Circulating fluidized bed power plant with turbine fueled with sulfur containing fuel and using CFB to control emissions

Claim 2

A combined cycle power plant for burnish low quality fuels comprising, in combination: a steam turbine; a circulating fluidized bed boiler for supplying steam to said steam turbine, a supply of sorbents continuously circulated through the fluidized bed of said boiler; a gas turbine for burning sulfur containing fuel, said turbine sized to supply the maximum quantity of exhaust gas that can pass through the fluidized bed of said boiler; a heat recovery econimizer; a source of feedwater including a pump, and means for passing said feedwater through said economizer to said boiler; and means for directing exhaust gases of said gas turbine through the economizer, prior to entering the fluidized bed boiler, for reducing the temperature of the exhaust gases for raising the temperature of the feedwater and through the fluidized bed of said fluidized bed boiler for reducing sulfur emissions therein.

Claim 3

A power plant according to claim 1 wherein said plant has high pressure feedwater heaters and further comprising means for bypassing the high pressure feed water heaters of said plant for making any steam normally required by the high pressure feedwater heaters available to the steam turbine.

Claim 4

A power plant according to claim 2 wherein the boiler has an air system including an air heater, and the heat recovery economizer is sized to reduce the gas turbine exhaust temperature sufficiently low to be introduced into the air system along with the air from the boiler air heater.

Claim 5

A power plant according to claim 3 further comprising a baghouse and bypass means for bypassing air from the boiler air heater to the stack for reducing gas temperature to the baghouse.

Claim 6

A power plant according to claim 4 further comprising a low pressure heat recovery economizer for heating feed water prior to the feed water pump.

Claim 7

A power plant according to claim 1 wherein: said power plant is a standard circulating fluidized bed boiler plant for powering a steam turbine to which said gas turbine and a high pressure economizer and a low pressure economizer have been added; said exhaust gases of the gas turbine are passed through said high pressure heat recovery economizer for lowering the temperature thereof prior to introduction into said circulating fluidized bed boiler; said power plant includes high pressure feedwater heaters and means for bypassing the high pressure feed water heaters for directing the steam for use in the steam turbine; and the heat recovery economizer is sized to reduce the gas turbine exhaust temperature to a level to be introduced with air from the boiler air heater.

Claim 8

In a power plant having a circulating fluidized bed steam boiler for supplying steam to a turbine, a source of feedwater including a pump operatively connected for supply to the boiler, low pressure feed water heaters for heating the feedwater, high pressure feed water heaters for heating the feedwater, air heaters for heating intake air to the boiler and a baghouse operatively connected for receiving spent exhaust gases from the boiler, the improvement comprising: a gas turbine for burning high sulfur fuel connected to pass the entire exhaust therefrom into the circulating fluidized bed of the steam boiler for reducing sulfur emissions therein, said gas turbine being sized to the maximum quantity of gas that can pass through the boiler; a high pressure heat recovery economizer, upstream of the fluidized bed boiler, for reducing the temperature of the turbine exhaust gas to be introduced with air from the boiler air heater outlet and for heating feed water; and bypass means for bypassing air from the boiler air heater to the stack for reducing air temperature to the baghouse.

Claim 9

In a power plant having a circulating fluidized bed steam boiler for supplying steam to a turbine, a source of feedwater including a pump operatively connected for supply to the boiler, low pressure feed water heaters for heating the feedwater, high pressure feed water heaters for heating the feedwater, air heaters for heating intake air to the boiler and a baghouse operatively connected for receiving spent exhaust gases from the boiler, the improvement comprising: a gas turbine for burning high sulfur fuel connected to pass the entire exhaust therefrom into the circulating fluidized bed of the steam boiler for reducing sulfur emissions therein, said gas turbine being sized to the maximum quantity of gas that can pass through the boiler; a high pressure heat recovery economizer, upstream of the fluidized bed boiler, for reducing the temperature of the turbine exhaust gas to be introduced with air from the boiler air heater outlet and for heating feed water; and bypass means for bypassing air from the boiler air heater to the stack for reducing air temperature to the baghouse.

Claim 10

A power plant according to claim 7 further comprising a low pressure heat recovery economizer for heating feed water prior to the feed water pump.

Claim 11

A power plant according to claim 7 comprising means for bypassing said high pressure feed water heaters of said power plant for making any steam normally required by the high pressure feedwater heaters available to the steam turbine.

Claim 12

A power plant according to claim 7 wherein: said power plant is a standard circulating fluidized bed boiler plant including a steam turbine powered by the boiler and to which said gas turbine and a high pressure economizer and a low pressure economizer have been added; means are provided for passing said exhaust gases of the gas turbine through a heat recovery economizer prior to introduction into said circulating fluidized bed boiler for lowering the temperature thereof; the heat recovery economizer is of a size to reduce the gas turbine exhaust temperature to be introduced with that from the boiler air heater; and further comprising means for bypassing the high pressure feed water heaters for making any steam normally required by the high pressure feedwater heaters available to the steam turbine.