Combined cycle power plant

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8739512
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12157067

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Combined cycle power plants and related methods are disclosed here. In the plants, a mediating thermal energy storage unit is used to store waste or residual thermal energy recovered from a heat engine employing a top thermodynamic cycle of the combined cycle power plant, so that the stored residual thermal energy may be used as an energy source in a bottom thermodynamic cycle of the power plant. In the combined cycle power plants described here, the heat engine employing a top cycle may comprise a Brayton cycle heat engine and the heat engine employing the bottom thermodynamic cycle may be a Rankine cycle heat engine.

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AREVA SOLAR INC303 RAVENDALE DRIVE MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94043

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Mills, David R Palo Alto, US 39 581

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