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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 05, 2012
Tetsuya Kosaka, Hitachi, JP;
Nobuyoshi Mishima, Hitachi, JP;
Takashi Sugiura, Hitachinaka, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A thermal power plant includes a boiler for burning fossil fuel to generate steam, a steam turbine including a high-pressure turbine, an intermediate-pressure turbine, and a low-pressure turbine which are driven by steam generated in the boiler, an absorber for absorbing and capturing COcontained in boiler exhaust gas discharged from the boiler in an absorbing liquid, a desorber for circulating the absorbing liquid between the desorber and the absorber and separating COfrom the absorbing liquid that has absorbed CO, a reboiler for feeding a heating source for separating COfrom the absorbing liquid to the desorber, a steam pipe system for feeding steam taken out from the high-pressure turbine and the intermediate-pressure turbine to the reboiler, and a steam feed source switching device.