Steam cooled gas turbine system

• US 6,109,019 A
• Filed: 02/27/1998
• Issued: 08/29/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: mitsubishi hitachi power systems, ltd. (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
• Inventors: Sugishita, Hideaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Casaregola, Louis J.
• Application Number:
  US09/031,677
• Time in Patent Office: 914 Days
• Field of Search: 60/39.02, 60/39.182, 60/39.75, 60/730
• US Class Current: 60/39.182
• CPC Class Codes: F01K 23/106 with water evaporated or preheated at different pressures in exhaust boiler
• CPC Class Codes: F05B 2260/233 the medium being steam
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 20/16 Combined cycle power plant [CCPP], or combined cycle gas turbine [CCGT]

Abstract

A steam cooled gas turbine system in a combined power plant, constituted such that a tail pipe of a combustor is cooled with intermediate pressure steam from an exhaust heat recovery boiler, or outlet bleed steam from a high pressure turbine, and the cooling steam is recovered into an intermediate pressure turbine or an intermediate area of a reheater of the exhaust heat recovery boiler, whereby thermal efficiency is improved, and a cut in NO_x is achieved.

Claims

1. In a steam cooled gas turbine system in a combined power plant which comprises a combination of a gas turbine plant and a steam turbine plant including a plurality of turbines having different pressure inputs, and includes an exhaust heat recovery boiler for generating steam turbine driving steam by utilizing exhaust heat from a gas turbine of the gas turbine plant, the improvement comprising:

means for supplying generated steam from the exhaust heat recovery boiler as cooling steam for an exhaust pipe of a combustor;

means for recovering the cooling steam applied to the exhaust pipe and applying the recovered steam to the steam turbine plant; and

means for cooling the blades of the gas turbine by the use of steam bled from the outlet of a high pressure turbine of the steam turbine plant, and recovering the cooling steam, which has become hot after cooling, into an area of the reheater of the exhaust heat recovery boiler.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein said

means for supplying generated steam comprises means for supplying steam from an intermediate pressure drum of the exhaust heat recovery boiler to the exhaust pipe;

and

wherein the recovery means directs the recovered cooling steam to an intermediate pressure turbine of the steam turbine plant.

3. The system of claim 1 further including:

means for supplying steam from a high pressure turbine of the steam turbine plant to the conduit for cooling the exhaust pipe; and

wherein the recovery device directs the recovered cooling steam to a reheater of the exhaust recovery boiler.

4. The system of claim 1 further including:

means for supplying steam from an intermediate pressure turbine of the steam turbine plant to the conduit for cooling the exhaust pipe; and

wherein the recovery device directs the recovered cooling steam to a reheater of the exhaust recovery boiler.

5. In a steam cooled gas turbine system in a combined power plant which comprises a combination of a gas turbine plant and a steam turbine plant including a plurality of turbines having different pressure inputs, and includes an exhaust heat recovery boiler for generating steam turbine driving steam by utilizing exhaust heat from a gas turbine of the gas turbine plant, the improvement comprising:

steam piping means for supplying cooling steam from the exhaust heat recovery boiler to an exhaust pipe of a combustor;

steam recovery piping means connect to the exhaust pipe of the combustor for applying the recovered steam to an intermediate pressure turbine of the steam turbine plant;

cooling steam supply piping means for cooling the blades of the gas turbine plant connected from an outlet of a high pressure turbine of the steam turbine to the gas turbine, and

blade cooling steam recovery piping means connected from the gas turbine to an intermediate area of the reheater of the exhaust heat recovery boiler.

6. The system of claim 5 and additionally including steam supply piping means connected from the reheater to the intermediate pressure turbine for mixing steam from the reheater with the steam recovered from the exhaust pipe of the combustor.