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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2011
Richard Carroni, Niederrohrdorf, CH;
Camille Pedretti, Wettingen, CH;
Thomas Dalla Piazza, Nidau, CH;
Paul Pierre Antoine Drouvot, Village-Neuf, FR;
Richard Carroni, Niederrohrdorf, CH;
Camille Pedretti, Wettingen, CH;
Thomas Dalla Piazza, Nidau, CH;
Paul Pierre Antoine Drouvot, Village-Neuf, FR;
ALSTOM Technology Ltd, Baden, CH;
Abstract
A method is provided for operation of an integrated solar combined-cycle power station. The power station includes a water/steam circuit having a steam turbine and a heat recovery steam generator through which hot exhaust gases from a gas turbine flow. The water/steam circuit is additionally supplied with heat from a solar array. In such a method, an optimum cost-benefit relationship is achieved in that the water/steam circuit is designed only for the full load on the gas turbine, and in that, when feeding additional power from the solar array into the water/steam circuit, the load on the gas turbine is reduced, on the basis of the power additionally fed in from the solar array, to such an extent that the total output power of the integrated solar combined-cycle power station remains substantially constant.