Patent ID: 8635876

Claim:
A method for operating a gas turbine for a thermal power plant, comprising: completing a load operation of the gas turbine wherein a rotor of the gas turbine is driven by a gas via a turbine blade section of the gas turbine; transferring the gas turbine into a deactivated operating state in which the rotor is no longer driven by the gas; and closing off a flow passage of the thermal power plant via a blocking device only during or after the transfer into the deactivated operating state, wherein the exposure of the turbine blade section to throughflow is prevented by the closing off of an inlet section of the gas turbine through which the gas flows into the gas turbine during load operation and via a closing off of an exhaust section through which the gas leaves the gas turbine during load operation, wherein, in the deactivated operating state of the gas turbine, the rotor is driven at a low speed by an auxiliary motor which prevents a seizing of the rotor.