IP Library Granted Patent US 11,162,391
Granted Patent B2
US 11,162,391 · App. 16/524,525 · Granted Nov 2, 2021

Heat cycle facility

Inventors: Shogo Onishi (Tokyo, JP); Shintaro Ito (Tokyo, JP); Soichiro Kato (Tokyo, JP); Taku Mizutani (Tokyo, JP); Masahiro Uchida (Tokyo, JP); Tsukasa Saitou (Tokyo, JP); Toshiro Fujimori (Tokyo, JP); Kazuo Miyoshi (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
F01K25/106F01K9/00F01K23/04
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Patent No.
US 11,162,391
App. No.
16/524,525
Granted
Nov 2, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

The heat cycle facility includes: a first vaporizer that vaporizes a first liquid heating medium by combusting fuel; a first motive power generator that generates motive power by using as a drive fluid a first gas heating medium obtained at the first vaporizer; a condenser that condenses the first gas heating medium discharged from the first motive power generator by heat-exchanging the first gas heating medium for a second liquid heating medium; a circulator that pressurizes the first liquid heating medium obtained at the condenser and supplies the pressurized first liquid heating medium to the first vaporizer; a second vaporizer that produces gaseous ammonia by heat-exchanging the second liquid heating medium for liquid ammonia; and a supplier that supplies the liquid ammonia to the second vaporizer.

Claims (23)

1. A heat cycle facility comprising:

a first vaporizer that vaporizes a first liquid heating medium by combusting fuel to obtain a first gas heating medium;

a first motive power generator that generates motive power by using as a drive fluid the first gas heating medium obtained at the first vaporizer;

a condenser that condenses the first gas heating medium discharged from the first motive power generator by heat-exchanging the first gas heating medium for a second liquid heating medium to obtain the first liquid heating medium;

a circulator that pressurizes the first liquid heating medium obtained at the condenser and supplies the pressurized first liquid heating medium to the first vaporizer;

a second vaporizer that produces gaseous ammonia by heat-exchanging the second liquid heating medium for liquid ammonia; and

a supplier that supplies the liquid ammonia to the second vaporizer,

wherein the second vaporizer includes: a titanium alloy-formed heat transfer passageway through which the second liquid heating medium flows; a carbon steel-formed heat transfer passageway through which the liquid ammonia flows; and a heat transfer plate configured to thermally connect the titanium alloy-formed heat transfer passageway and the carbon steel-formed heat transfer passageway.

2. The heat cycle facility according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a second motive power generator that generates motive power by using as a drive fluid the gaseous ammonia produced by the second vaporizer.

3. The heat cycle facility according to claim 2 , further comprising:

a re-heater that reheats the liquid ammonia discharged from the second motive power generator by heat-exchanging the liquid ammonia for the second liquid heating medium.

4. The heat cycle facility according to claim 2 , further comprising:

an overheater that overheats the gaseous ammonia produced by the second vaporizer by heat-exchanging the gaseous ammonia for exhaust gas of the first vaporizer.

5. The heat cycle facility according to claim 1 , further comprising:

an overheater that overheats the gaseous ammonia produced by the second vaporizer by heat-exchanging the gaseous ammonia for exhaust gas of the first vaporizer.

6. The heat cycle facility according to claim 1 , wherein the first vaporizer is configured to combust as the fuel the gaseous ammonia produced by the second vaporizer.

7. The heat cycle facility according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a denitrator that denitrifies combustion gas produced by the first vaporizer by using as a reducing agent the gaseous ammonia produced by the second vaporizer.

8. The heat cycle facility according to claim 1 , wherein the first liquid heating medium is water,

the first vaporizer is a boiler that vaporizes the water to produce water vapor,

the first motive power generator is a turbine whose drive fluid is the water vapor, and

the second liquid heating medium is water or seawater.

Assignments (3)
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Nov 4, 2022
From: T.E.C.M. LIMITED
To: ARXIUM, INC.
Reel/Frame 061654/0627 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Apr 17, 2020
From: ARXIUM, INC.
To: T.E.C.M. LIMITED
Reel/Frame 052432/0157 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 29, 2019
From: ONISHI, SHOGO; ITO, SHINTARO; KATO, SOICHIRO; MIZUTANI, TAKU; UCHIDA, MASAHIRO; SAITOU, TSUKASA; FUJIMORI, TOSHIRO; MIYOSHI, KAZUO
To: IHI CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 049886/0754 →