Abstract: The invention relates to a method for starting a steam turbine. The method involves pre-warming the steam turbine with a steam in which 65% of an energy used to pre-warming the steam turbine is derived from a latent heat energy of the steam.

Abstract: A method for early detection and anticipatory control of consumer-end load shedding in a single-phase or polyphase electrical grid supplied with single phase or polyphase by at least one generator driven by at least one rotating machine includes measuring a current and a voltage between the at least one generator and the electrical grid and/or a current and a voltage in the electrical grid, deriving at least one signal from the measured current and voltage and using the at least one derived signal to act on the at least one rotating machine.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for starting a steam turbine. The method involves pre-warming the steam turbine with a steam in which 65% of an energy used to pre-warming the steam turbine is derived from a latent heat energy of the steam.

Abstract: A method for early detection and anticipatory control of consumer-end load shedding in a single-phase or polyphase electrical grid supplied with single phase or polyphase by at least one generator driven by at least one rotating machine includes measuring a current and a voltage between the at least one generator and the electrical grid and/or a current and a voltage in the electrical grid, deriving at least one signal from the measured current and voltage and using the at least one derived signal to act on the at least one rotating machine.

Abstract: A method for early detection and anticipatory control of consumer-end load shedding in a single-phase or polyphase electrical grid supplied with single phase or polyphase by at least one generator driven by at least one rotating machine includes measuring a current and a voltage between the at least one generator and the electrical grid and/or a current and a voltage in the electrical grid, deriving at least one signal from the measured current and voltage and using the at least one derived signal to act on the at least one rotating machine.

Abstract: A method for early detection and anticipatory control of consumer-end load shedding in a single-phase or polyphase electrical grid supplied with single phase or polyphase by at least one generator driven by at least one rotating machine includes measuring a current and a voltage between the at least one generator and the electrical grid and/or a current and a voltage in the electrical grid, deriving at least one signal from the measured current and voltage and using the at least one derived signal to act on the at least one rotating machine.

Abstract: A method for adapting a parameter of a hot gas of a hot-gas generator having a downstream technological process. The method includes emitting a mass flow of the hot gas from the hot-gas generator into a connecting element, discharging a first portion of the mass flow from the connecting element using an exhaust, feeding a second portion of the mass flow to the technological process using the connecting element, and influencing a temperature of the hot gas between the hot-gas generator and the technological process. In addition, an arrangement for adapting a parameter of a hot gas.

Abstract: In a process for thermally degassing the water in a steam system, in particular a heat recovery steam generator, which steam system preferably includes at least one steam drum, at least one economizer connected upstream of it, and at least one evaporator, economic, efficient and structurally simple degassing is achieved by virtue of the fact that water is sucked out of at least one water volume, this water is mixed with steam from a steam volume, and the two-phase mixture that is formed flows out into the water volume.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for thermally degassing a condensate or feedwater by heating the condensate or feedwater in a feedwater vessel/degassing means, to which preheated condensate is fed and from which feedwater for heating surfaces heated in a heat recovery steam generator is removed. Structurally simple degassing, advantageous in thermal terms, is achieved by virtue of the fact that the condensate is preheated in a first condensate preheater, and that a partial stream of the preheated condensate, which is preheated further in a second condensate preheater, is used to heat the condensate or feedwater in the feedwater vessel/degassing means.

Abstract: In a method for preventing the deposition of impurities in steam systems, in which steam of a given steam quality flowing in them is subject to temperature and/or pressure changes, a simple prevention of deposits is achieved in that an appropriate structural configuration and design of the steam systems prevents the steam solubility of the impurities present in specific concentrations in the steam from being exceeded as a result of changes in the temperature and/or pressure conditions.

Abstract: In a cooling-air cooler for a gas-turbine plant of a power plant, in which cooling-air cooler first means for spraying water into the cooling-air flow and second means for generating steam are arranged in a pressure vessel, through which the cooling air flows, between a cooling-air inlet and a cooling-air outlet in the cooling-air flow, simplified operation is achieved in that a water separator is provided on the cooling-air side in the direction of flow downstream of the first means.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preventing the deposition of contaminants in steam systems. In a method of this type, deposits are prevented in a simple and economic manner by metering an additive into the steam, which additive adheres to the steam-side surface of the steam system and has the effect of repelling moisture and contaminants.

