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Abstract

In a PFBC power plant having a bed vessel containing a bed of fluidizable particulate material enclosed within a pressure vessel and surrounded by compressed combustion air, a gas turbine-compressor unit driven by combustion gases from the bed vessel, a first cut-off valve in a supply conduit for propellent gas to a turbine; a second cut-off valve in the conduit from a compressor to the bed vessel, a third cut-off valve in a by-pass conduit between the turbine and the compressor, and a blow-off valve in a conduit for dumping combustion gases from the bed vessel, a method of controlling such power plant in the event of an operational disturbance in the turbine unit comprises the steps of isolating the compressor-turbine unit from the bed vessel by closing the first cut-off valve in the supply conduit and the second cut-off valve in the conduit from the compressor to the bed vessel, short-circuiting the compressor-turbine unit by opening the valve in the bypass conduit, dumping the combustion gases by opening the blow-off valve, and injecting cooling water into the gases being dumped in the conduit for dumping gases between the bed vessel and the blow-off valve.

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