Abstract: An oxyfuel boiler structured so as to mix oxygen separated from air with a part of exhaust gas branched from exhaust gas discharged from the boiler for generating vapor and supplying to a vapor demand facility by burning coal fuel, and supply the mixed gas to the boiler as an oxidizing gas for burning the coal, wherein an air separation unit for separating air and manufacturing oxygen from air, an oxygen supply system for leading the oxygen manufactured by the air separation unit to the oxyfuel boiler, a recirculation system for leading a part of exhaust gas branched from the exhaust gas discharged from the oxyfuel boiler to the oxyfuel boiler, and a recirculation fan for supplying the exhaust gas to the recirculation system are installed, respectively.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pharmaceutical agent for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of abnormal blood glucose and lipid metabolism associated with eating, for which a sufficient treatment method or a therapeutic drug has not been found.

Abstract: A control system includes a basic control command operating unit, a fuel data storage unit, a running results database for storing past running results values of a control subject, a data creating unit configured to calculate a distance between data of the past running results values and the data sets and determining data set in which a distance between data becomes minimum, a modeling unit configured to model a relationship between operation parameters of a combustion apparatus and components in combustion gas of the combustion apparatus by using the data set determined by the data creating unit and a correcting unit for calculating combustion apparatus operation parameters with which components having a better condition than that of the components in a current gas are provided by using a model of the modeling unit and correcting operation command values of the basic control command operating unit by calculated operation parameters.

Abstract: A method for configuring the physical model of a heat recovery steam generator that can estimate the state quantity of generated steam from the state quantity of the exhaust gas to be introduced, and capable of establishing the physical model of a combined cycle power generation facility thereby. The optimum values for the flow rates Flp and Fhp, pressures and temperatures Tlp and Thp of the low pressure main steam and high pressure main steam are computed in such a way as to ensure that an objective function E stored in advance will come close to zero.

Abstract: A gas turbine performance analysis system includes a performance computation module for receiving an actual measured value of an inlet air temperature introduced to a compressor, a compressor pressure ratio, and a flow rate of fuel supplied to the gas turbine, and for calculating and outputting values of the gas turbine's power output and exhaust temperature based on these actual measured values. A performance estimation module evaluates the performance of the gas turbine based on the deviation between the values of power output and exhaust temperature outputted from the performance computation module and the actual measured values of power output and exhaust temperature. An adjustment module calculates a corrected value of the fuel flow rate based on the actual measured values of inlet air temperature, compressor pressure ratio and fuel flow rate, and inputs the corrected fuel flow rate value into the performance computation module.

Abstract: A thiazolidine derivative represented by the formula (I) wherein each symbol is as defined in the specification, and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof exhibit a potent DPP-IV inhibitory activity, and can be provided as an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of diabetes, an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of obesity and the like.

Abstract: An oxyfuel combustion boiler plant having a first boiler and a second boiler for injecting gas including oxygen in higher concentration than that in the air, gas including carbon dioxide in higher concentration than that in the air, and fuel from a burner and generating steam by combustion gas in a furnace, respectively, comprising: an exhaust gas supply pipe for supplying exhaust gas discharged from the first boiler to a burner of the second boiler, and a gas flow rate control apparatus for controlling a flow rate of exhaust gas flowing through the exhaust gas supply pipe.

Abstract: A control system includes a basic control command operating unit, a fuel data storage unit, a running results database for storing past running results values of a control subject, a data creating unit configured to calculate a distance between data of the past running results values and the data sets and determining data set in which a distance between data becomes minimum, a modeling unit configured to model a relationship between operation parameters of a combustion apparatus and components in combustion gas of the combustion apparatus by using the data set determined by the data creating unit and a correcting unit for calculating combustion apparatus operation parameters with which components having a better condition than that of the components in a current gas are provided by using a model of the modeling unit and correcting operation command values of the basic control command operating unit by calculated operation parameters.

Abstract: The oxyfuel boiler system comprises: an oxygen generator; a coal mill; a burner to burn pulverized coal; an after-gas port to which oxygen generated at the oxygen generator is supplied; a boiler provided with the burner and the after-gas port on its wall; a flue introducing combustion exhaust gas from the boiler to the outside; a recirculation gas supply pipe having an exhaust gas tapping port in the midway of the flue and supplying recirculation exhaust gas to the coal mill, the burner, and the after gas port; and an oxygen supply pipe supplying oxygen from the oxygen generator to the burner and the after-gas port, wherein the exhaust gas tapping port is disposed downstream of a dry dust-removing apparatus arranged in the flue, and there is provided an oxygen controlling apparatus for making a concentration of oxygen to be supplied to the after-gas port lower than that of oxygen to be supplied to the burner.

Abstract: Assembly of a controller-integrated rotating electric machine is facilitated. In a controller-integrated rotating electric machine provided with a rotating electric machine unit having a rotor (2), a stator (3), and brackets (4, 5); a plurality of stator current switching circuit units (13) that are attached on an insulator cover (14) mounted on the brackets (4, 5); and a controller unit having a control circuit board (102), the stator current switching circuit unit (13) is provided with a plurality of switching elements (13a) and a plurality of switching elements (13b); a pair of heat sinks (13g, 13h) with which the drain terminals of the switching elements (13a, 13b) are connected; and a pair of electric connection members (17, 18) that pull out the terminals of the switching elements (13a, 13b) and that hold and integrate the pair of heat sinks (13g, 13h).

