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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 1987
Filed:
Oct. 21, 1985
Kenneth O Johnson, Cincinnati, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
A gas turbine including at least a compressor, a combustor, and a turbine is constructed to operate at a preferred thermal efficiency in predetermined compressor and turbine flow pressure ratios. A fluid, such as steam, for example produced by waste heat and pressurized as water, and characterized as having a higher specific heat at constant pressure than effluent from the combustor is introduced into such effluent to provide a turbine operating medium of improved potential to transfer energy downstream of the combustor. Such injection provides effective variable geometry to the system. This injection system maintains such pressure flow ratios substantially independent of engine power output.