Patent ID: 7073337

Claim:
A method of generating electrical power while simultaneously converting seawater to fresh water comprising: a) diverting exhaust gases from a first exhaust gas stack of the gas turbine to a boiler provided with a single heat exchanger, said boiler located downstream of the gas turbine and said first exhaust gas stack; b) employing a closed thermal transfer fluid circuit between said boiler and a desalinization plant for recirculating a thermal transfer fluid between said single heat exchanger in said boiler and a second heat exchanger in said desalinization plant where said thermal transfer fluid passes in heat exchange relationship with the seawater to thereby heat the seawater as a first step in a distillation process, including providing an accumulator in said circuit, upstream of said desalinization plant; and c) releasing the exhaust gases to atmosphere through a second exhaust stack of the boiler.