Patents by Inventor Atsuhiro Yukumoto

Atsuhiro Yukumoto has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240067587
    Abstract: An olefin production device for producing an olefin from a raw material gas containing methane and oxygen includes a reactor containing: a first catalyst; and a second catalyst disposed downstream of the first catalyst in a flow direction of the raw material gas. The first catalyst is a catalyst in which a zirconium salt or carbonate of an alkali metal, an oxide of an alkaline earth metal, an oxide of one kind of lanthanoid element, a composite oxide containing a lanthanoid element, or a combination thereof is supported on a support. The second catalyst is a catalyst containing a tungsten oxide, phosphate, or carbonate of an alkali metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Koichiro Yoshitoku, Yukio Tanaka, Atsuhiro Yukumoto, Noriaki Senba, Kazuhiro Takanabe
  • Publication number: 20240058850
    Abstract: A waste treatment system 100 for performing a hydrothermal treatment of wastes includes a hydrothermal treatment device 10 for performing the hydrothermal treatment by bringing steam into contact with the wastes, a storage facility 8, 9 for storing a fuel produced from a reactant of the hydrothermal treatment, and a heat recovery steam generator 18 for generating the steam to be supplied to the hydrothermal treatment device 10. The heat recovery steam generator 18 is configured to generate the steam by using a combustion energy generated by combustion of the fuel stored in the storage facility 8, 9.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Atsuhiro YUKUMOTO, Akira Noma, Yoshio Seiki, Yasumichi Aoki, Nobuyuki Ukai, Kazuhiro Kawai, Jun Satou, Susumu Okino
  • Patent number: 11839909
    Abstract: A waste treatment system 100 for performing a hydrothermal treatment of wastes includes a hydrothermal treatment device 10 for performing the hydrothermal treatment by bringing steam into contact with the wastes, a storage facility 8, 9 for storing a fuel produced from a reactant of the hydrothermal treatment, and a heat recovery steam generator 18 for generating the steam to be supplied to the hydrothermal treatment device 10. The heat recovery steam generator 18 is configured to generate the steam by using a combustion energy generated by combustion of the fuel stored in the storage facility 8, 9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Yukumoto, Akira Noma, Yoshio Seiki, Yasumichi Aoki, Nobuyuki Ukai, Kazuhiro Kawai, Jun Satou, Susumu Okino
  • Publication number: 20230242682
    Abstract: A partial oxidative coupling catalyst has a structure in which a component represented by M2ZrO3 is supported on a support, where M represents an alkali metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Yukumoto, Yukio Tanaka, Noriaki Senba, Kazuhiro Takanabe, Bhavin Siritanaratkul
  • Publication number: 20220162136
    Abstract: A waste treatment system comprises: a first hydrothermal treatment device for performing hydrothermal treatment of waste; a first solid-liquid separation device for separating a first reactant of the first hydrothermal treatment device into a solid and a liquid or slurry; a second hydrothermal treatment device for performing hydrothermal treatment of the solid of the first reactant; a second solid-liquid separation device for separating a second reactant of the second hydrothermal treatment device into a solid and a liquid or slurry; and a fermentation device for fermenting the liquid or the slurry of the first reactant and the liquid or the slurry of the second reactant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Atsuhiro YUKUMOTO, Akira NOMA, Jun SATOU, Yasumichi AOKI, Daiki YAMAGUCHI, Yoshio SEIKI, Kazuto KOBAYASHI, Susumu OKINO, Satoshi WAKUI
  • Patent number: 11059011
    Abstract: A reforming device 1 for producing a reformed gas from a methane-containing gas containing methane and carbon dioxide includes a reforming reaction tube 10 containing a catalyst layer 12 filled with a reforming catalyst 12a for reforming the methane-containing gas, and a multilayer pipe 103 for spraying a cooling fluid to an outer peripheral surface of the reforming reaction tube 10 at a position corresponding to a gas inlet of the catalyst layer 12 in a length direction of the catalyst layer 12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Yukumoto, Shinya Tachibana
  • Publication number: 20210146410
