IP Library Granted Patent US 6,901,736
Granted Patent B2
US 6,901,736 · App. 10/673,164 · Granted Jun 7, 2005

Gas turbine electric power generation equipment and air humidifier

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Patent No.
US 6,901,736
App. No.
10/673,164
Granted
Jun 7, 2005
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates to an air humidifier for adding moisture to a working medium of a gas turbine for humidification, and gas turbine electric power generation equipment for driving the gas turbine by the working medium of high moisture to general electricity. An object of the present invention is to reduce pressure loss of burned exhaust gas of the gas turbine to improve output or efficiency of electric power generation. There comprises a humidifier ( 3 ), a combustor ( 5 ), a turbine ( 6 ), a generator ( 7 ), and a water recovery unit ( 10 ), further comprises an exhaust gas reheater ( 11 ) for heating burned exhaust gas discharged from the water recovery unit by surplus water discharged from the humidifier.

Claims (10)

1. A humidifier for adding moisture to air supplied to a combustor comprising

a partitioning means arranged to partition the interior of said humidifier, said partitioning means having an opening,

an introducing port for introducing said air into one of the partitions of the interior of said humidifier partitioned by said partitioning means, and

a nozzle for jetting water, the pressure of said water being higher than that of said air, into another partition of the interior of said humidifier partitioned by said partitioning means,

wherein a part of the water jetted by said nozzle is vaporized by a pressure difference between the pressure of the water and the pressure of the air.

2. A humidifier for increasing at least one of a quantity of steam or relative humidity or absolute humidity of a working fluid of a turbine comprising

a partitioning means arranged to partition the interior of said humidifier, said partitioning means having an opening,

an introducing port for introducing said working fluid into one of the partitions of the interior of said humidifier partitioned by said partitioning means, and

a nozzle for jetting water, the pressure of said water being higher than that of said working fluid, into another partition of the interior of said humidifier partitioned by said partitioning means,

wherein a part of the water jetted by said nozzle is vaporized by a pressure difference between the pressure of the water and the pressure of the working fluid.

Assignments (1)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 20, 2014
From: HITACHI, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
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