Patents Assigned to MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
  • Publication number: 20210262355
    Abstract: A set screw (56) is provided, which has a screw main body (71), a male thread portion (75) which is formed on an outer periphery of the screw main body (71), and a drain hole (78) which penetrates a central portion of the screw main body (71) in an extension direction of the screw main body (71). The blade root ring (53) has a hole (63) which extends radially outward from an inner peripheral surface (53a) of the blade root ring (53), and a female thread portion (64) which is formed on an inner peripheral surface (63a) of the hole (63), and the set screw (56) is screwed into the female thread portion (64).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Sato, Shouhei Danno, Kimihiro Todo, Tomohiro Horai, Tatsuo Nakamoto
  • Publication number: 20210262365
    Abstract: An exhaust chamber of a steam turbine according to an embodiment includes an outer casing which includes an end wall part in an axial direction and an extension part extending upward in the axial direction from the end wall part, a first flow guide formed into an annular shape, the first flow guide forming an upstream region of a diffuser surface in a hub-side flow guide and being fixed to an upstream end portion of the extension part on a radially inner side of the diffuser surface, and a second flow guide formed into an annular shape, the second flow guide forming a downstream region of the diffuser surface at a position downstream of the first flow guide and on a radially outer side of the extension part, and being fixed to the extension part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoki Yamashita, Takaaki Matsuo, Soichiro Tabata
  • Patent number: 11099553
    Abstract: An operation plan creation device that is configured to create an operation plan for a plurality of parts to be mounted in a device includes a setting data acquisition unit configured to acquire setting data including information on a time of start of an operation of the part and a time of a scheduled performance of inspection of the part, and information on parts that are candidates for assignment to the device, for each device, an operation plan creation unit configured to create data of the operation plan including an operation period of the part from the time of the start of the operation to the time of the scheduled performance of inspection using the setting data, and an assignability determination unit configured to determine an assignability for the part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoya Kawamura, Manabu Kasano, Tomoaki Kitagawa, Hiroyuki Isu, Naoyuki Fujiwara, Shun Kawachi
  • Patent number: 11098901
    Abstract: In a gas turbine combustor, a sectional shape in a radial direction of either one of an inner peripheral surface of a second inner tube member and an outer peripheral surface of a first inner tube member, in a fitting portion of a crossfire tube assembly, has a plurality of small-curvature portions having a curvature smaller than a reference curvature, the reference curvature being a curvature of a portion at a maximum distance from the center of the sectional shape. This configuration ensures the crossfire tube assembly is cooled, and the Possibility of thermal deformation or fire damage is lowered, without lowering the temperature of a combustion exhaust gas passing through the crossfire tube assembly of the gas turbine combustor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Okazaki, Tomomi Koganezawa, Hirokazu Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20210254527
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification device is disclosed provided with a denitration catalyst for reducing and removing nitrogen oxides in exhaust gas using ammonia as a reducing agent in a gas flow passage through which the exhaust gas discharged from a boiler flows, and which injects ammonia into the exhaust gas flowing through the gas flow passage on an upstream side of the denitration catalyst, including multiple disturbing plate support members, and a disturbing plate. The multiple disturbing plate support members are fixedly provided on a downstream side of the denitration catalyst and arranged extending linearly in a flow path cross section to cross the gas flow passage. The disturbing plate includes an exhaust gas flow facing surface exposed on an upstream side and is fixed to the disturbing plate support members so that a position thereof in the flow path cross section can be changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yoshimura, Katsumi Yano, Katsuhiro Yashiro, Akihiro Yamada, Satoru Shishido, Hironori Kishi
  • Publication number: 20210257871
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes an armature winding having three parallel circuits and two phase belts per phase. Each phase belt includes two parallel circuits, which are arranged in a sequence of the first, second, first, first, second, first, first, first, and second parallel circuits in top coil pieces and in a sequence of the first, second, first, first, second, first, first, first, and second parallel circuits in bottom coil pieces to be connected to the top coil pieces. A sequence of the second and third parallel circuits of the other the phase belt are arranged in the third, second, third, third, second, third, third, third, and second parallel circuits in the top coil pieces and in the third, second, third, third, second, third, third, third, and second parallel circuits in the bottom coil pieces to be connected to the top coil pieces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko TAKAHASHI, Harumasa TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20210254510
    Abstract: A steam turbine facility includes a rotor shaft, a pair of radial bearings for rotatably supporting the rotor shaft, a pair of low-pressure turbine blade rows disposed on the rotor shaft in a bearing span of the pair of radial bearings, and a high-pressure turbine blade row and an intermediate-pressure turbine blade row disposed on the rotor shaft in the bearing span and positioned between the pair of low-pressure turbine blade rows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichiro WAKI, Masaomi MAKINO
