Patents Assigned to MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
  • Patent number: 11920486
    Abstract: A high-temperature component according to an embodiment is a high-temperature component which requires to be cooled by a cooling medium, and includes: a plurality of cooling passages through which the cooling medium is able to flow; and a first partition wall disposed inside each of the cooling passages to partition the cooling passage into a plurality of first branch flow passages. The first partition wall includes an oblique portion formed such that, in an upstream side region of the first partition wall, a flow-passage cross-sectional area of the cooling passage as seen in an extension direction of the cooling passage gradually decreases from an upstream side toward a downstream side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Koichiro Iida, Yoshinori Wakita, Taro Tokutake, Shuji Tanigawa, Ryuta Ito
  • Patent number: 11834969
    Abstract: A steam turbine plant includes a chemical supply part configured to supply a pH adjuster to feedwater to a steam generator, an adjustment part for adjusting a supply amount of the pH adjuster to the feedwater by the chemical supply part, and at least one carbon steel component that includes a pipe or a device formed from carbon steel and through which the feedwater flows, the carbon steel component being configured such that an internal temperature at least partially falls within a range of not less than 120° C. and not greater than 180° C. under load operating condition of the steam turbine plant. The adjustment part is configured to, under the load operating condition, adjust the supply amount of the pH adjuster such that pH of the feedwater in each of the at least one carbon steel component is not less than 9.8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Hamasaki, Haruka Kido, Mitsuru Nakamoto, Senichi Tsubakizaki
  • Patent number: 11834962
    Abstract: A turbine stator vane includes; an airfoil portion; a shroud disposed on at least one of the side of a tip end portion or the side of a root end portion of the airfoil portion; and a protruding portion protruding toward the opposite side to the airfoil portion across a gas path surface in a radial direction. The shroud includes: a circumferential-direction passage disposed at the side of a trailing edge and extending in a circumferential direction; and a plurality of trailing edge end portion passages arranged in the circumferential direction at the side of the trailing edge, each trailing edge end portion passage having a first end portion connected to the circumferential-direction passage and a second end portion having an opening on a trailing edge end surface of the shroud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Hada, Yoshifumi Okajima, Kunihiko Waki
  • Patent number: 11746663
    Abstract: A high-temperature component according to an embodiment is a high-temperature component which requires cooling by a cooling medium, and includes: a plurality of cooling passages through which the cooling medium is able to flow; a header portion to which downstream ends of the plurality of first cooling passages are connected; and at least one outlet passage for discharging the cooling medium flowing into the header portion to outside of the header portion. A roughness of an inner wall surface of the at least one outlet passage is not greater than a roughness of an inner wall surface of the plurality of first cooling passages in a region where a flow-passage cross-sectional area of the outlet passage is the smallest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Shuji Tanigawa, Koichiro Iida, Ryuta Ito, Taro Tokutake, Yoshinori Wakita
  • Patent number: 11732644
    Abstract: A gas turbine combined-cycle power plant can comprise a gas turbine engine, a heat recovery steam generator, a steam turbine, a fuel regasification system and a Rankine Cycle system. The gas turbine engine can comprise a compressor for generating compressed air, a combustor that can receive a fuel and the compressed air to produce combustion gas, and a turbine for receiving the combustion gas and generating exhaust gas. The heat recovery steam generator is configured to generate steam from water utilizing the exhaust gas. The steam turbine is configured to produce power from steam from the heat recovery steam generator. The fuel regasification system is configured to convert the fuel from a liquid to a gas before entering the combustor. The Organic Rankine Cycle system is configured to cool compressed air extracted from the compressor to cool the gas turbine engine, and heat liquid fuel entering the fuel regasification system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Power Americas, Inc., Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shimin Deng
  • Patent number: 11702944
    Abstract: A high-temperature component including a plurality of cooling passages through which the cooling medium can flow, a header connected to respective downstream ends of the plurality of cooling passages, and one or more outlet passages for discharging the cooling medium flowing into the header to outside of the header. The one or more outlet passages are less in number than the plurality of cooling passages. Respective minimum flow passage cross-sectional areas of the one or more outlet passages are not less than respective flow passage cross-sectional areas of the plurality of cooling passages in a connection between the header and the cooling passages. A sum of the respective minimum flow passage cross-sectional areas of the one or more outlet passages is less than a sum of the respective flow passage cross-sectional areas of the plurality of cooling passages in the connection between the header and the cooling passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Taro Tokutake, Ryuta Ito, Koichiro Iida, Yoshinori Wakita, Shuji Tanigawa
  • Publication number: 20220349346
