Patent ID: 9249688
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: F01K

Claim Text:
1. A rotary machine drive system, comprising: a first heat source heat exchanger that receives a first heating medium and gasifies a liquid working medium; a first expander that is connected to a rotation shaft and rotates the rotation shaft by expanding the working medium that has been gasified by the first heat source heat exchanger; a rotary machine that has a rotor part provided to the rotation shaft; a second heat source heat exchanger that receives a second heating medium and gasifies the liquid working medium; a second expander that is connected to the rotation shaft and rotates the rotation shaft by expanding the working medium; a joining portion, located downstream of both the first expander and the second expander in a flow direction of the working medium, where the working medium that has been gasified by the first heat source heat exchanger and expanded in the first expander is joined with the working medium that has been gasified by the second heat source heat exchanger and expanded in the second expander, to form a common flow of working medium; a condenser system that receives the common flow of working medium; and a flow rate adjusting unit that adjusts a flow rate of the working medium flowing from the condenser system into the first heat source heat exchanger to be expanded in the first expander, and a flow rate of the working medium flowing from the condenser system into the second heat source heat exchanger to be expanded in the second expander, wherein when a heat amount of the first heating medium flowing into the first heat source heat exchanger is greater than a heat amount of the second heating medium flowing into the second heat source heat exchanger, the flow rate adjusting unit adjusts the flow rate of the working medium so that a greater amount of the working medium flows into the first heat source heat exchanger than the working medium flowing into the second heat source heat exchanger.