Patents Assigned to JGC Corporation
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Publication number: 20220323802Abstract: Provided is a technology of preventing an increase in size of a treatment plant, which may be caused when a safety clearance for the prevention of spread of a fire is set, and restraining an increase in designed fire-extinguishing water usage. A treatment plant for handling a flammable liquid includes: an equipment placement region in which a plurality of equipments configured to handle the flammable fluid are placed, the equipment placement region being divided into four or more firewater supply sections. A plurality of fire-extinguishing water supply facilities are provided to the firewater supply sections, respectively, the fire-extinguishing water supply facilities each being capable of, when a fire occurs in the firewater supply sections, simultaneously supplying fire-extinguishing water to a fire-occurrence section and an adjacent section.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2019Publication date: October 13, 2022Applicant: JGC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki TAKAHASHI, Tomonori MIYASHITA
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Publication number: 20220324541Abstract: A structure for an offshore plant has a plurality of module portions mounted on a structure body in which a storage tank for storing liquefied natural gas is installed. A pump opening serving as the inlet/outlet of a pump for pumping up the liquefied natural gas from the storage tank is formed in the structure body, and the pump opening is disposed between the module portions adjacent to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2019Publication date: October 13, 2022Applicant: JGC CORPORATIONInventors: Tadafumi KANAYAMA, Keiji TANIGAWA
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Publication number: 20220316797Abstract: To reduce work at an installation site when a plant facility is manufactured, modules are conveyed in order from a fabrication yard to the installation site, and expansion and contraction amounts of pipe spools are calculated based on a temperature difference between a temperature at the fabrication yard when the modules are manufactured and a temperature at the installation site when the modules are installed at the installation site. Further, an installation position of a foundation is adjusted toward a direction to cancel out the expansion and contraction amounts of the plurality of pipe spools, and the pipe spool is moved toward the direction to cancel out the expansion and contraction amounts of the plurality of pipe spools. The modules are installed with the positions of the end portions of the pipe spools being adjusted.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2019Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: JGC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi KISHIMOTO, Takuya TSUTSUI, Makoto MIKAMI, Hiroyuki KOITO
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Publication number: 20220299451Abstract: In a nondestructive inspection of a defect of a welded portion of a pipe or a pipe member, work efficiency of a radiation transmission test is improved by reducing a burden on a worker, and an inspection accuracy is improved. Imaging data is acquired by transmitting radiation through a welded portion of the pipe to be inspected. Processing of associating determination data indicating a result of determining a defect of the welded portion of the pipe to be inspected based on a distribution of a transmission intensity of the radiation obtained from the imaging data with image data showing the distribution of the transmission intensity of the radiation is performed. As a result, through use of the imaging data, image data and determination data associated with the image data can be obtained, and the burden on the worker can be reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2020Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: JGC CORPORATIONInventors: Teruaki SANO, Kiminori SHIGETOMI, Shigeo OTSUKI, Nobutaka TANAKA
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Publication number: 20220300889Abstract: Provided is a work management apparatus including: a display control unit configured to display on a display apparatus a permit to work for a work package, which is a work unit for constructing a construction object; a registration unit configured to register one or more workers in the work package; a first acquisition unit configured to acquire work duration information indicating a work duration that has been required to complete the work package; a generation unit configured to generate work record information including identification information on the work package and the work duration information; and an output unit configured to output the work record information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2019Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: JGC CORPORATIONInventors: Erio OOSATO, Kazuyuki KOJIMA, Hiroki OHARA
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Publication number: 20220290918Abstract: A natural gas liquefying apparatus includes: a precooling unit, which is a treatment unit configured to precool natural gas; a liquefying unit, which is a treatment unit configured to liquefy the natural gas; a refrigerant cooling unit, which is a treatment unit configured to cool a liquefying refrigerant; a compression unit configured to compress vaporized refrigerants; and a pipe rack including air-cooled coolers arrayed and arranged on an upper surface. The treatment units and the compression unit are separately arranged in a first arrangement region and a second arrangement region arranged opposed to each other across a long side of the pipe rack. The pipe rack interposed between the first and second arrangement regions has a region in which no air-cooled cooler is arranged in order to arrange a plurality of pipes, through which refrigerants are allowed to flow, in a direction of a short side of the pipe rack.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2019Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: JGC CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshinori YAMADA, Kaoru SAWAYANAGI, Tomoharu INOUE, Yuichi YOSHIZAWA, Masahito SEIWA, Ken ICHIMURA
