Device to generate energy through a turbo engine
AssigneeABB Alstom Power (Schweiz) AG
InventorsJakob J. Keller, Hans Wettstein
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Abstract
An apparatus for the generation of energy by means of a fluid-flow machine is described, for the drive of which a compressor arrangement for compressing a compressible medium, preferably air, is provided, which medium, via a feed-line system, can be fed to the fluid-flow machine directly or after the interposition of a combustion chamber, in which the compressed medium can be ignited with the addition of fuel. The invention is distinguished by the fact that the compressor arrangement provides at least one compressor stage, in which the medium can be compressed isothermally.
Claims10
An apparatus for the generation of electrical energy by means of a fluid-flow machine by means of an attached generator, a compressor arrangement for compressing a compressible medium, being provided for the drive of the fluid-flow machine, the compressor arrangement, via a feed-line system, being connected to the fluid-flow machine directly or with the interposition of a combustion chamber, the compressor arrangement having at least one compressor stage, and the compressor stage having a flow duct with an inlet and an outlet region, there being a water reservoir above the flow duct, the flow duct being connected on the side of the outlet region to a high-pressure chamber, which provides at least two outlet ducts, a top duct for the compressed medium and a bottom duct for water, there being a water-atomizing device having at least one injection nozzle in the inlet region of the flow duct, and the medium with which the medium is compressed being water, characterized in that the flow duct has a variable cross section, the diameter being reduced toward the outlet opening, and thus the inlet region of the flow duct being larger than the outlet region of the vertical flow duct and the mixture of water/compressible medium falling by means of gravitation, so that the relative velocity between atomized water droplets and the medium to be compressed remains approximately constant.
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