Patents by Inventor Shigemi Mandai
Shigemi Mandai 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).
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Patent number: 6837050Abstract: A gas turbine combustor includes a side wall, for defining a combustion volume, having upstream and downstream ends, a pilot nozzle, disposed adjacent the upstream end of the side wall, for discharging a pilot fuel to form a diffusion flame in the combustion volume, and a plurality of main nozzles, provided around the pilot nozzles, for discharging a fuel-air mixture to form premixed flames in the combustion volume. Film air is supplied into the combustion volume downstream of the main nozzles along the inner surface of the side wall to reduce the fuel-air ratio in a region adjacent the inner surface of the side wall and to restrain a combustion-driven oscillation in the combustion volume.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2002Date of Patent: January 4, 2005Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Shigemi Mandai, Kiyoshi Suenaga, Kuniaki Aoyama, Kazufumi Ikeda, Katsunori Tanaka
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Patent number: 6837051Abstract: A gas turbine combustor includes a side wall, for defining a combustion volume, having upstream and downstream ends, a pilot nozzle, disposed adjacent the upstream end of the side wall, for discharging a pilot fuel to form a diffusion flame in the combustion volume, and a plurality of main nozzles, provided around the pilot nozzles, for discharging a fuel-air mixture to form premixed flames in the combustion volume. Film air is supplied into the combustion volume downstream of the main nozzles along the inner surface of the side wall to reduce the fuel-air ratio in a region adjacent the inner surface of the side wall and to restrain a combustion-driven oscillation in the combustion volume.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2003Date of Patent: January 4, 2005Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Shigemi Mandai, Kiyoshi Suenaga, Kuniaki Aoyama, Kazufumi Ikeda, Katsunori Tanaka
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Publication number: 20040229178Abstract: A premixing nozzle (800) includes swirler blades (300) for agitating combustion air inside a nozzle body (10). Each one end of the swirler blades (300) is fitted to the nozzle body (10), and the other end is connected to a hub (100), respectively. The tip portion (200a) of a fuel nozzle shaft (200) is conical, and a part of the tip portion (200a) is arranged inside the hub (100). A combustion gas flows into the hub (100) from a space between the tip portion (200a) of the fuel nozzle shaft (200) and the upstream end (100b) of the hub (100), passes through between the tip portion (200a) and the inner peripheral surface of the hub (100), and flows toward the downstream of the hub (100).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2003Publication date: November 18, 2004Inventors: Shigemi Mandai, Keijirou Saitoh, Katsunori Tanaka, Wataru Akizuki
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Publication number: 20040074236Abstract: A ring (100) for forming a cooling-air layer is attached to the liner (11) of a combustion chamber, to supply cooling air fed from a compressor from a cooling-air supply hole (41). During the operation of a gas turbine, the cooling air is allowed to flow from a gap (51) formed between the ring (100) and the inner surface of the liner (11) of the combustion chamber, to form the cooling-air layer on the inner surface of the liner (11) of the combustion chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2003Publication date: April 22, 2004Inventors: Shigemi Mandai, Katsunori Tanaka, Masahito Kataoka, Keijirou Saitoh, Wataru Akizuki
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Publication number: 20040060295Abstract: A gas turbine combustor includes a side wall, for defining a combustion volume, having upstream and downstream ends, a pilot nozzle, disposed adjacent the upstream end of the side wall, for discharging a pilot fuel to form a diffusion flame in the combustion volume, and a plurality of main nozzles, provided around the pilot nozzles, for discharging a fuel-air mixture to form premixed flames in the combustion volume. Film air is supplied into the combustion volume downstream of the main nozzles along the inner surface of the side wall to reduce the fuel-air ratio in a region adjacent the inner surface of the side wall and to restrain a combustion-driven oscillation in the combustion volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2003Publication date: April 1, 2004Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Shigemi Mandai, Kiyoshi Suenaga, Kuniaki Aoyama, Kazufumi Ikeda, Katsunori Tanaka
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Patent number: 6701713Abstract: A pilot nozzle diffusion-injects a fuel. A pilot swirler swirls a pilot air around the pilot nozzle. An air guide is arranged between the outer surface of the pilot nozzle and the pilot swirler. The air guide extends from the pilot swirler to a tip of the pilot nozzle. The air guide has a tip that protrudes beyond the tip of the pilot nozzle and this the tip of the air guide is bent away from a center of the pilot nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2002Date of Patent: March 9, 2004Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Shigemi Mandai, Masaaki Matsuura, Keijirou Saitoh, Katsunori Tanaka, Wataru Akizuki
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Patent number: 6668557Abstract: A pilot nozzle of a gas turbine combustor comprises a first structure, provided near a main nozzle of a combustor that injects fuel oil, having a flow channel for a fuel gas and an outlet for the fuel gas. The first structure diffusion-injecting the fuel gas obliquely forward through the outlet to maintain a flame and to aid ignition of the fuel oil injected from the main nozzle. There is further provided a second structure which circulates in whirls a combustion gas generated due to the combustion of the fuel gas.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2002Date of Patent: December 30, 2003Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Masataka Ohta, Kuniaki Aoyama, Mitsuru Inada, Shigemi Mandai, Satoshi Tanimura, Katsunori Tanaka, Koichi Nishida
