Preheating of fluid in a supercritical Brayton cycle power generation system at cold startup
| Patent Number: | 9,388,817 |
| Issued: | 7/12/2016 |
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| Abstract: | Various technologies pertaining to causing fluid in a supercritical Brayton cycle power generation system to flow in a desired direction at cold startup of the system are described herein. A sensor is positioned at an inlet of a turbine, wherein the sensor is configured to output sensed temperatures of fluid at the inlet of the turbine. If the sensed temperature surpasses a predefined threshold, at least one operating parameter of the power generation system is altered. |
| Filed: | 3/24/2011 |
| Application Number: | 13/70,910 |
| Government Interests: | STATEMENT OF GOVERNMENT INTEREST This invention was made with Government support under Contract No. DE-NA0003525 awarded by the United States Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration. The Government has certain rights in the invention. |