    Abstract: A waste treatment system 100 for performing a hydrothermal treatment of wastes includes a hydrothermal treatment device 10 for performing the hydrothermal treatment by bringing steam into contact with the wastes, a storage facility 8, 9 for storing a fuel produced from a reactant of the hydrothermal treatment, and a heat recovery steam generator 18 for generating the steam to be supplied to the hydrothermal treatment device 10. The heat recovery steam generator 18 is configured to generate the steam by using a combustion energy generated by combustion of the fuel stored in the storage facility 8, 9.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Atsuhiro YUKUMOTO, Akira NOMA, Yoshio SEIKI, Yasumichi AOKI, Nobuyuki UKAI, Kazuhiro KAWAI, Jun SATOU, Susumu OKINO
  • Patent number: 10940431
    Abstract: A reclaiming method is disclosed including conducting evaporation by introducing a part of the absorbent to recover CO2 or H2S in a gas in a closed system recovery unit and separating a degraded substance contained in the absorbent from the absorbent to be introduced into an evaporator and obtain recovery steam containing an absorbent and CO2 or H2S by a heating section that is provided on a circulation line that circulates in the evaporator; and removing ionic degraded substance by cooling the concentrate obtained in the evaporation and removing an ionic degraded substance in the concentrate after the cooling, wherein a purified concentrate from which the ionic degraded substance has been removed is reused as a purified absorbent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINEERING, LTD.
    Inventors: Akiyori Hagimoto, Tsuyoshi Oishi, Tsutomu Hamada, Atsuhiro Yukumoto
  • Patent number: 10835863
    Abstract: An absorption column is equipped with: a CO2 absorption section absorbing CO2 from CO2-containing exhaust gas using a lean solution; a main rinse section recovering an entrained CO2 absorbent using rinse water; a rinse water circulation line circulating a rinse water containing the CO2 absorbent recovered in a liquid storage section of the main rinse section; a pre-rinse section provided between the CO2 absorption section and the main rinse section; a rinse section extraction liquid supply line extracting a portion of the rinse water containing the CO2 absorbent from the rinse water circulation line, and introducing the same into a reflux section of an absorption liquid regeneration tower; and a refluxed water supply line extracting a portion of refluxed water, introducing the same as pre-rinse water for the pre-rinse section, and connected on the pre-rinse section side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINEERING, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tanaka, Takuya Hirata, Atsuhiro Yukumoto, Tsuyoshi Oishi, Takahiko Endo, Tatsuya Tsujiuchi
  • Patent number: 10822566
    Abstract: A biomass fuel manufacturing plant includes: a separating section that separates oil and water from oil-containing wastewater discharged from an essential oil plant that refines essential oil from fruits containing fats and oils, and separates the oil and water into POME oil and treated water; a discharged oil supply line that supplies at least one of the POME oil, discharged oil at compressing discharged when compressing empty fruit bunches, and discharged oil at crushing discharged when crushing the empty fruit bunches, to at least one or more locations of a carbonization section that generates carbide by performing heat treatment with respect to the empty fruit bunches discharged from the essential oil plant and a fuel generation section that generates a fuel from the carbide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasumichi Aoki, Akira Noma, Yoshio Seiki, Atsuhiro Yukumoto
  • Patent number: 10718564
    Abstract: A gas liquefaction apparatus includes at least a source-gas supply line that supplies source gas; a room-temperature heat exchanger, a preliminary-cooling heat exchanger, and a liquefaction/supercooling heat exchanger that are provided in series sequentially in the source-gas supply line and that cool the source gas; a separation drum that separates the source gas containing a condensate, which has been cooled by heat exchange up to a liquefaction temperature of the source gas or below, into a gas component and a liquefied component; and a refrigerant-gas supply line that uses a gas component separated by the separation drum as refrigerant gas to supply the refrigerant gas in a direction opposite to a supply direction of the source gas, in order of the liquefaction/supercooling heat exchanger, the preliminary-cooling heat exchanger, and the room-temperature heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd.
