Steam turbine forced air cooling system, equipment, and steam turbine equipped with it

A steam turbine forced air cooling system for forcibly cooling a steam turbine after shutdown of the steam turbine, comprising:

• a first branch pipe branched off from a pipe on a steam inlet side configured to supply steam to the steam turbine;
• a non-steam-driven ejector disposed on the branch pipe;
• a stop valve disposed in the branch pipe at a position closer to the pipe on the steam inlet side than to the non-steam-driven ejector;
• an opening portion;
• and
• a blower connected to the opening portion, wherein the opening portion and the blower are adapted to supply air from a steam turbine exhaust portion in such a range as not to damage an atmospheric relief diaphragm installed on an exhaust portion side of the steam turbine when the steam turbine is cooled after cooling air is sucked from a low pressure portion side of the steam turbine released to atmosphere through the non-steam-driven ejector toward a steam inlet side serving as a high pressure portion side.

A method of forcibly cooling a steam turbine in which high-temperature and high-pressure steam flows from a high pressure portion through a low pressure portion of the turbine to a condenser, involving steps of,

• causing the steam turbine to shut down;
• then releasing a low pressure portion side of the steam turbine to the atmosphere;
• and
• introducing cooling air toward the steam inlet side from the low pressure portion side released to the atmosphere as a result of a non-steam-driven ejector sucking gas inside the steam turbine from a high pressure portion side of the steam turbine, wherein
• the non-steam-driven ejector is installed on a first branch pipe branched off from a pipe on the steam inlet side that is located on the high pressure portion side of the steam turbine,
• the non-steam-driven ejector is installed separately from an existing vacuum pump or a steam-driven ejector,
• the existing vacuum pump or the steam-driven ejector is configured to produce a vacuum in the condenser,
• the first branch pipe does not connect the existing vacuum pump or the steam-driven ejector, and
• the non-steam-driven ejector releases an exhaust air to an atmosphere through the first branch pipe without passing through the existing vacuum pump or the steam-driven ejector.