An emissions reduction system for a combined cycle power plant having a gas turbine engine and a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) can comprise a duct defining a flow space configured to receive exhaust gas from the gas turbine and convey the exhaust gas into the HRSG, and a louver system coupled to the duct that can comprise a plurality of emission medium panels extending across the flow space, the emission medium panels configured to be moved between a first position where adjacent filter medium panels extend contiguously across the flow space of the duct and a second position where adjacent filter medium panels include spaces therebetween to provide an unobstructed flow path and an actuator to move the plurality of panels between the first position and the second position.

A method for flexibly operating a nuclear power plant with a waste heat steam generator that operates according to the forced-flow principle and that has heating surfaces of different stages of the waste heat steam generator, the heating surfaces being arranged in the flue gas channel, is provided. In order to increase the output, a mass flow of the feedwater flowing through the heating surfaces is increased while almost simultaneously activating a supplementary firing arranged in the flue gas channel of the waste heat steam generator.

Reduction of operation efficiency of a GTCS at a time of changing an operation using bypass stack to an operation using HRSG is suppressed. An HRSG of the GTCS is provided with an air supply piping and a ventilation piping connected to a fuel line of a duct burner at a position upstream of a main shut-off valve and downstream of a fuel shut-off valve, an air supply shut-off valve that opens/closes the air supply piping, and a ventilation shut-off valve that opens/closes the ventilation piping, and is configured such that during an operation using a bypass stack, an inlet of the HRSG is closed to open a bypass stack, a main shut-off valve and the fuel shut-off valve are closed, and the air supply shut-off valve and the ventilation shut-off valve are always opened, and at a time of changing to an operation using HRSG, the inlet of the HRSG is opened to close the bypass stack without shutting down a GT, the main shut-off valve and the fuel shut-off valve are opened, and the air supply shut-off valve and the ventilation shut-off valve are closed.

According to the embodiment of the present invention, there are provided a first stage auxiliary burner configured to heat up the exhaust gas in the upstream side of the superheater, a second stage auxiliary burner configured to heat up the exhaust gas in the upstream side of the evaporator, a fuel supply system configured to distribute fuel so as to be supplied to the first stage auxiliary burner and the second stage auxiliary burner. Distribution of fuel charged to each of the first stage auxiliary burner and the second stage auxiliary burner is controlled in accordance with a predetermined distribution ratio of each charging quantity to whole charging quantity in all the range thereof.

An absorption column is equipped with: a CO.sub.2 absorption section absorbing CO.sub.2 from CO.sub.2-containing exhaust gas using a lean solution; a main rinse section recovering an entrained CO.sub.2 absorbent using rinse water; a rinse water circulation line circulating a rinse water containing the CO.sub.2 absorbent recovered in a liquid storage section of the main rinse section; a pre-rinse section provided between the CO.sub.2 absorption section and the main rinse section; a rinse section extraction liquid supply line extracting a portion of the rinse water containing the CO.sub.2 absorbent from the rinse water circulation line, and introducing the same into a reflux section of an absorption liquid regeneration tower; and a refluxed water supply line extracting a portion of refluxed water, introducing the same as pre-rinse water for the pre-rinse section, and connected on the pre-rinse section side.

An absorption column is equipped with: a CO.sub.2 absorption section absorbing CO.sub.2 from CO.sub.2-containing exhaust gas using a lean solution; a main rinse section recovering an entrained CO.sub.2 absorbent using rinse water; a rinse water circulation line circulating a rinse water containing the CO.sub.2 absorbent recovered in a liquid storage section of the main rinse section; a pre-rinse section provided between the CO.sub.2 absorption section and the main rinse section; a rinse section extraction liquid supply line extracting a portion of the rinse water containing the CO.sub.2 absorbent from the rinse water circulation line, and introducing the same into a reflux section of an absorption liquid regeneration tower; and a refluxed water supply line extracting a portion of refluxed water, introducing the same as pre-rinse water for the pre-rinse section, and connected on the pre-rinse section side.

The present disclosure relates to power plants. Various embodiments thereof may include a method for operating a gas-and-steam combined-cycle power plant. For example, some embodiments may include a method for operating a gas-and-steam combined-cycle power plant including: providing exhaust gas from a gas turbine to a steam generator; generating steam by means of the exhaust gas; driving a generator with the steam via a turbine installation to provide an electric current; removing the exhaust gas from the steam generator; and using at least a portion of heat contained in the exhaust gas downstream from the steam generator to affect an endothermic chemical reaction.

The present disclosure relates to combined gas and steam power plants. Various embodiments may include methods for operating such plants, such as: generating hot steam with an exhaust gas of a gas turbine; driving a generator with the steam; diverting at least a part of the generated steam and storing the diverted steam in a steam accumulator; then, discharging at least a part of the steam stored in the steam accumulator from the steam accumulator; heating the steam discharged from the steam accumulator with heat released during an exothermic chemical reaction; and feeding the heated steam to drive the turbine device.

The present disclosure relates to power plants. Teachings thereof may be embodied in methods for operating a combined gas-and-steam power plant and/or combined gas-and-steam power plants. For example, some embodiments may include a method for operating a combined gas-and-steam power plant comprising: generating steam with waste gas from a gas turbine; driving a generator for providing electrical current via a turbine device; and using at least part of the heat in the steam to affect an endothermic chemical reaction.

A system and method for increasing the responsiveness of a duct fired, combined cycle power generation plant (12) via operating one or more gas turbine engines (14) at a part load condition less than 100 percent load, one or more steam turbine engines (16), and one or more supplemental burners (18) providing additional heat to a heat recovery steam generator (20) upstream from the steam turbine engine (16) is disclosed. The combination of the steam turbine engines (16) and supplemental burners (18) operating together with gas turbine engines (14) at a part load condition enables the system to quickly change output to accommodate changes in output demand of the duct fired, combined cycle power generation plant (12). By operating the one or more gas turbine engines (14) at a part load condition, the gas turbine engines (14) are able to be used to increase net output of the combined cycle power generation plant (12) faster than relying on increasing output via duct firing.