Abstract: In a method for maintaining a combined-cycle power station at readiness, an supplemental firing (44) with a fresh air supply fan (46) and, preferably, the feed and supply pumps (21, 23, 31, 38) are operated continuously or intermittently when the combined-cycle power station is not in use, in order to maintain specific states and media flows in the two-phase circuit of the combined-cycle power station. In one embodiment of the invention, the media in the two-phase circuit are prevented from freezing by means of the supplemental firing. Furthermore, media states which prevent air from entering while the power station is not in use and which thus prevent corrosion damage can also be maintained. In addition to this protective maintenance of readiness, the supplemental firing is also used when the combined-cycle power station is not in use, in order to produce and maintain conditions which allow the combined-cycle power station to be started and loaded quickly.

Abstract: In a cooling-air cooler (10) for a gas-turbine plant (29) of a power plant, in which cooling-air cooler (10) first means (13, 14, 15) for spraying water into the cooling-air flow and second means (16, 17, 18) for generating steam are arranged in a pressure vessel (11), through which the cooling air flows, between a cooling-air inlet (12) and a cooling-air outlet (20) in the cooling-air flow, simplified operation is achieved in that a water separator (19) is provided on the cooling-air side in the direction of flow downstream of the first means (13, 14, 15).

Abstract: In a method for increasing the power output of a combined-cycle power station, comprising at least one gas turbo group, at least one heat recovery steam generator and at least one steam turbo group, with the gas turbo group comprising at least one compressor, at least one combustion chamber and at least one gas turbine, the heat recovery steam generator having at least one pressure stage and the steam turbo group comprising at least one steam turbine, in which combined-cycle power station air is compressed in a compressor, is then supplied as combustion air to a combustion chamber, the hot gas which is produced there is passed to a gas turbine, and the exhaust gas from the gas turbine is used in a heat recovery steam generator to produce steam for a steam turbo group, an immediate and rapid increase in the power output is achieved, and an additional power output from the combined-cycle power station is maintained in safe operating conditions, in that an supplemental firing is arranged to provide additional he

Abstract: A method for adapting a parameter of a hot gas of a hot-gas generator having a downstream technological process. The method includes emitting a mass flow of the hot gas from the hot-gas generator into a connecting element, discharging a first portion of the mass flow from the connecting element using an exhaust, feeding a second portion of the mass flow to the technological process using the connecting element, and influencing a temperature of the hot gas between the hot-gas generator and the technological process. In addition, an arrangement for adapting a parameter of a hot gas.

Abstract: In a process for thermally degassing the water in a steam system, in particular a heat recovery steam generator, which steam system preferably includes at least one steam drum, at least one economizer connected upstream of it, and at least one evaporator, economic, efficient and structurally simple degassing is achieved by virtue of the fact that water is sucked out of at least one water volume, this water is mixed with steam from a steam volume, and the two-phase mixture that is formed flows out into the water volume.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for thermally degassing a condensate or feedwater by heating the condensate or feedwater in a feedwater vessel/degassing means, to which preheated condensate is fed and from which feedwater for heating surfaces heated in a heat recovery steam generator is removed. Structurally simple degassing, advantageous in thermal terms, is achieved by virtue of the fact that the condensate is preheated in a first condensate preheater, and that a partial stream of the preheated condensate, which is preheated further in a second condensate preheater, is used to heat the condensate or feedwater in the feedwater vessel/degassing means.

Abstract: A flow machine is shown with a compressor and at least one turbine, and in which an air intake booster is arranged in an intake duct of the compressor, and an exhaust gas booster is arranged in an exhaust gas duct of the at least one turbine. In operation of the flow machine, the individual booster stages are operated, singly or in combination, in dependence on the specific operating conditions. The flow machine and the associated operating process make possible an economical mode of operation of the flow machine.

Abstract: In a method for maintaining a combined-cycle power station at readiness, an supplemental firing (44) with a fresh air supply fan (46) and, preferably, the feed and supply pumps (21, 23, 31, 38) are operated continuously or intermittently when the combined-cycle power station is not in use, in order to maintain specific states and media flows in the two-phase circuit of the combined-cycle power station. In one embodiment of the invention, the media in the two-phase circuit are prevented from freezing by means of the supplemental firing. Furthermore, media states which prevent air -from entering while the power station is not in use and which thus prevent corrosion damage can also be maintained. In addition to this protective maintenance of readiness, the supplemental firing is also used when the combined-cycle power station is not in use, in order to produce and maintain conditions which allow the combined-cycle power station to be started and loaded quickly.