Thermal chemical recuperation method and system for use with gas turbine systems

Patent · 01 January 1999

OSTI ID:872260

Yang, Wen-Ching ^[1]; Newby, Richard A ^[2]; Bannister, Ronald L ^[3]

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1. Export, PA
2. Pittsburgh, PA
3. Winter Springs, FL

A system and method for efficiently generating power using a gas turbine, a steam generating system (20, 22, 78) and a reformer. The gas turbine receives a reformed fuel stream (74) and an air stream and produces shaft power and exhaust. Some of the thermal energy from the turbine exhaust is received by the reformer (18). The turbine exhaust is then directed to the steam generator system that recovers thermal energy from it and also produces a steam flow from a water stream. The steam flow and a fuel stream are directed to the reformer that reforms the fuel stream and produces the reformed fuel stream used in the gas turbine.

• Research Organization: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
• DOE Contract Number: FG21-95MC32071
• Assignee: Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation (Orlando, FL)
• Patent Number(s): US 5896738
• OSTI ID: 872260
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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