Abstract: An apparatus includes a closed gas system having: a working circuit in which a compressor for a working fluid, a first heat exchanger for heating the working fluid, an expander and a second heat exchanger for cooling the working fluid are arranged; a first pressurised gas tank and a first gas pipe which branches off from the working circuit between the compressor and the first heat exchanger and opens into the first pressurised gas tank; and a second gas pipe which branches off from the first pressurised gas tank and opens into the working circuit between the expander and the second heat exchanger. A method controls pressure in a closed gas system using the apparatus.

Abstract: A power plant including a compressor, a combustion chamber and a turbine, and a compressor air line, which connects the compressor to the combustion chamber, a first heat exchanger connected into the compressor air line and into an exhaust line branching off the turbine. A first expander is arranged between the first heat exchanger and the combustion chamber in the compressor air line, and the first expander and the compressor are arranged on a common shaft.

Abstract: A power plant with a multi-stage intercooled compressor, a combustion chamber, a turbine which is arranged downstream of the combustion chamber, a compressor air line which connects the compressor to the combustion chamber, and a first heat exchanger which is connected into the compressor air line and into an exhaust gas line branching off from the turbine. A first compressor air expander is arranged in the compressor air line between the first heat exchanger and the combustion chamber, and the power plant includes a device for regasifying liquid natural gas, having a natural gas line, wherein a heat exchanger device is connected into the natural gas line between two compressor stages of the compressor.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for generating electrical energy and for vaporising a cryogenically liquefied gas, the device having a conduit for the cryogenically liquefied gas, a pump located in the conduit, a heat engine, and a waste-heat recovery system downstream of the heat engine, wherein a branch conduit branches off from the conduit and the branch conduit leads into the heat engine, and wherein the apparatus also has a fluid circuit with the following components arranged successively in the flow direction of the fluid: a first heat exchanger which is also connected in the flow direction of the cryogenically liquefied gas past the pump into the conduit; a compressor; a second heat exchanger; parallel to one another, a third heat exchanger with a first side, and the waste-heat recovery system; a depressurising machine having a coupled generator; and the third heat exchanger with a second side.

Abstract: A power plant with a gas turbine which includes a compressor, a combustion chamber, and a turbine. The power plant additionally includes a natural gas line for transporting liquid and gaseous natural gas, a natural gas compressor which is connected into the natural gas line for increasing a liquid natural gas pressure, and an expander which is likewise connected into the natural gas line. The power plant additionally includes a first heat exchanger which is connected between the natural gas compressor and the expander for evaporating liquid natural gas and a second heat exchanger for additionally heating the regasified natural gas, wherein the power plant has a waste heat steam generator, and the second heat exchanger is coupled to a condensate preheater in the waste heat steam generator.

Abstract: A power plant with a multi-stage intercooled compressor, a combustion chamber, a turbine which is arranged downstream of the combustion chamber, a compressor air line which connects the compressor to the combustion chamber, and a first heat exchanger which is connected into the compressor air line and into an exhaust gas line branching off from the turbine. A first compressor air expander is arranged in the compressor air line between the first heat exchanger and the combustion chamber, and the power plant includes a device for regasifying liquid natural gas, having a natural gas line, wherein a heat exchanger device is connected into the natural gas line between two compressor stages of the compressor.

Abstract: A combined cycle turbine plant having at least one gas turbine, a steam turbine and at least one waste heat steam generator. The waste heat steam generator has at least one condensate pre-heater into which a condensate line discharges, and has a feed water pre-heater which is connected upstream of the condensate pre-heater in the flow direction of a gas turbine flue gas and upstream of which, on the feed water side, there is connected a feed water pump, and which is connected to a fuel preheating unit for the gas turbine. From the fuel preheating unit a line for cooled feed water discharges into a motive medium inlet of a jet pump of which the suction medium inlet is connected to an outlet of the condensate pre-heater and of which the outlet is connected to the condensate line. A corresponding method recirculates condensate in a combined cycle turbine plant.

Abstract: A power plant including a compressor, a combustion chamber and a turbine, and a compressor air line, which connects the compressor to the combustion chamber, a first heat exchanger connected into the compressor air line and into an exhaust line branching off the turbine. A first expander is arranged between the first heat exchanger and the combustion chamber in the compressor air line, and the first expander and the compressor are arranged on a common shaft.

Abstract: A power plant and method for preserving a power plant, the power plant having a steam turbine with a shaft, further including a condenser mounted downstream of the steam turbine in the direction of flow of the steam, a vacuum pump mounted downstream of the condenser, a compressed steam system with shaft seals, and a compressed steam supply line extending into the shaft seals; a first nitrogen line extends into the condenser, and a second nitrogen line as well as a recirculation line that branches off the vacuum pump extend into the compressed steam supply line.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for generating electrical energy and for vaporising a cryogenically liquefied gas, the device having a conduit for the cryogenically liquefied gas, a pump located in the conduit, a heat engine, and a waste-heat recovery system downstream of the heat engine, wherein a branch conduit branches off from the conduit and the branch conduit leads into the heat engine, and wherein the apparatus also has a fluid circuit with the following components arranged successively in the flow direction of the fluid: a first heat exchanger which is also connected in the flow direction of the cryogenically liquefied gas past the pump into the conduit; a compressor; a second heat exchanger; parallel to one another, a third heat exchanger with a first side, and the waste-heat recovery system; a depressurising machine having a coupled generator; and the third heat exchanger with a second side.

