CHARGING PUMP SYSTEM FOR SUPPLYING A WORKING FLUID TO BEARINGS IN A SUPERCRITICAL WORKING FLUID CIRCUIT
    24.
    发明公开
    CHARGING PUMP SYSTEM FOR SUPPLYING A WORKING FLUID TO BEARINGS IN A SUPERCRITICAL WORKING FLUID CIRCUIT 审中-公开
    用于输送工作流体电荷泵系统,以存储在超临界流体工作电路

    公开(公告)号:EP2972044A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-01-20

    申请号:EP14773079.0

    申请日:2014-03-13

    IPC分类号: F28D20/00 F28D17/00

    摘要: Provided herein are a heat engine system and a method for generating energy, such as transforming thermal energy into mechanical energy and/or electrical energy. The heat engine system may have a single charging pump for efficiently implementing at least two independent tasks. The charging pump may be utilized to remove working fluid (e.g., CO2) from and/or to add working fluid into a working fluid circuit during inventory control of the working fluid. The charging pump may be utilized to transfer or otherwise deliver the working fluid as a cooling agent to bearings contained within a bearing housing of a system component during a startup process. The heat engine system may also have a mass control tank utilized with the charging pump and configured to receive, store, and distribute the working fluid.

    MASS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR A SUPERCRITICAL WORKING FLUID CIRCUIT
    25.
    发明公开
    MASS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR A SUPERCRITICAL WORKING FLUID CIRCUIT 审中-公开
    质量管理系统,提供超临界萃取工作循环

    公开(公告)号:EP2971621A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-01-20

    申请号:EP14773620.1

    申请日:2014-03-12

    发明人: CLOSE, Cameron

    摘要: Provided herein is a heat engine system and a method for transforming energy, such as generating mechanical energy and/or electrical energy from thermal energy. The heat engine system may have one of several different configurations of a mass management system (MMS) fluidly coupled to a working fluid circuit. The MMS may be utilized to control the amount of working fluid added to, contained within, or removed from the working fluid circuit. The MMS may contain a mass control tank, an inventory transfer line, and system/tank transfer valves. The MMS may contain a transfer pump fluidly coupled to the inventory transfer line and configured to control the pressure in the inventory transfer line. The MMS may have two or more transfer lines, such as an inventory return line and valve, and an inventory supply line and valve.

    BYPASS AND THROTTLE VALVES FOR A SUPERCRITICAL WORKING FLUID CIRCUIT
    27.
    发明公开
    BYPASS AND THROTTLE VALVES FOR A SUPERCRITICAL WORKING FLUID CIRCUIT 审中-公开
    旁路和油门的关键关于工作流体管路

    公开(公告)号:EP2906788A1

    公开(公告)日:2015-08-19

    申请号:EP13845485.5

    申请日:2013-10-11

    IPC分类号: F01K25/08 F02G5/00

    CPC分类号: F01K7/32 F01K13/02 F01K25/103

    摘要: Aspects of the invention disclosed herein generally provide heat engine systems and methods for recovering energy, such as by generating electricity from thermal energy. Generally, the heat engine system has a working fluid circuit containing a working fluid (e.g., sc-CO
    2 ) for absorbing thermal energy from the heat source stream via a heat exchanger. In one aspect, the method includes controlling a power turbine by modulating a turbo pump throttle valve and a power turbine bypass valve to adjust the flowrate of the working fluid entering the power turbine while monitoring and controlling process operation parameters of the heat engine system to synchronize the frequency of the power generator to the frequency of the electrical grid during a synchronization process.