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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2009
Sampath Kumar Bommareddy, Houston, TX (US);
Karthik Subramanyan, Houston, TX (US);
James Michael Storey, Houston, TX (US);
Jerrold Samuel Kassman, Katy, TX (US);
Kurt Richard Imai, Houston, TX (US);
Sampath Kumar Bommareddy, Houston, TX (US);
Karthik Subramanyan, Houston, TX (US);
James Michael Storey, Houston, TX (US);
Jerrold Samuel Kassman, Katy, TX (US);
Kurt Richard Imai, Houston, TX (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A combined Gasification, methanation and power island steam turbine system. The system includes a gasification portion, the methanation portion and a steam turbine portion. The Gasification portion includes the new heat recovery design and associated controls for obtaining a desired steam to dry gas ration of 1.1-2.2. The methanation portion includes first, second and third methanation reactors and associated heat recovery integrated with a high-pressure, low-pressure superheater, and HP economizers. The power Island steam turbine includes a High pressure, Intermediate pressure, low-pressure steam turbine having an input coupled to an output of the superheaters in Methanation process.