IP Library Granted Patent US 8,813,506
Granted Patent B2
US 8,813,506 · App. 13/701,893 · Granted Aug 26, 2014

Method for quickly connecting a steam generator

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Patent No.
US 8,813,506
App. No.
13/701,893
Granted
Aug 26, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method is provided for connecting at least one further steam generator to a first steam generator in a power plant. The power plant includes at least two steam generators and a steam turbine, in which a fluid used to drive the steam turbine is conveyed in a fluid circuit having a plurality of steam systems. The steam systems are assigned individual steam generators and are able to be separated from one another by shut-off valves. The fluid of at least the first steam generator is connected to the steam turbine. The method involves opening the shut-off valve of at least one first steam system of the at least one further steam generator before the steam of the at least one further steam generator has reached approximately the same steam parameters as the steam of the first steam generator, so that steam can flow into the further steam generator.

Claims (17)

1. A method for connecting at least one further steam generator to a first steam generator in a power plant, the power plant comprising at least said two steam generators and a steam turbine, in which a fluid used to drive the steam turbine is conveyed in a fluid circuit comprising a plurality of steam systems, wherein the steam systems are assigned individual steam generators and are able to be separated from one another by shut-off valves and in which the fluid of at least the first steam generator is connected to the steam turbine, the method comprising:

opening the shut-off valve of at least one first steam system of the at least one further steam generator before the steam of the at least one further steam generator has reached approximately the same steam parameters as the steam of the first steam generator, so that steam can flow into the further steam generator.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 , comprising opening the shut-off valve of the at least one first steam system in a cold intermediate superheating line.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising:

further increasing the temperature and pressure of the fluid in at least one second steam system of the at least one further steam generator, and

diverting the steam from the second steam system into the first steam system, so that steam from further steam generators flows via the opened shut-off valve into the first steam generator.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein, at least in one of the further steam systems of the further steam generator, its shut-off valve is opened.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the shut-off valve of the further steam system of the further steam generator in a fresh steam line is opened.

6. The method as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the shut-off valve of the further steam system of the further steam generator in a low-pressure line is opened.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising opening a valve in a medium-pressure line in the further steam generator.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising opening a valve in a warming line of the further steam generator opening out into a hot intermediate superheating line.

9. The method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising closing the bypass valves after corresponding shut-off valves have been opened.

10. The method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising opening a shut-off valve in a hot intermediate superheating line as soon as the steam temperature of the further steam generator is essentially equal to the steam temperature of the first steam generator.

11. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the shut-off valve is opened if the throughflow in the high-pressure steam system of the further steam generator increases.

12. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the shut-off valve is opened on synchronization of a gas turbine assigned to one of the further steam generators.

13. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said power plant is a combined cycle plant.

14. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said power plant is a multi-block steam power plant.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 15, 2021
From: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
To: SIEMENS ENERGY GLOBAL GMBH & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 055950/0027 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 4, 2012
From: HERMSDORF, CHRISTIAN; MIGL, MATTHIAS; PETERS, GEORG; SCHMID, ERICH; SCHOETTLER, MICHAEL
To: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Reel/Frame 029400/0314 →