Patents Assigned to MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
  • Publication number: 20210304521
    Abstract: The present invention provides a rotating machinery diagnosis and monitoring device and method which have high reliability and enable the grasping of a symptom trend of vibrations and a determination of progress of the vibrations during increase and decrease in the rotation speed of a rotor. A rotating machinery diagnosis and monitoring device of the present invention, comprising: an input section that receives vibration values and rotation speeds as operation data of a rotating machine; a computing section that performs computations using the operation data received; and a calculator that includes an output section. The computing section is configured to identify peak values of the vibration values and evaluate each of magnitude of the peak values and the rotation speeds at the peak values. The output section is configured to display externally a result of evaluations performed by the computing section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Tamami KURIHARA, Kengo IWASHIGE, Tadaaki KAKIMOTO, Tetsuji MORITA
  • Publication number: 20210302948
    Abstract: A plant operation data monitoring device comprises: an input section that receives operation data on a plant; and a calculator that includes databases storing the operation data received, and a computing section executing a program. The computing section stores the operation data received in a first database of the databases in time series. The computing section determines from peak values of the operation data stored whether gradients of the operation data are positive or negative, and then stores the gradients in a second database of the databases for positive gradients or in the second database of the databases for negative gradients in time series. The computing section determines threshold values for abnormality determination about the positive and negative gradients, divides the positive gradients and the negative gradients into normal values and abnormal values, and additionally stores the divided gradients in the second database for the positive or negative gradients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tamami KURIHARA, Kengo IWASHIGE, Tadaaki KAKIMOTO, Tetsuji MORITA
  • Patent number: 11131217
    Abstract: A steam turbine exhaust chamber includes a casing and a bearing cone disposed in the casing. The casing has a recess provided along at least a part of a circumference of the casing on a radially outer side of a downstream end of the bearing cone and recessed downstream in an axial direction with respect to the downstream end of the bearing cone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Murakami, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Toyoharu Nishikawa, Soichiro Tabata
  • Publication number: 20210293153
    Abstract: In a rotary machine and a seal member, a casing, a rotor, a stator blade, a rotor blade, and a seal device disposed between the casing and a tip portion of the rotor blade are provided, in which a blade attachment groove is provided in the inner peripheral portion of the casing, and a caulking groove is provided adjacent to the blade attachment groove, in which a base end portion of the stator blade is mounted in the blade attachment groove and a caulking member is locked to the caulking groove and a blade root portion of the stator blade, so that the stator blade is fixed to the inner peripheral portion of the casing, and in which a seal ring as a seal device is mounted in the inner peripheral portion of the casing, and the seal ring covers at least a part of the caulking groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Ueta, Hisataka Fukushima, Kentaro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11125166
    Abstract: A control system is configured to control a temperature of a fuel which is supplied to a combustor of a gas turbine via a fuel gas heater, which is configured to heat the fuel of the gas turbine, by adjusting a flow rate of heated water which is supplied to the fuel gas heater. The control system includes a water flow rate adjusting unit configured to adjust the flow rate of the heated water which is supplied to the fuel gas heater based on a difference between a target temperature of the fuel and the temperature of the fuel on an outlet side of the fuel gas heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Nakazawa, Akihiko Saito, Hiroyuki Nakagawa, Ryo Koto
  • Patent number: 11125113
    Abstract: A gas turbine exhaust casing includes a tubular casing wall, a bearing box housed in the casing wall, a diffuser portion forming an annular exhaust gas flow passage between the casing wall and the bearing box, a plurality of struts disposed at intervals in a circumferential direction of the casing wall, and coupling the casing wall and the bearing box, and a plurality of fastening bolts disposed on the casing wall. The casing wall includes an upper half casing forming an upper half of the casing wall and a lower half casing forming a lower half of the casing wall. The plurality of fastening bolts fasten the upper half casing and the lower half casing. The plurality of struts include a penetrated strut which has an end penetrated by at least one fastening bolt of the plurality of fastening bolts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Nishioka, Shinya Hashimoto, Takuro Kameda
  • Patent number: 11125090
    Abstract: A first-stage stationary vane of a gas turbine includes: a vane portion including a pressure surface and a suction surface; a shroud wall portion which connects to an end portion of the vane portion and which forms a flow passage wall; a pressure-surface side fillet portion disposed on a corner portion formed by the pressure surface and a wall surface of the shroud wall portion; and a suction-surface side fillet portion disposed on a corner portion formed by the suction surface and the wall surface of the shroud wall portion. The pressure-surface side fillet portion and the suction-surface side fillet portion are separated at a leading-edge side of the vane portion so as not to connect to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo Miyahisa, Satoshi Hada, Susumu Wakazono, Hitoshi Kitagawa, Takashi Hiyama
