809 results about "Thermoelectric Power Plants" patented technology

The invention discloses a method for recovering the waste heat of a thermal power plant and heating and supplying heat to hot water in a stepping way. In the method, low-temperature heat-net return water is firstly mixed with circulating cooling water positioned on an outlet of a cooling condenser or exchanges heat with the circulating cooling water positioned on the outlet of the cooling condenser to be increased in temperature and then sequentially delivered into an each-step vapour absorption type heat pump and a vapor-water heat exchanger in a series connection way to be gradually heated to be increased in temperature to heat supplying temperature and finally discharged through a water supplying pipeline; the circulating cooling water absorbs the waste steam condensation heat of a steam turbine in the cooling condenser, then one path of the circulating cooling water is directly mixed with the low-temperature heat-net return water or heats the low-temperature heat-net return water through the heat changer, the other path of the circulating cooling water is delivered into an each-step absorption type heat pump unit to be used as a low-order heat source of the absorption type heat pump unit, and the redundant heat of the circulating cooling water is discharged to the environment through a cooling tower. The invention uses the steam extraction of the steam turbine as a driving heat source of the absorption type heat pump so that the low-temperature heat-net return water is heated in a stepping way, thereby reducing the effective energy loss; the waste heat of the discharged steam of the steam turbine is sufficiently recovered in a direct heating way and an absorption type heat pump temperature increasing heating way, therefore, the comprehensive energy usage efficiency of the thermal power plant is enhanced.

A method and Apparatus for solar energy storage system uses gas for thermal transport for central tower solar thermal electric power plant to provide high quality, low cost, and continuously electric power generation. The storage contains a number of storage modules that each module can store energy for a given period of time. The thermal energy from central tower charges the modules one by one during the sunny time, while the thermal electric power plant discharge the modules one by one as long as it works. A control and a connection valve system control and connect the charge and discharge modules with the central tower and the power plant according to pre-arranged sequences. Fans at the cool side of the storage system push the circulation gas into the central tower or the thermal storage modules. In the discharge system, the hot gas from storage system is send to the heat exchange system, and to generate steam and to super heat steam for the power plant. In the charge system, the cold gas is pushed into the central receiver thermal exchange unit and to be heated, and the hot gas is then circulated back to storage system to charge up the storage system.

The present invention provides a steam injection heatpump heating system. The technical solution is that the system is composed of a steam injector, a high voltage steam pipeline, a low voltage steam pipeline, a throttling gear and a bypass connecting pipe. The high voltage steam enters in the heat exchanger heaing backwater after injecting lower steam turbine voltage condensing in low temperature, this realises waste heat recovery in low temperature condensing steam of the steam turbine. The core component is the steam injector, the high voltage heat supplying pumping is used as high-velocity jet acceleratively formed in the injecting tube of the working steam, and lower voltage steam turbine is rolled in the mixing room as injected flow, mixing steam in the expanding section of the steam injector is decelerately compressed in a certain back pressure, then sending to the heat interchanger for heating backwater, a certian back pressure mixing steam condenses to water after heat releasing in the exchanger, returning to the backwater system of electrical factory, completing thermal circuit of the combined heat and power generation set.

A solar thermal power plant 10 includes a steam generation portion 12 and a turbine 30. The steam generation portion 12 includes a steam drum 50 that separates water and steam, and an evaporator 36 and super heater 38 in fluid communication with the steam drum. The evaporator 36 receives and heats a portion of a flow of water from the steam drum 50 to provide the steam using solar energy provided thereto. The super heater 38 heats the steam from the evaporator 36 to provide super heated steam. A turbine 30 receives the super heated steam from the steam generation portion 12 to rotate the turbine. A plurality of extraction stages 66 extracts steam from the turbine 30 and provides the steam to a plurality of feedwater heaters 68. The feedwater heaters 68 heat the feedwater provided by the turbine 30, wherein the heated feedwater is provided to the steam generation portion 12.