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Publication number: 20220290917Abstract: A natural gas liquefying apparatus is provided. At least a part of a cooling region, in which a precooling unit and a liquefaction unit are arranged, and at least a part of a compression region, in which first and second compressors compressing refrigerants to be used in the precooling unit and the liquefaction unit are arranged, are arranged to be opposed to each other across a long side of a second refrigerant cooler group arrangement region in which a liquefying refrigerant is cooled. A first refrigerant cooler group arrangement region, in which a precooling refrigerant is cooled, is arranged so that a long side of the first refrigerant cooler group arrangement region is opposed to one side of a rectangular region including the compression region, the one side being different from a side of the rectangular region opposed to a long side of the second refrigerant cooler group arrangement region.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2019Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: JGC CORPORATIONInventors: Akito HIRAI, Nobuhiro KIMURA, Hideto HAGIYA, Shinichi TOJO, Junichi NISHIDA, Tomoaki MATSUO, Ayaka UEMURA
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Publication number: 20220283569Abstract: Provided is a technology for efficiently arranging equipment. A method of arranging equipment in a plant for processing a fluid includes: calculating a risk; obtained by multiplying a probability that flowing-out of a fluid requiring use of the equipment occurs by an impact degree of the flowing-out of the fluid; setting a distance of a range in which the equipment is arrangeable so that, when the calculated risks of a plurality of devices are compared with each other, the range in which the equipment is arrangeable is shorter for a device for which the risk is high, and the range is longer for a device for which the risk is low; and then determining a position to arrange the equipment based on positions at which the plurality of devices are arranged in the plant, and on the distance of the range in which the equipment is arrangeable.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2019Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: JGC CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiaki SAITO, Yoshinori HIROYA
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Publication number: 20220282474Abstract: Provided are a module for separate conveyance, which is inexpensive and can easily be conveyed via any route, a structure for a plant, which uses the modules for separate conveyance, and a method of constructing the structure for a plant. A module for separate conveyance, to be conveyed in a separate manner and stacked at a construction site includes: column portions to be provided upright in a vertical direction; and a horizontal structural portion to be provided in a horizontal direction between the column portions. The horizontal structural portion directly separates tier spaces adjacent to each other in an up-and-down direction when the modules for separate conveyance are stacked.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2019Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: JGC CORPORATIONInventors: Ken KOBAYASHI, Yohei YAMAKI
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Publication number: 20220276000Abstract: An operation analysis method for a natural gas plant includes: acquiring production amount data of a product per unit time and operation data of a plurality of controlled devices forming the natural gas plant in association with each other along a time series; determining whether or not a controlled device that violates the operation constraint is present at the time point of acquisition of the production amount data when the production amount data is less than the reference production amount, and performing data processing of associating an item subjected to the operation constraint to the production amount data; and determining, for each of the items subjected to the operation constraints, a length of a period with the production reduction in accordance with a magnitude of the production reduction amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2019Publication date: September 1, 2022Applicant: JGC CORPORATIONInventors: Yugo FURUBAYASHI, Hirokatsu UCHIDA, Kenji MOURI
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Publication number: 20220277268Abstract: Provided is a project management apparatus configured to manage a project of constructing a construction object, the project management apparatus including: a display control unit configured to display on a display apparatus a simulation model of the construction object a reception unit configured to receive an operation of a user; a setting unit configured to set an order of a plurality of work packages, which are work units for constructing the construction object, based on an operation of the user on the simulation model; and a generation unit configured to generate a schedule of the project based on the order.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2019Publication date: September 1, 2022Applicant: JGC CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuyuki KOJIMA, Hiroki OHARA, Ming YU, Erio OOSATO
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Publication number: 20220270006Abstract: Provided is a work management apparatus including: a reception unit configured to receive an operation of a user; a generation unit configured to generate an image showing a state of the work by making a composite of a first layer including a drawing of the construction object and a second layer selected by an operation of the user from a plurality of second layers in which the work is to be registered; a display control unit configured to display the image on a display apparatus; and an editing unit configured to edit the second layer in accordance with an operation of the user when it is determined that the user has an editing permission set to the second layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2019Publication date: August 25, 2022Applicant: JGC CORPORATIONInventors: Ming YU, Kazuyuki KOJIMA, Hiroki OHARA
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Patent number: 11408677Abstract: A module for a natural gas liquefaction apparatus is provided to include air-cooled heat exchanger groups and another equipment group. The air-cooled heat exchanger groups another equipment group. The air-cooled heat exchanger groups are arranged side by side on an upper surface of a structure, and are each configured to cool a fluid handled in the natural gas liquefaction apparatus. The another equipment group is arranged on a lower side from an arrangement height of each air-cooled heat exchanger groups, and forms a part of the natural gas liquefaction apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2017Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: JGC CORPORATIONInventors: Yoji Arai, Motobumi Kagawa, Masayuki Tanabe, Takashi Nozato
