Patent ID: 9458837
Filing Date: 2016-10-04
CPC Classification: F01K,F02C,F03G,Y02E

Claim Text:
1. A thermally driven solar power generating system comprising: a solar air heater ( 1 ) supplied with an airflow ( 15 ); a gas turbine ( 6 ) for generating power; at least one exhaust compressor ( 7 ) mechanically coupled to and driven by the gas turbine ( 6 ); a humidifying air recuperator ( 2 ) essentially communicating with said solar air heater ( 1 ), said humidifying air recuperator ( 2 ) includes: product channels ( 5 ) disposed between an outlet of the gas turbine ( 6 ) and an inlet of the exhaust compressor ( 7 ), said product channels ( 5 ) are capable of collecting condensate water ( 12 ); dry working channels ( 3 ); wet working channels ( 4 ) directly connected with the dry working channels ( 3 ); wherein said product channels ( 5 ) and said wet working channels ( 4 ), and said dry working channels ( 3 ) and said wet working channels ( 4 ) have pair-wise heat transfer relations therebetween via respective common walls thereof; and a water line ( 18 ); wherein the following is arranged: said airflow ( 15 ) is drawn into the dry working channels ( 3 ), and next into the wet working channels ( 4 ), and, upon exiting said wet working channels ( 4 ), at least a portion of said airflow ( 15 ) is further drawn into and expanded through the gas turbine ( 6 ) converting into a product stream ( 16 ), further drawn into the product channels ( 5 ), wherein, at a predetermined pressure, the product stream ( 16 ) is cooled, predeterminedly approaching a dew point temperature of outside air, providing for condensing vapor into the condensate water ( 12 ) from the product stream ( 16 ), thereby reducing a quantity of said product stream ( 16 ); whereas the condensate water ( 12 ) is drawn from the product channels ( 5 ) via the water line ( 18 ) into the wet working channels ( 4 ); thereafter, said product stream ( 16 ) is sucked by the exhaust compressor ( 7 ), compressed therein, and is converted into a product air stream ( 17 ); and said product air stream ( 17 ) is then discharged from the exhaust compressor ( 7 ); wherein said wet working channels (