Patent ID: 8151572

Claim:
A method of starting and stopping a gas turbine, the gas turbine including: a gas turbine body; an exhaust gas duct provided on a downstream side of the gas turbine body; a combustor for generating a combustion gas for rotating the gas turbine body by combusting a fuel gas together with compressed air; a fuel gas pipe connected to the combustor; a fuel gas shutoff valve provided on the fuel gas pipe; a purge gas pipe connected to the fuel gas pipe between this fuel gas shutoff valve and the combustor; a purge gas shutoff valve provided on the purge gas pipe; and a compressor for supplying the compressed air to the combustor by rotating together with the gas turbine body, the method characterized by comprising: at the time of stopping the gas turbine, pushing out the fuel gas remaining in the fuel gas pipe, the combustor, the gas turbine body, and the exhaust gas duct by a purge gas by opening the purge gas shutoff valve for a predetermined time period after closure of the fuel gas shutoff valve; at the time of starting the gas turbine, supplying the fuel gas to the combustor with the fuel gas shutoff valve being opened again so as to ignite the fuel gas, after sequentially performing first exhaust gas duct purge for pushing out the fuel gas remaining in the exhaust gas duct by the compressed air from the compressor until a first predetermined time period passes after the number of revolutions of the gas turbine body accelerated by rotation driving means reaches a predetermined number of revolutions for ignition, fuel gas pipe purge, by the fuel gas, for pushing out the purge gas remaining in the fuel gas pipe between the fuel gas shutoff valve and the combustor at the time of stopping the gas turbine by opening the fuel gas shutoff valve for a second predetermined time period after the first predetermined time period passes, and second exhaust gas duct purge for pushing out the fuel gas remaining in the exhaust gas duct after the fuel gas pipe purge by the compressed air from the compressor for a third predetermined time period after the second predetermined time period passes.