Power plants – Motive fluid energized by externally applied heat – Process of power production or system operation
Patent
1998-02-05
1999-09-21
Nguyen, Hoang
Power plants
Motive fluid energized by externally applied heat
Process of power production or system operation
60676, 60679, F01K 734
Patent
active
059539186
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for implementing a thermodynamic cycle. A heated gaseous working stream including a low boiling point component and a higher boiling point component is separated, and the low boiling point component is expanded to transform the energy of the stream into useable form and to provide an expanded relatively rich stream. This expanded rich stream is then split into two streams, one of which is expanded further to obtain further energy, resulting in a spent stream, the other of which is extracted. The lean unexpanded stream and the spent rich stream are then combined in a regenerating subsystem with the extracted stream to reproduce the working stream, which is then efficiently heated in a heater to provide the heated gaseous working stream that is separated.
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Kalina Alexander I.
Pelletier Richard I.
Rhodes Lawrence B.
Exergy, Inc.
Nguyen Hoang
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