Patent ID: 8069667
Filing Date: 2011-12-06
Classification: F01K

Abstract:
1. A power generating system comprising: a condenser that receives steam or a combination of water and steam and condenses the steam or combination of water and steam into a condensate, said condenser operating at an internal pressure above ambient pressure during a normal operating mode of said condenser; a condensate treating apparatus that removes contaminants from said condensate to bring said condensate to a desirable purity, said condensate treating apparatus being deactivated during a typical operating state of the power generating system such that said condensate bypasses said condensate treating apparatus, and said condensate treating apparatus being activated during a non-typical operating state of the power generating system such that said condensate passes into said condensate treating apparatus wherein contaminants can be removed from said condensate, said typical operating state of the power generating system occurring when the condensate comprises said desirable purity and said non-typical operating state of the power generating system occurring when the condensate comprises an undesirable purity; and wherein, during a time in which said condenser operates in said normal operating mode at the internal pressure above ambient pressure, the power generating system operates in said non-typical operating state a first portion of the time and operates in said typical operating state a second portion of the time.