A power plant having a gas turbine and having a heat recovery steam generator installed downstream of the gas turbine in the direction of flow of an exhaust gas, wherein the heat recovery steam generator includes heating surfaces of a high pressure section, of an intermediate pressure section and of a low pressure section, wherein an exhaust gas recirculation line branches from the heat recovery steam generator downstream of an evaporator in the flow direction of an exhaust gas in the high pressure section and opens again into the heat recovery steam generator upstream of the heating surfaces. A blower is arranged in the exhaust gas recirculation line, with a steam feed opening into the exhaust gas recirculation line downstream of the blower in the direction of flow of a recirculated exhaust gas. A method operates a power plant of this kind.

Disclosed is an exhaust duct (1) for a gas turbine engine (50), comprising a silencer section (12). At least two plate-shaped silencer baffles (20) are provided inside the silencer section (12). At least one of the plate-shaped silencer baffles is configured as a heat exchange device in that it comprises at least one internal cavity (22) suitable for receiving a heat exchange fluid and leakproof with respect to the interior of the exhaust duct, wherein the at least one internal cavity is fluidly connected to the outside of the exhaust duct at an inlet port and an outlet port (23, 24). This device is useful for recuperating exhaust heat from exhaust gases of the gas turbine engine without the expense and additional space required for providing a heat recovery steam generator.

A combined cycle power plant includes a gas turbine, a steam turbine and a heat recovery steam generator. The heat recovery steam generator is arranged to receive exhaust gas from the gas turbine for reheating condensate from the steam turbine and generating steam for the steam turbine. And the heat recovery steam generator includes at least one drum evaporator configured to receive a first part of the condensate; a pump configured to receive a second part of the condensate and increase the second part of the condensate to an elevated pressure; and a high-pressure assembly configured to receive the condensate from the pump and operate the condensate from the pump at a subcritical up to a supercritical pressure range.

An integrated chemical looping combustion (CLC) electrical power generation system and method for diesel fuel combining four primary units including: gasification of diesel to ensure complete conversion of fuel, chemical looping combustion with supported nickel-based oxygen carrier on alumina, gas turbine-based power generation and steam turbine-based power generation is described. An external combustion and a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) are employed to maximize the efficiency of a gas turbine generator and steam turbine generator. The integrated CLC system provides a clean and efficient diesel fueled power generation plant with high CO.sub.2 recovery.

Disclosed are an air supply device and an air supply method for a hybrid power generation facility in which a gas turbine compresses air introduced from an outside, mixes the compressed air with fuel, and burns a mixture of the compressed air and the fuel to produce combustion gas. The air supply device includes a mixing chamber configured to selectively receive the combustion gas from the gas turbine, an air preheater configured to supply air to the mixing chamber, a burner configured to burn a fluid supplied from the mixing chamber, a first over-firing air supplier configured to receive a fluid from the gas turbine or the air preheater, a first pipeline connecting the gas turbine and the mixing chamber, and a second pipeline connecting the gas turbine and the first over-firing air supplier.

Heat recovery steam generator-method, comprising a casing, upstream coils of heat exchanger tubes downstream from casing inlet, one or more feedwater heater coils in casing downstream from upstream coils, one or more low temperature heat exchanging coils in casing downstream from upstream coils, one or more low temperature heat exchanging coils within casing comprising corrosion-resistant, thermally conductive graphite component-thermoplastic polymer component composite material, a first flow conduit extending from low temperature heat exchanging coil to feedwater heater coil for water to flow from low temperature coil to feedwater heater coil; and second conduit extending from one or more feedwater heater coils to one or more of the upstream coils for flow from feedwater heater coil to one or more upstream coils, so gas passing through inlet passes through upstream coils through one or more feedwater heater coils and then through one or more low temperature coils.

A heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) includes a base and a top platform assembly disposed on the base. The top platform assembly includes a first top platform auxiliary module having a first rectangular frame in which a steam manifold is disposed, a second top platform auxiliary module having a second rectangular frame in which a high pressure (HP) drum is disposed, and a third top platform auxiliary module having a third rectangular frame in which a low pressure (LP) drum and an intermediate pressure (IP) drum are disposed. Each top platform auxiliary module may be pre-assembled on the ground prior to be raised to elevation for installed on the base.

Solar/Rankine steam cycle hybrid concentrating solar power (CSP) systems and methods for designing or retrofitting existent natural circulation boilers using saturated or superheated steam produced by direct steam generation (DSG) or Heat Transfer Fluid (HTF) steam generators and CSP solar field technology systems are described. Additionally, methods and processes of retrofitting the existent Heat Recovery Steam Generators (HRSG) or biomass, gas, oil or coal fired boilers to operate integrated to a molten salt/water-steam heat exchangers are disclosed. The hybrid CSP systems are highly efficient due to the increase of steam generated by a heating section comprising either the DSG receiver or the molten salt-water-steam sequential heat exchangers, heaters, boiler/saturated steam generators, super-heaters and re-heaters. The additional saturated, superheated and reheated steam produced is directed to a Rankine cycle according to its pressure, temperature and steam quality significantly reducing the fuel consumption within a cogeneration or Combine Cycle Power Plant.

A system includes a turbine system that contains a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) having a flow path that receives an exhaust gas, and having a fluid path that receives a fluid. The fluid path is adjacent to the flow path such that the fluid is heated by the exhaust gas. The HRSG includes an electrical heater that provides heat to the fluid path during a start-up mode of the HRSG, during a shutdown mode of the HRSG, or both.

Various embodiments relate to combined heat and power (CHP) systems. A CHP system can include a turbine system, a turbocharger system, and a refrigeration system. The refrigeration system can receive combustion products from the turbine system and compressed air from the turbocharger system. The refrigeration system can cool the combustion products and the compressed air to generate a cooled combustion product mixture that is provided to the turbine system.