Method for starting a continuous steam generator and continuous steam generator for carrying out said method

• US 7,587,133 B2
• Filed: 08/02/2004
• Issued: 09/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Schiesser, Dieter, Kral, Rudolf, Franke, Joachim
• Primary Examiner(s): Paik; Sang Y
• Application Number:
  US10/570,653
• Publication Number:
  US 20070028859A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,863 Days
• Field of Search: 993/24, 392386-406, 392478-496, 122/1.C, 122/1.R, 1222091-220, 12223511-23515, 122459-461
• US Class Current: 392/386
• CPC Class Codes: F22B 1/1815 using the exhaust gases of gas-turbines
• CPC Class Codes: F22B 29/06 of once-through type, i.e. built-up from tubes receiving water at one end and delivering superheated steam at the other end of the tubes F22B33/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F22B 35/14 during the starting-up periods, i.e. during the periods between the lighting of the furnaces and the attainment of the normal operating temperature of the steam boilers
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 80/10 Efficient use of energy, e.g. using compressed air or pressurized fluid as energy carrier

Abstract

The invention relates to a continuous steam generator provided with an evaporator through flow heating surface which is disposed in a heating gas channel which can be cross flown in an approximately vertical manner in a heating gas device, said evaporator through flow heating surface comprising a plurality of parallel connected steam generating pipes enabling a flow medium to flow through, and an overheating heating surface which is arranged downstream from the evaporator through flow heating surface comprising a plurality of parallel connected overheating pipes enabling the evaporated flow medium to flow through, also enabling production and operational costs to be reduced and enabling the temperature of the steam on the outlet of the overheating heating surface to be controlled in a comparatively simple and flexible manner. The steam end-point of the flow medium is displaced to the overheating pipe, if required. The continuous heating surfaces and the overheating heating surfaces are combined to form one functional unit such that the overheating heating surface can be used as a steam heating surface in a continuous steam generator which is particularly suitable for carrying out said method.

Claims

1. A method for starting a power plant of the type having a gas turbine, a steam turbine and a continuous-flow steam generator, comprising:

positioning the steam turbine downstream of the gas turbine and applying heat exhausted from the gas turbine as a heating gas in the steam generator by;

(i) providing an evaporator continuous-flow heating surface that is arranged in a heating gas duct through which the flow is capable of flowing in an approximately horizontal heating gas direction, and which comprises a number of steam generator tubes connected in parallel to allow a flow medium to flow through; and

(ii) providing a superheater heating surface that is connected downstream of the evaporator continuous-flow heating surface on the flow medium side and which comprises a number of superheater tubes connected in parallel to allow the evaporated flow medium to flow through, and

(iii) positioning the evaporation end point of the flow medium in the superheater tubes to temporarily limit the temperature of the flow medium at an exit of the superheater heating surface while starting up the steam turbine.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the temperature of the flow medium at an exit of the superheater heating surface is controlled by the selection of the position of the evaporation end point of the flow medium in the superheater heating surface.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the evaporation end point of the flow medium is set via the feed rate of the flow medium supplied to the evaporator continuous-flow heating surface.

4. A power plant comprising a gas generator, continuous-flow steam generator coupled to generate steam with heat exhausted by the gas turbine and a steam turbine coupled to receive the generated steam, the steam generator comprising:

a heating gas duct arranged to provide a flow in an approximately horizontal heating gas direction;

an evaporator continuous-flow heating surface that comprises a number of steam generator tubes connected in parallel to allow a flow medium to flow therethrough; and

a superheater heating surface connected downstream of the evaporator continuous-flow heating surface and which comprises a number of superheater tubes connected in parallel to allow the evaporated flow medium to flow therethrough,

wherein the evaporator continuous-flow heating surface and the superheater heating surface are interconnected into a functional unit in such a way that the evaporation end point of the flow medium can be displaced into the superheater heating surface.

5. The power plant of claim 4, wherein each superheater tube is preceded on the flow medium side in each case by a number of individually assigned steam generator tubes.

6. The power plant of claim 4, wherein a common header oriented with its longitudinal axis essentially parallel to the heating gas direction is in each case connected downstream of steam generator tubes connected in parallel on the flow medium side and arranged one behind the other on the heating gas side.

7. The power plant of claim 4, wherein the number of headers is equal to the number of steam generator tubes arranged within a tube row extending transversely to the heating gas direction.

8. The power plant of claim 4, wherein a separator is connected downstream of the superheater heating surface on the flow medium side.

9. The power plant of claim 4, wherein a steam generator tube comprises an approximately vertically arranged rising tube piece through which the flow medium is capable of flowing in the upward direction and an approximately vertically arranged falling tube piece that is connected downstream of said rising tube piece on the flow medium side and in the heating gas direction and through which the flow medium is capable of flowing in the downward direction, and an approximately vertically arranged further rising tube piece which is connected downstream of said falling tube piece on the flow medium side and through which the flow medium is capable of flowing in the upward direction and that is arranged between the rising tube piece and the falling tube piece as seen in the heating gas direction.

10. The power plant of claim 4, wherein the continuous-flow steam generator is preceded on the heating gas side by the gas turbine.