and connected with an outlet thereof to said superimposed boosted gas turbine; and a cooling unit disposed between said first and said second compressors.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
25 words
An apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said superimposed boosted gas turbine and said second gas turbine are connected to one of said electrical generators.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
38 words
An apparatus according to claim 10, further comprising: a first clutch disposed between said one electrical generator and said superimposed boosted gas turbine; and a second clutch disposed between said one electrical generator and said second gas turbine.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
37 words
An apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said superimposed boosted gas turbine is connected to a first one of said electrical generators and said second gas turbine is connected to a second one of said electrical generators.
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