Chilled intake air for increased power generation
AssigneeTyphon Technology Solutions (U.S.), LLC
InventorsAdrian Benjamin Bodishbaugh, Carrie Murtland
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Abstract
A mobile source of electricity is converted from a transportation mode to an operational mode. A turbine disposed on the mobile source of electricity is operated to generate electricity in the operational mode. A first control valve is operated to feed a cooling agent from a cooling agent source into a heat transfer apparatus disposed in an air intake flow path of the turbine to cool intake air. A second control valve is operated to vent from the heat transfer apparatus, the cooling agent that is heated by absorbing heat from the intake air flowing through the air intake flow path. A controller controls the first and second control valves to maintain the cooling agent having predetermined properties in the heat transfer apparatus.
Claims13
A system for cooling intake air, the system comprising:
- a heat transfer apparatus for absorbing heat from ambient air and outputting cooled air;
- a first transport including an air inlet filter housing that intakes the cooled air from the heat transfer apparatus, filters the cooled air, and outputs the filtered air from a combustion air connection;
- a second transport including a gas turbine, the gas turbine having an intake connected to an inlet plenum;
- wherein, in an operation mode, the combustion air connection of the first transport is connected to the inlet plenum of the second transport between a facing side of the first transport and a facing side of the second transport;
- and
- one of:
- (i) a gravity driven passageway in the combustion air connection, the gravity driven passageway preventing debris or ice from entering the intake of the gas turbine by an act of gravity, (ii) a filter disposed in the combustion air connection, the filter filtering the cooled air output from the air inlet filter housing, or (iii) a filter disposed on the second transport upstream of the intake of the gas turbine, the filter filtering the cooled air received from the combustion air connection of the first transport.
An inlet and exhaust transport, comprising:
- an air inlet filter housing receiving cooled air that is cooled by a separate heat transfer apparatus for absorbing heat from ambient air and outputting the cooled air, wherein the air inlet filter housing filters the cooled air;
- a combustion air connection that is coupled to an outlet of the air inlet filter housing, the combustion air connection being adapted to be coupled to an inlet plenum of a gas turbine mounted on a separate power generation transport;
- and
- one of:
- (i) a gravity driven passageway which prevents ice from entering the inlet plenum of the gas turbine on the separate power generation transport by an act of gravity, the gravity driven passageway being provided in the combustion air connection, or (ii) a filter that is provided in the combustion air connection.
A method for cooling intake air, the method comprising:
- absorbing heat from ambient air with a heat transfer apparatus and outputting cooled air to an air inlet filter housing of a first transport;
- receiving, at the air inlet filter housing of the first transport, the cooled air from the heat transfer apparatus, filtering the cooled air, and outputting the filtered air from a combustion air connection to a second transport, the second transport including a gas turbine, the gas turbine having an intake connected to an inlet plenum;
- providing the cooled air via the combustion air connection to the intake of the gas turbine for combustion;
- and
- one of:
- (i) preventing, with a gravity driven passageway in the combustion air connection, debris or ice from entering the intake of the gas turbine by an act of gravity, or (ii) filtering, with a filter disposed on the second transport upstream of the intake of the gas turbine, the cooled air received from the combustion air connection of the first transport.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.