Patents by Inventor Chie Kuwada

Chie Kuwada 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).

  • Patent number: 6894080
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing methanol comprises producing a synthesis gas, recovering carbon dioxide from combustion exhaust gas by a carbon dioxide recovery apparatus provided with a carbon dioxide absorption tower and a carbon dioxide-absorbing solution regenerating tower, feeding the carbon dioxide to the upstream side and/or the downstream side of a reformer, allowing reaction of the synthesis gas to produce a reaction product, recovering a liquid crude methanol, and distilling the liquid crude methanol in a distillation apparatus provided with a topping tower, a pressure distillation tower and an atmospheric distillation tower to isolate refined methanol. Bottom liquid of the topping tower is heated and introduced into the pressure distillation tower, and the heat of distilled liquid discharged from this tower is utilized as a heat source for the regenerating tower and as a heat source for the atmospheric distillation tower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshio Seiki, Tetsuya Imai, Kazuto Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Osora, Chie Kuwada, Kazuhiro Morita, Shuichi Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 6875794
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing methanol comprising producing a synthesis gas containing hydrogen, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, allowing reaction of the synthesis gas to take place over a catalyst to produce a crude methanol, separating the crude methanol into unreacted gas and liquid crude methanol, and distilling the liquid crude methanol to separate it into refined methanol and waste water. Carbon dioxide in combustion exhaust gas to be discharged from a reformer is recovered, and that in feeding the carbon dioxide to the upstream side and/or the downstream side of the reformer, part of the unreacted gas is utilized as a purge gas, a portion of which being utilized as a fuel for a combustion device of the reformer, while the balance of the purge gas being utilized as a fuel for other heating sources and/or as an agent for desulfurizating raw gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignees: Mitsubish Heavy Industries, Ltd., Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshio Seiki, Tetsuya Imai, Kazuto Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Osora, Chie Kuwada, Kazuhiro Morita, Shuichi Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 6812260
    Abstract: A reactor comprises a plurality of triple tubes having reaction tube, inner tube and central tube and disposed in a main body of the reactor, a first supply port formed in the main body and communicated with the central tube, and a second supply port formed in the main body and communicated with an annular space of triple tubes. The raw material introduced from the first supply port is fed into the catalyst layer to permit the reaction of the raw material to take place, and that as the activity of the catalyst is gradually lowered, the quantity of raw material to be fed to the first supply port is correspondingly reduced, and the quantity of raw material corresponding to this reduction of raw material is fed from the second supply port to the catalyst layer charged in the annular space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Osora, Yoshio Seiki, Tetsuya Imai, Kazuto Kobayashi, Chie Kuwada, Kazuhiro Morita, Shuichi Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 6753352
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of manufacturing a synthesis gas comprising reacting hydrocarbons with water vapor in a reformer to produce a synthesis gas containing hydrogen, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, recovering carbon dioxide from combustion exhaust gas which has been discharged from the reformer by a carbon dioxide recovery apparatus provided with a carbon dioxide absorption tower and with a carbon dioxide-absorbing liquid regenerating tower, and feeding the carbon dioxide thus recovered, as a component of raw gas, to the upstream side and/or the downstream side of the reformer. The hot synthesis gas produced in the reformer is utilized as a heat source for regenerating a carbon dioxide-absorbing liquid in the carbon dioxide-absorbing liquid regenerating tower of the carbon dioxide recovery apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshio Seiki, Tetsuya Imai, Kazuto Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Osora, Chie Kuwada, Kazuhiro Morita, Shuichi Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20030092945
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing methanol comprising producing a synthesis gas containing hydrogen, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, allowing reaction of the synthesis gas to take place over a catalyst to produce a crude methanol, separating the crude methanol into unreacted gas and liquid crude methanol, and distilling the liquid crude methanol to separate it into refined methanol and waste water. Carbon dioxide in combustion exhaust gas to be discharged from a reformer is recovered, and that in feeding the carbon dioxide to the upstream side and/or the downstream side of the reformer, part of the unreacted gas is utilized as a purge gas, a portion of which being utilized as a fuel for a combustion device of the reformer, while the balance of the purge gas being utilized as a fuel for other heating sources and/or as an agent for desulfurizating raw gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2002
