POWER GENERATING SYSTEM

• Main Author: OGATA TAIYO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 08.09.2011
• Subjects: AUXILIARY DEVICES FOR PROMOTING WATER CIRCULATION WITHINBOILERS; BLASTING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; CONTROLLING WATER LEVEL; ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; FEED-WATER SUPPLY; GEARING; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVEFUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; HEATING; LIGHTING; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; PREHEATING, OR ACCUMULATING PREHEATED, FEED-WATER; REFRIGERATION MACHINES, PLANTS OR SYSTEMS; REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; STEAM GENERATION; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL; WEAPONS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a power generating system for recovering exhaust heat from a working fluid discharged from a fluid coupling to recover slippage lost heat of the fluid coupling and of using the recovered exhaust heat (slippage lost heat) to generate electric power. SOLUTION: In the power generating system, water is supplied to a boiler 1 by a feed pump BP to generate steam, a steam turbine 2 is driven by using the generated steam to generate electric power, the steam discharged from the steam turbine 2 is condensed in a condenser 4, and then the condensed water is resupplied to the boiler 1 by the feed pump BP. The power generating system has the fluid coupling 10 provided between the feed pump BP and a driving machine M driving the feed pump PB to transmit a torque by working fluid filled in an impeller chamber, and the condensed water supplied from the condenser 4 is heated by the working fluid discharged from the fluid coupling 10. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT