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US 2007/0183554 A1Published application
Gas turbine plant
AssigneeMitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
InventorsNoboru Yanai, Yoshiaki Tsukuda, Hideaki Sugishita, Satoru Kamohara
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Abstract
A gas turbine plant, wherein a first gas turbine positioned coaxially with a compressor and a second gas turbine positioned coaxially with a generator are rotated by a coolant heated by heat energy provided by the fission of a coated particle fuel. The rotational speed of the first gas turbine is controlled by controlling a flow in the bypass passage of the second gas turbine.
Claims6
A gas turbine plant comprises:
- a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor which warms a coolant by thermal energy being obtained by nuclear fission of clad fission products in coated-particle fuels;
- a first gas turbine that is rotated by the coolant being warmed by the high-temperature gas-cooled reactor and shares a same shaft with a compressor compressing the coolant;
- a second gas turbine that is rotated by the coolant being discharged from the first gas turbine and shares a same shaft with a generator performing electrical power generation operation;
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- a bypass pathway that has the second gas turbine bypassed to the coolant;
- wherein, during the rated load operation, the flow volume of the coolant flowing through the bypass pathway is controlled so as to make the rotating speed of the first gas turbine fall within a range of a predetermined rotating speed.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.