Method of and apparatus for preheating pressurized fluidized bed combustor and clean-up subsystem of a gas turbine power plant

Patent · 31 December 1981

OSTI ID:864132

Cole, Rossa W ^[1]; Zoll, August H ^[2]

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1. E. Rutherford, NJ
2. Cedar Grove, NJ

In a gas turbine power plant having a pressurized fluidized bed combustor, gas turbine-air compressor subsystem and a gas clean-up subsystem interconnected for fluid flow therethrough, a pipe communicating the outlet of the compressor of the gas turbine-air compressor subsystem with the interior of the pressurized fluidized bed combustor and the gas clean-up subsystem to provide for flow of compressed air, heated by the heat of compression, therethrough. The pressurized fluidized bed combustor and gas clean-up subsystem are vented to atmosphere so that the heated compressed air flows therethrough and loses heat to the interior of those components before passing to the atmosphere.

• Research Organization: Curtiss-Wright Corp
• Assignee: Curtiss-Wright Corporation (Wood-Ridge, NJ)
• Patent Number(s): US 4315400
• OSTI ID: 864132
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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