Patent ID: 9739178
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: F01K,Y02E

Claim:
1. A steam Rankine cycle plant, comprising: a higher-pressure steam turbine with an outlet for exhausting exhaust steam; a reheater fluidly connected to the higher-pressure steam turbine; a lower-pressure steam turbine, with an inlet fluidly connected to the reheater; and a bypass fluidly connecting the outlet of the higher-pressure steam turbine and the inlet of the lower-pressure steam turbine so as to bypass the reheater, wherein the higher-pressure steam turbine includes an intermediate stage and the reheater is fluidly connected to the intermediate stage so as to enable an extraction of extraction steam from the intermediate stage and direct it to the reheater, and wherein the extraction steam is extracted from the higher-pressure steam turbine, before the extraction steam leaves a last stage of the higher-pressure steam turbine as the exhaust steam via the outlet of the higher-pressure steam turbine.