Multistage two-phase turbine
AssigneeBiphase Energy Company
InventorLance G. Hays
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Abstract
A multistage two-phase turbine having multiple stages to receive fluid, each stage having an inlet and outlet comprising nozzles at the inlet to each stage to accelerate the fluid that consists of a mixture of gas and liquid, to form two-phase jets; a rotating separator structure to receive and separate the two-phase jets into gas streams and liquid stream in each stage; the turbine having a rotating output shaft, and there being structure to convert the kinetic energy of the liquid streams into shaft power; structure to remove the separated liquid from at least one stage and transfer it to nozzles at the next stage; structure to remove the separated liquid from the last stage and transfer it to primary outlet structure; and structure to remove the separated gas from at least one stage and transfer it to a secondary outlet structure.
Claims17
In a multistage two-phase turbine having one or more stages to receive fluid, each stage having an inlet and outlet, the combination comprising
- a) nozzles at the inlet to each stage to accelerate said fluid that consists of a mixture of gas and liquid, to form two-phase jets,
- b) a rotating separator structure to receive and separate the two-phase jets into gas streams and liquid streams in each stage,
- c) the turbine having a rotating output shaft, and there being means to convert the kinetic energy of the liquid streams into shaft power,
- d) means to remove the separated liquid from at least one stage and transfer it to nozzles at the next stage,
- e) means to remove the separated liquid from the last stage and transfer it to primary outlet structure,
- f) means to remove the separated gas from at least one stage and transfer it to a secondary outlet structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.