The invention belongs to the technical field of environment protection, and relates to a device and a process for temperature difference crystallizing ammonia process desulfurization, which is especially suitable for the ammonia process modification and newly-built desulfurization of the original calcium process desulfurization device. The device comprises a desulfurization tower, a densifying device, a gas-liquid heat exchanger, a circulating pump, a concentration circulating pump, a magma pump, a concentration crystallization tank and a drying system, wherein the desulfurization tower, the circulating pump, the magma pump and the drying system adopt the devices in the original calcium process desulfurization; the lower part of the densifying device is provided with a gas distributor, andthe upper part thereof is provided with spray heads which are arranged in 2-3 layers; spray heads in the desulfurization tower are arranged in 2-4 layers, a liquid supplementation pipe is connected with the spray heads at the lowest layer in the desulfurization tower; the concentration crystallization tank is a tank with a conical bottom part; and the upper part of the concentration crystallization tank is provided with a pipeline to be connected with the bottom of the densifying device, the middle of the concentration crystallization tank is provided with a pipeline to be connected with theconcentration circulating pump, and the bottom is provided with a pipeline to be connected with the magma pump. The invention can farthest utilize the original devices on the premise of guaranteeing the normal desulfurization efficiency, thereby saving the investment, reducing the energy consumption and eliminating the secondary pollution.

An energy system including a converter disposed within a collection vessel for collecting exhaust generated by the converter for delivery, if desired, to a bottoming device, such as a gas turbine assembly. The converter can be operated as a reformer. The chemical converter may also be operated as an electrochemical device. When the converter is operated as a fuel cell, electrical energy is generated when supplied with hydrogen or a hydrocarbon fuels. When operated as an electrolytic cell, the electrical energy is consumed for the production of chemical feed stocks or media for storage. The energy system can also include or be used as a thermal plant for producing pressurized, superheated vapor, or a hot thermal fluid or gas medium for commercial, industrial or power generation uses.

A reheat-and-regenerating type thermal power plant (A) using Rankine cycle has a water feed bypass (BW) which suppies high temperature fluid (28) produced in a large incineration plant (27) to a heat exchanger (29) and by which confluent feed water (Wg) resulting from the confluence of separated condensed-water (32), separated low temperature feed water (33), separated medium temperature feed water (34) and separated high temperature feed water (35) is supplied to a superheat conduction pipe (3a) through a heat exchanger conduction pipe (29a). The water feed bypass (BW) is installed separately from a feed water path (W), thus insuring an efficient use of the high temperature fluid (28) produced upon incinerating a huge amount of combustible wastes in the large incineration plant (27).

The present invention discloses sea water desalination apparatus and method with heat energy of steam to raise heat efficiency. The sea water desalination apparatus in distillation method has several evaporators connected serially with last evaporator connected to condensator, showering system over the evaporator condensating pipe bundle connected to sea water inlet, concentrated water flash tanks and fresh water flash tanks connected to corresponding evaporators separately, concentrated water balance tank connected to the last concentrated water flash tank and product water balance tank connected to the last fresh water flash tank. The present invention is suitable for utilizing steam from thermoelectric power plant or oil refinery to desalt sea water or bitter salty water.

A solar thermal power plant including a solar collector steam generator unit for generating steam, a solar collector steam superheater unit for superheating the steam, and a steam turbine is provided. The solar thermal power plant includes an intermediate storage which is connected to the steam conduit system in a first high-temperature storage connecting point interposed between the solar thermal steam superheater unit and the steam turbine to remove steam superheated in a storage mode from the steam conduit and which includes a heat reservoir in which thermal energy is drained from the steam fed into during the storage mode and is accumulated and the stored thermal energy is given off to the steam in an extraction mode, steam being fed to the steam conduit system from the intermediate storage. The intermediate storage is connected to a condenser and/or a relaxation device of the plant in a low-temperature storage connecting point.

An optical sensor device for local analysis of a combustion process in a combustor of a thermal power plant, in particular a gas turbine plant, includes at least one wavelength selective optical element exposed directly or indirectly to hot combustion gases being produced by said combustion process, the optical element including an array of nano- and/or microcrystalline fibres which are created by shear flow crystallization.

The invention discloses a heat and power cogeneration centralized heat supply system based on a heat pump. An absorption type heat exchanger unit and a multi-stage electrically-driven heat pump are introduced, and a heat source is used as a power source and is used for heat exchange repeatedly, so that the utilization efficiency of a steam heat source is improved, and heat can be better supplied to a user; a solar heat collector is introduced, and primary grid backwater is heated by using clean energy namely solar energy, so that the energy is saved, and the environment is protected; in addition, a heat exchanger is additionally arranged in a thermal power plant, the temperature of the primary grid backwater is raised by using a low-grade heat source in a condensing engine, and a double-effect steam absorption type heat pump, a single-effect steam absorption type heat pump, a large-temperature-difference steam absorption type heat pump and a steam water heat exchanger are simultaneously introduced to recover low-grade heat step by step, so that exhaust steam in a turbine is effectively utilized, and the energy utilization efficiency is improved. According to the system, the power generation efficiency of a power plant is improved by over 30 percent.