    Abstract: An acoustic attenuator comprises a first attenuation unit, a second attenuation unit, a welded section, and a communication part. A first acoustic damper is provided on an outer surface of a first acoustic liner, which faces toward a side opposite from an object, to form a first damper space that communicates with an internal space of the object. The second attenuation unit is attached to an outer surface of the object. The welded section is provided at least between the first acoustic damper and a second acoustic damper. The welded section secures the second attenuation unit to the first acoustic liner. The communication part is disposed in a position farther from an outer surface of the object than the welded section, allowing communication between the first damper space and a second damper space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Shiraishi, Tatsuya Nadayoshi, Kentaro Murakami
  • Patent number: 11441774
    Abstract: A method for operating a flue gas purification system, comprising, in the flue gas purification system, equipped with a boiler which can burn oil fuel and coal fuel either simultaneously or switching therebetween, a denitration equipment having a reducing agent injector and a catalytic reactor, an inlet flue to guide flue gas discharged from the boiler to the denitration equipment, an outlet flue to guide flue gas discharged from the denitration equipment, a bypass flue which can guide flue gas from the inlet flue to the outlet flue so as to bypass the denitration equipment, and a bypass damper, opening the bypass damper and burning oil fuel in the boiler being in condition not yet suitable for coal combustion to allow the flue gas discharged from the boiler to dividedly flow to the denitration equipment and the bypass flue, switching the oil fuel to coal fuel when the boiler is in condition suitable for coal combustion to burn the coal fuel in the boiler, closing the bypass damper after switching the oil fue
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Ii, Akira Hirota, Satoru Shishido, Katsuhiro Yashiro, Hiroyuki Yoshimura, Nobuaki Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11441428
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes an airfoil portion having a pressure surface and a suction surface each of which extends between a leading edge and a trailing edge, and a platform including an end wall to which a base-end portion of the airfoil portion is connected. The end wall includes a concave portion on suction surface disposed at least in a region of suction surface of the end wall, and a convex portion on pressure surface disposed at least in a region of pressure surface of the end wall. The concave portion on suction surface has a bottom point located on an axially upstream side of a tangent point on the suction surface, the suction surface having a tangential line extending in an axial direction through the tangent point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeki Senoo, Kazuhiro Momma, Reza Abhari, Anestis Kalfas, Ilias Papagiannis, Vahid Iranidokht
  • Patent number: 11437634
    Abstract: A fuel cell system that comprises an SOFC that generates power as a result of an oxide gas being supplied to an air electrode and a fuel gas being supplied to a fuel electrode, a plurality of exhaust fuel gas discharge lines that discharge, into the atmosphere, exhaust fuel gas that has been discharged from the fuel electrode, exhaust fuel gas discharge valves that are respectively provided to the plurality of exhaust fuel gas discharge lines, a plurality of exhaust oxide gas discharge lines that discharge, into the atmosphere, exhaust oxide gas that has been discharged from the air electrode, exhaust oxide gas discharge valves that are respectively provided to the plurality of exhaust oxide gas discharge lines, and a control device that, when stopping the SOFC, closes the exhaust oxide gas discharge valves before the exhaust fuel gas discharge valves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Irie, Takuma Nagai
  • Patent number: 11428409
    Abstract: A combustor includes: a fuel nozzle for injecting fuel; a combustion liner surrounding a combustion space for combusting the fuel and having an internal passage having an outlet communicating with the combustion space; and an air-fuel mixture line, connected to an inlet of the internal passage of the combustion liner, for introducing an air-fuel mixture containing the fuel and compressed air to the internal passage. The combustion liner is configured to be cooled by the air-fuel mixture flowing through the internal passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Kei Inoue, Keijiro Saito, Yuichi Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20220259982
    Abstract: A seal member is disposed between a rotor and a stator to provide a seal between the rotor and the stator. The seal member comprises: a rotary-side member fixed to a surface of the rotor opposing the stator; a fixed-side member fixed to the stator and facing the rotary-side member; and a first fin and a second fin which are disposed on one of the rotary-side member and the fixed-side member, the first fin protruding on the opposing surface side, the second fin being disposed on a lower pressure side in a rotating axis direction relative to the first fin and protruding on the opposing surface side. The thickness, in the rotating axis direction, of the second fin at the root thereof is greater than the thickness, in the rotating axis direction, of the first fin at the root thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD
    Inventors: Tatsuro Furusho, Shin Nishimoto, Hidekazu Uehara, Kohei Ozaki, Azumi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11415078
