Patents by Inventor Tomomi Koganezawa

Tomomi Koganezawa 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: 8006499
    Abstract: The present invention provides a humid air turbine having a compressor, a humidificator for generating humid air by adding moisture to compressed air supplied from the compressor, a combustor, a turbine, a recuperator for effecting heat exchange between exhaust from the turbine and the humid air, an economizer for effecting heat exchange between exhaust from the recuperator and water, and a system for supplying the water heated by the economizer to the humidificator. The humid air turbine includes a temperature measurement device for measuring the temperature of gas discharged from the economizer, and a control device for adjusting the amount of moisture to be supplied to the humidificator in accordance with a temperature signal from the temperature measurement device. The present invention assures low NOx of combustor and flame stability before and after water addition to the humid air turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomomi Koganezawa, Yukinori Katagiri, Keisuke Miura
  • Publication number: 20110094239
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a gas turbine combustor that supports hydrogen-containing gas having a high burning velocity and is capable of performing low NOx combustion without reducing reliability of a burner. A first fuel nozzle is provided upstream of a combustion chamber and supplies fuel for activation and hydrogen-containing gas. The combustor has a primary combustion zone, a reduction zone and a secondary combustion zone. In the primary combustion zone, the fuel supplied from the first fuel nozzle is combusted under a fuel rich condition to form a burned gas containing a low concentration of oxygen. In the reduction zone, a hydrogen-containing gas is injected into the combustion chamber through a second fuel injection hole from a second fuel nozzle so that NOx generated in the primary combustion zone is reduced by an oxygen reaction of the hydrogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromi KOIZUMI, Satoshi Dodo, Hirokazu Takahashi, Tomohiro Asai, Tomomi Koganezawa, Shohei Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20110076628
    Abstract: This invention is directed to supply a combustor having a structure that reduces NOx emissions while maintaining combustion stability. The combustor has a chamber into which fuel and air are supplied. An air hole plate having a plurality of air holes upstream of the chamber is also disclosed, and fuel nozzles supplying fuel to the air holes of the air hole plate are further disclosed. In the combustor, a center of a chamber-side of the air hole plate is closer to the chamber than exits of outermost peripheral air holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke MIURA, Satoshi Dodo, Kazuki Abe, Tomomi Koganezawa
  • Publication number: 20100275644
    Abstract: A power supply equipment (71) for natural gas liquefaction plant that supplies power to a natural gas liquefaction plant for liquefying the natural gas having impurities separated by a natural gas purification equipment (70). The power supply equipment comprises an air compressor (74); a combustion unit (75) for burning fuel with compressed air from the compressor to thereby generate a combustion gas; a gas turbine equipment (72) having a turbine rotated by the combustion gas from the combustion unit; and a cold heat source supply system (85) for, during the rated load operation of the gas turbine equipment, supplying carbon dioxide separated from the natural gas by the natural gas purification equipment to the gas turbine equipment as a cooling medium for the gas turbine equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2008
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Inventors: Tomomi Koganezawa, Hidefumi Araki, Shinichi Higuchi, Yasuhiro Horiuchi, Mutsumi Horitsugi
  • Publication number: 20100229566
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a highly-reliable two-shaft gas turbine system in which the rotational speed of a compressor exceeds its rated rotational speed when the combustion temperature during rated operation is set to the rated combustion temperature of a simple-cycle gas turbine system and in which the drive force for the compressor can be balanced with the output from a high-pressure turbine without turbine efficiency being compromised. When the rotational speed of a compressor 1 exceeds its rated rotational speed on the condition that the combustion temperature during rated operation is set to the rated combustion temperature of a simple-cycle gas turbine system, part of the working fluid that drives turbines is diverged from a flow path that guides the working fluid to gas paths and used as a coolant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Inventors: Yasuo TAKAHASHI, Tomomi KOGANEZAWA, Shinichi HIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20100050648