  • Patent number: 11092026
    Abstract: A rotor machine includes a rotor which includes a recessed portion, a stator blade which includes a stator blade body and a shroud, and a fin. The recessed portion includes a recessed portion radial wall surface which extends in a radial direction, and the recessed portion radial wall surface includes a first wall surface which extends radially outward, a second wall surface which extends further radially outward than the first wall surface, and a protrusion surface which protrudes toward an upstream side in the axis direction from the first wall surface. The shroud includes a shroud radial wall surface facing a downstream side in the axis direction of the recessed portion radial wall surface, and a shroud groove portion is formed in the shroud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Kazuyuki Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20210247064
    Abstract: A solid fuel burner to be inserted into a burner throat bored in a wall portion of a furnace, comprising: a solid fuel nozzle for ejecting mixed fluid of solid fuel and primary air; a secondary air nozzle for ejecting secondary air; a tertiary air nozzle for ejecting tertiary air; a secondary air guide member for guiding a flow of the secondary air outwardly in a radial direction; and one or more tertiary air guide members for guiding a flow of the tertiary air outwardly in the radial direction at a first angle with respect to a central axis (C) of the solid fuel burner, wherein a distal end position (X2) of each of the tertiary air guide members in an axial direction of the solid fuel burner is at a closer side of the furnace than a distal end position (X1) of the secondary air guide member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Kiyama, Kenichi Ochi, Shohei Mito, Kosuke Kitakaze, Toshihiko Mine
  • Patent number: 11085642
    Abstract: A combustor includes: a fuel nozzle extending along an axis; a tubular combustor basket configured to cover the fuel nozzle; and a tubular transition piece configured to define a cooling air passage through which air from outside is introduced between the tubular transition piece and an outer circumferential surface of a leading end portion of the tubular combustor basket. The tubular transition piece extends toward a leading end side of the tubular combustor basket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Issei Tamura, Keijiro Saito, Kenji Miyamoto, Yaohua Xue
  • Patent number: 11084995
    Abstract: A carbonaceous feedstock gasification power generation facility, and a method for regulating a gas for drying gas this carbonaceous feedstock, are disclosed with which it is possible to expand the range of the types of carbonaceous feedstocks that can be used. High-temperature exhaust gas, low-temperature exhaust gas and extreme high-temperature exhaust gas are bled from the furnace respectively at a high-temperature bleed position, a low-temperature bleed position and an extreme high-temperature bleed position. When these exhaust gases are mixed, the flow volume of the extreme high-temperature exhaust gas supplied to at least one of the exhaust gases, that is, the high-temperature exhaust gas or the low-temperature exhaust gas, is adjusted such that the temperature of at least one of these exhaust gases, that is, the high-temperature exhaust gas or the low-temperature exhaust gas, reaches a prescribed temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Sakamoto, Hiromi Ishii, Takashi Fujii, Shogo Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11085324
    Abstract: A gas turbine is provided with an exhaust diffuser in which an exhaust flow path for circulating exhaust gas from a turbine is formed, and a cooling device for cooling a structure facing the exhaust flow path in the exhaust diffuser. The cooling device has a guide part in which a guide flow path for circulating a cooling medium is formed and which is configured to guide the cooling medium to the structure, and a switching part able to switch between a first state where a flow rate of the cooling medium flowing through the guide flow path is a first flow rate corresponding to a flow rate during a rated operation and a second state where the flow rate of the cooling medium is a second flow rate higher than the first flow rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayoshi Iijima, Shinya Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11085335
    Abstract: A remodeling method of a combined cycle plant including gas turbines; heat recovery steam generators provided corresponding to number of the gas turbines and configured to recover heat of flue gas discharged from the gas turbines and produce steam by the recovered heat; ducts configured to guide the flue gas from the gas turbines toward the respective heat recovery steam generators; and a steam turbine configured to be rotationally driven by the steam produced by the heat recovery steam generators. The remodeling method of a combined cycle plant includes: removing gas turbines and ducts; installing, in place of the two gas turbines, a new gas turbine that is higher in efficiency and smaller in number than the two gas turbines; and installing, in place of the ducts, a distribution duct configured to distribute and guide flue gas from the new gas turbine to two heat recovery steam generators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Toyota, Kuniaki Aoyama, Jiro Asakuno, Masaru Takamatsu
  • Publication number: 20210238490
