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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7021063 | Reheat heat exchanger power generation systems A reheat heat exchanger is provided particularly for use in Rankine cycle power generation systems. The reheat heat exchanger includes a high pressure path between a high pressure inlet and a high pressure outlet. The reheat heat exchanger also includes a low pressu... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6904754 | Steam generator for liquid metal reactor and heat transfer method thereof Disclosed herein is a steam generator for a liquid metal reactor and a heat transfer method thereof, and more particularly a steam generator for a liquid metal reactor having intermediate fluid forcibly circulated therein and structurally improved coiled heat transf... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6305398 | Valve configuration and method for heating a valve configuration A method for heating a valve configuration of a steam turbine, includes the steps of directing steam to a closed valve of the valve configuration, condensing the steam in the valve, and discharging the condensate. The temperature is kept at the saturated-... | 10/23/2001 |
| 5199264 | Steam operated turbine-generator installations In a power generating installation including a steam turbine-generator system, a source of steam under pressure, and a steam conditioning unit, the steam turbine-generator system including a high pressure turbine and at least one low pressure turbine, eac... | 04/06/1993 |
| 4589258 | Wet-steam turbine plant In a wet-steam turbine plant, which comprises a high-pressure turbine (1), at least one low-pressure turbine (3), and a generator (4), and in which a high-velocity water separator (6) is provided in the connecting line (2) between the high-pressure turbin... | 05/20/1986 |
| 4455836 | Turbine high pressure bypass temperature control system and method A bypass system for a steam turbine wherein the temperature of the steam bypassed around the high pressure turbine is accurately controlled by measuring the inlet and outlet temperatures of the boiler reheater and generating an adaptive set point. The set... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4387577 | Boilers A power plant forced-flow boiler operative with water letdown wherein the letdown water is arranged to deliver heat to partly expanded steam passing through a steam reheater connected between two stages of a prime mover. The heating of steam in the reheat... | 06/14/1983 |
| 4298019 | Method and system for controlling the fluid level in a drain tank A method and system for allocating fluid flow draining from a fluid utilizing apparatus to first and second fluid sinks. The fluid flow is entirely routed to the first fluid sink for drain flow rates less than a predetermined flow rate and to the second f... | 11/03/1981 |
| 4274259 | Superheated steam power plant with steam to steam reheater A desuperheater is disposed in a steam supply line supplying superheated steam to a shell and tube reheater.... | 06/23/1981 |
| 4253308 | Turbine control system for sliding or constant pressure boilers An automatic control system enabling comprehensive operation of a reheat steam turbine with sliding or constant pressure boilers. The control system includes an HP control valve for regulating steam flow to the high-pressure turbine according to load and ... | 03/03/1981 |
| 4150546 | Method and apparatus for load following with a single-cycle boiling moderator-coolant nuclear reactor The invention is directed to a method and apparatus for providing a single-cycle boiling moderator-coolant nuclear reactor which accommodates changes in demand with a turbine generator on direct governor control. Current single-cycle boiling moderator-coo... | 04/24/1979 |
| 4149386 | System to control low pressure turbine temperatures An electronic system for operating a nuclear steam turbine power plant including a cycle steam reheater controller to control the heat transfer operation in a cycle steam reheater according to the steam and metal temperatures measured in one or more low p... | 04/17/1979 |
| 4027993 | Method and apparatus for compressing vaporous or gaseous fluids isothermally A gaseous fluid is combined with a liquid to form a transient foam for processing the fluid as by compression, expansion, condensation, heat exchange or chemical reaction.... | 06/07/1977 |
| 3979914 | Process and apparatus for superheating partly expanded steam The steam which is produced by the steam generator in the secondary coolant circuit of the nuclear reactor power plant is partly expanded in a turbine and delivered to a reheater. A part of the superheated steam is tapped off from an upstream portion of t... | 09/14/1976 |
| 3973402 | Cycle improvement for nuclear steam power plant A pressure-increasing ejector element is disposed in an extraction line intermediate to a high pressure turbine element and a feedwater heater. The ejector utilizes high pressure fluid from a reheater drain as the motive fluid to increase the pressure at ... | 08/10/1976 |
| 3930371 | Nuclear power plant A nuclear power plant includes a steam generator supplied via an input inlet with feed water heated by reactor coolant to generate steam, the steam being conducted to a steam engine having a high pressure stage to which the steam is supplied, and which ex... | 01/06/1976 |