    Inventors: Wataru Matsubara, Atsuhiro Yukumoto, Nobuyuki Nishioka, Hiroyuki Furuichi, Takeo Shinoda, Hiroshi Shiomi
  • Publication number: 20200139325
    Abstract: A reforming device 1 for producing a reformed gas from a methane-containing gas containing methane and carbon dioxide includes a reforming reaction tube 10 containing a catalyst layer 12 filled with a reforming catalyst 12a for reforming the methane-containing gas, and a multilayer pipe 103 for spraying a cooling fluid to an outer peripheral surface of the reforming reaction tube 10 at a position corresponding to a gas inlet of the catalyst layer 12 in a length direction of the catalyst layer 12.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Atsuhiro YUKUMOTO, Shinya TACHIBANA
  • Publication number: 20200016529
    Abstract: A reclaiming method is disclosed including conducting evaporation by introducing a part of the absorbent to recover CO2 or H2S in a gas in a closed system recovery unit and separating a degraded substance contained in the absorbent from the absorbent to be introduced into an evaporator and obtain recovery steam containing an absorbent and CO2 or H2S by a heating section that is provided on a circulation line that circulates in the evaporator; and removing ionic degraded substance by cooling the concentrate obtained in the evaporation and removing an ionic degraded substance in the concentrate after the cooling, wherein a purified concentrate from which the ionic degraded substance has been removed is reused as a purified absorbent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINEERING, LTD.
    Inventors: Akiyori Hagimoto, Tsuyoshi Oishi, Tsutomu Hamada, Atsuhiro Yukumoto
  • Patent number: 10471379
    Abstract: An evaporator is provided that separates, from a degraded substance, an absorbent branched off and introduced, a heating section which is interposed on a circulation line L21 that circulates the absorbent introduced into this evaporator, heats the circulating absorbent to obtain gaseous recovery steam containing a vaporized absorbent and CO2, a concentrate branch line L22 that branches off a part of the absorbent circulating through the circulation line L21 at a bottom of the evaporator from the circulation line L21 as a concentrate, a cooler that is interposed on this concentrate branch line L22 and cools the concentrate, an ionic degraded substance removal section that removes an ionic degraded substance in the cooled concentrate, and a purified absorbent discharge line L23 that reuses the concentrate as a purified absorbent from which the ionic degraded substance is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINEERING, LTD.
    Inventors: Akiyori Hagimoto, Tsuyoshi Oishi, Tsutomu Hamada, Atsuhiro Yukumoto
  • Patent number: 10456737
    Abstract: An absorbing liquid which absorbs the CO2 or H2S or both contained in a gas, and which comprises 1) at least one tertiary-monoamine main agent selected from a tertiary-monoamine group and 2) at least one secondary-diamine first additive selected from a secondary-diamine group, the secondary-diamine concentration being within the range of 0.05 to 0.5 in terms of the additive concentration index represented by the following expression (I). (Additive concentration index)=[(secondary-diamine acid dissociation index) (pKa)/(tertiary-monoamine acid dissociation index) (pKa)] (index ratio)×[(secondary-diamine molar concentration) (mol/L)/(tertiary-monoamine molar concentration) (mol/L)] (molar ratio) (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINEERING, LTD., THE KANSAI ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tanaka, Takuya Hirata, Atsuhiro Yukumoto, Tsuyoshi Oishi, Takahiko Endo, Tatsuya Tsujiuchi
  • Patent number: 10449481
    Abstract: A CO2 recovery unit and a CO2 recovery method capable of having an excellent CO2 absorption rate and saving energy are provided. A CO2 recovery unit of the invention includes: a CO2 absorber which includes an upper CO2 absorption unit obtaining a CO2 absorbent by causing a flue gas containing CO2 to contact a CO2 absorbent and a lower CO2 absorption unit obtaining a CO2 absorbent by causing the CO2 absorbent to contact a flue gas containing CO2; a CO2 absorbent regenerator which obtains the CO2 absorbent by heating the CO2 absorbent a thermometer which measures a temperature of the CO2 absorbent supplied from the CO2 absorber to the CO2 absorbent regenerator; and a control device which controls a temperature of the CO2 absorbent supplied to the lower CO2 absorption unit based on the temperature of the CO2 absorbent measured by the thermometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINEERING, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Yukumoto, Takuya Hirata, Hiroshi Tanaka, Akiyori Hagimoto, Haruaki Hirayama, Tsuyoshi Oishi