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Publication number: 20030233831Abstract: For the purpose of reduced NOx gas emission, a gas turbine engine comprises a cylinder having a combustion region inside of the cylinder; a resonator having a cavity and provided around the surface of the cylinder and sound absorption holes formed on the cylinder and having opening ends on the cylinder.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2003Publication date: December 25, 2003Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Kiyoshi Suenaga, Shigemi Mandai, Masaki Ono, Katsunori Tanaka
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Patent number: 6662547Abstract: A combustor includes a burner and a combustion chamber including a heat chamber to which fuel is supplied from the burner. The burner includes a nozzle having a fuel discharge outlet from which the fuel is discharged into the combustion chamber; and the nozzle includes a plurality of discharge openings around the fuel discharge outlet from which cooling water is discharged toward inside surfaces of the heat chamber. The plurality of discharge openings may be disposed so that the directions of the cooling water discharged from the discharge openings differ in the radial direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2001Date of Patent: December 16, 2003Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Shigemi Mandai, Masataka Ohta, Satoshi Tanimura, Katsunori Tanaka, Koichi Nishida
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Patent number: 6640544Abstract: For the purpose of reduced NOx gas emission, a gas turbine engine comprises a cylinder having a combustion region inside of the cylinder; a resonator having a cavity and provided around the surface of the cylinder and sound absorption holes formed on the cylinder and having opening ends on the cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2001Date of Patent: November 4, 2003Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Kiyoshi Suenaga, Shigemi Mandai, Masaki Ono, Katsunori Tanaka
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Patent number: 6634175Abstract: A gas turbine combustor has homogenous air inflow by elimination of turbulence from the air, reducing combustion instability. A combustor 3 has, at its center, a pilot nozzle 8 and eight main nozzles 7 around the pilot nozzle 8. The air flows in around the individual nozzles 7 and 8 to the leading end of the combustor 3 so that it is used for combustion. An annular flow ring 20, having a semicirculat section, is disposed at the upstream end portion of a combustion cylinder 10, and a porous plate 50 and a surrounding rib 51 are disposed downstream of the flow ring 20. The air inflow is smoothly turned at first by the flow ring 20 and then straightened by the porous plate 50 so that the air flows without any disturbance around the individual nozzles 7 and 8 to the leading end, thereby reducing combustion instability.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2001Date of Patent: October 21, 2003Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yutaka Kawata, Shigemi Mandai, Yoshiaki Tsukuda, Eiji Akita, Hisato Arimura
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Patent number: 6631614Abstract: A gas turbine combustor, in which plural pre-mixers that inject fuel into swirling air passages are arranged to surround a pilot burner, and a pilot flame, guided by a pilot cone in the shape of a flaring pipe and provided at the rear end of the pilot burner, is mixed with a pre-mixture blown out from the pre-mixers to obtain a combustion gas, comprising flame-stabilizing means. The flame-stabilizing means lower the disturbance in a region where the pre-mixture and the pilot flame are mixed or stabilize the pilot flame, so that the flame generated by igniting the pre-mixture with the pilot flame is stabilized. By stabilizing the flame, combustion with a leaner air-fuel ratio is possible, and thereby the amount of NOx can be decreased.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2001Date of Patent: October 14, 2003Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Shigemi Mandai, Tetsuo Gora, Katsunori Tanaka, Kouichi Nishida
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Patent number: 6594999Abstract: A combustor can simultaneously reduce the amount of NOx exhaust and combustion oscillation. The combustor has an internal cylinder which accommodates a premixing nozzle and an external cylinder which accommodates the internal cylinder, and includes an air flow passage which supplies air from a compressor to the premixing nozzle. The air flow passage is provided with a punched metal plate near the maximum velocity fluctuation position whereat the velocity fluctuation of the air flow increases to a maximum.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2001Date of Patent: July 22, 2003Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Shigemi Mandai, Yutaka Kawata, Atsushi Maekawa, Katsunori Tanaka, Masaharu Nishimura, Soichiro Tomimoto
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Publication number: 20030089801Abstract: There is provided a combustor comprising a fuel nozzle which is comprised of a rodlike body which has a fuel passage and which is located in an air passage; a plurality of hollow members which are connected to the fuel passage and which extend in radial directions from the rodlike body into the air passage; at least one injection port formed in each hollow member to inject a fuel from the fuel passage into the air passage; and a projection which extends from a farmost inner wall of each hollow member that is most distant from an axis of the rodlike body to the injection port that is most distant from the axis. A hole for leaking fuel that is connected to an air passage may be formed in a farmost inner wall of the hollow member that is more distant from an axis of a rodlike body than the injection port that is most distant from the axis, or may be formed to be adjacent to all the injection ports on an upstream or downstream side in the direction of the airflow.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2002Publication date: May 15, 2003Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD.Inventors: Keijirou Saitoh, Takashi Kawano, Hidemi Niinai, Yutaka Kawata, Shigemi Mandai, Kuniaki Aoyama
