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Granted Patent B2
US 9,109,513 · App. 12/866,412 · Granted Aug 18, 2015

Combined cycle electric power generation plant and heat exchanger

Inventors: Issaku Fujita (Takasago, JP); Toru Osone (Takasago, JP); Kazuki Hayashi (Takasago, JP)
Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
F02C6/18F02C7/10F02C7/141F02C7/143Y02E20/16
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Patent No.
US 9,109,513
App. No.
12/866,412
Granted
Aug 18, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

A loss of heat that can be recovered in a heat recovery steam generator is eliminated, whereby a combined cycle electric power generation plant with high heat recovery efficiency is provided. A combined cycle electric power generation plant is adopted that includes a heat recovery steam generator 30 that generates steam for driving a steam turbine 20 using heat of exhaust gas of a gas turbine 10 , a cooling air cooler 71 that causes high-pressure feed water supplied from a low-pressure economizer 37 of the heat recovery steam generator 30 and compressed air for turbine cooling extracted from a compressor 11 of the gas turbine 10 to perform heat exchange to heat the high-pressure feed water to thereby cool the compressed air, and a fuel gas heater 72 that causes the compressed air cooled in the cooling air cooler 71 and a fuel gas of the gas turbine 10 to perform heat exchange to further cool the compressed air to thereby heat the fuel gas.

Claims (22)

1. A combined cycle electric power generation plant, comprising:

a heat recovery steam generator that generates steam for steam turbine driving using heat of exhaust gas of a gas turbine, including an economizer,

a first heat exchanger that heats high-pressure feed water supplied from the economizer of the heat recovery steam generator by compressed air for turbine cooling extracted from a compressor of the gas turbine to thereby cool the compressed air, and

a second heat exchanger connected in series with the first heat exchanger along a supply path for the compressed air, and heating a fuel gas for the gas turbine by supplying the compressed air passed through the first heat exchanger to further cool the compressed air to thereby heat the fuel gas.

2. The combined cycle electric power generation plant according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a casing forming an outer shell,

a shroud arranged in the casing, and

an inner channel formed in an inner side of the shroud and an outer channel that communicates with the inner channel at one end side of the shroud, formed between the casing and the shroud,

wherein the first heat exchanger is arranged in the inner channel and the second heat exchanger is arranged in the inner channel further on a downstream side than the first heat exchanger, and

the compressed air for turbine cooling flows into the inner channel from another end side of the shroud and, after sequentially passing through the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger, reverses a direction of the flow from the one end side of the shroud and flows into the outer channel, and is discharged to an outside of the casing from the outer channel.

3. The combined cycle electric power generation plant according to claim 1 , wherein the compressed air passed through the first heat exchanger and second heat exchanger is supplied to the economizer.

4. The combined cycle electric power generation plant according to claim 1 , wherein the compressed air is cooled stepwise by the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger.

5. A heat exchanger for a heat recovery steam generator with an economizer, that generates steam for steam turbine driving using heat of exhaust gas of a gas turbine, the heat exchanger comprising:

a first heat transfer unit that heats high-pressure feed water supplied from the economizer of the heat recovery steam generator by compressed air for turbine cooling of the gas turbine to heat the high-pressure feed water and to thereby cool the compressed air; and

a second heat transfer unit connected in series with the first heat transfer unit along a supply path for the compressed air, and heating a fuel gas for the gas turbine by supplying the compressed air passed through the first heat transfer unit to further cool the compressed air to thereby heat the fuel gas.

6. The heat exchanger according to claim 5 , further comprising:

a casing that forms an outer shell of the heat exchanger,

a shroud arranged in the casing, and

an inner channel formed in an inner side of the shroud and an outer channel that communicates with the inner channel at one end side of the shroud, formed between the casing and the shroud,

wherein the first heat transfer unit is arranged in the inner channel and the second heat transfer unit is arranged in the inner channel further on a downstream side than the first heat transfer unit, and

the compressed air for turbine cooling flows into the inner channel from another end side of the shroud and, after sequentially passing through the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger, reverses a direction of the flow from the one end side of the shroud and flows into the outer channel, and is discharged to an outside of the casing from the outer channel.

7. The heat exchanger according to claim 5 , wherein the compressed air is cooled stepwise by the first heat transfer unit and the second heat transfer unit.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 4, 2015
From: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 034887/0013 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 10, 2010
From: FUJITA, ISSAKU; OSONE, TORU; HAYASHI, KAZUKI
To: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 024981/0924 →
Continuity (1)
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