  • Publication number: 20190153346
    Abstract: A biomass fuel manufacturing plant includes: a separating section that separates oil and water from oil-containing wastewater discharged from an essential oil plant that refines essential oil from fruits containing fats and oils, and separates the oil and water into POME oil and treated water; a discharged oil supply line that supplies at least one of the POME oil, discharged oil at compressing discharged when compressing empty fruit bunches, and discharged oil at crushing discharged when crushing the empty fruit bunches, to at least one or more locations of a carbonization section that generates carbide by performing heat treatment with respect to the empty fruit bunches discharged from the essential oil plant and a fuel generation section that generates a fuel from the carbide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Yasumichi AOKI, Akira NOMA, Yoshio SEIKI, Atsuhiro YUKUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190111385
    Abstract: An absorption column is equipped with: a CO2 absorption section absorbing CO2 from CO2-containing exhaust gas using a lean solution; a main rinse section recovering an entrained CO2 absorbent using rinse water; a rinse water circulation line circulating a rinse water containing the CO2 absorbent recovered in a liquid storage section of the main rinse section; a pre-rinse section provided between the CO2 absorption section and the main rinse section; a rinse section extraction liquid supply line extracting a portion of the rinse water containing the CO2 absorbent from the rinse water circulation line, and introducing the same into a reflux section of an absorption liquid regeneration tower; and a refluxed water supply line extracting a portion of refluxed water, introducing the same as pre-rinse water for the pre-rinse section, and connected on the pre-rinse section side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINEERING LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tanaka, Takuya Hirata, Atsuhiro Yukumoto, Tsuyoshi Oishi, Takahiko Endo, Tatsuya Tsujiuchi
  • Patent number: 10201781
    Abstract: An absorption column is equipped with: a CO2 absorption section absorbing CO2 from CO2-containing exhaust gas using a lean solution; a main rinse section recovering an entrained CO2 absorbent using rinse water; a rinse water circulation line circulating a rinse water containing the CO2 absorbent recovered in a liquid storage section of the main rinse section; a pre-rinse section provided between the CO2 absorption section and the main rinse section; a rinse section extraction liquid supply line extracting a portion of the rinse water containing the CO2 absorbent from the rinse water circulation line, and introducing the same into a reflux section of an absorption liquid regeneration tower; and a refluxed water supply line extracting a portion of refluxed water, introducing the same as pre-rinse water for the pre-rinse section, and connected on the pre-rinse section side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINEERING, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tanaka, Takuya Hirata, Atsuhiro Yukumoto, Tsuyoshi Oishi, Takahiko Endo, Tatsuya Tsujiuchi
  • Patent number: 10137415
    Abstract: Provided are a reclaimer 51 that introduces, through a branch line L11, and stores a part 17a of an absorbent 17 regenerated in a regenerator of a recovery unit that recovers CO2 or H2S in a gas, a first alkaline agent supply section 53A that supplies an alkaline agent 52 to the reclaimer 51, a heating section 54 that heats the absorbent 17 stored in the reclaimer 51 and to which the alkaline agent 52 has been mixed to obtain recovered vapor 61, a first vapor cooler 55A that cools the recovered vapor 61 discharged from the reclaimer 51 through a vapor line L12, a first gas-liquid separator 56A that separates a coexisting substance 62 entrained in the cooled recovered vapor 61 into a recovered absorption agent vapor (gas) 17b and the liquid coexisting substance 62 by gas-liquid separation, and an introduction line L13 that introduces the recovered absorption agent vapor 17b separated in the first gas-liquid separator 56A into a regenerator 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINEERING, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tanaka, Hiromitsu Nagayasu, Takuya Hirata, Atsuhiro Yukumoto, Tsuyoshi Oishi, Shinsuke Nakatani