Power plants – Combustion products used as motive fluid
Reexamination Certificate
2000-08-23
2002-05-28
Kim, Ted (Department: 3746)
Power plants
Combustion products used as motive fluid
C060S039190, C060S726000, C060S728000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06393826
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a gas turbine and more particularly to a gas turbine formed so that a part of high-pressure air compressed by a gas turbine compressor is used as air for a cooling air system and a spray air system.
As countermeasures for a recent increase in demands of power and global warming, realization of large capacity and high efficiency of gas turbine power generating equipment is required. Particularly, in gas turbine power generating equipment leading air compressed by a compressor to a combustor, supplying fuel to burn it with the air, and driving the gas turbine by its combustion gas, large capacity and high efficiency can be realized by increasing the combustion temperature more.
However, in a heat recovery type gas turbine, that is, a gas turbine for recovering energy held by higher-temperature combustion gas, there is the possibility that damage may be caused to parts exposed at a high temperature without cooling and developed to a serious accident. Therefore, in gas turbine power generating equipment in which a combustion gas temperature is high, the high-temperature part of the gas turbine is cooled using compressed air or vapor as a cooling medium.
On the other hand, when oil such as light oil is to be used as fuel, spray air for spraying fuel into a combustor is necessary. A conventional spray air system adjusts the air temperature by a heat exchanger using a part of air discharged from a compressor, pressurizes it by the compressor to air of higher pressure than air for combustion, produces clean air by letting it pass through a filter so as to prevent the fuel nozzle from clogging, then supplies air to the combustor and uses it to spray fuel.
A conventional cooling air system supplies air extracted by the compressor to the high-temperature part of the turbine directly or after it passes through the heat exchanger for temperature adjustment. In this case, in a gas turbine which uses a part of air discharged from the compressor for cooling the turbine blades so as to improve the turbine efficiency and then recovers it into the combustor, a heat exchanger for keeping cooling air at an appropriate temperature and a filter and a mist separator for making cooling air more clean are installed.
A system constitution for cooling air discharged from the compressor by the heat exchanger, cooling the high-temperature part of the turbine, and also using it as fuel spray air, is disclosed, for example, in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open 4-214931 and its equivalent, Nishijima U.S. Pat. No. 5,185,997.
In a gas turbine formed as mentioned above, that is, a gas turbine having a fuel oil spray air system and a cooling air system in common and formed so that a boost compressor is driven by the turbine shaft from the viewpoint of reliability of cooling air supply, the number of revolutions of the turbine at start is small, so that the discharge pressure of the boost compressor is insufficient and hence at start, an air system for compensating for it is necessary.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention was developed in view of the foregoing and is to provide a gas turbine which sufficiently supplies, even at start, high-pressure air to a fuel oil spray air system and a cooling air system.
Namely, the present invention is intended to accomplish the expected object in a gas turbine which has a cooling air system supplying air for cooling the high-temperature part of the gas turbine and a spray air system supplying air for spraying fuel into a combustor and is formed so that a part of high-pressure air compressed by a gas turbine compressor is used as air for the cooling air system and spray air system, and in which a heat exchanger and a boost compressor are arranged downstream of the outlet side of compressed air of the gas turbine compressor, the boost compressor is constructed by a parallel connection of a compressor driven by the turbine shaft and a compressor driven by a drive source other than the turbine shaft, and pressurized air from the boost compressor is used as air for the cooling air system and the spray air system.
Furthermore, the present invention is intended, in a gas turbine which has a cooling air system supplying air for cooling the high-temperature part of the gas turbine and a spray air system supplying air for spraying fuel into a combustor and is formed so that a part of high-pressure air compressed by a gas turbine compressor is used as air for the cooling air system and spray air system, in which a heat exchanger and a boost compressor are arranged downstream of the outlet side of compressed air of the gas turbine compressor, the boost compressor is constructed by a parallel connection of a compressor driven by the turbine shaft and a compressor which is driven by a drive source other than the turbine shaft and operated when the gas turbine is started, and pressurized air from the boost compressor is used as air for the cooling air system and the spray air system.
In this case, between the compressor driven by the turbine shaft and the compressor driven by a drive source other than the turbine shaft, a switching means for switching to the spray air system is installed. On the output side of high-pressure air of the compressor driven by the turbine shaft and the compressor driven by a drive source other than the turbine shaft, a check valve is installed. In the spray air system on the output side of high-pressure air of the boost compressor, a heat exchanger for cooling spray air is installed. On the output side of high-pressure air of the boost compressor, a pressure adjustment device adjusting the outlet pressure is installed. The compressor driven by a drive source other than the turbine shaft is a compressor driven by a motor or a compressor driven by an internal combustion engine.
Namely, in a gas turbine formed as mentioned above, a heat exchanger and a boost compressor are arranged on the downstream side on the outlet side of compressed air of the gas turbine compressor, and the boost compressor is constructed by a parallel connection of a compressor driven by the turbine shaft and a compressor driven by a drive source other than the turbine shaft, and pressurized air from the boost compressor is used as air for the cooling air system and the spray air system, so that at start, the boost compressor driven by a drive source other than the turbine shaft is operated, and fuel oil spray air and cooling air are supplied, and hence even at start, appropriate high-pressure air can be supplied to the fuel oil spray system and cooling system.
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Kondou Satoshi
Noda Masami
Yamanaka Kazunori
Hitachi , Ltd.
Kim Ted
Mattingly Stanger & Malur, P.C.
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