Primary Inventor: Akhilesh Bapat
Contributing Inventor(s): Indresh Rampall, Vytautas Maciunas
Date of Publication: March 14, 2017
Status: Published
Jurisdiction: US
Assignee: °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û2023, Inc.
Equipment Type: Steam Sparger Device
Docket NumberHOL-086
Application Number: 14/710,852
Patent Number(s)US 9,593,598 B2

Prior Publication Data: US 2015/0330260 A1 (Nov. 19, 2015)

Related U.S. Application Data:

  • Provisional application No. 61/992,625, filed on May 13, 2014

PCT Filed: May 13, 2015
PCT No: PCT/US2015/030490
PCT Pub. No.: WO 2015/175610 A1

Abstract: A steam conditioning system for discharging bypass steam into a condenser of a steam powered generating plant and other uses. The system includes a steam conditioning device comprising an inner evaporative core and an outer shell. The core may be formed of a tubular piping section disposed at least partially inside the outer shell forming an annular space therebetween. An inlet end of the core receives steam from a piping header fluidly connected to an upstream desuperheating pressure reducing station which injects liquid coolant into the steam stream. Steam discharges through the core outlet end into the outer shell, reverses direction, and flows into the condenser. In one embodiment, the steam conditioning device may be disposed inside the dome of the condenser except for the inlet end. The device intends to increase flow residence time to evaporate entrained carryover coolant droplets in the incoming steam before release to the condenser.