    Abstract: An object of this invention is to accelerate further mixing of a fuel and air independently of a flow rate of the fuel. A gas turbine combustor comprises: a fuel nozzle for blowing out a gas fuel; an air nozzle plate with an air nozzle for jetting out the fuel and air into a combustion chamber after the blowout of the fuel from the fuel nozzle; and an obstacle formed inside the air nozzle; wherein the obstacle causes a collision of the fuel jet blown out from the fuel nozzle, and hence causes turbulence in an airflow streaming into the air nozzle. According to the invention, mixing between the fuel and the air can be further accelerated independently of the flow rate of the fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Inventors: Keisuke MIURA, Satoshi Dodo, Kazuhito KOYAMA, Tomomi KOGANEZAWA, Hiromi KOIZUMI
  • Publication number: 20090320438
    Abstract: Provided is a two-shaft gas turbine with improved reliability that improves output power and efficiency and is stably operated by establishing a balance between the driving force of a compressor and the output power of a high-pressure turbine in the case where the two-shaft gas turbine is applied to a system in which the flow rate of fluid flowing into a combustor is increased compared with a simple cycle gas turbine. A portion of working fluid driving the high-pressure turbine is allowed to flow not into the high-pressure turbine but into a low-pressure turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2009
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Inventors: Tomomi KOGANEZAWA, Shinichi Higuchi, Yasuo Takahashi, Ryo Akiyama, Shinya Marushima
  • Publication number: 20080229755
    Abstract: The present invention provides a humid air turbine having a compressor, a humidificator for generating humid air by adding moisture to compressed air supplied from the compressor, a combustor, a turbine, a recuperator for effecting heat exchange between exhaust from the turbine and the humid air, an economizer for effecting heat exchange between exhaust from the recuperator and water, and a system for supplying the water heated by the economizer to the humidificator. The humid air turbine includes a temperature measurement device for measuring the temperature of gas discharged from the economizer, and a control device for adjusting the amount of moisture to be supplied to the humidificator in accordance with a temperature signal from the temperature measurement device. The present invention assures low NOx of combustor and flame stability before and after water addition to the humid air turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2008
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Inventors: Tomomi Koganezawa, Yukinori Katagiri, Keisuke Miura
  • Patent number: 7343745
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor has a combustion chamber into which fuel and air are supplied, wherein the fuel and the air are supplied into said combustion chamber as a plurality of coaxial jets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Inoue, Tomomi Koganezawa, Nariyoshi Kobayashi, Isao Takehara
  • Patent number: 7340881
    Abstract: The invention provides a gas turbine combustor in which the size of a combustor outer casing can be reduced. A transition inner duct and a transition outer duct are disposed in a main housing, inlet openings for a fluid to cool the transition inner duct are formed at ends of the transition outer duct on both sides nearer to the combustor liner and the turbine, and the transition outer duct is formed as an extraction flow passage for extracting the cooling fluid having flown in through the inlet openings to a recuperator. A partition member is also provided to prevent the fluid in the main housing and the fluid in the combustor outer casing from mixing with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomomi Koganezawa, Hiroshi Inoue, Kazuhiko Kawaike
  • Patent number: 7320175
    Abstract: The invention provides a production process of a gas turbine capable of being applied to various cycles. A principal part of a gas turbine is set in advance based on roughly set conditions, and the number of stages of a compressor and the number of stages of a turbine, which can provide conditions suitable for a desired cycle, are set based on the set principal part. The compressor and the turbine each having the set number of stages and included in the principal part are combined with each other to construct the gas turbine. When the set number of stages of the compressor or the turbine differs among a plurality of desired cycles, a substantially disk-shaped member having an outer periphery, which forms an inner peripheral wall of a substantially annular flow passage of the compressor or the turbine, is assembled into the cycle having a smaller number of stages so that the bearing-to-bearing distance is kept constant in the gas turbine operated in the plurality of desired cycles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomomi Koganezawa, Takanori Shibata, Nobuhiro Seiki, Shinya Marushima, Shinichi Higuchi, Nobuaki Kizuka, Ryou Akiyama, Masami Noda
  • Patent number: 7313919
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor has a combustion chamber into which fuel and air are supplied, wherein the fuel and the air are supplied into said combustion chamber as a plurality of coaxial jets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Inoue, Tomomi Koganezawa, Nariyoshi Kobayashi, Isao Takehara
  • Patent number: 7251926
