Abstract: A method for purifying combustion exhaust gas, comprising: placing a denitration catalyst in gas stream to remove nitrogen oxides from a combustion exhaust gas, wherein the denitration catalyst comprises a shaped product comprising a catalyst component and having microcracks on the surface of the shaped-product, and 80% to 100% of the microcracks on the number basis have an angle of a longitudinal direction of the microcracks with respect to a main direction of the gas stream within ±30 degrees.

Abstract: A diagnosis apparatus for a rotary machine includes: a feature acquisition part configured to acquire, from a current waveform of a current measured during rotation of a rotary machine including a motor or a generator, a plurality of features each representing a characteristic of the current; and an abnormality determination part configured to determine whether there is an abnormality in the rotary machine on the basis of a divergence between a distribution of each of the plurality of features or a multi-dimensional distribution of the plurality of features and a reference distribution of each of the plurality of features or a reference multi-dimensional distribution during normal operation of the rotary machine.

Abstract: A sealing device includes a sealing main body surrounding a rotor shaft rotating about an axis from an outer periphery side. The sealing main body includes an inside surface facing an outside surface of the rotor shaft with clearance and a plurality of hole parts formed recessed to an outer side in a radial direction from the inside surface and arrayed in a circumferential direction of the inside surface and in a direction of the axis. The hole parts have an inner peripheral wall in which a spiral groove extending twisting toward the outer side in a radial direction is formed.

Abstract: A wireless communication device according to the disclosure includes a communication unit, a storage unit, and a control unit. The control unit includes a monitoring section that monitors strength of a radio signal transmitted by a currently-connected access point, a determination section that retrieves information indicating correspondence between information on a travel route of the wireless communication device and a candidate for a switching destination access point from the storage unit and determines a connection destination access point based on the information retrieved, and a connection section that executes connection processing to the connection destination access point determined, when the strength of the radio signal transmitted by the currently-connected access point falls outside a threshold value.

Abstract: A pultrusion material serves as a composite material having a reinforced part that is a part reinforced against a load acting in a load direction. The reinforced part includes: a core material that comprises bundled reinforcing fibers and that is provided so as to extend along the load direction; and a cover section obtained by covering the circumference of the core material with a fiber sheet. The fiber direction of the reinforcing fibers in the core material is oriented along the load direction.

Abstract: Provided is a steam turbine rotor blade having, at an intermediate position in a blade length direction thereof, a tie boss for connection to an adjacent blade, wherein the steam turbine rotor blade includes a leading edge side protrusion that is extending in an embankment shape in a blade chord length direction at an intermediate position in the blade length direction, a start end and a terminal end of the leading edge side protrusion are located on a suction side surface and a pressure side surface, respectively, and the leading edge side protrusion continues from the start end to the terminal end via a blade leading edge and arrangement thereof in the blade length direction overlaps with the tie boss as viewed from the upstream side.

Abstract: A startup control device for adjusting a startup schedule during startup of a power generation plant, the device includes: a determining unit which determines, on the basis of a predicted value of a physical quantity corresponding to the elapsed time from startup when the power generation plant has started up on the basis of a prescribed optimal startup schedule, and an observed value of the physical quantity acquired during the startup of the power generation plant, whether the observed value will exceed the predicted value. The device also includes a speed adjusting unit which, if the determining unit determines that the observed value will exceed the predicted value, issues an instruction to decelerate the speed of progress of elapsed time from the startup in the optimal startup schedule; and a startup timer which progresses the elapsed time from the startup at a speed based on the instruction.

Abstract: A substrate for a power module of the present disclosure includes: an insulation sheet; a plurality of front surface patterns formed on a front surface of the insulation sheet and disposed adjacent to each other with a gap between the plurality of front surface patterns in a direction in which the insulation sheet expands; a power semiconductor element connected to the front surface pattern; a plurality of rear surface patterns formed on a rear surface of the insulation sheet and disposed adjacent to each other with a gap between the plurality of rear surface patterns in the direction in which the insulation sheet expands; and a connection pattern disposed in the gap to fill the rear surface in the gap between the neighboring rear surface patterns of the plurality of rear surface patterns and configured to electrically connect the neighboring rear surface patterns, wherein each of the rear surface patterns and at least one front surface pattern overlap with the insulation sheet disposed therebetween in a dire

Abstract: An abnormality diagnosis device includes an abnormality determination unit configured to determine whether or not there is an abnormality with respect to a state quantity acquired from equipment and a cause estimation unit configured to estimate a cause of the abnormality in the equipment from a state quantity determined to be abnormal by the abnormality determination unit using a cause correspondence table in which a cause of an abnormal mode of the equipment identified in fault tree analysis is associated with the state quantity that is abnormal when the cause has occurred.

Abstract: An inspection cable guide mechanism of the present disclosure includes a heat-resistant sheath having flexibility through which a cable is allowed to be inserted and cooling air is allowed to flow toward a tip through a gap between the cable and the heat-resistant sheath, a segment stacked body configured by stacking segments having heat resistance configured to cover the heat-resistant sheath in a centerline direction, and a plurality of wires disposed around the heat-resistant sheath and extending along a centerline, one segment of the segment stacked body is swingable with respect to two segments adjacent to the one segment about swing axes extending in a direction perpendicular to the centerline, the two swing axes becoming centers when the one segment swings with respect to the two segments are perpendicular to each other when viewed in the centerline direction, and one end of each wire is fixed to one of the segments in the segment stacked body.

