Hybrid power plant

摘要

A hybrid power plant is described in which a pressurized water nuclear reactor or a biomass-fueled power plant, which have a relatively low operating temperature, such as, is combined with a coal or other fossil fuel power plant having a higher operating temperature. Steam from the first plant is superheated in the second power plant to provide a hybrid plant with improved efficiencies and lower emissions.

主权项

1. A hybrid power facility operating a single thermodynamic cycle, comprising:
(a) a biomass- or solar-powered power facility including a subcritical boiler that uses a renewable source of energy to generate saturated steam of a first temperature; (b) a power facility including a supercritical boiler that uses fossil fuel to heat the supercritical boiler that has an operating temperature higher than the temperature of said first temperature steam produced in said subcritical boiler; (c) a turbine; and (d) conduits interconnecting the power facilities, wherein the fossil fuel power facility superheats the saturated steam produced in the subcritical boiler prior to entering the turbine.