    Publication date: May 15, 2003
    Inventors: Yoshio Seiki, Tetsuya Imai, Kazuto Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Osora, Chie Kuwada, Kazuhiro Morita, Shuichi Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20030047851
    Abstract: A reactor comprises a plurality of triple tubes having reaction tube, inner tube and central tube and disposed in a main body of the reactor, a first supply port formed in the main body and communicated with the central tube, and a second supply port formed in the main body and communicated with an annular space of triple tubes. The raw material introduced from the first supply port is fed into the catalyst layer to permit the reaction of the raw material to take place, and that as the activity of the catalyst is gradually lowered, the quantity of raw material to be fed to the first supply port is correspondingly reduced, and the quantity of raw material corresponding to this reduction of raw material is fed from the second supply port to the catalyst layer charged in the annular space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2002
    Publication date: March 13, 2003
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Osora, Yoshio Seiki, Tetsuya Imai, Kazuto Kobayashi, Chie Kuwada, Kazuhiro Morita, Shuichi Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20030032844
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing methanol comprises producing a synthesis gas, Recovering carbon dioxide from combustion exhaust gas by a carbon dioxide recovery apparatus provided with a carbon dioxide absorption tower and a carbon dioxide-absorbing solution regenerating tower, feeding the carbon dioxide to the upstream side and/or the downstream side of a reformer, allowing reaction of the synthesis gas to produce a reaction product, recovering a liquid crude methanol, and distilling the liquid crude methanol in a distillation apparatus provided with a topping tower, a pressure distillation tower and an atmospheric distillation tower to isolate refined methanol. Bottom liquid of the topping tower is heated and introduced into the pressure distillation tower, and the heat of distilled liquid discharged from this tower is utilized as a heat source for the regenerating tower and as a heat source for the atmospheric distillation tower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2002
    Publication date: February 13, 2003
    Inventors: Yoshio Seiki, Tetsuya Imai, Kazuto Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Osora, Chie Kuwada, Kazuhiro Morita, Shuichi Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20030022948
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of manufacturing a synthesis gas comprising reacting hydrocarbons with water vapor in a reformer to produce a synthesis gas containing hydrogen, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, recovering carbon dioxide from combustion exhaust gas which has been discharged from the reformer by a carbon dioxide recovery apparatus provided with a carbon dioxide absorption tower and with a carbon dioxide-absorbing liquid regenerating tower, and feeding the carbon dioxide thus recovered, as a component of raw gas, to the upstream side and/or the downstream side of the reformer. The hot synthesis gas produced in the reformer is utilized as a heat source for regenerating a carbon dioxide-absorbing liquid in the carbon dioxide-absorbing liquid regenerating tower of the carbon dioxide recovery apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Yoshio Seiki, Tetsuya Imai, Kazuto Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Osora, Chie Kuwada, Kazuhiro Morita, Shuichi Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 5203092
    Abstract: In the drying apparatus for rotary printing press for drying the ink on the printed paper which has a direct fired deodorizing apparatus (8) and a heat recovery apparatus (9) for heating the hot air circulating in a drying apparatus (1) by using the exhaust gas from the deodorizing apparatus, the drying apparatus and its control device are so adapted that a bypass line (20) is installed on the hot air circulation line to bypass the heat recovery apparatus to control the temperature of printed paper and/or the temperature of hot air blowing from nozzles (3) by adjusting the degree of opening of a bypass damper (21) disposed in the bypass line, and the burning amount of the burner for deodorization is controlled so that the deodorizing apparatus furnace temperature corresponding to the blowing hot air temperature (16) or paper temperature (17) is obtained. Further, the control device carries out the control in response to the change in printing speed. Thus, the control responsiveness can be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1993
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kuno, Kazutoshi Yokoo, Kuniaki Tanouchi, Chie Kuwada, Minoru Yoshida