Patent ID: 7166380

Claim:
A power generating system integrally provided with a gas turbine engine and a solid electrolyte type fuel cell, said gas turbine engine including a compressor wheel, a turbine wheel, a heat exchanger and a burner, said compressor wheel being adapted to supply compressed air through the heat exchanger to the solid electrolyte type fuel cell and the burner, said turbine wheel being adapted to be driven by exhaust gas from the solid electrolyte type fuel cell and the burner to drive the compressor wheel, and said heat exchanger being adapted to conduct heat exchange between the exhaust gas supplied from the turbine wheel and the compressed air from the compressor wheel, wherein the compressor wheel, the turbine wheel, the heat exchanger, the burner and the solid electrolyte type fuel cell are of axially symmetric shapes commonly having an axis of a rotary section comprising the compressor wheel and the turbine wheel, and the heat exchanger and the solid electrolyte type fuel cell are disposed sequentially on one side in a direction of said axis with respect to said rotary section.