Abstract: An oxyfuel boiler 1 is equipped with an oxygen separation apparatus 23 to produce oxygen by separating oxygen from the air, a recirculation fan 26 to supply a portion of combustion flue gas branched from the combustion flue gas discharged from the boiler to the oxyfuel boiler 1, a temperature sensor 14a to detect gas temperature at a boiler outlet 1d in the oxyfuel boiler 1, and a control apparatus 150 to calculate gas temperature at a furnace outlet 1c in the boiler from the gas temperature at the boiler outlet 1d detected by the temperature sensor 14a and control the operating condition of the recirculation fan 26 so that the calculated gas temperature at the furnace outlet 1c becomes a desired preset gas temperature.

Abstract: A control system includes a basic control command operating unit, a fuel data storage unit, a running results database for storing past running results values of a control subject, a data creating unit configured to calculate a distance between data of the past running results values and the data sets and determining data set in which a distance between data becomes minimum, a modeling unit configured to model a relationship between operation parameters of a combustion apparatus and components in combustion gas of the combustion apparatus by using the data set determined by the data creating unit and a correcting unit for calculating combustion apparatus operation parameters with which components having a better condition than that of the components in a current gas are provided by using a model of the modeling unit and correcting operation command values of the basic control command operating unit by calculated operation parameters.

Abstract: A control device for a plant includes a manipulation signal generation section for generating the manipulation signal to the plant, a model adapted to simulate a characteristic of the plant, a learning section for generating an input signal of the model so that an output signal obtained by the model simulating the characteristic of the plant satisfies a predetermined target, a learning signal generation section for calculating a learning signal in accordance with a learning result in the learning section, a manipulation result evaluation section for calculating a first deviation as a deviation between a first measurement signal of the plant obtained as a result of application of a certain manipulation signal to the plant and a target value of the measurement signal, and a second deviation as a deviation between a second measurement signal of the plant obtained as a result of application of an updated manipulation signal to the plant and the target value, and a correction signal generation section for generati

Abstract: The present invention provides a pharmaceutical agent for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of abnormal blood glucose and lipid metabolism associated with eating, for which a sufficient treatment method or a therapeutic drug has not been found.

Abstract: Compounds represented by the ?-amino acid derivative or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof of the present invention have a therapeutic effect due to a DPP-IV inhibitory action and useful as pharmaceutical agents for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases relating to a DPP-IV inhibitor.

Abstract: A gas turbine performance analysis system comprising: a performance computation module for receiving each of actual measured value of an inlet air temperature introduced to compressor, a compressor pressure ratio and a fuel flow rate supplied to a gas turbine in the actual gas turbine and calculating and outputting values of a gas turbine's power output and exhaust temperature exhausted from the gas turbine based on these actual measured values; and a performance estimation module for evaluating performance of the gas turbine based on the deviation between the values of power output and exhaust temperature outputted from the performance computation module and the actual measured values of power output and exhaust temperature; wherein the gas turbine performance analysis system further comprising: an adjustment module for calculating a corrected value of the fuel flow rate based on the actual measured values of inlet air temperature, compressor pressure ratio and fuel flow rate, and inputting the corrected

Abstract: One of the thermal transmission rates that represent thermal transmission from gas to steam in a heat exchanger constituting a boiler is calculated based on thermal conductivity rate of pipes and thermal transfer of steam and gas, and the other is compared with the thermal conductivity rate calculated based on the thermal conductivity rate of the pipes and thermal transfer rate of steam and gas.

Abstract: A plant control apparatus has a measurement signal DB, an operation signal DB, a numerical value analysis executing unit, a numerical value analysis result DB, a model for estimating a value of a measurement signal for an operation signal, learning unit using the model, a learning information DB, a control logic DB for information used by an operation signal generating unit, a knowledge DB for plant running characteristics, and an analyzing unit processing information in the numerical value analysis result DB by information in the knowledge DB, learning information DB, operation signal DB, and measurement signal DB, wherein the analyzing unit includes at least one of a learning base analyzing unit checking adequacy of an operation method, a signal analyzing unit for evaluating an effect of the operation signal upon the plant and presence/absence of an abnormal signal, and a knowledge DB updating unit correcting information in the knowledge DB.

Abstract: A thiazolidine derivative represented by the formula (I) wherein each symbol is as defined in the specification, and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof exhibit a potent DPP-IV inhibitory activity, and can be provided as an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of diabetes, an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of obesity and the like.

Abstract: One of the thermal transmission rates that represent thermal transmission from gas to steam in a heat exchanger constituting a boiler is calculated based on thermal conductivity rate of pipes and thermal transfer of steam and gas, and the other is compared with the thermal conductivity rate calculated based on the thermal conductivity rate of the pipes and thermal transfer rate of steam and gas.