    Abstract: The object is to provide a powder fuel feed apparatus, a gasifier unit, and an integrated gasification combined cycle and a control method of a powder fuel feed apparatus that can suppress deformation of a sintered metal filter with simple and inexpensive configuration. An embodiment includes: a distributor pipe (89) in which a mixed gas containing moisture and a gas in which pulverized coal and nitrogen transported with the pulverized coal are mixed is transported; and a diluting nitrogen system (90) that, when a flow velocity of the mixed gas is less than a predetermined threshold, additionally supplies a diluting nitrogen to a mixing chamber (97) connected to the distributor pipe (89) and forming a part of the distributor pipe (89), and the diluting nitrogen system (90) continuously supplies a predetermined flow rate of the diluting nitrogen to the mixing chamber (97).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Urakata, Koji Nishimura, Jun Kasai
  • Publication number: 20210239014
    Abstract: A flow guide is provided with a flange, a guide plate, and an inside member. A ring groove which is recessed to the radially outer side from an inner circumferential surface and which extends in a circumferential direction based on the axis is formed in the flange. The inside member includes a fitted portion which enters the ring groove, and a cover portion which faces the inner circumferential surface of the flange in the radial direction. The cover portion covers at least parts of the inner circumferential surface of the flange and an inner circumferential surface of the guide plate that face a tip end of a moving blade in the radial direction. The cover portion is formed from a material having a higher erosion resistance with respect to steam and steam drain than the flange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeki Nakayama, Yasuyuki Tatsumi, Takeo Tokumoto, Hiromu Sagimori
  • Publication number: 20210237162
    Abstract: A portable turning machine includes a support placed on and fixed to a floor, a ring base supported by the support, a turning ring that is turnably supported by the ring base and arranged on an outer circumference side of a collector ring, a motor for turning ring that turns the turning ring, and a tool that is attached to the turning ring and is used for performing corrective machining of the collector ring. The ring base has a structure that is dividable into a lower dividable type ring base and an upper dividable type ring base. The turning ring has a structure that is dividable into a lower dividable type turning ring and an upper dividable type turning ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori KAWAKAMI, Hiroyuki MASHIKO, Michiya HAYAKAWA, Shogo WADA
  • Patent number: 11078808
    Abstract: Provided is a plant that includes: a boiler (30); a device connected to the boiler (30); a water supply source (41) that is configured to pool water; a water supply line (44) that supplies water from the water supply source (41) to the boiler (30); a cooler (50, 60g, 60s, 70g, 70s, 80) that transfers heat from a medium to be cooled to supply-water (W), which is the water flowing along the water supply line (44); a thermometer (59, 69, 79, 89) that determines a temperature of the medium to be cooled or the supply-water; and a temperature regulator (53, 62, 72, 82) that is configured to regulate the temperature of the medium to be cooled on the basis of the temperature determined by the thermometer (59, 69, 79, 89).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Uechi, Naoki Hisada
  • Patent number: 11079113
    Abstract: A fuel injector including a fuel supply tube (8), a plurality of premix tubes (2), a support plate (3) which supports the fuel supply tube and the plurality of premix tubes, a substrate which supports downstream end portions of the plurality of premix tubes, an outer wall which is cylindrical, which forms a plenum (P) inside, a partition plate which partitions the plenum (P) into a fuel plenum (PF) and a cooling air plenum (PA), a baffle which partitions the cooling air plenum (PA) into an upstream cooling air plenum (PA1) and a downstream cooling air plenum (PA2) and has a plurality of cooling holes formed therein, and a cooling air supply tube configured to supply cooling air to the upstream cooling air plenum (PA1), in which the end portion on the downstream side of the fuel supply tube opens in the fuel plenum (PF), and a fuel introduction hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuyoshi Tada, Kei Inoue, Satoshi Tanimura, Keijiro Saito
  • Publication number: 20210230494
    Abstract: A hydrothermal treatment device (3) is a hydrothermal treatment device (3) performing hydrothermal treatment by heating high-water-content biomass, the hydrothermal treatment device (3) including a treatment container (21) that stores sludge, a sludge supply unit (22) that supplies the sludge to inside of the treatment container (21) such that a space (S) is formed in a vertical upper part of the treatment container (21), a stirrer (23) that is provided within the treatment container (21) and stirs stored matter such that counter flows in an up/down direction occur, and a heat transfer tube (24) that is disposed in a horizontal direction within the treatment container (21) and heats the sludge with heat of vapor flowing within the heat transfer tube (24).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoichi Shimbo, Yuta Ozawa, Akito Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11073047
    Abstract: A steam turbine (ST) includes a rotor (11) which is rotatable around an axis (Ar), an inner casing (21) surrounding the rotor (11) from an outer peripheral side, an outer casing (30) surrounding the rotor (11) and the inner casing (21) and defining an exhaust chamber between the inner casing (21) and the outer casing (30), the steam being exhausted to the exhaust chamber (30s), and a flow guide (27) which has a tubular shape and is installed on one end portion of the inner casing 21 in an axial direction (Da) in the exhaust chamber (30s) to guide the steam discharged from the rotor (11). The flow guide (27) has a turning surface (RA) which is connected to an outer peripheral surface (27A) and turns a fluid flowing along the outer peripheral surface (27A) toward the other side in the axial direction (Da).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Sugishita, Soichiro Tabata, Toyoharu Nishikawa, Tadashi Takahashi, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Yoshihiro Kuwamura