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4347706 |
Electric power generating plant having direct coupled steam and compressed air cycles
An electric power generating plant is provided with a Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) system which is directly coupled to the steam cycle of the generating plant. The CAES system is charged by...
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4338788 |
Cogeneration process linking FCC regenerator and power plant turbine
An air supply system for the catalyst regeneration zone of a fluidized catalytic cracking unit also supplies a pressurized air stream to the turbine of an electrical generating plant. The...
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4328675 |
Method of recovering power in a counterpressure-steam system
A method of obtaining work (e.g. electrical energy) in a counterpressure steam system in which the steam is expanded to produce work, e.g. drive an electrical current generator, in which the steam,...
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4313304 |
Radiant energy collection and conversion apparatus and method
The apparatus for collecting radiant energy and converting same to alternate energy form includes a housing having an interior space and a radiation transparent window allowing, for example, solar...
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4307574 |
Air compressing system and process
The invention relates to an air compressing system in which ambient air is drawn through a turbine driven flow-thru compressor into the intake of a primary compressor, and the hot effluent from the...
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4306417 |
Multiple boiler steam blending control system for an electric power plant
A steam blending control is provided for two or more boilers in an electric power plant. To blend an oncoming boiler with an on-line boiler, the oncoming boiler is fired to a pressure ramp setpoint...
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4292809 |
Procedure for converting low-grade thermal energy into mechanical energy in a turbine for further utilization and plant for implementing the procedure
This invention relates to a procedure for converting low-grade thermal energy into mechanical energy in a turbine for further utilization and a plant for implementing the procedure. The procedure...
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4290267 |
Method for recouping combustion heat
A method and apparatus for at least partially recovering the exhaust heat of combustion operations in which hydrogen is used at least partially during the combustion, which is stored in the form of...
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4285201 |
Vapor powered engine assembly
An engine assembly that is powered by high pressure vapor from a volatile liquid that has a boiling point substantially below the minimum ambient temperature in the geographical location in which...
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4276747 |
Heat recovery system
A heat recovery system for the production of mechanical energy from a plurality of different heat sources at different temperatures comprises a plurality of heat exchangers associated one with each...
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4259836 |
Solar power plant with open gas turbine circuit
A solar power plant with a gas turbine circuit, having a compressor, a solar heater, a combustion chamber for heating air compressed in the compressor, a turbine and a generator, the solar heater...
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4257232 |
Calcium carbide power system
A calcium carbide based power system for stationary and mobile power plants. The carbide is reacted with water to create heat and acetylene, with the acetylene then being burned to heat a boiler...
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4255933 |
Geothermal power producing loop
A power producing loop continuously carrying water picking up geothermal heats and being made into steam and condensate that is continuously returned to said water source, with appropriate means of...
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4224797 |
Variable speed, condensing steam turbine and power system
The variable speed condensing steam turbine is a simplified and effective steam expander which is built mainly of simple, low-cost sheet metal parts and is designed to provide a variable...
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4218889 |
Mass transit systems
A mass transit system is provided which derives its basic energy from the solar system and recovered heat energy. The system of the invention provides a storage building having a roof and an...
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4213299 |
Heat transfer lens steam turbine
This invention relates to a steam turbine system which utilizes a unique heat-absorbing lens-shaped heating plate and boiler for the production of steam.
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4189922 |
Converting solar energy into electric power
A method for converting solar energy into electric power is disclosed, in which air, preheated and precompressed is additionally heated in a solar heater and sent to work in a turbine unit...
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4167856 |
Solar-thermal power plant
A solar-thermal power plant, comprises an open air circuit wherein the eftive heat obtained from solar energy is supplied to the air current between a compressor and an expansion machine. The...
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4158145 |
Combined compressed air storage-low BTU coal gasification power plant
An electrical generating power plant includes a Compressed Air Energy Storage System (CAES) fueled with low BTU coal gas generated in a continuously operating high pressure coal gasifier system....
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4156343 |
Power generating assembly
A power generating assembly in which a portion of the heat energy in a stream of fluid such as warm or hot air is extracted and transformed to rotary power as a body of low boiling liquid is...
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4122680 |
Concentration difference energy operated power plants and media used in conjunction therewith
Disclosed is a concentration difference energy operated power plant comprising an aqueous solution tank containing an aqueous solution of slats, a pure water boiler disposed within the tank and...
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4117682 |
Solar collector system
A solar collector system uses a hexagonal field module of heliostatic mirrors with each heat receptor tower being located outside of its associated module. Each mirror includes a reflecting film...
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4109469 |
Power generation from refinery waste heat streams
The integration of a petroleum refinery, or a petrochemical complex, with an off-site power facility in which the latter provides a vaporizable coolant for vaporization in the former. Vaporization...
