Apparatus for augmenting power produced from gas turbines
AssigneeOrmat Industries Ltd.
InventorsLucien Y. Bronicki, Yoel Gilon, Joseph Sinai, Uriel Fisher, Shlomo Bugdagzad
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Abstract
The power produced by a gas turbine system is augmented by a direct contact heat exchanger for contacting and cooling humid ambient air with cooler water for producing cooled ambient air and warmed water, and a precompressor device for compressing said cooled ambient air to produce pressurized air that is warmer than ambient air and has a lower relative humidity. An evaporative cooler, which is supplied with the warmed water, is provided for cooling said pressurized air to produce cooled pressurized air at about ambient air temperature and relative humidity, which is supplied to the main compressor.
Claims5
Apparatus for augmenting power produced by a gas turbine comprising:
- a) a precompressor having a pressure ratio of about 1:1.15 that precompresses ambient air prior to supplying it to a compressor of the gas turbine when the temperature of the ambient air exceeds the design level thereby introducing temperature and pressure rises in the air supplied to the compressor of the gas turbine;
- b) an indirect cooler that indirectly cools precompressed air exiting the precompressor using liquid supplied thereto to a temperature approximately ambient air temperature;
- c) a secondary heat transfer cycle for cooling the liquid suppled to said indirect cooler;
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- d) a diverter that supplies cooled, precompressed air to the inlet of the compressor of the gas turbine when required and otherwise supplies ambient air to the inlet of the compressor of the gas turbine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.