Abstract:
The invention concerns a thermal power plant with a generator (10), comprising a cooling system (11) for the generator (10), wherein the waste heat released from the generator (10) on cooling can be used profitably for operating the thermal power plant. The invention also concerns an associated method.
Abstract:
An Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) system (20) includes a rotor volume (G) at sub-atmospheric pressure. A working fluid is sprayed into the rotor volume (G).
Abstract:
The invention relates to an energy-storing device (1) with a charging circuit (2) for a working gas (3) for storing thermal energy, comprising a compressor (4), a heat accumulator (5), and an expansion turbine (6). The compressor (4) is connected to the inlet of the expansion turbine (6) at the outlet side of the compressor via a first line (7) for the working gas (3), and the heat accumulator (5) is connected into the first line (7). According to the invention, the compressor (4) and the expansion turbine (6) are arranged on a common shaft (14), and the heat exchanger of the heat accumulator (5) is designed such that the working gas (3) which is expanded in the expansion turbine (6) largely matches the thermodynamic state variables of the working gas (3) prior to entering the compressor (4). Only a part of the thermal energy is transferred to the heat accumulator (5) in the process. The working gas (3) fed to the expansion turbine (6) remains relatively hot.
Abstract:
An Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) system (20) includes a rotor volume (G) at sub-atmospheric pressure. A working fluid is sprayed into the rotor volume (G).
Abstract:
A system includes a working fluid (201) operable to be circulated through a working cycle. The working cycle includes one or more expander -generators (220) driven by the working fluid to generate electrical power at a first condition; an evaporator heat exchanger; and a condenser heat exchanger. The system includes power electronics (255) thermally coupled to a heat exchanger (290) and adapted to convert the electrical power at the first condition to electrical power at a second condition; and a conduit (282) in fluid communication with the working cycle and the heat exchanger. The conduit is adapted to circulate the working fluid through the heat exchanger such that heat generated by the power electronics is transferred to the working fluid.
Abstract:
A waste heat regeneration system includes a pump, a coolant boiler, an exhaust gas boiler, an expander, a first condenser, a gas/liquid separator, and a supercooler. A first flow control valve adjusts the amount of an operating fluid circulating in a first bypass flow path by controlling its opening degree based on a pressure difference P1-P2 corresponding to a temperature difference T1-T2 between the temperature T1 of the operating fluid on the upstream side of the supercooler and the temperature T2 of the operating fluid on the downstream side thereof, thereby maintaining the temperature difference T1-T2 so as to be larger than or equal to a predetermined value necessary for preventing the generation of cavitation in the pump, and ensuring the degree of supercooling.
Abstract:
The invention concerns an arrangement for cooling a gas turbine engine component, said arrangement comprising: a gas turbine engine component (20, 200) provided with at least one cooling channel (50, 261-264, 225) through which a cooling medium is intended to flow during operation of the arrangement, a feeding system (40) configured to supply cooling medium to the cooling channel (50, 261-264, 225), a cooling channel inlet (27, 51, 270), and a cooling channel outlet (28, 52, 280). The invention is characterized in that the feeding system (40) is arranged in flow communication with both the inlet (27, 51, 270) and the outlet (28, 52, 280) of the cooling channel (50, 261-264, 225) such as to form a closed flow system. The invention also relates to a gas turbine engine provided with such a component and a method for cooling such a component.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for recovering heat by joining a plurality of heat flows of a fossil-fired, in particular carbon-fired, power plant (1), which downstream of the combustion comprises a CO 2 scrubbing station (58) for the flue gas by way of chemical absorption and/or desorption and associated CO 2 compression (27), which method aims to enable a CO 2 scrubbing station for the flue gas, with associated CO 2 compression, to be integrated into the total energy heat flow and/or the total heat energy balance of a fossil-fired, in particular carbon-fired, preferably conventional, power plant in a way that is advantageous in terms of heating technology. This is achieved by decoupling thermal energy from the heat flow of the CO 2 scrubbing station (58), with associated CO 2 compression, in the form of at least one partial heat flow (Q 8 , Q 9 , Q 10 , Q 11 ) and coupling it back into a heat flow that is coupled, directly or indirectly, to the heat flow of the boiler (2) or steam generator of the power plant (1), and/or by decoupling thermal energy from the flue gas heat flow (Q 3 ) in the form of a partial heat flow (Q 12 , Q 13 , Q 14 ) and coupling it back into the heat flow of the CO 2 scrubbing station (58) with associated CO 2 compression (27).
Abstract:
A waste heat recovery system (10) includes a heat generation system (18) including at least two separate heat sources having different temperatures. A rankine cycle system (12) is coupled to the at least two separate heat sources (16, 44) and configured to circulate a working fluid. The rankine cycle system is coupled to at least one heat source and another heat source among the at least two separate heat sources. The rankine cycle system is configured to remove heat from the at least one heat source to partially vaporize or preheat the working fluid; and remove heat from the other heat source to vaporize or superheat the working fluid.