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Method for operating a gas turbine and a gas turbine for implementing the method

US7584598B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJan 9, 2006
Grant dateSep 8, 2009
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Expiry dateJun 16, 2027

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY02E20/18
  • WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

In a method for operating a gas turbine (11) in a combined cycle power plant (40), air, which is used to burn a syngas that is recovered from coal is drawn in by the gas turbine (11) and compressed, is led to a combustor (18, 19), and a portion of the compressed air is separated into oxygen and nitrogen. An improved degree of efficiency is achieved by virtue of the fact that a gas turbine (11) with reheating is used, which includes two combustors (18,19) and two turbines (16, 17), in which, in the first combustor (18) syngas is burned using compressed air, and the resultant hot gases are expanded and in which, in the second combustor, syngas is burned using the gases coming from the first turbine (16) and the resultant hot gases are expanded in the second turbine (17), and that the nitrogen that occurs in the separation of the air is used to cool the gas turbine (11).

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