US 6,233,941 B1Granted

Condensation system

AssigneeAsea Brown Boveri AG

InventorMustafa Youssef

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Abstract

A condensation system for the condensation of turbine exhaust steam has a condenser installation (25) in which a surface condenser (30) and a direct-contact condenser (35) work in combination. In this case, the two condensers (30, 35) are either arranged in a single common housing or are each arranged in a separate housing. In one embodiment, the condenser installation (25) is connected in a circulation circuit for the cooling media to a wet-dry cooling tower or hybrid cooling tower (40). In this case, the cooling water of the surface condenser (30) is recooled in the wet part (42) and the cooling condensate of the direct-contact condenser (35) is recooled in the dry part (41) of the hybrid cooling tower (40). The condensation system according to the invention has the advantages that the manufacturing costs of the condenser installation are reduced by reducing the tube heating surface, the power of the turbine is increased by reducing the condenser pressure, no fog is caused by the hybrid cooling tower (40), and a smaller quantity of make-up cooling water is required.

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Dependent claims

A condensation system for the condensation of turbine exhaust steam, which is directed through one or more turbine exhaust-steam nozzles to a condenser installation, said condensation system comprising:

a condenser installation;
a cooling installation for condenser cooling media, the condenser installation having a surface condenser and a direct-contact condenser, both having respective condensing spaces;
said cooling installation further having two separate cooling-media circuits, wherein the cooling media of the surface condenser and the direct-contact condenser passes through the cooling-media circuits separately;
the surface condenser and the direct-contact condenser being arranged in a common condenser housing, or the surface condenser and the direct-contact condenser each being arranged in a separate condenser housing;
flow guide baffles being arranged in the condenser space of the direct-contact condenser, such that new exhaust steam flowing in directly from the turbine exhaust-steam nozzles is passed over a hot well and a cushion is formed above the hot well by said new exhaust steam and whereby a clear path is provided for a part of the new exhaust steam to flow from the turbine exhaust-steam nozzles to the hot well and on to the condensing space of the direct-contact condenser;
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the steam flow runs counter or in crossflow to the condensate flow of the direct-contact condenser.

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