# US 5,704,206 A · Coal burner combined power plant having a fuel reformer located within the coal furnace > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 5,704,206 A - Document ID: US5704206A - Status: Granted - Kind: A - Application number: 08/447,935 - Filed: 1995-05-23 - Granted: 1998-01-06 - Earliest claimed: 1994-05-24 - Assignees: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha - Inventors: Shozo Kaneko; Satoshi Uchida; Yasuhiro Yamauchi; Susumu Sato; Yoshiyuki Wakabayashi; Yoshinori Kobayashi; Yoshinori Hyakutake - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US5704206A ## CPC - F01K 23/061: {with combustion in a fluidised bed (plants with a fluidised-bed combustor comprising only gas-turbines F02C3/205; fluidised-bed apparatus per se B01J8/18; fluidised-bed combustors F23C10/00; fluidised-bed steam-boilers F22B31/0007)} - F01K 23/067: {the combustion heat coming from a gasification or pyrolysis process, e.g. coal gasification (gas turbines with fuel gasifiers F02C3/28)} - F02C 3/20: using a special fuel, oxidant, or dilution fluid to generate the combustion products - Y02E 20/16: Combined cycle power plant [CCPP], or combined cycle gas turbine [CCGT] - Y02E 20/18: Integrated gasification combined cycle [IGCC], e.g. combined with carbon capture and storage [CCS] - F01K: STEAM ENGINE PLANTS; STEAM ACCUMULATORS; ENGINE PLANTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ENGINES USING SPECIAL WORKING FLUIDS OR CYCLES (gas-turbine or jet-propulsion plants F02; nuclear power plants, engine arrangements therein G21D) - F02C: GAS-TURBINE PLANTS; AIR INTAKES FOR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS; CONTROLLING FUEL SUPPLY IN AIR-BREATHING JET-PROPULSION PLANTS (construction of turbines F01D; jet-propulsion plants F02K; construction of compressors or fans F04; generating combustion products of high pressure or high velocity F23R; using gas turbines in compression refrigeration plants F25B11/00) - Y02E: REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION ## Abstract A coal burner combined power plant includes a gas turbine for burning coal in a furnace under the pressure and uses produced gas. A steam turbine is combined with an exhaust gas boiler using exhaust gas from the gas turbine. Another fuel is burned at an inlet of the gas turbine for allowing the temperature at the inlet of the gas turbine to rise. A fuel reformer reforms the other fuel and is located within the furnace. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A coal burner combined power plant, comprising: a gas turbine having an inlet and an exhaust gas outlet; a coal burning furnace for burning coal under pressure having an outlet connected to said inlet of said gas turbine for supplying gas produced in said furnace to said inlet of said turbine; an exhaust gas boiler connected to said exhaust gas outlet for using exhaust gas from said gas turbine to generate steam; a steam turbine connected with said exhaust gas boiler for using steam generated therein; a supply of another fuel connected to said inlet of said gas turbine; and a fuel reformer located within said coal burning furnace and having an inlet connected to said supply of another fuel and an outlet connected to said inlet of said gas turbine such that said another fuel passes through said fuel reformer and is reformed before said inlet of said gas turbine. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The power plant of claim 1, wherein said furnace comprises a fluidized bed boiler within which said fuel reformer is disposed, and wherein a gas turbine burner is connected to said outlet of said fuel reformer so as to be between said fuel reformer and said gas turbine. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The power plant of claim 1, wherein said furnace comprises a coal gasification furnace for partially burning coal, within which said fuel reformer is disposed, and wherein a gas turbine burner is connected to said outlet of said fuel reformer so as to be between said fuel reformer and said gas turbine. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The power plant of claim 1, wherein said furnace comprises a coal gasification furnace and an oxidation furnace for completely burning unburned char as a main fuel, said fuel reformer being disposed within said oxidation furnace, and said fuel reformer having said outlet thereof connected to said inlet of said gas turbine by being connected to said coal gasification furnace. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The power plant of claim 1, wherein said furnace comprises a coal gasification furnace and an oxidation furnace for completely burning unburned char as a main fuel, said fuel reformer being disposed within said oxidation furnace, and wherein a gas turbine burner is connected to said outlet of said fuel reformer so as to be between said fuel reformer and said gas turbine. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The power plant of claim 1, wherein said furnace comprises a coal gasification furnace comprising a desulfurization furnace and a gas cooler, wherein said fuel reformer is disposed within at least one of said desulfurization furnace and said gas cooler, and wherein a gas turbine burner is connected to said outlet of said fuel reformer so as to be between said fuel reformer and said gas turbine. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The power plant of claim 1, wherein said supply comprises a supply of natural gas. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The power plant of claim 1, wherein said supply comprises methanol.