Hydrogen-rich fuel, closed-loop cooled, and reheat enhanced gas turbine powerplants

CW Janes - US Patent 5,590,518, 1997 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A gas turbine driven powerplant in which a mixture of steam and a
combustible effluent, such as methane, is reformed or partially oxidized to produce a …

Performance enhanced gas turbine powerplants

CW Janes - US Patent 5,581,997, 1996 - Google Patents
A gas turbine driven powerplant having one or more com pressors for producing a down
stream air flow, a heat exchanger positioned down stream of the compressors fol lowed by a …

Re-fired gas turbine engine

H Yu - US Patent 6,817,187, 2004 - Google Patents
In a reheat gas turbine engine for power generation, fuel is burnt with compressed air from a
compressor in a first or primary combustor, the combustion products are passed through a …

Double reheat hydrogen/oxygen combustion turbine system

EV Somers - US Patent 4,148,185, 1979 - Google Patents
A gas turbine power generating system comprising, in the preferred embodiment, three gas
turbine engines in series-connected flow communication employing high pressure hydrogen …

Solar-Generated Steam Retrofit for Supplementing Natural-Gas Combustion at Combined Cycle Power Plants

A Leitner - US Patent App. 11/854,925, 2008 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND 0002 High liquid or gaseous fossil fuel prices and increas ing demand for
electric energy require improved power plant designs to continue to provide competitively …

Fuel heating system used in conjunction with steam cooled combustors and transitions

DA Little - US Patent 5,826,430, 1998 - Google Patents
A system is disclosed that provides for a more efficient combined cycle turbine system by
using heated coolant returning from the gas turbine engine to pre-heat fuel before that fuel is …

Method of generating power using an advanced thermal recuperation cycle

A Basu, S Rajagopal - US Patent 6,223,519, 2001 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A poWer generating method that includes the steps of burning a reformed
fuel in the presence of air in a combustor of a gas turbine to generate a hot exhaust gas is …

Hydrogen fueled power plant

RL Bannister, RA Newby, WC Yang - US Patent 5,775,091, 1998 - Google Patents
A power plant that combusts hydrogen with oxygen in a high pressure combustor to produce
steam, which is mixed with cooling steam before being sent to a high pressure expander …

Fuel gas heating with thermal energy storage

R Pang, K Mundra - US Patent 9,376,962, 2016 - Google Patents
The present invention relates generally to fuel gas heating, and more particularly, to
leveraging a thermal energy storage unit to heat fuel gas Supplied to a gas turbine engine …

Partial oxidation gas turbine cooling

IK Rabovitser, S Nester, S Wohadlo… - US Patent 7,926,292, 2011 - Google Patents
A power generation system and method in which a fuel gas is introduced into a combustor
and at least a portion of the fuel gas is combusted in the combustor, producing an exhaust …