Gas turbine plant with combustor cooling system

• US 6,116,018 A
• Filed: 03/05/1998
• Issued: 09/12/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: mitsubishi hitachi power systems, ltd. (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
• Inventors: Nishida, Hiroyuki, Tanimura, Satoshi, Mandai, Shigemi, Gora, Tetsuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Casaregola, Louis J.
• Application Number:
  US09/035,615
• Time in Patent Office: 922 Days
• Field of Search: 60/39.05, 60/39.182, 60/39.3, 60/39.55, 60/39.75, 60/730
• US Class Current: 60/39.3
• CPC Class Codes: F02C 3/30 Adding water, steam or other fluids for influencing combustion, e.g. to obtain cleaner exhaust gases F02C7/141, F02C7/30, F01D21/00, F01K21/04, F23D11/10 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F02C 7/16 characterised by cooling medium
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2260/2322 steam
• CPC Class Codes: F23M 5/085 using air or other gas as the cooling medium

Abstract

A gas turbine plant having a compressor, gas turbine, and combustor, comprising a cooling system adapted to cool the wall of the combustor by means of air compressed by the combustor when the load of the gas turbine and/or the combustion load of the combustor is low, and an additional cooling system adapted to cool the wall of the combustor by means of a cooling medium different from the air in addition to the cooling by means of the air when the load of the gas turbine is increased.

Claims

1. A gas turbine plant having a gas turbine and combustor, comprising:

a basic cooling system configured to cool the combustor with a first cooling medium;

an additional cooling system configured to cool the combustor with a second cooling medium;

a detector configured to detect at least one of the load of the gas turbine and a combustion lead of the combustor; and

an activator device configured to activate at least one of the additional cooling system and the basic cooling system in accordance with a detection output from the detector.

2. A gas turbine plant according to claim 1, wherein said detector detects a load signal from the gas turbine.

3. A gas turbine plant according to claim 1, wherein said detector detects a temperature of the combustor.

4. A gas turbine plant according to claim 1, wherein said first cooling medium is air and said second cooling medium is steam.

5. A gas turbine plant according to claim 1, wherein said additional cooling system comprises a recover device configured to recover the second cooling medium after the combustor is cooled.

6. A gas turbine plant according to claim 1, wherein said combustor comprises a dual-structure wall having a large number of passages divided inside by partition walls, air inlet and outlet ports provided in the dual-structure wall and communicating with the passages, a cooling medium supply header and a cooling medium recovery header provided on the wall, and cooling medium inlet and outlet ports provided individually in the supply header and said recovery header and communicating with the passages, the passages for the first cooling medium being different from the passages for the second cooling medium.

7. A gas turbine plant according to claim 4, which further comprises a compressor configured to compress air, the compressed air being used for the first cooling medium.

8. A gas turbine plant according to claim 1, wherein said activator device activates only the basic cooling system if at least one of the load of the gas turbine and the combustion load of the combustor is lower than a threshold level and activates both of the basic cooling system and the additional cooling system if at least one of the load of the gas turbine and the combustion load of the combustor is higher than the threshold level.