Patent ID: 6282883
Filing Date: 2001-09-04
Classification: F01K

Abstract:
A hydrogen burning turbine plant for burning hydrogen and oxygen to generate high temperature steam for driving a turbine, comprising:a combustion chamber in which hydrogen and oxygen are to be burned for generating high temperature steam;a turbine to receive and be driven by the high temperature steam;a heat exchanger to receive exhaust steam from said turbine and to remove heat from the exhaust steam;a low pressure compressor to receive exhaust steam from said heat exchanger and to compress this exhaust steam;a high pressure compressor to receive the compressed exhaust steam from said low pressure compressor, to further compress this exhaust steam, and to supply the further compressed exhaust steam to said combustion chamber;a spray device to spray water onto the compressed exhaust steam discharged from said low pressure compressor before this exhaust steam enters said high pressure compressor; anda boiler to create steam and supply this steam to the steam to be supplied to said combustion chamber, such that the temperature of the high temperature steam generated by the burning of the oxygen and hydrogen in said combustion chamber at a starting time of the plant is less than it would be absent the steam created by the boiler being supplied to the steam supplied to the combustion chamber.