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Publication number: 20220230349Abstract: The alignment method includes: an acquisition step of acquiring a first two-dimensional image data group on a acquired first target object, and acquiring a second two-dimensional image data group on a acquired second target object; a conversion step of converting the first two-dimensional image data group into first three-dimensional image data, and converting the second two-dimensional image data group into second three-dimensional image data; a designation step of designating the target serving as an origin in each of images based on the first three-dimensional image data and the second three-dimensional image data; a setting step of setting three-dimensional coordinates with respect to the origin in the first and second three-dimensional image data through use of information on the origin designated in the designation step; and a position examination step of examining positions of the corresponding targets in the first three-dimensional image data and the second three-dimensional image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2019Publication date: July 21, 2022Applicant: JGC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroteru IGARASHI, Kyosuke NAMBA
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Publication number: 20220213774Abstract: Provided is an operation analysis method for a production plant (1), including: acquiring, with use of a Doppler LIDAR (5), a distribution of three-dimensional wind condition data at positions of an upper space of the production plant (1) and a surrounding space thereof including an arrangement region for an air-cooled heat exchanger (2); acquiring environment data indicating a state of a natural environment that affects operation of the air-cooled heat exchanger (2); and learning, through a numerical analysis with use of a computer, based on a distribution of the three-dimensional wind condition data and on the environment data, a correspondence between a distribution pattern of the three-dimensional wind condition data and the environment data.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2019Publication date: July 7, 2022Applicant: JGC CORPORATIONInventors: Yuzuru KAKUTANI, Teru ASAKA
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Patent number: 11371774Abstract: The module for a natural gas liquefaction apparatus includes: a frame configured to accommodate a device group forming a part of the natural gas liquefaction apparatus; an annex building, which is provided separately from the frame, and is configured to accommodate at least one of a power supply apparatus or a control information output device; and a coupling member, which is configured to couple the frame and the annex building to each other so as to enable the frame and the annex building to be transported as one unit at a time of transportation of the module for a natural gas liquefaction apparatus, and is removed so as to separate the frame and the annex building from each other at a time of installation of the module for a natural gas liquefaction apparatus in a construction site of the natural gas liquefaction apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2017Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: JGC CORPORATIONInventors: Motobumi Kagawa, Ryo Iwata
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Patent number: 11370668Abstract: Included are: a raw material component storage unit that stores the raw material component supplied to the ammonia synthesis unit; a high-pressure raw material component storage unit that stores the raw material component at a pressure higher than a pressure at which the raw material component is stored in the raw material component storage unit; and a surplus electric power processing unit including a high-pressure raw material component transfer unit that boosts and transfers the raw material component from the raw material component storage unit to the high-pressure raw material component storage unit, and an expander that converts pressure energy of the raw material component supplied from the high-pressure raw material component storage unit into motive power to generate power.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: JGC CORPORATIONInventors: Sho Fujimoto, Yasushi Fujimura, Mototaka Kai, Yuki Hoshino
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Publication number: 20220170228Abstract: To provide a technology for manufacturing a foundation of a plant efficiently and safely. Provided is a method for manufacturing a foundation (6) to be provided in a plant configured to process fluid, the method including a step of forming a foundation, by a 3D printer, in a ground for installation of a device to be provided in the plant, or in a ground for installation of a framework structure configured to support the device or a piping through which the fluid flows, the foundation being configured to support the device or the framework structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2019Publication date: June 2, 2022Applicant: JGC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroteru IGARASHI, Noriaki TERAKUBO, Atsuo HONIDEN
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Publication number: 20220145201Abstract: A natural gas pretreatment system includes: a carbon dioxide removal unit configured to remove carbon dioxide from the natural gas by bringing an absorption liquid and the natural gas into contact with each other; and a water removal unit configured to remove water by causing the natural gas to flow through a packed bed containing a water adsorbent. The packed bed contains a carbon dioxide adsorbent for adsorbing and removing the carbon dioxide that has not been completely removed in the carbon dioxide removal unit, and a concentration of the carbon dioxide contained in the natural gas is measured by an outlet-side carbon dioxide measurement unit on an outlet side of the water removal unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2019Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: JGC CORPORATIONInventors: Yuzuru KAKUTANI, Yugo FURUBAYASHI, Hirokatsu UCHIDA
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Publication number: 20220145482Abstract: The plant control method includes the following. Calculating a first reference amount to be supplied for an amount of hydrogen to be supplied to a second production device (40). Making a decision on whether or not the amount of remaining hydrogen in a storage device (20) at the beginning of a subject term falls within a reference range.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: JGC CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki HOSHINO, Yasushi FUJIMURA, Sho FUJIMOTO, Mototaka KAI