Method and Apparatus For Evaporating Organic Working Media
AssigneesTechnische Universitaet Muenchen, Orcan Energy AG
InventorsRichard Aumann, Andreas Schuster, Andreas Sichert
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Abstract
The present invention provides a device which comprises: a heat exchanger (1) for transferring heat of a heat-supplying medium to a working medium which differs from said heat-supplying medium, a first supply device designed to provide a flow of the heat-supplying medium at a first temperature from a heat source to the heat exchanger, and a second supply device which is designed to deliver the heat-supplying medium after it has passed through the heat exchanger, and/or a further medium at a second temperature lower than the first temperature, to the flow of the heat-supplying medium at the first temperature.
Claims17
Apparatus, comprising:
- a heat exchanger for transferring heat of a heat-supplying medium to a working medium which differs from the heat-supplying medium;
- a first supply device adapted to supply a flow of the heat-supplying medium having a first temperature from a heat source to the heat exchanger;
- a second supply device adapted to supply at least partially the heat-supplying medium, after it has passed through the heat exchanger, and/or a further medium having a second temperature which is lower than the first temperature to the flow of the heat-supplying medium having the first temperature;
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- a device adapted to heat or cool the heat-supplying medium, after it has passed through the heat exchanger, and/or the further medium to the second temperature before it is supplied to the flow of the heat-supplying medium supplied from the heat source to the heat exchanger.
Apparatus, comprising:
- a heat exchanger for transferring heat of a heat-supplying medium to a working medium which differs from the heat-supplying medium;
- a first supply device adapted to supply a flow of the heat-supplying medium having a first temperature from a heat source to the heat exchanger;
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- a second supply device adapted to supply a further medium having a second temperature which is lower than the first temperature to the flow of the heat-supplying medium having the first temperature.
Method for evaporating a working medium in a thermal power plant, comprising the steps of:
- supplying the working medium in a liquid state to an evaporator,
- supplying a heat-supplying medium having a first temperature, which differs from the working medium, from a heat source to the evaporator,
- recirculating at least a portion of the heat-supplying medium, after it has passed through the evaporator, having a second temperature which is lower than the first temperature, and/or supplying a further medium into the flow of the heat-supplying medium supplied from the heat source to the evaporator, and
- cooling or heating the heat-supplying medium, after it has passed through the evaporator, and/or the further medium to the second temperature before it is supplied to the flow of the heat-supplying medium supplied from the heat source to the evaporator.
Method for evaporating a working medium in a thermal power plant, comprising the steps of:
- supplying the working medium in a liquid state to an evaporator;
- supplying a heat-supplying medium having a first temperature, which differs from the working medium, from a heat source to the evaporator, and
- supplying a further medium having a second temperature which is lower than the first temperature to the flow of the heat-supplying medium supplied from the heat source to the evaporator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.