Patent ID: 8826639

Claim:
A thermal/electrical power converter, comprising: a gas turbine with an input couplable to an output of an inert gas thermal power source; a compressor, mechanically coupled to said gas turbine, including an output couplable to an input of said inert gas thermal power source; a generator mechanically coupled to said gas turbine; a heat exchanger with an input coupled to an output of said gas turbine and an output coupled to an input of said compressor, said heat exchanger including a series-coupled super-heater heat exchanger, a boiler heat exchanger and a water preheater heat exchanger; and an inert gas reservoir tank coupled to an input of said compressor via a reservoir tank control valve and said output of said compressor via another reservoir tank control valve, said reservoir tank control valve and said another reservoir tank control valve being configured to regulate an output of said gas turbine to a temperature by controlling an amount of an inert gas in said inert gas thermal power source.