Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and a system for maintaining steam temperature with decreased loads of a steam turbine power plant comprising a fluidized bed boiler
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Application No.: US16754681Application Date: 2018-10-17
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Publication No.: US11300288B2Publication Date: 2022-04-12
- Inventor: Mikko Varonen , Matti Nieminen
- Applicant: Valmet Technologies Oy
- Applicant Address: FI Espoo
- Assignee: Valmet Technologies Oy
- Current Assignee: Valmet Technologies Oy
- Current Assignee Address: FI Espoo
- Agency: Alston & Bird LLP
- Priority: FI20175975 20171102
- International Application: PCT/FI2018/050757 WO 20181017
- International Announcement: WO2019/086752 WO 20190509
- Main IPC: F22G3/00
- IPC: F22G3/00 ; F01K3/24 ; F22B31/00 ; F22G1/16

Abstract:
The solution comprises a method of and a system for maintaining steam temperature and therefore electricity production efficiency with decreased loads of a steam turbine power plant comprising a fluidized bed boiler (12) and a fluidized bed superheater (2) adapted to superheat steam supplied to a steam turbine (3). According to the solution, the steam temperature may be maintained by providing, outside a furnace (10), additional heating to the fluidized bed material in its outer circulation, thereby increasing the amount of thermal energy available in the fluidized bed material to be transferred in the fluidized bed superheater (2) to the steam supplied to the steam turbine (3). Such additional heating may be performed by selectably supplying combustible gas with nozzles (111) into and/or burned with a burner in or in the vicinity of the fluidized bed material outside the furnace (10). As an additional aspect of the disclosed solution, the combustible gas may be produced with a gasifier (4).
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