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METHOD AND SYSTEM INTEGRATING SOLAR HEAT INTO A REGENERATIVE RANKINE STEAM CYCLE

  • US 20110000213A1
  • Filed: 12/28/2009
  • Published: 01/06/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/27/2005
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method for generating power, the method comprising the steps of:

  • generating a heated circulating fluid through the use of solar thermal sensible heat in a closed loop, single phase system;

    transferring energy from the solar heated fluid to the feedwater, using a feedwater heater in series with other feedwater heaters, of a host regenerative Rankine cycle power plant, wherein the transferred heat is used to augment or replace steam turbine extraction steam heating in one or more of the high pressure feedwater heaters (downstream of the boiler feed pump) of the host power plant.

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