    Abstract: In the present invention, a coal gasification combined power generation facility comprises: a feed water supply line (72); a condensate pump (39) and an intermediate-pressure feed water pump (40); a turbine bypass line (32) that bypasses a steam turbine and supplies steam to the condenser (73); and a spray water line (76) that supplies the feed water to the turbine bypass line (32). The coal gasification combined power generation facility has a normal operation mode and a bypass operation mode, and in the bypass operation mode, a control device (80) supplies the feed water to the turbine bypass line (32) and performs a first opening degree control to control the opening degree of the supply adjustment valve so that the amount of feed water supplied to the exhaust heat recovery boiler becomes less than that in the normal operation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoya Hayashi, Jun Taguchi, Satoru Matsuo, Kei Moriyama, Ken Tamura, Kentaro Nakamura, Yuji Ohta
  • Publication number: 20220236232
    Abstract: An ultrasonic inspection device is an device for ultrasonically inspecting a rotor disc. The ultrasonic inspection device includes: an inspecting portion that has an ultrasonic probe for transmitting an ultrasonic wave to a disc surface of the rotor disc; a first magnet that movably holds the ultrasonic probe relative to the disc surface of the rotor disc; a drive wheel that causes the ultrasonic probe to move in a direction that intersects a radial direction of the rotor disc; a steering wheel that adjusts a moving direction of the drive wheel; a stroke sensor that detects the radial position of the ultrasonic probe being held relative to the disc surface; and a control device that controls the steering wheel on the basis of information detected by the stroke sensor such that the radial position of the ultrasonic probe falls within a predetermined range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Kamibayashi, Atsushi Sugiura, Takuro Masuda
  • Publication number: 20220235674
    Abstract: This steam turbine is provided with: a steam turbine rotor which extends in an axial direction; a pair of bearings which support the steam turbine rotor in such a way as to be capable of rotating about the axial direction; a steam turbine casing which encloses the steam turbine rotor between the pair of bearings; a casing support unit which supports the steam turbine casing from below; and a first heating unit: which is provided on the casing support unit and which is capable of heating the casing support unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Kondo, Katsuhisa Hamada
  • Publication number: 20220228510
    Abstract: A steam turbine stator vane includes a vane body portion which has a vane surface including a pressure surface and a suction surface, a moisture removal channel disposed in the vane body portion, at least one slit opening to the vane surface to communicate with the moisture removal channel and extending along a height direction from a base end portion toward a tip end portion of the vane body portion, and at least one groove portion disposed in the vane surface and extending from the base end portion along the height direction, at least a part of the at least one groove portion overlapping the at least one slit along the height direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryo Takata, Yasuhiro Sasao, Naoto Tochitani, Soichiro Tabata
  • Publication number: 20220231316
    Abstract: A fuel cell system includes fuel cell stacks, each of which includes a plurality of fuel cells that are connected in series and generate electricity through an electrochemical reaction between a fuel gas and an oxidant gas, fuel cell cartridges, each of which has headers that supplies the fuel gas and the oxidant gas to the fuel cell stacks and discharges a fuel off-gas and an oxidant off-gas from the fuel cell stacks, a fuel gas supply line that supplies the fuel gas to the fuel cell cartridges, a fuel off-gas discharge line that discharges the fuel off-gas from the fuel cell cartridges, and a first adjustment member provided in the fuel gas supply line or the fuel off-gas discharge line, and adjusting a flow rate of the fuel gas or the fuel off-gas, the first adjustment member including a first flexible pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicants: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Kuniyuki TAKAHASHI, Taichiro KATO
  • Publication number: 20220223890
    Abstract: A fuel system includes a fuel cell module including a solid oxide fuel cell stack that generates electricity through an electrochemical reaction between a fuel gas and an oxidant gas, a control unit that controls the fuel cell module, a detection unit for detecting a loss of control by the control unit, and an opening and closing apparatus configured to maintain gases inside the fuel cell module or release the gases in the fuel cell module outside the fuel cell module. The opening and closing apparatus releases the gasses inside the fuel cell module outside the fuel cell module upon detecting a loss of control of the control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicants: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventor: Kuniyuki TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20220223892
    Abstract: Provided is a fuel cell system that can prevent oxidation degradation of a fuel electrode, even in the case where a control unit stops abnormally. A fuel cell system (1) comprises an SOFC (10) that generates electricity through an electrochemical reaction between a reduction gas and an oxidant gas, a control unit (40) that controls the supply of the reduction gas and the oxidant gas to the SOFC, a detection unit (45) that detects a stopping of a normal signal of the control unit or detects an abnormal signal of the control unit transmitted from the control unit, and a maintenance unit (50) that keeps a fuel electrode of the SOFC in a reduced state according to a detection result from the detection unit. The maintenance unit includes a hydrogen supply system (51) that supplies hydrogen to the fuel electrode as the reduction gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicants: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventor: Kuniyuki TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: D960833
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Murata, Eiichi Tsutsumi