The invention provides a method for directly feeding primary network returned water in the steam condenser as condensed water and a method for reducing the water outlet temperature of the condensed water of a steam condenser step by step, increasing the water supply temperature of a primary network step by step and improving the power generation efficiency and the heat supply effect. The method comprises a thermal power plant steam extraction heat supply system, a returned water temperature adjusting system, a thermal power plant steam condenser cooling water system and a high-temperature-difference heat supply primary pipe network.

The invention discloses an internet and thermal power plant heat production operation integrated management platform. The internet and thermal power plant heat production operation integrated management platform comprises a centralized dispatching control center, six important functional subsystems such as a heat and power generation optimized dispatching subsystem, a heat transmission and control subsystem, a pipe network safety management subsystem and the like, as well as long-distance pipe networks and user control terminals, wherein the user control terminals are accessed to the internet through a mobile communication network; the centralized dispatching control center and the functional subsystems are connected with each other through an industrial control network and connected with the internet; the heat and power generation optimized dispatching subsystem is connected with DCS of each generator set through the industrial control network; and the heat transmission and control subsystem is connected with each long-distance pipe network and each user control terminal through the internet and the mobile communication network. Through the internet and the private network, the heat production and operation businesses and the target requirements of the thermal power plants are integrated on one platform, so that the data share and business integration are realized, the production and operation efficiency is optimized, and the economic dispatching operation level and the enterprise management level are improved.

The invention relates to a thermoelectricity tri-generation method and a system thereof, wherein the system includes a thermoelectricity tri-generation set used for generating the electric energy and the heat energy; an air-condition coupled with the thermoelectricity tri-generation set through the power line and for driving the heat pump to generate the heat energy by the electric energy generated by the thermoelectricity tri-generation set; an air-condition ammeter phase coupling with the air-condition specially used for detecting the power consumption of the heat pump in the air-condition; a control device used for obtaining the electric energy of the thermoelectricity tri-generation set and the optimal working point data generated by the heat energy according to the electric consumption data and the energy consumption, and controlling the operation of the thermoelectricity tri-generation set based on the optimal working point data. Adopting the device, the inhabitant heating users are divided into the air-condition heat pump heating users and the hot water type radiator centralized heating users, and the electric energy and the heat energy are supplied to the heating users by the thermoelectricity tri-generation for the requirement in the winter, which reduces the heat road difference in the summer and waiter, advances the energy source using efficiency and the economical profit of the thermal power plant.

The invention provides a method and system for recovering the circulating water residual heat of thermal power plants. The system comprises an absorption type heat pump, a turbine, a condenser, a basic heat supply network heater, a peak heater, an auxiliary pipe, auxiliary equipment and a coordination control and protection system, wherein the absorption type heat pump is used for recovering the residual heat of circulating water of the condenser and heating return water of a main heat supply network; the basic heat supply network heater is used for heating the return water of the main heat supply network, which is heated by the absorption type heat pump; the peak heater is used for heating the return water of the main heat supply network, which is heated by the basic heat supply network heater and conveying the return water to users of the heat supply network; the auxiliary pipe is connected with the turbine, the condenser, the absorption type heat pump, the basic heat supply network heater, the peak heater and the auxiliary equipment; and the running and the safety of all equipment in the system are controlled by the coordination control and protection system. The invention has the advantages that heat which is discharged by the circulating water of the condenser to the air is recovered by the absorption type heat pump, the heating and steam extraction energy level of the thermal power plants is integrated, the energy of the thermal power plants is saved, and the heat supply capability and economy of the thermal power plants are improved.

A solar thermal power plant is provided comprising a solar collection system and a steam-electric power plant. The solar collection system comprises one or more tube radiation absorbers containing a thermal fluid therewithin, the system being configured to heat the thermal fluid by passing the thermal fluid through the one or more tube radiation absorbers while the absorbers are irradiated with solar radiation. The steam-electric power plant comprises an intermediate-pressure steam turbine, a low-pressure steam turbine, at least one additional steam turbine having an inlet pressure higher than that of the intermediate-pressure steam turbine, and piping containing a working fluid. Each turbine is associated with a heat exchange system adapted to transfer heat from the thermal fluid to the working fluid.

