Steam turbine plant

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9726048-B2
Application number	US-201414777589-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 18, 2014
Priority date	Mar 22, 2013
Publication date	Aug 8, 2017
Grant date	Aug 8, 2017

Abstract

A steam turbine plant is provided with: a plurality of steam turbines; a multistage pressure condenser composed of a plurality of condensers which are respectively provided below the respective steam turbines so as to correspond to the plurality of steam turbines, and in which steam which is discharged from the respective steam turbines is condensed and accommodated as condensate; and a steam extraction section which introduces some of the steam in the steam turbine into condensate of the condenser corresponding to the lowest-pressure steam turbine among the plurality of condensers.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A steam turbine plant comprising:
a plurality of steam turbines;
a multistage pressure condenser composed of a plurality of condensers which are respectively provided below the respective steam turbines so as to correspond to the plurality of steam turbines, and in which steam which is discharged from the respective steam turbines is condensed and accommodated as condensate; and
a steam extraction section which introduces some of the steam driving the steam turbine into condensate of the condenser corresponding to the lowest-pressure steam turbine among the plurality of condensers,
wherein the condenser corresponding to the lowest-pressure steam turbine has a steam injection device that directly injects the steam to the condensate, and
wherein introduction of the steam into the condensate of the condenser by the steam extraction section is performed through the steam injection device.

2. The steam turbine plant according to claim 1 , wherein the steam extraction section includes a plurality of the steam extraction sections, the plurality of the steam extraction sections are provided in at least two steam turbines among the plurality of steam turbines, and
by performing control such that at least one steam extraction section among the steam extraction sections of the at least two steam turbines is selected, steam extraction is carried out by the at least one steam extraction section.

3. The steam turbine plant according to claim 2 , wherein the steam extraction section is configured such that steam extraction is performed from a steam extraction stage having an appropriate pressure.

4. The steam turbine plant according to claim 1 , wherein the condenser corresponding to the lowest-pressure steam turbine has a heat transfer tube which passes through the inside of the condensate, and the steam to the condensate of the condenser by the steam extraction section is introduced into the heat transfer tube.

5. The steam turbine plant according to claim 1 , wherein the multistage pressure condenser includes:
a plurality of chambers having different pressures;
a pressure bulkhead which divides a low-pressure chamber which is the chamber on the low-pressure side, in a vertical direction and is provided with a perforated plate having a plurality of holes;
a cooling water tube group which is provided in an upper portion of the low-pressure chamber partitioned by the pressure bulkhead, and into which cooling water is introduced, thereby performing heat exchange with low-pressure side steam led to the low-pressure chamber, and thereby condensing the low-pressure side steam into low-pressure side condensate;
a reheat chamber which is a lower portion of the low-pressure chamber partitioned by the pressure bulkhead, and in which the low-pressure side condensate flowing down from the holes of the pressure bulkhead is accumulated; and
a high-pressure side steam introduction device that introduces high-pressure side steam into a high-pressure chamber which is the chamber on the high-pressure side, into the reheat chamber.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Kasahara Jiro
• Fujita Issaku

Classifications

• F01K7/22 Primary

  the turbines having inter-stage steam heating · CPC title

• F28B7/00

  Combinations of two or more condensers, e.g. provision of reserve condenser · CPC title

• F28B9/00

  Auxiliary systems, arrangements, or devices · CPC title

• F01K11/02

  the engines being turbines · CPC title

• F01K9/00 Primary

  Plants characterised by condensers arranged or modified to co-operate with the engines (by condensers structurally combined with engines F01K11/00; steam condensers per se F28B)(F01K23/04 takes precedence) · CPC title