Patent ID: 6357236
Filing Date: 2002-03-19
Classification: F01K,F02C,F04D,F05D,Y02E,Y02T

Abstract:
A gas turbine comprisinga compressor for compressing gas supplied thereto and discharging the compressed gas; a combustor in which fuel is combusted with the compressed gas discharged from said compressor; a turbine driven by the combusted gas of said combustor; a cooling means provided on the upstream side of any compressor for cooling the gas; and a liquid droplet injection device for forming and injecting liquid droplets into gas to be compressed by said compressor and disposed on the downstream side of said cooling device and on the upstream side of any compressor; the liquid droplets being evaporated in the gas so that the temperature of the gas is lower than that of ambient air before entering any compressor and the liquid droplets further being evaporated as the gas flows through said compressor.