Korea Institute of Energy Research

Hyung Ki Shin

Ho Sang Ra

Gil Bong Lee

Young Jin Baik

Jun Hyun Cho

Beom Joon Lee

Young Soo Lee

Jong Jae Cho

Chui Woo Roh

Chul Woo Roh

Eun Seok Wang

Bong Su Choi

In the present invention, a recuperator is used in a refrigerant cycle to make a heat exchange between a refrigerant generated in a condenser and a refrigerant before flowing into a compressor, thereby supercooling the refrigerant to minimize the quality of the refrigerant introduced into an evaporator, elevating temperatures at an inlet and an outlet of the compressor, and increasing condensed heat of the condenser. In the present invention, a recuperator is used to increase condensed heat of the condenser, leading to increasing the heat which circulation water circulating in a steam producing cycle receives from the condenser, whereby steam production efficiency can be improved.

Heat pump system for producing steam by using recuperator

The present invention provides a partial admission operation turbine apparatus comprising: a rotor portion rotatably coupled to a rotary shaft of a turbine and including a plurality of rotor blades; a nozzle portion fixedly coupled to the rotary shaft in front of the rotor portion and guiding and supplying a working fluid to the rotor blades through a plurality of nozzle blades; and an inlet disk coupled to the rotary shaft in front of the nozzle portion in a plate shape and having a plurality of admission holes formed therein so as to supply the working fluid to the nozzle portion to partially admit the working fluid into the nozzle portion, wherein each of the admission holes is formed to have a different passage cross-sectional areas, so that the opening and closing of the admission holes are controlled according to operating flow rate conditions to control a partial admission ratio of the working fluid supplied to the nozzle portion. Due to the aforementioned feature, since continuous partial admission can be operated for a supercritical power generation system, it is possible to resolve the difficulties in designing and manufacturing turbines. Also, since the partial admission ratio can be adjusted according to operating conditions, it is possible to improve the performance of a turbine that is operated by continuous partial admission. Furthermore, even if the operating flow rate conditions change in the same cycle, it is possible to operate the same turbine with high efficiency.

Partial admission operation turbine apparatus for improving efficiency of continuous partial admission operation and method for operating turbine apparatus using same

According to the present invention, part of carbon dioxide heated by a heater is supplied to a dry gas seal portion of a compressor so that a device for pressurizing and heating a seal gas is not additionally required, configuration can be simplified and cost can be reduced. In addition, a seal gas flow path includes a low-temperature seal gas flow path and a high-temperature seal gas flow path so that, in an initial driving mode, carbon dioxide heated by a high-temperature portion of the heater is used as a seal gas and in a turbine-driving mode, carbon dioxide heated by a low-temperature portion of the heater is used as a seal gas and thus a more efficient operation can be performed.

Supercritical carbon dioxide power generation system including dry gas seal and method of operating the same

A single-stage compressor including one compressing unit, includes: a housing having a compressing chamber formed therein and including a suction port, which is located in one side of the compressing chamber and into which a working fluid enters, and an injection port, which is located on the compressing chamber to be spaced apart from the suction port by a predetermined distance and into which an intermediate-pressure working fluid is injected; and an intermediate-pressure valve installed on an intermediate-pressure fluid flow path on which the intermediate-pressure working fluid moves and configured to control supply of the intermediate-pressure working fluid so that the intermediate-pressure working fluid is supplied to the injection port in response to an intermediate pressure of the compressing chamber. In the injection-type compressor having a single chamber, a working fluid is injected at an intermediate pressure (not in the proximity of a suction pressure) so that efficiency and capability of the injection-type compressor having a single chamber can be improved. The injection-type compressor having a single chamber has a simple structure and is easily manufactured so that a pressure of an injection port and a corresponding intermediate pressure can be selectively set in various ways.

Single-stage compressor and energy system using the same

The present invention drives an ejector refrigeration unit using waste heat, such as a combustion gas generated from the outside, etc., and cools a working fluid sucked into a compressor in a power generator using the working fluid that circulates in the ejector refrigeration unit, thereby reducing a compression work of the compressor so that efficiency of a system can be improved.

Power generation system using ejector refrigeration cycle

A supercritical carbon dioxide power generation system is provided. The supercritical carbon dioxide power generation system may include a regenerator, a turbine, a heat recoverer, a condenser, a compressor an expansion valve, a flash tank, a heat exchanger, and an ejector, and may utilize waste heat of the supercritical carbon dioxide power generation system.

Supercritical carbon dioxide power generation system

A heating medium supplied to an evaporator is used to heat lubricant oil in a screw compressor before the screw compressor starts up, and no additional heater for heating the lubricant oil in the screw compressor is required. When the screw compressor operates, the heating medium discharged from the evaporator after the evaporator is heated by the heating medium, is used to cool the lubricant oil. The lubricant oil heated by a lubricant oil heat exchanger is directly injected into a motor and a screw rotor so that introduction of a liquid refrigerant into a compressive chamber is reduced when the screw compressor starts up later. The lubricant oil introduced into the motor is discharged toward a lubricant oil storage portion before the screw compressor starts up so that the liquid refrigerant is prevented in advance from being introduced into the screw rotor when the screw compressor starts up.

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Sejong-si, South Korea

Hyung Ki Shin