  • Publication number: 20210285396
    Abstract: A coal gasification combined power generation facility includes a feed water supply line that supplies feed water condensed by a condenser to an exhaust heat recovery boiler; a supply adjustment valve that adjusts the flow amount of feed water supplied to the exhaust heat recovery boiler; a turbine bypass line that bypasses a steam turbine and supplies steam to the condenser; and a spray water line that supplies the feed water to the turbine bypass line. The coal gasification combined power generation facility has a bypass operation mode, wherein a control device supplies the feed water to the turbine bypass line and performs a first opening degree control to control the opening degree of the supply adjustment valve so that the amount of feed water supplied to the exhaust heat recovery boiler becomes less than that in a normal operation mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoya Hayashi, Jun Taguchi, Satoru Matsuo, Kei Moriyama, Ken Tamura, Kentaro Nakamura, Yuji Ohta
  • Patent number: 11121591
    Abstract: A hollow metal part is used as a pipe component for a refrigerant flow path of a rotating electrical machine adapted to cool a stator coil with a refrigerant. The rotating electrical machine includes a connection arm that couples the stator coil and a power supply terminal at a stator coil end portion of the stator coil, and an insulating hose that is coupled to the stator coil and the connection arm through a first hollow metal part in order to supply the refrigerant to the stator coil and the connection arm. The first hollow metal part is formed integrally by joining a part formed of stainless steel to a part made of oxygen-free copper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Seijiro Muramatsu, Takuma Yamaguchi, Kenichi Hattori, Toru Muto, Yoichi Kotani, Chuanhong Fan
  • Patent number: 11118461
    Abstract: A second outer surface (49ab) of a top plate (49) is recessed from a first outer surface (49aa) of the top plate (49) in the direction away from the inner peripheral surface (34a) of a turbine casing (34) so that a step (50) is formed between the second outer surface (49ab) and the first outer surface (49aa). At least part of the discharge opening (53B) of a cooling hole (53) is disposed in the second outer surface (49ab). The cooling hole (53) extends so as to be tilted relative to the second outer surface (49ab) so that the cooling hole (53) discharges a cooling medium to the upstream side of a combustion gas flowing between the second outer surface (49ab) and the inner peripheral surface (34a) of the turbine casing (34).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuta Ito, Koichiro Iida
  • Patent number: 11118465
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor and a gas turbine; wherein inclined surfaces are provided on inner surfaces of side walls neighboring in a circumferential direction at downstream end portions of transition pieces of combustors, the inclined surfaces being configured to increase a passage area of the transition pieces, a ratio (S/P) is from 0 to 0.2, where (P) is a pitch dimension of first stage vanes, and (S) is a circumferential dimension from an intermediate point between neighboring transition pieces to an upstream end of a first stage vane closest in the circumferential direction; and a ratio (L/P) is from 0.3 to 0.55, where (P) is the pitch dimension, and (L) is an axial dimension from a downstream end of the transition piece to the upstream end of the first stage vane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuro Sakamoto, Satoshi Mizukami, Keisuke Matsuyama, Satoshi Tanimura, Masanori Yuri, Shunsuke Torii, Hiroaki Kishida
  • Patent number: 11118512
    Abstract: There is provided a gas turbine (1) including a compressor (2) that generates compressed air, a casing (5) into which the compressed air is introduced, a combustor (3) that generates a combustion gas, a turbine (4) that is driven by the combustion gas, a combustor cooling system (6) that has a sub-compressor (62), which is able to be operated independently of the compressor (2), and a heat exchanger (61), which extracts air in the casing (5) and causes the air to exchange heat after the sub-compressor (62) has increased a pressure of the air, and that introduces the air, which has exchanged heat, into a cooling passage (31) of a cylindrical body (30) of the combustor (3), and a combustor air introducing system that extracts air flowing in the combustor cooling system (6) and introduces the air into the combustor (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Miyamoto, Satoshi Takiguchi, Masakazu Nose
  • Publication number: 20210275964
    Abstract: A method for controlling a wet flue gas desulfurization device includes a step of constructing a first learning model by machine learning of a relationship between a future sulfur dioxide concentration at an outlet of the absorption tower, and operation data of the combustion device and operation data of the wet flue gas desulfurization device including a circulation flow rate of the absorption liquid, a step of creating, by using the first learning model, a first relationship table between a circulation flow rate of the absorption liquid at first time and a sulfur dioxide concentration in an effluent gas flowing out of the absorption tower at second time which is time in the future relative to the first time, a step of deciding, based on the first relationship table, the circulation flow rate of the absorption liquid at the first time, at which the sulfur dioxide concentration in the effluent gas at the second time is not more than a preset set value, and a step of adjusting an operation condition of the at
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Kokubo, Jin Sudo, Shinya Kanemori, Shun Gunji
  • Patent number: 11111799
