Enthalpy determining apparatus, system and method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9200533-B2
Application number	US-201213680413-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 19, 2012
Priority date	Nov 19, 2012
Publication date	Dec 1, 2015
Grant date	Dec 1, 2015

Abstract

Various embodiments include apparatuses and related methods for determining the enthalpy of steam. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes: an extraction conduit fluidly connected with a steam turbine section, the extraction conduit for obtaining wet steam from the steam turbine section; a mixing chamber fluidly connected with the extraction conduit; an injector fluidly connected with the mixing chamber, the injector for providing dry steam to the mixing chamber for mixing with the wet steam from the steam turbine section to produce a sample mixture; and an enthalpy detection system fluidly connected with the mixing chamber, the enthalpy detection system configured to determine an enthalpy of the sample mixture.

First claim

We claim:

1. An apparatus comprising:
an extraction conduit fluidly connected with a steam turbine section, the extraction conduit for obtaining wet steam from the steam turbine section;
a mixing chamber fluidly connected with the extraction conduit;
an injector fluidly connected with the mixing chamber, the injector for providing dry steam to the mixing chamber for mixing with the wet steam from the steam turbine section to produce a sample mixture,
wherein the injector cr…

Assignees

• Gen Electric

Inventors

• Donkada Santhosh
• Mazumder Indrajit
• Pemmi Bhaskar
• Saha Rajarshi
• Sharma Anil Kumar

Classifications

• F01D25/24

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F01D25/00 Primary

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F01K13/02 Primary

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F01K13/003

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic