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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 04, 1998
Rajiv K Mongia, Berkeley, CA (US);
Steven G Buckley, San Mateo, CA (US);
George L Touchton, Newark, CA (US);
Robert W Dibble, Livermore, CA (US);
Peter D Neuhaus, Berkeley, CA (US);
Solo Energy Corporation, Alameda, CA (US);
Abstract
A multi-shaft reheat turbine mechanism includes multiple turbines mounted on respective compressor shafts, and catalytic reactors feeding respective ones of the turbines. Fuel is introduced into a low pressure compressor, whereby there is no need to pressurize the fuel. The compressor side of the mechanism emits a compressed air/fuel flow, portions of which are combusted in respective ones of the catalytic reactors. The air/fuel flow traveling from the compressor side to the turbine side passes through a regenerator in heat exchanging relationship with exhaust gas from a low pressure turbine.