    Abstract: A method for disassembling/assembling a gas turbine including a seal plate disposed on a first side of a rotor disc in an axial direction of the rotor disc, and a seal plate restraint part for restricting movement of the seal plate relative to the rotor disc in a radial direction of the rotor disc includes a seal-plate-restraint-state switching step of operating the seal plate restraint part from a second side in the axial direction to switch between a seal plate non-restraint state where the seal plate restraint part does not restrict movement of the seal plate in the radial direction and a seal plate restraint state where at least a part of the seal plate restraint part protrudes toward the second side in the axial direction from the seal plate and thereby restricts movement of the seal plate in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Murata, Eiichi Tsutsumi, Yoshimasa Takaoka, Shinya Hashimoto, Naoki Ikushima, Tetsuya Shimmyo
  • Patent number: 11111817
    Abstract: In a rotary machine that includes rotating body including a rotating-body main body and a pair of rotor shaft ends fixed to the both outer sides in the shaft direction of the rotating-body main body; a casing accommodating the rotating-body main body and being penetrated by the rotor shaft ends; a bearing rotatably supporting the rotor shaft ends and having a bearing face being provided with lubricant fluid from a lubricant line; and the support part supporting the casing, the support part is cooled through heat exchanging between the lubricant fluid the support part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ishida, Tomoyuki Onishi, Makoto Kondo, Takumi Matsumura, Katsuhisa Hamada
  • Patent number: 11112116
    Abstract: The present invention reduces thermal stress that is applied to the weld zone of a cavity formed in the structural material of a burner. The burner includes the cavity distributing a fuel to fuel nozzles. The cavity is demarcated by a groove formed in the structural material of the burner so as to create a level difference at an opening, and a cover fitted into the level difference to close the groove. The cover is formed by a web covering the opening in the groove and a flange extending in the depth direction of the groove to be fitted into the level difference, and is joined by welding to the structural material in such a manner as to have an L-shaped cross-section. When viewed in a cross-section orthogonal to the groove, a cover-side inner surface that is an inner surface of the flange forming a lateral surface of the cavity is flush with a groove-side inner surface that is an inner surface of the groove forming a lateral surface of the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironori Tsukidate, Kunihiro Oga, Yoshitaka Terada, Koichi Nishida
  • Patent number: 11112386
    Abstract: A sensor 30 including a plurality of elements 31 is divided into a plurality of regions 1 and 2. A UT device 20 is connected to each region of the sensor 30 via a switch 40. At least one region of the sensor 30 used for UT is selected for each flaw detection point according to a positional relation of the flaw detection point to the sensor 30. The UT device is connected to the selected at least one region of the sensor 30 by the switch 40. For a flaw detection point for which one region is selected, UT is performed by using the selected one region. For a flaw detection point for which a plurality of regions are selected, a necessary number of times of ultrasonic testing are performed according to a number of the regions by using the selected plurality of regions, and the results are subjected to addition processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yutaka Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20210268612
    Abstract: A repair welding method according to at least one embodiment is for a member in which a first end and a second end of a parent material are connected by welding and includes: a step of removing a portion including at least a part of a first heat-affected zone of an existing welded portion of the member; and a step of performing repair welding after removing the portion. In a cross-section including the parent material and the existing welded portion, all intersection portions between the first heat-affected zone of the existing welded portion and a second heat-affected zone due to the repair welding have an intersection angle between the first heat-affected zone and the second heat-affected zone of 70° to 110°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Honda, Toshiaki Nishio, Nobuyoshi Komai, Takumi Tokiyoshi, Masaaki Fujita, Kimihiko Tominaga, Hiroyuki Ohyama, Fumitoshi Sakata, Koichi Teshima, Eiji Murakami, Akinori Yamaguchi, Fumio Nishi
  • Patent number: 11103823
    Abstract: A filter backwashing unit is disposed in a path in which process gas flows to remove at least a part of trapped dust included in a process gas by backwashing an element of a filter device that traps the dust when a process gas passes. The filter backwashing unit includes a gas injection device disposed downstream of the element in a flow direction of a process gas to inject backwashing gas toward the element from downstream; a parameter detection device configured to detect a parameter used for determination of a state of dust adhering to the element; and a control device configured to estimate a thickness of dust deposited on a surface of the element upstream of a process gas based on a result of the detection, and determine an interval at which the element is backwashed based on the estimated thickness of the dust.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Haruto Shinoda, Yoshinori Koyama
  • Patent number: 11105213
    Abstract: There are provided a seal fin, a seal structure, a turbo machine, and a method for manufacturing a seal fin. The seal fin suppresses leak of a fluid from a gap between a first and a second structures facing each other in a radius direction, and is formed on the first structure while keeping a clearance with respect to the second structure. The seal fin includes: a fin main body extending in the radius direction; and a protrusion being formed between a front face of the fin main body and a tip face and protruding toward an upstream side. A length of the protrusion is 1.5 times a length of the fin main body or less; an angle of the protrusion is 75 degrees or less; and a tilt angle of the fin main body is set in a range of ?60 degrees or more and 60 degrees or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Toyoharu Nishikawa, Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Hiroharu Oyama, Katsuhisa Hamada, Hideaki Sugishita