Compressor system
AssigneesMitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation, Mitsuibshi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
InventorsKeizo Yoneda, Takeshi Hataya, Nobuyuki Horii
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Abstract
The present invention provides a compressor system including a plurality of compressor trains each including a gas turbine and a compression part including a compressor driven by the gas turbine, and a fluid feeding part for distributing a fluid fed from one fluid source to each of the compressors in the plurality of compressor trains. The gas turbine includes a gas turbine compressor for compressing air, a combustor for generating a combustion gas, a high-pressure turbine including a high-pressure turbine rotor mechanically coupled to a compressor rotor, and a low-pressure turbine including a low-pressure turbine rotor disposed away from the high-pressure turbine rotor. The plurality of compressor trains can be operated in parallel.
Claims5
A compressor system comprising:
- compressor trains each of which comprises:
- a multi-shaft gas turbine;
- and
- a compression unit comprising a first compressor and a second compressor both driven by the multi-shaft gas turbine, wherein the second compressor compresses a different fluid than the first compressor does;
- a first fluid supply unit that:
- comprises a fluid supply source, and
- distributes and supplies a fluid supplied from the fluid supply source to the first compressor of each of the compressor trains,
- a second fluid supply unit that:
- is independent of the first fluid supply unit, and
- distributes and supplies the different fluid under different conditions to the second compressor of each of the compressor trains, and
- a control unit configured to control operating conditions of the compressor trains, wherein
- the multi-shaft gas turbine of each of the compressor trains comprises:
- a gas turbine compressor that:
- comprises a compressor rotor, and
- compresses air with rotation of the compressor rotor;
- a combustor that produces a combustion gas by using:
- the air compressed by the gas turbine compressor, and fuel;
- a high-pressure turbine that comprises a high-pressure turbine rotor that:
- is mechanically connected to the compressor rotor, and
- is rotationally driven by the combustion gas;
- and
- a low-pressure turbine that comprises a low-pressure turbine rotor:
- disposed separately from the high-pressure turbine rotor, and
- rotationally driven by the combustion gas after the high-pressure turbine rotor is rotationally driven,
- the low-pressure turbine rotor rotates independently of the high-pressure turbine rotor,
- the compression unit of each of the compressor trains further comprises a pressure sensor that:
- acquires a pressure value of a pressure at a suction port of the second compressor, and
- sends information about the pressure value to the control unit,
- a first compression unit rotor of the first compressor is mechanically connected to the low-pressure turbine rotor,
- a second compression unit rotor of the second compressor is mechanically connected to the first compression unit rotor,
- the compressor trains are configured to operate independently or in parallel,
- the compressor trains include a first compressor train and a second compressor train,
- the control unit is configured to decrease, in response to stoppage of the second compressor train while the first compressor train continues to operate, a flow rate of the fluid supplied to the first compressor of the operating first compressor train, and:
- the control unit is configured to increase, in response to the pressure value acquired in the operating first compressor train exceeding a predetermined reference value, an amount of the fuel supplied to the combustor of the operating first compressor train to increase a rotation speed of the low-pressure turbine rotor of the operating first compressor train.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.