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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2011
Ashok Kumar Anand, Niskayuna, NY (US);
John Edward Sholes, Kings Mountain, NC (US);
Veerapan Muthaiah, Karnataka, IN;
Ashok Kumar Anand, Niskayuna, NY (US);
John Edward Sholes, Kings Mountain, NC (US);
Veerapan Muthaiah, Karnataka, IN;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
An integrated turbomachine plant is provided and includes a combustor a turbomachine operably connected to the combustor and including a compressor and a turbine expander, a pathway to flow compressed air from the compressor through the turbine expander to heat the compressed air, an additional pathway by which high temperature fluids output from the turbomachine are employed to heat the compressed air and an air separation unit operably connected to the pathway and configured to separate the heated compressed air into oxygen and oxygen-depleted air.