Abstract: A control method of a metal powder manufacturing apparatus, the metal powder manufacturing apparatus including a crucible housed in a dissolving tank, a molten metal nozzle attached to a bottom surface of the crucible, a plurality of gas injecting nozzles arranged on a periphery of the molten metal nozzle within a spray tank, and an orifice portion disposed in an upstream portion of a flow passage in the molten metal nozzle, an inside diameter of the orifice portion being equal to or more than 0.

Abstract: A monitoring device includes: an operation record acquisition unit configured to acquire operation records indicating a transition in a load factor or a load change factor with respect to operation time leading up to failure in failure cases; a threshold setting unit configured to set a threshold to be contrasted with the load factor or the load change factor in the operation records of the failure cases; a wear rate acquisition unit configured to acquire a wear rate that is a value derived from a relation between the load factor or the load change factor and the threshold and indicates a degree of progress of wear of a device according to operation time; and a failure rate cumulative frequency acquisition unit configured to acquire a transition in a failure rate cumulative frequency of the failure cases with respect to the wear rate.

Abstract: A hydrogen content fuel can be stably ignited using a gaseous fuel that does not contain hydrogen and dispersibility of the hydrogen content fuel is enhanced. A gas turbine combustor including a burner including: a startup fuel pipe in which a startup fuel circulates; a first main fuel pipe in which a main fuel circulates, a second main fuel pipe in which the main fuel circulates; a fuel mixer to which the startup fuel pipe and the first main fuel pipe are connected; an inner fuel nozzle to which the fuel mixer is connected; a plurality of outer fuel nozzles to which the second main fuel pipe is connected; a startup fuel control valve provided in the startup fuel pipe; a first fuel control valve provided in the first main fuel pipe; and a second fuel control valve provided in the second main fuel pipe.

Abstract: A compressor includes a rotor including a plurality of disks, a shaft portion connected on a downstream side of the disks; and rotor blade rows fixed to the plurality of disks; a stator including a compressor casing; and a plurality of stator vane rows each provided between corresponding adjacent ones of the rotor blade rows; an outlet guide vane including blade main bodies disposed at an interval in a circumferential direction on the downstream side of the disk located most downstream, and inner shrouds connecting the blade main bodies in the circumferential direction, on an inner side in a radial direction; and an inner casing disposed on the downstream side of the disk located most downstream with a gap between the disk and the inner casing.

Abstract: The upstream-side wall portion 54 includes, in the circumferential direction thereof, a first region 31 where air inlets 30 are formed at a lower density, and a second region 32 which is disposed at a position offset from the first region 31 in the circumferential direction, and in which the air inlets 30 are formed at a higher density than in the first region 31.

Abstract: Provided is a swaging device including: an upper anvil that is disposed in a state in which the upper anvil faces an end surface of a head of a rivet; a lower anvil that is disposed in a state in which the lower anvil faces an end surface of a shaft portion of the rivet; and a pressurizing mechanism that generates a pressurizing force of causing a distance between the upper anvil and the lower anvil along an axial line to decrease and plastically deforms the rivet, in which an end surface of the upper anvil includes a bottom surface that perpendicularly intersects the axial line X and a support surface that has a projecting length in a direction of the axial line with respect to the bottom surface gradually increasing from an inner circumferential side toward an outer circumferential side in the radial direction formed therein, and an inclination angle of the support surface is smaller than an inclination angle of the inclined surface of the rivet by a predetermined angle.

Abstract: A stator blade segment includes a circumferentially extending outer blade ring, a stator blade extending radially inward from the outer blade ring, and a sealing member. The stator blade has a cavity that is formed in the interior of the blade and that communicates with the surface of the blade. The outer blade ring has a blade ring body and two blade ring protrusions. The two blade ring protrusions protrude radially outward from an anti-gas path surface of the blade ring body and face each other across a gap in an axial direction, and together with a casing, a drain recovery space is formed between the two blade ring protrusions. The blade ring body has a blade surface drain recovery passage that allows communication between the cavity and the drain recovery space. One of the two blade ring protrusions has a sealing surface.

Abstract: A fuel cell system 2 is provided with: a contaminated exhaust gas line for supplying a contaminated exhaust gas containing a contaminant discharged from a facility; and a contaminated exhaust gas purification part for purifying the contaminated exhaust gas supplied from the contaminated exhaust gas line by using heat of reaction of a fuel cell.

Abstract: Fire extinguishing equipment includes an ORC cycle configured to circulate a fire extinguishing agent as a working medium and at least one fire extinguishing agent supply line. The ORC cycle includes a condenser provided on the ORC cycle and configured to liquefy a gaseous fire extinguishing agent that is the fire extinguishing agent in a gas state, a booster pump provided on a downstream side of the condenser on the ORC cycle and configured to pressurize a liquid fire extinguishing agent obtained by liquefying the gaseous fire extinguishing agent in the condenser, a vaporizer provided on a downstream side of the booster pump on the ORC cycle and configured to vaporize the liquid fire extinguishing agent, and an expansion turbine provided on a downstream side of the vaporizer and on an upstream side of the condenser on the ORC cycle and configured to be driven by a gaseous fire extinguishing agent obtained by vaporizing the liquid fire extinguishing agent.

Abstract: Water droplets that are moved on blade surfaces of a rotor blade are effectively guided toward the blade trailing edge while influence on the strength of the rotor blade is suppressed. A steam turbine rotor blade having a tie-boss for joining to adjacent blades at an intermediate position in the blade length direction is provided. The steam turbine rotor blade includes an airfoil part in which a blade surface is partly hollow as viewed in a section obtained by cutting by an orthogonal plane to a rotation center line of a turbine and a recessed blade surface that is this hollow partial blade surface passes through the blade root side of the tie-boss at least in a region on the pressure side and extends in a strip shape in the blade chord length direction.