VORTEX POWER PLANT OF GAS COMPRESSOR UNIT OF COMPRESSOR STATION Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC F03D3/00 

FIELD: power industry.

SUBSTANCE: vortex power plant of a gas compressor unit (GCU) of a compressor station includes a housing of hyperboloid shape (6), which is installed above exhaust pipe (1) of the gas compressor unit; in the housing centre along its axis there arranged is electric generator (8), gas/air flow guide vane (9) and single-stage turbine (10). The upper part of the housing is connected through a bearing support with an exhaust system - Venturi pipe (12) with guide vane (13), which is installed in wind direction; in the lower part of the housing there arranged is an air flow inlet guide vane; walls of its tangential channels are formed with curved panels consisting of gas cooler tubes (4) connected with metal strips; upper ends of the gas cooler tubes are connected to pipeline (7) of hot gas compressed in GCU pump, and their lower ends are connected to collecting pipeline of cooled gas (2).

EFFECT: increasing electrical power of a unit.

2 cl, 3 dwg