Patents by Inventor Noriyuki Imada

Noriyuki Imada 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: 20180180285
    Abstract: An exhaust gas treatment apparatus which includes a denitration device, a dust collector, and a desulfurization device in order, respectively, in a flow path of exhaust gas discharged from a boiler, wherein a heavy-metal component removal device is provided in the exhaust gas flow path between the dust collector and the desulfurization device. This device is provided with: an absorption tower including a nozzle which sprays acidic absorption liquid on the exhaust gas, a tank which stores liquid which has absorbed a heavy metal, and a pump which supplies the nozzle with the liquid in the tank; a neutralizing tank which neutralizes the liquid drawn from the absorption tower; and a separator which separates the neutralized liquid into a solid and a liquid component. Since a small amount of heavy metal can be removed in the absorption tower, re-emission of the heavy metal by the desulfurization device is prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Imada, Atsushi Katagawa, Hirotaka Yamanari
  • Publication number: 20180085694
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to suppressing wear of a denitration catalyst due to ash particles having diameters greater than or equal to 100 ?m. A flue gas treatment apparatus includes a denitration apparatus having a denitration catalyst, which reduces nitrogen oxides in flue gas exhausted from the coal combustion boiler, and a duct that guides the flue gas from the coal combustion boiler to the denitration apparatus, and the duct is formed of a horizontal duct connected to a flue gas outlet of the coal combustion boiler, a vertical duct connected to the horizontal duct, and a hopper provided below a portion where the horizontal duct and the vertical duct are connected to each other, wherein a collision plate, which causes ash particles in the flue gas to collide with the collision plate and fall into the hopper, is provided in an upper-end opening section of the hopper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Imada, Masaaki Ishioka, Akihiro Yamada, Goki Sasaki, Katsumi Yano, Keigo Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 8778041
    Abstract: In an exhaust gas treatment device provided with: an exhaust gas treatment unit in which an oxygen combustion boiler 1 using coal as fuel, a denitration device 3, an air preheater 4, a dust-collection device 5, a desulfurization device 6, and a carbon dioxide recovery device 8 are sequentially arranged from the upstream side to the downstream side of an exhaust gas duct; and an exhaust gas circulation unit which branches off from the exhaust gas duct at an outlet of the dust-collection device 5 or an outlet of the desulfurization device 6 and through which the exhaust gas is preheated by the air preheater 4 and returned to the oxygen combustion boiler 1, a heat-recovery heat exchanger 13 that adjusts a gas temperature at an inlet of the dust-collection device 5 to be not greater than an acid dew point of SO3 and not lower than a water dew point is provided between the air preheater 4 and the dust-collection device 5, a reheating heat exchanger 13 that adjusts a gas temperature to be not lower than the acid de
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Babcock-Hitachi Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Mitsui, Hidehisa Yoshizako, Noriyuki Imada, Naoki Oda
  • Publication number: 20130055937
    Abstract: A desulfurization device releases exhaust gas into the atmosphere without reduction in CO2 recovery rate and without mercury components. Because the absorbent of the desulfurization device is drawn from an absorbent reservoir by a circulating pump and sprayed through spray nozzles into a desulfurization-absorption unit and is mainly circulated outside the wall of a water seal tube by a stirrer in the absorbent reservoir, the flow of the absorbent that falls from the desulfurization-absorption unit into the water seal tube flows in a single direction from top to bottom and hinders the ascension of gas bubbles. Intermixing of the gas for oxidizing the sulfur dioxide with the desulfurization device exhaust gas is thereby prevented, efficient CO2 recovery is possible without reduction in the CO2 concentration recovered from the exhaust gas after desulfurization and mercury in the combustion exhaust gas is absorbed in the absorbent of the desulfurization device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2010
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: BABCOCK-HITACHI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Mitsui, Hirofumi Kikkawa, Noriyuki Imada, Naoki Oda, Takanori Nakamoto, Hiroyuki Nosaka
  • Publication number: 20120272626
    Abstract: In an exhaust gas treatment device provided with: an exhaust gas treatment unit in which an oxygen combustion boiler 1 using coal as fuel, a denitration device 3, an air preheater 4, a dust-collection device 5, a desulfurization device 6, and a carbon dioxide recovery device 8 are sequentially arranged from the upstream side to the downstream side of an exhaust gas duct; and an exhaust gas circulation unit which branches off from the exhaust gas duct at an outlet of the dust-collection device 5 or an outlet of the desulfurization device 6 and through which the exhaust gas is preheated by the air preheater 4 and returned to the oxygen combustion boiler 1, a heat-recovery heat exchanger 13 that adjusts a gas temperature at an inlet of the dust-collection device 5 to be not greater than an acid dew point of SO3 and not lower than a water dew point is provided between the air preheater 4 and the dust-collection device 5, a reheating heat exchanger 13 that adjusts a gas temperature to be not lower than the acid de
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: BABCOCK-HITACHI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Mitsui, Hidehisa Yoshizako, Noriyuki Imada, Naoki Oda
  • Patent number: 6890673
    Abstract: For the stabilization of the reaction, especially, for maintaining reaction temperature, the feedback control by the feedback unit is performed for to the supply of air (, oxygen, or oxidizing agent), whereas other materials are supplied by the open-loop control according to the instruction of the flow selection unit which indicates a preset value depending on the required hydrogen production volume. In addition, the continuous flow setting unit capable of changing the flow continuously is employed for the supply system of the air, whereas the flow control of the other materials is performed by use of the discrete flow setting units each of which provides the discretized flow by use of the on-off combination of two or more on-off valves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Babcock-Hitachi Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Higashiyama, Masahiro Komachiya, Kiyoshi Hiyama, Tomoichi Kamo, Noriyuki Imada, Tetsurou Okano, Hiroyuki Kaku
  • Publication number: 20040180247
    Abstract: For the stabilization of the reaction, especially, for maintaining reaction temperature, the feedback control by the feedback unit is performed for to the supply of air (, oxygen, or oxidizing agent), whereas other materials are supplied by the open-loop control according to the instruction of the flow selection unit which indicates a preset value depending on the required hydrogen production volume. In addition, the continuous flow setting unit capable of changing the flow continuously is employed for the supply system of the air, whereas the flow control of the other materials is performed by use of the discrete flow setting units each of which provides the discretized flow by use of the on-off combination of two or more on-off valves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2004
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Higashiyama, Masahiro Komachiya, Kiyoshi Hiyama, Tomoichi Kamo, Noriyuki Imada, Tetsurou Okano, Hiroyuki Kaku
  • Publication number: 20030008187
    Abstract: For the stabilization of the reaction, especially, for maintaining reaction temperature, the feedback control by the feedback unit is performed for to the supply of air (, oxygen, or oxidizing agent), whereas other materials are supplied by the open-loop control according to the instruction of the flow selection unit which indicates a preset value depending on the required hydrogen production volume. In addition, the continuous flow setting unit capable of changing the flow continuously is employed for the supply system of the air, whereas the flow control of the other materials is performed by use of the discrete flow setting units each of which provides the discretized flow by use of the on-off combination of two or more on-off valves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2002
    Publication date: January 9, 2003
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Higashiyama, Masahiro Komachiya, Kiyoshi Hiyama, Tomoichi Kamo, Noriyuki Imada, Tetsurou Okano, Hiroyuki Kaku