Abstract: A power plant and method for preserving a power plant, the power plant having a steam turbine with a shaft, further including a condenser mounted downstream of the steam turbine in the direction of flow of the steam, a vacuum pump mounted downstream of the condenser, a compressed steam system with shaft seals, and a compressed steam supply line extending into the shaft seals; a first nitrogen line extends into the condenser, and a second nitrogen line as well as a recirculation line that branches off the vacuum pump extend into the compressed steam supply line.

Abstract: A power plant and method for operating a power plant having a gas turbine and a generator which are arranged on a section, a shaft which connects the gas turbine to the generator in order to transmit a force, and a clutch which is arranged in the shaft between the gas turbine and the generator such that the shaft includes at least two sub-shafts, a first sub-shaft between the generator and the clutch and a second sub-shaft, which is referred to as a gas turbine intermediate shaft, between the gas turbine and the clutch. An electric motor is arranged in the section between the clutch and the gas turbine in order to accelerate the gas turbine.

Abstract: An installation for generating a three-phase AC voltage to be fed into a power supply system, having a transformer connected to a three-phase generator on the output side to convert a first three-phase AC voltage into a second three-phase AC voltage having a second voltage level, which is lower than a first voltage level and a first frequency, and having a frequency converter connected to the transformer on the output side to supply a rotor winding with a third three-phase AC voltage to convert the second three-phase AC voltage into the third three-phase AC voltage having the second voltage level and a second frequency which is lower than the first frequency, wherein the frequency converter is designed such that the second frequency corresponds to a difference between a mains frequency of the power supply system and the first frequency.

Abstract: A power plant and method for operating a power plant having a gas turbine and a generator which are arranged on a section, a shaft which connects the gas turbine to the generator in order to transmit a force, and a clutch which is arranged in the shaft between the gas turbine and the generator such that the shaft includes at least two sub-shafts, a first sub-shaft between the generator and the clutch and a second sub-shaft, which is referred to as a gas turbine intermediate shaft, between the gas turbine and the clutch. An electric motor is arranged in the section between the clutch and the gas turbine in order to accelerate the gas turbine.

Abstract: A combined cycle turbine plant having at least one gas turbine, a steam turbine and at least one waste heat steam generator. The waste heat steam generator has at least one condensate pre-heater into which a condensate line discharges, and has a feed water pre-heater which is connected upstream of the condensate pre-heater in the flow direction of a gas turbine flue gas and upstream of which, on the feed water side, there is connected a feed water pump, and which is connected to a fuel preheating unit for the gas turbine. From the fuel preheating unit a line for cooled feed water discharges into a motive medium inlet of a jet pump of which the suction medium inlet is connected to an outlet of the condensate pre-heater and of which the outlet is connected to the condensate line. A corresponding method recirculates condensate in a combined cycle turbine plant.

Abstract: A water-steam circuit of a power plant includes at least one low-pressure steam system and a reservoir for waste water from the water-steam circuit, wherein the reservoir has, in addition to at least one waste water feed line, a further heat supply from the water-steam circuit and a steam outlet which is connected via a waste steam pipe to the low-pressure steam system of the water-steam circuit. A method for cleaning waste water from a power plant having a water-steam circuit, wherein the waste water is conducted into a reservoir and, in addition to a steam fraction generated by automatic evaporation of waste water in the reservoir, a water fraction that is also produced is evaporated using energy from the water-steam circuit, and the entire steam mass flow is introduced into a low-pressure steam system of the power plant.

Abstract: A method for making a flow conducting unit cool down more slowly where the flow conducting unit has a holding unit and is penetrated by a heat transfer medium, the temperature of the heat transfer medium is reduced such that a wall of the flow conducting unit cools down, and the holding unit dissipates thermal energy such that the wall cools down more slowly.

Abstract: A gas turbine system with a compressor, a combustion chamber, a turbine, and a generator which is driven by the turbine is provided. A cooling air line is connected to a housing of the generator, wherein cooling air can be supplied to the interior of the generator via the cooling air line. The gas turbine system is characterized in that the cooling air line is connected to the compressor on the inlet side, and at least one heat exchanger and an expander, in particular a turboexpander, are arranged in the cooling air line one behind the other. In order to cool the generator, precompressed air is branched out of the compressor via the cooling air line, cooled in the heat exchanger, and expanded in the expander while being further cooled before being supplied to the interior of the generator.

Abstract: A water-steam circuit of a power plant includes at least one low-pressure steam system and a reservoir for waste water from the water-steam circuit, wherein the reservoir has, in addition to at least one waste water feed line, a further heat supply from the water-steam circuit and a steam outlet which is connected via a waste steam pipe to the low-pressure steam system of the water-steam circuit. A method for cleaning waste water from a power plant having a water-steam circuit, wherein the waste water is conducted into a reservoir and, in addition to a steam fraction generated by automatic evaporation of waste water in the reservoir, a water fraction that is also produced is evaporated using energy from the water-steam circuit, and the entire steam mass flow is introduced into a low-pressure steam system of the power plant.

Abstract: A condensate preheater for a waste-heat steam generator, including condensate preheater heating surfaces, around which exhaust gas of a gas turbine flows in operation in order to heat up water flowing in the condensate preheater heating surfaces, wherein a respective heat transfer coefficient of the condensate preheater heating surfaces is selected such that a surface temperature of the condensate preheater heating surfaces is above an exhaust gas dew point in operation, wherein the condensate preheater has a condensate preheater inlet and a condensate preheater outlet and the heat transfer coefficient at the condensate preheater inlet is reduced relative to the heat transfer coefficient at the condensate preheater outlet, is provided.