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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2006
Hidetoshi Kuroki, Hitachi, JP;
Shinya Marushima, Hitachinaka, JP;
Ryo Akiyama, Hitachinaka, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A plant facility in which lubricant supply equipment for supplying a lubricant to rotor bearings and a speed reducer can be dispensed with. The plant facility comprises a gas turbine rotor of a gas turbine that serves as a prime mover driven by expansion work of a working fluid, a generator rotor of a power generator that serves as load equipment rotated by rotational power transmitted from the gas turbine rotor, a plurality of magnetic bearings for supporting the gas turbine rotor and the generator rotor, and an electromagnetic coupling for magnetically coupling the gas turbine rotor and the generator rotor and adjusting a speed reduction ratio between the gas turbine rotor and the generator rotor in accordance with supplied power.