The present invention discloses a series-connected sludge anhydration system by utilizing waste heat of steam-power plant smoke. Said series-connected sludge anhydration system includes heat supply system, sludge pretreatment system, feeding system, sludge anhydration and granulation system and dust-removing and gas-removing system.

The invention belongs to the field of gas purification. Aiming at the characteristics of tail gas discharged by a sulfuric acid production plant, a smelting plant, a phosphate fertilizer plant, an iron and steel plant, a thermal power plant and the like, an amine absorbent for removing sulfur dioxide in mixed gas is developed. The amine absorbent is characterized in that (1) the absorbent contains one or more reproducible organic amine; (2) the absorbent contains one or more organic amine additives; (3) the absorbent contains 50-95% by mass of water; (4) the absorbent contains 0.05-0.5% by mass of a phosphite ester antioxidant; (5) the absorbent contains 0.05-0.1% by mass of nitrogen-containing, sulfur-containing or hydroxyl-containing organic compounds which have surface activity as a corrosion inhibitor; and (6) the absorbent absorbs SO2 gas in mixed gas at a low temperature ranging from 20 DEG C to 60 DEG C and desorbs the SO2 gas at a high temperature ranging from 90 DEG C to 130 DEG C, and a solution after desorption can be repeatedly used. The absorbent provided by the invention can purify sulfur dioxide in raw material gas from 400-40000 mg/m3 to below 20 mg/m3, and the concentration of a desorbed SO2 byproduct is greater than 99%.

A solar-thermal power plant is provided. The solar-thermal power plant includes a working fluid circuit, a solar steam generator based on direct evaporation and a steam turbine for relieving the working fluid on a relief path while the working fluid supplies technical work. The solar-thermal power plant also includes at least one intermediate superheater, which can be heated using the working fluid. The working fluid may be removed from the circuit upstream of the intermediate superheater and superheated using the working fluid thereof, which can be fed downstream of the heating removal using the relief path. A method for operating a solar-thermal power plant is also provided.

Storage systems based on latent heat storage have high-energy storage density, which reduces the footprint of the system and the cost. However, phase change materials (PCMs), such as NaNO₃, NaCl, KNO₃, have very low thermal conductivities. To enhave the storage of PCMs, macroencapsulation of PCMs was performed using a metal oxide, such as SiO₂ or a graphene-SiO₂, over polyimide-coated or nickel-embedded, polyimide-coated pellets The macro encapsulation provides a self-supporting structure, enhances the heat transfer rate, and provides a cost effective and reliable solution for thermal energy storage for use in solar thermal power plants. NaNO₃ was selected for thermal storage in a temperature range of 300° C. to 500° C. The PCM was encapsulated in a metal oxide cell using self-assembly reactions, hydrolysis, and simultaneous chemical oxidation at various temperatures.

The invention discloses a system for enlarging a cogeneration centralized heat supply scale. High-temperature primary heat supply network supply water discharged from a steam-water heat exchanger of a heat and power plant is divided into two paths, one path of high-temperature primary heat supply network supply water enters a multi-heat-source driven absorption heat pump so as to be used as a driving heat source and enters a heat exchanger A after being cooled by releasing heat to exchange heat with a secondary heat supply network of an original user; the other path of high-temperature primary heat supply network supply water directly enters the heat exchanger A to exchange heat with the secondary heat supply network of the original user; primary heat supply network return water sequentially enters the multi-heat-source driven absorption heat pump and an electrically-driven heat pump through pipelines after being cooled by heat exchange realized by the heat exchanger A so as to be used as a low-temperature heat source and enters the primary heat supply network supply water again after being heated step by step; and hot water discharged from the multi-heat-source driven absorption heat pump and the electrically-driven heat pump is used for supplying heat to new users through the secondary heat supply network. Two paths of high-temperature primary heat supply network water supply pipelines are respectively provided with control valves A and B for regulating the quantity of the high-temperature primary heat supply network supply water entering the multi-heat-source driven absorption heat pump and the heat exchanger A, so that the efficient operation of cogeneration centralized heat supply is realized.

