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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2016
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abhijit Gupta, Bangalore, IN;
Cheng Eng Cong, Kuala Lumpur, MY;
Adrianto Darmoyo, Jakarta, ID;
Raub Smith, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A combined cycle power plant and heating and cooling system and method for the power plant is disclosed as having a liquid natural gas supply and a vaporizer configured to vaporize the liquid natural gas into natural gas that is supplied to a gas performance heater before entering a combustion section of a gas turbine. A closed cooling water circuit is in fluid communication with at least one power plant component such as a gas turbine inlet heating/cooling coil, a heat recovery heat exchanger, the vaporizer, and mixtures thereof. An open cooling water circuit is in fluid communication with at least one power plant component such as at least one steam turbine condenser, the heat recovery heat exchanger, and mixtures thereof.