METHOD FOR PRODUCING POWER WITH STORED ENERGY

    公开(公告)号:US20230279807A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-07

    申请号:US18155291

    申请日:2023-01-17

    IPC分类号: F02C6/16 F02C1/02

    CPC分类号: F02C6/16 F02C1/02 F05D2220/76

    摘要: An energy storage system has a pressure vessel that is exposed to ambient temperatures and that contains a working fluid which is condensable at ambient temperatures (CWF); a liquid reservoir in communication with one of the vessels and containing a liquid that is unvaporizable in the reservoir and in the vessel; and apparatus for delivering the liquid from the reservoir to the vessel. The CWF is compressible within the vessel upon direct contact with the liquid and is storable in a liquid state after being compressed to its saturation pressure. In a method, at least some of the liquid located in the vessel is propelled by the CWF towards a turbine to produce power. In one embodiment, a module has a first vessel having at least four ports, a second vessel at ambient temperatures, and a flow control component operatively connected to a corresponding conduit for selectively controlling fluid flow.

    Air-cooled condenser configuration
    74.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11473452B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-18

    申请号:US16481318

    申请日:2018-12-26

    摘要: A power plant through which motive fluid flows including a vapor turbine into which motive fluid vapor is introduced and expanded so that power is produced, and a horizontal air-cooled condenser (ACC) for receiving and condensing the expanded motive fluid discharged from said vapor turbine. The condenser includes a plurality of mutually parallel and spaced condenser tubes across which air for condensing the motive fluid flows that are disposed at an angle of inclination with respect to a horizontal plane of at least 5 degrees, such that accumulated liquid condensate is evacuated by gravitational forces.

    SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING AND MAINTAINING POWER PLANT PERFORMANCE

    公开(公告)号:US20210332806A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-28

    申请号:US17269554

    申请日:2019-06-27

    摘要: A geothermal power plant related maintenance support system comprises: a thermodynamic calculation module for determining performance of specified geothermal power plant components; a plurality of. embedded sensors, each of which is embedded in a different geothermal power plant location and adapted to sense a corresponding real-time geothermal power plant parameter; a plurality of environmental sensors adapted to sense ambient conditions in the vicinity of the geothermal power plant; and a processor in data communication with each of said embedded sensors and environmental sensors.

    WIND GUIDING VANE APPARATUS
    76.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190285347A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-19

    申请号:US15925177

    申请日:2018-03-19

    IPC分类号: F28B9/00 F28B1/06

    摘要: The present invention provides wind guiding vane apparatus for mitigating a detrimental influence of cross winds flowing in the vicinity of an air-cooled condenser (ACC) and through one or more fans, positioned in lateral direction of the ACC, to which ambient air is directed and discharged to the atmosphere after cooling condenser tubes of the ACC, comprising one or more stationary wind guiding vanes positioned along at least a portion of an air flow streamline and below a plurality of condenser tubes of the ACC, wherein said one or more wind guiding vanes are configured to redirect air flow during windy conditions towards a portion of said plurality of condenser tubes and at least one of the fans at such an angle that significantly deviates from perpendicular, fairly horizontal inflow. The one or more wind guiding vanes are also suitable to maintain a nominal flow rate of air during quiescent wind conditions.

    Device and method for minimizing the effect of ambient conditions on the operation of a heat exchanger

    公开(公告)号:US10247492B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-02

    申请号:US15474404

    申请日:2017-03-30

    摘要: A heat exchanger system for cooling liquid having a plurality of finned tube arrays and a plurality of fans for inducing air through the finned tube array comprising: at least one wind deflector installed along the long side of the finned tube arrays on at least one side of the arrays. The present invention for includes a method for minimizing the undesired effect of wind on the operation of a heat exchanger system for cooling liquid having a plurality of finned tube arrays and a plurality of fans for inducing air through the finned tube array, the method comprising the steps of: setting the angle of deflection of the wind deflectors other than the angle of deflection of the uppermost position of the wind deflectors; collecting readings of outlet temperature sensor of the heat exchanger, ambient temperature, wind sensor and inlet air pressure sensor of the heat exchanger; recording readings of outlet temperature sensor of the heat exchanger, ambient temperature, wind sensor and inlet air pressure sensor of the heat exchanger; comparing readings of outlet temperature sensor of the heat exchanger, ambient temperature, wind sensor and inlet air pressure sensor of the heat exchanger to previous readings; and carrying out a correction command if the readings have changed.

    Method and apparatus for stimulating a geothermal well
    80.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for stimulating a geothermal well 有权
    刺激地热井的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US09482082B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-11-01

    申请号:US13839829

    申请日:2013-03-15

    摘要: A method for stimulating a sub-commercial geothermal well includes steps of drilling a stimulating well; isolating a corresponding zone in the stimulating well using vertically spaced swell packers that are swellable when contacted by subterraneously heated geothermal brine present in the stimulating well and are resistant to the high temperature of the brine; injecting stimulating fluid into the stimulating well such that it will flow only through a zone of the well that is not isolated; and allowing the stimulating fluid to exit the well from a non-isolated zone located at a desired depth into a surrounding geological formation. The fracture or system of fractures within the formation is thereby hydraulically reopened.

    摘要翻译: 用于刺激次商业地热井的方法包括钻井刺激井的步骤; 使用垂直间隔开的膨胀封隔器分离刺激井中相应的区域,当膨胀井与刺激井中存在的受热加热的地热盐水接触时,它们是可溶胀的并且耐盐水的高温; 将刺激性流体注入刺激井,使得其仅流过未分离的井的区域; 并且允许刺激流体从位于期望深度的非隔离区域离开井到周围的地质层。 因此,地层内的断裂或断裂系统被液压重新开放。