The invention relates to a regional heating, cooling and power combined energy system and method based on absorption heat exchange. The system comprises four parts of equipment and is formed by connecting energy transmission and distribution networks formed by pipes with various water pumps and valves; the four parts of equipment are respectively a heat and power plant steam turbine power generation circulation sub system, an absorption dead steam afterheat recycling sub system, an absorption heat exchanging station/energy center and a distributed or semi-centralized air conditioner water heating sub system, wherein the heat and power plant steam turbine power generation circulation sub system is arranged on a thermal power plant and used for generating power and supplying heat; the absorption dead steam afterheat recycling sub system is arranged at an initial station of the thermal power plant and used for increasing the heat supplying and power generating efficiency by using the afterheat; the absorption heat exchanging station/energy center is arranged in a secondary network thermal substation and cold supply station; and the distributed or semi-centralized air conditioner water heating sub system is arranged at the user building and provided to the heat supply/air conditioner user. The method comprises three parts of operation regulation in a heating stage in winter, operation regulation in a cold supply stage in summer and operation regulation in a transitional stage beyond the two stages. According to the invention, the comprehensive energy utilization efficiency of a thermodynamic system can be effectively improved.

The invention provides a comprehensive utilization method of thermal power plant boiler wastewater. The comprehensive utilization method comprises the following process steps: (1) continuous boiler wastewater goes into a continuous blowdown flash tank for reduced-pressure flashing; secondary steam generated after flashing is guided out of the upper part of the continuous blowdown flash tank and into a deaerator; (2) the hot wastewater at the bottom of the continuous blowdown flash tank is guided into a boiler periodic blowdown flash tank for further reduced-pressure flashing together with regular boiler wastewater; (3) the secondary steam generated by flashing from the periodic blowdown flash tank serves as a heat source and is guided into a low-temperature multiple-effect evaporator group, and bottom salt-containing wastewater also goes into the low-temperature multiple-effect evaporator group as the evaporated liquid; (4) the condensed water generated by the low-temperature multiple-effect evaporator group and the steam condensed water out of a cooler are collected to a condensed water tank by use of a condensation header and then fed into a boiler water supply system by use of a condensed water pump to be recycled; a thickened liquid generated by performing multiple-effect evaporation on the salt-containing wastewater is recycled into a thickened liquid recovery tank and then fed into a wet boiler flue gas desulphurization system used as a desulfurizing agent for desulphurization.

A combined-cycle power plant, a steam thermal power plant, and a method for operating the power plant, which are capable of effectively utilizing raw fuel produced from medium- or small-scaled gas fields and oil fields. Raw fuel produced from a gas field is separated into a gas component and a liquid component by a separator. The gas component is burnt in a combustor of a gas turbine, and resulting motive power is converted to electricity by a power generator. The liquid component separated by the separator is burnt in a steam generator to generate steam that is supplied to a steam turbine. Resulting motive power of the steam turbine is converted to electricity by a power generator. Since the electricity generated by the power generators is AC power, the AC power is converted by a converter to DC power that is transferred from the vicinity of the gas field to a consuming area via a cable.

In a system for effecting pressure control in a thermal power plant operated at low load connected fluidly in series, a relief conduit is disclosed herein. The relief conduit selectively transfers steam from a cold reheat conduit to the second extraction conduit. The plant further includes a boiler, a high-pressure turbine, an intermediate pressure turbine, a low pressure turbine, a main steam conduit for feeding steam from the boiler to an inlet of the high pressure turbine, a cold reheat conduit for feeding steam from an outlet of the high-pressure turbine through a reheat flow path in the boiler, and a first and second high pressure heaters. A first extraction conduit connects the cold reheat conduit to a first high pressure heater to transfer heat, and a second extraction conduit connects the intermediate pressure turbine to the second high pressure heater, to transfer heat.

The invention discloses an optimization method of the day-ahead unit commitment of a thermal power system of a thermal power plant capable of operating under multiple states. The optimization method comprises the following steps: firstly, predicting the total power generation load of the system and the heat supply load of each thermal power plant on the next day; then, taking the minimum total power generation coal consumption of thermal power system on the next day as a target, and taking a situation that power supply and thermal energy supply are satisfied as a condition to establish an optimization model of the thermal power system unit commitment by simultaneously meeting constraints including the reserve requirements of the thermal power system, the electrothermal coupling characteristics of an extraction steam turbine of the thermal power plant and the thermal characteristics of a thermal storage tank; and finally, using an optimization algorithm to calculate to obtain a startup-shutdown plan of each thermal power unit, a power generation and steam extraction plan of a steam turbine of a heat supply unit and a thermal charging and discharging plan of the thermal storage tank in the thermal power plant on the next day so as to guarantee the economic operation of the thermal power system.