    Abstract: A plate-fin type regenerative heat exchanger is provided which can prevent clogging of a flow passage caused by a drift of liquid phase water even when compressed air contains a large amount of moisture and liquid droplets. The plate-fin type regenerative heat exchanger comprises a corrugated fin channel for heating compressed air containing liquid droplets and a corrugated fin channel to which the compressed air containing no liquid droplets is supplied. A pitch of fin members of the former corrugated fin channel is set to the Laplace length, whereby bridging of the liquid droplets between the fin members can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori Shibata, Shigeo Hatamiya, Nobuhiro Seiki, Tomomi Koganezawa, Katsuhiko Sagae, Hidefumi Araki
  • Patent number: 7200998
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor has a combustion chamber into which fuel and air are supplied, wherein the fuel and the air are supplied into said combustion chamber as a plurality of coaxial jets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Inoue, Tomomi Koganezawa, Nariyoshi Kobayashi, Isao Takehara
  • Patent number: 7188476
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor has a combustion chamber into which fuel and air are supplied, wherein the fuel and the air are supplied into said combustion chamber as a plurality of coaxial jets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2007
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd
    Inventors: Hiroshi Inoue, Tomomi Koganezawa, Nariyoshi Kobayashi, Isao Takehara
  • Patent number: 7117677
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor has a combustion chamber into which fuel and air are supplied, wherein the fuel and the air are supplied into said combustion chamber as a plurality of coaxial jets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Inoue, Tomomi Koganezawa, Nariyoshi Kobayashi, Isao Takehara
  • Patent number: 7100359
    Abstract: A gas turbine installation which includes a compressor which compresses supplied air and discharges the same, a combustor which combusts the compressed air obtained from the compressor and fuel and produces combustion gas, a turbine which is driven by combustion gas provided from the combustor, a regenerative heat exchanger which heats all or a part of the compressed air being supplied from the compressor to the combustor by making use of the heat of the exhaust gas exhausted from the turbine and a plurality of water spraying devices which are provided at positions from an intake air chamber of the compressor to the outlet of low temperature side gas flow passage in the regenerative heat exchanger and is characterized in that the regenerative heat exchanger is constituted by connecting in series a plurality of heat exchangers having different heat transfer surface configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori Shibata, Shigeo Hatamiya, Nobuhiro Seiki, Tomomi Koganezawa, Katsuhiko Sagae
  • Patent number: 7082748
    Abstract: A gas turbine installation which includes a compressor which compresses supplied air and discharges the same, a combustor which combusts the compressed air obtained from the compressor and fuel and produces combustion gas, a turbine which is driven by combustion gas provided from the combustor, a regenerative heat exchanger which heats all or a part of the compressed air being supplied from the compressor to the combustor by making use of the heat of the exhaust gas exhausted from the turbine and a plurality of water spraying devices which are provided at positions from an intake air chamber of the compressor to the outlet of low temperature side gas flow passage in the regenerative heat exchanger and is characterized in that the regenerative heat exchanger is constituted by connecting in series a plurality of heat exchangers having different heat transfer surface configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori Shibata, Shigeo Hatamiya, Nobuhiro Seiki, Tomomi Koganezawa, Katsuhiko Sagae
  • Publication number: 20060144034
    Abstract: A gas turbine installation which includes a compressor which compresses supplied air and discharges the same, a combustor which combusts the compressed air obtained from the compressor and fuel and produces combustion gas, a turbine which is driven by combustion gas provided from the combustor, a regenerative heat exchanger which heats all or a part of the compressed air being supplied from the compressor to the combustor by making use of the heat of the exhaust gas exhausted from the turbine and a plurality of water spraying devices which are provided at positions from an intake air chamber of the compressor to the outlet of low temperature side gas flow passage in the regenerative heat exchanger and is characterized in that the regenerative heat exchanger is constituted by connecting in series a plurality of heat exchangers having different heat transfer surface configurations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2006
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Inventors: Takanori Shibata, Shigeo Hatamiya, Nobuhiro Seiki, Tomomi Koganezawa, Katsuhiko Sagae
  • Publication number: 20060042264
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor has a combustion chamber into which fuel and air are supplied, wherein the fuel and the air are supplied into said combustion chamber as a plurality of coaxial jets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2005
    Publication date: March 2, 2006
    Inventors: Hiroshi Inoue, Tomomi Koganezawa, Nariyoshi Kobayashi, Isao Takehara