Patent ID: 9500159
Filing Date: 2016-11-22
CPC Classification: F01K,F02B,F02G,F22B,Y02E,Y02P

Claim Text:
1. An electricity generation unit comprising: a combustor that combusts a solid fuel; a flue through which a combustion gas generated in the combustor passes; a heater that contains a heat storage material and that heats the heat storage material by allowing heat exchange to take place between the combustion gas in the flue and the heat storage material; and a Rankine cycle circuit having an evaporator that evaporates a working fluid in the Rankine cycle by allowing heat exchange to take place between the heat storage material heated in the heater and the working fluid, wherein the heat storage material is enclosed in a liquid state in the heater, and the evaporator is disposed inside the heater so as to be immersed in the heat storage material in the liquid state.