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4102133 |
Multiple well dual fluid geothermal power cycle
Heat energy from hot geothermal fluids supplied by different temperature wells is transferred by heat exchange into a power fluid cycle, preferably of the dual fluid type, at different points in...
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4099381 |
Geothermal and solar integrated energy transport and conversion system
An energy transport and conversion system for conducting geothermal energy over extended distances without loss of the geothermal energy so as to permit efficient conversion of geothermal energy at...
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4087860 |
System for multi-mode control of a boiler feedpump turbine
A boiler feedpump turbine (BFPT) control system for controlling the rotating speed of a boiler feedpump turbine in a selected one of at least three control modes is disclosed. The boiler feedpump...
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4085593 |
Steam power plant with fluidized bed heat source for superheater and method of producing superheated steam
A steam power plant is disclosed in which superheaters for the various turbine stages include heat exchange coils located in the bed portion of high temperature fluidized beds. Improved heat...
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4069675 |
Method of optimizing the performance of a multi-unit power
A method of optimizing the performance of a multi-unit power plant which produces both electrical and steam energy by determining the incremental efficiency of power boilers with various fuel...
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4069674 |
Power plant
A steam turbine-generator power plant is described wherein solar energy is used to preheat feedwater to a steam generator. Two parallel feedwater supply branches are proposed for preheating the...
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4060990 |
Power generation system
A power generation system in which one or more vapor generators are provided for driving a turbine having a relatively high pressure section and at least one relatively low pressure section. A...
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4048012 |
Nuclear power installations
In a nuclear-reactor power-generating installation having a main and an auxiliary steam-generating boiler, both arranged to receive heat from the reactor core (for example by circulation of reactor...
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4031706 |
Superheating steam from light water nuclear reactors
Heat from an exothermic chemical reaction(s) is employed to superheat and/or reheat steam generated by a light water nuclear reactor (LWR). The use of such a source of heat enables the selection of...
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3995429 |
Apparatus for generating power using environmental temperature differentials
A system of generating electric power derived from the energy of the sun, the atmosphere, the ground or the heat stored in ground water, whichever provides the greatest temperature differential...
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3992884 |
Thermal power plant
A portion of the steam produced in a nuclear power plant at relatively low pressure is substantially adiabatically compressed, and the compressed, heated steam is employed for superheating the...
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3977198 |
Multiple boiler steam generation system
Steam generation means utilizing first and second boilers, the first of which is a high pressure boiler located within or in very intimate heat transfer contact with the second boiler. The steam...
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3956898 |
Marine vapor generator having low temperature reheater
A vapor generator organization arranged for operation in a marine reheat power plant is described in which the reheater tube bundle is disposed in the rear gas pass section of the unit where it is...
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3950949 |
Method of converting low-grade heat energy to useful mechanical power
Specifically disclosed is a method of operating a vapor cycle engine wherein a vaporizable fluid is circulated in a closed loop serially through a first heat source, a second heat source, an...
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3937024 |
Control system for a two boiler, single turbine generator power producing unit
A coordinated control system for a power producing unit consisting of two, single reheat steam generators supplying steam to a single turbine-generator.
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3934557 |
Low fire light-off apparatus
A control rod driven in correspondence with another regulating device may be independently extended to different positions corresponding to a selected condition while the other control arm remains...
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3919839 |
Combustion gas turbine/steam generator plant
A fired steam generator is interconnected with a gas turbine/steam generator plant having at least one gas turbine group followed by an exhaust-gas steam generator. The exhaust-gas steam generator...
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3848416 |
POWER GENERATING PLANT WITH NUCLEAR REACTOR/HEAT STORAGE SYSTEM COMBINATION
Excess heat output of a nuclear reactor is stored at high temperature. This stored heat is then used to generate steam to operate a turbine-generator during high power demand periods. An...
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3733819 |
SYSTEM FOR CONVERTING HEAT TO KINETIC ENERGY
A system for converting heat to kinetic energy, characterized by a fluid-driven motor responsive to an introduction of high-pressure fluid for driving a selected power train, and a pressure...
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3630272 |
COMPOUND THERMAL SYSTEM FOR CLOSED CYCLE ENGINES
The compound thermal system for C. C. E.'s is intended to provide a versatile and reliable heating and cooling method for closed cycle engines, by adopting two separate thermal arrangements which...
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3495402 |
POWER SYSTEM
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3457725 |
APPARATUS FOR COVERING A PEAK LOAD OR A RAPIDLY CHANGING LOAD IN A STEAM TURBINE PLANT
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3412558 |
Distillation and power producing plant
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3362163 |
Steam power stations
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3283506 |
Ship's propulsion plant
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3264826 |
Method of peaking a power plant system
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3175542 |
Forced-flow boiler with a plurality of resuperheating stages
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