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Publication number: 20030079461Abstract: A combustor section is disposed downstream of a nozzle section. The combustor section extends from a downstream end of the nozzle section to an entrance of a gas turbine and supplies a combustion gas which is generated by combusting a pre-mixed gas to a gas turbine. The combustor section is formed by an inner tube and a tail tube unitarily. The combustor is provided with a wall cooling apparatus for cooling a wall surface of the combustor. On the inner wall of the combustor section, grooves are formed. An entrance for introducing an air for cooling action is disposed on the outer wall of the combustor section. The introduced air performs a film cooling and convective cooling in a combined manner. By doing this, the temperature of the combustion gas may be high, and a highly efficient gas turbine is realized.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2002Publication date: May 1, 2003Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Shigemi Mandai, Masataka Ohta, Katsunori Tanaka, Koichi Nishida
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Patent number: 6553766Abstract: A cooling structure of a combustor tail tube is capable of avoiding the formation of cracks in the tail tube by lessening thermal stress and preventing thermal deformation, thus extending the service life. A multiplicity of cooling jackets (5) extend in the longitudinal direction of the tail tube of a gas turbine combustor along the entire circumference of the tail tube wall. The passage sectional area of the cooling jackets (5) is varied depending on the metal temperature of parts of the tail tube (4). For example, the passage sectional area of the cooling jackets (5) formed at the rotor side wall and the mutually opposite side walls of the adjacent tail tube is larger than the passage sectional area of the cooling jackets (5) formed at the casing side wall.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2001Date of Patent: April 29, 2003Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Takehiko Shimizu, Satoshi Hada, Kouichi Akagi, Katsunori Tanaka, Ryotaro Magoshi, Mitsuo Hasegawa, Shigemi Mandai, Mitsuru Kondo
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Publication number: 20030037549Abstract: A gas turbine combustor is improved to enhance a cooling effect and a flame holding ability to thereby reduce NOx generation. A combustor 13 comprises a double structure of an inner cylindrical member 13a and an enlarged outer cylindrical member 13b to thereby enlarge a diameter of a combustion zone. A pre-mixing nozzle 11 comprises an outer sleeve 23 of which front end is projected beyond a base plate 17 and a pre-mixing nozzle portion 21 of the inner side. Air flows between the outer sleeve 23 and the pre-mixing nozzle portion 21 for enhancing the cooling effect of the pre-mixing nozzle 11. High temperature gas inner and outer circulating flows 15, 16 are formed in the combustion zone to enhance the flame holding ability. Pilot fuel quantity, as so far necessitated for flame holding, is reduced and NOx quantity generated of the pilot fuel is reduced. The base plate 17 exposed to the high temperature gas is prevented from being overheated by the projected front portion of the pre-mixing nozzle 11.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2002Publication date: February 27, 2003Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Shigemi Mandai, Keijirou Saitoh, Katsunori Tanaka, Wataru Akizuki
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Publication number: 20030019213Abstract: A pilot nozzle of a gas turbine combustor comprises a first structure, provided near a main nozzle of a combustor that injects fuel oil, having a flow channel for a fuel gas and an outlet for the fuel gas. The first structure diffusion-injecting the fuel gas obliquely forward through the outlet to maintain a flame and to aid ignition of the fuel oil injected from the main nozzle. There is further provided a second structure which circulates in whirls a combustion gas generated due to the combustion of the fuel gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2002Publication date: January 30, 2003Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Masataka Ohta, Kuniaki Aoyama, Mitsuru Inada, Shigemi Mandai, Satoshi Tanimura, Katsunori Tanaka, Koichi Nishida
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Publication number: 20030014976Abstract: A pilot nozzle diffusion-injects a fuel. A pilot swirler swirls a pilot air around the pilot nozzle. An air guide is arranged between the outer surface of the pilot nozzle and the pilot swirler. The air guide extends from the pilot swirler to a tip of the pilot nozzle. The air guide has a tip that protrudes beyond the tip of the pilot nozzle and this the tip of the air guide is bent away from a center of the pilot nozzle.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2002Publication date: January 23, 2003Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD.Inventors: Shigemi Mandai, Masaaki Matsuura, Keijirou Saitoh, Katsunori Tanaka, Wataru Akizuki
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Patent number: 6502399Abstract: A pre-mixture forming swirler in a gas turbine pre-mixed flame type low NOx combustor is improved so as to accelerate mixing of fuel and air and to prevent the occurrence of flame stagnation and burning of components. In particular, a three-dimensional swirler is constructed such that each swirler vane is twisted from a hub side thereof to a tip side so that a fitting angle of the tip side relative to a center axis of a fuel nozzle is larger than an angle of the hub side. Thereby, while the angle of the hub side is set smaller so that flame stagnation and burning of components resulted therefrom may be prevented from occurring, the angle of the tip side may be selected so that the shearing flow necessary for appropriate mixing of fuel and air is obtained. Thus, favorable pre-mixing is achieved, life deterioration due to burning, etc., is prevented and combustion efficiency is enhanced.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2001Date of Patent: January 7, 2003Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Shigemi Mandai, Masataka Ohta, Mitsuru Inada, Shinji Akamatsu