The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2001
Frank Hannemann, Spardorf, DE;
Ulrich Schiffers, Eckental, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A gas turbine and steam turbine installation has a waste-heat steam generator whose heating surfaces are connected into the water/steam cycle of the steam turbine. A gasification device is connected upstream of the gas turbine in order to provide an integrated gasification of a fossil fuel. Reliable operation of a saturator which is connected into a fuel line is ensured independently of the operating condition of the gasification device. For this purpose, a saturator-water heat exchanger connected with its secondary side into the saturator cycle is supplied, on its primary side, with feed water extracted from the water/steam cycle of the steam turbine. Thus it is possible to heat the feed water cooled in the saturator-water heat exchanger through the use of a partial flow of compressed air, and it is possible to supply the partial flow of compressed air to an air separation unit connected upstream of the gasification device.