Abstract: A remaining service life evaluation method for evaluating a remaining service life of a metal pipe suffering from creep damage on a basis of a master curve that is prepared in advance that includes wrapping a steel strip around an outer peripheral face of the metal pipe under same conditions as those during an internal pressure creep test and evaluating a remaining service life of the metal pipe on a basis of a degree of deterioration of the steel strip.

Abstract: The economical load distribution adjusting device 10 acquires an optimal hydroelectric output, optimal demand, and optimal power price from the supply-demand planning device 23, acquires the planned hydroelectric output planned by the water level planning devices 21, and acquires a planned demand planned by the charge control devices 22. The economical load distribution adjusting device 10 reduces the power price of the time at which the planned hydroelectric output exceeds the optimal output and makes the water level planning devices 21 replan the hydroelectric output, and raises the power price of the time at which the planned demand exceeds the optimal demand and makes the charge control devices 22 replan the amount of demand.

Abstract: The present invention is a power feeding system that includes a power transmission device and a power receiving device. The power transmission device includes a primary side coil. The power receiving device includes a secondary side coil. The power receiving device side performs an adjustment such that a value of a current supplied to a load becomes a predetermined value. Thus, the present invention solves a problem of a conventional power feeding system that, for example, an increase in a current value supplied to a load possibly damages the load. The power receiving device receives electric power output from the power transmission device that includes a primary side coil. The power receiving device is configured to supply electric power according to the electric power to the load. The power receiving device includes a secondary side coil and an adjusting device. In the secondary side coil, a second current is generated according to a first current which is supplied to the primary side coil.

Abstract: A power control device including a first detection device that detects that a knob provided on a room interior side of a door has turned to a first turn position when the door is locked, and a cutoff device that cuts off power supply to an electrical device provided in the room interior when the first detection device has detected that the knob has turned to the first turn position.

Abstract: A control device of a storage battery includes a first obtaining unit that obtains first information indicative of an electricity price set for each time slot, a second obtaining unit that obtains second information indicative of charge/discharge efficiencies of the storage battery, a first calculating unit that calculates first electric energy charged in the storage battery, a second calculating unit that calculates second electric energy of the storage battery dischargeable from the storage battery to a load, a third calculating unit that calculates a unit charging price per unit electric energy required to charge the second electric energy based on the second electric energy, the electricity price in the time slot during which the storage battery is charged, the first electric energy, and the charge/discharge efficiencies, and a control unit that compares the electricity price with the unit charging price in each of the time slots.

Abstract: A charge/discharge control device controls charge and discharge of a storage battery in a consumer. The consumer includes an electric power load, a distributed power supply, and the storage battery. The distributed power supply is configured to supply the load with electric power. The storage battery is coupled to the load and the distributed power supply. The charge/discharge control device includes a first determining device and a first control device. The first determining device is configured to determine whether an amount of power generation of the distributed power supply is larger than an amount of power consumption of the load. The first control device is configured to, when the first determining device determines that the amount of power generation is larger than the amount of power consumption, control charge and discharge of the storage battery so that an economic benefit arising from control of the storage battery to the consumer.

Abstract: An exhaust heat recovery apparatus includes an engine, a first cooler, a heat exchanger, and a first valve device. The first cooler contains a first cooling medium to cool a first mechanism of the engine. The first cooler exchanges heat between water at a first temperature from a warm water utilization facility and the first cooling medium to output water at a second temperature. The heat exchanger exchanges heat between the water at the second temperature and the exhaust gas from the engine to output water at a third temperature and supplies the water at the third temperature to the warm water utilization facility. The first valve device causes the water at the first temperature to be supplied to the heat exchanger when a temperature of the first cooling medium is lower than a temperature on a side of the first cooler.

Abstract: A heat-resistant metal member suffering from creep damage is covered by a heat-resistant covering member and secured so as to contact an outer periphery of the heat-resistant metal member, and the heat-resistant metal member covered by the heat-resistant covering member is heated to a temperature of 1000° C. or greater. A compressive force accordingly acts on the heat-resistant metal member undergoing thermal expansion toward the outer periphery, enabling efficient regenerative heat treatment to be performed on the heat-resistant metal member suffering from creep damage, while restraining thermal expansion in the direction toward the outer periphery of the heat-resistant metal member.

Abstract: A creep reinforcement material containing one or a plurality of elements selected from B, W, Cr, Mo, Nb, V, Hf, Zr, Ti, Cu, and Co is coated or thermally sprayed onto a surface of a heat-resistant metal member manufactured using a heat-resistant metal material, and a section coated or thermally sprayed with the creep reinforcement material is covered by a heat-resistant covering member and secured so as to contact the section. The heat-resistant metal member covered by the heat-resistant covering member is heated to a temperature of 1000° C. or greater, and thus compressive force accordingly acts on the heat-resistant metal member as it thermally expands in a direction toward the outer periphery, restraining thermal expansion of the heat-resistant metal member in the direction toward the outer periphery, and enabling the creep reinforcement material on the surface of the heat-resistant metal member to be efficiently diffused and permeated into the heat-resistant metal member.

Abstract: Included are a judging device configured to judge economic efficiency to be brought by charging and discharging of a storage battery based on a first sale price of electric power in a first time slot, a second sale price of the electric power in a second time slot, and charge/discharge efficiency of the storage battery, the first time slot being obtained by dividing a day into predetermined time periods, the second time slot being obtained by dividing the day into the predetermined time periods and being different from the first time slot; and a determining device configured to determine a charge/discharge plan of the storage battery in the first and the second time slots based on a judgment result of the judging device.

Abstract: A wireless power transfer system includes a mobile object including a power receiving element that receives a power transmitted through wireless power transfer, a power transmission element that transmits the power, a slidable shield that shields an electromagnetic wave radiated from the power transmission element, the shield comprising a first magnet, and an urging mechanism that urges the shield to slide in a direction that increases a shielding effect of the power transmission element. The mobile object further includes a second magnet at a predetermined distance from the power receiving element, the second magnet couples to the first magnet when the mobile object approaches the power transmission element to couple the mobile object and the shield together.

Abstract: A power supply device connected to a trunk line in a switchboard after a power source breaker is opened in response to the detection of power outage, a personal computer identifies from among loads a load to which power can be supplied within the range of output capacity of the power source supply device and connects the load identified to the trunk line. A user may assign priorities to some or all of the loads. Although the personal computer identifies the loads to be connected in order of the priority, when a total power consumption of the identified loads exceeds the limit of output capacity of the power supply device, the personal computer skips the load to be identified in order of the priority and attempts to identify a load with a lower priority.

Abstract: A battery system having a secondary battery and a battery-side control device, and a discharger configured to discharge the secondary battery to output direct-current power and convert power from an alternating-current power supply into direct current to charge the secondary battery; the charger/discharger having a charge/discharge-side control device that controls charge and discharge; and when the charge/discharge-side control device establishes communicable connection with the battery-side control device, and receives specific information for specifying a charge/discharge control program, which is a program for controlling the charge and discharge transmitted from the battery system, the charge/discharge-side control device establishes communicable connection with the external server device, acquires charge/discharge control program specified by the specific information, and performs control according to the charge/discharge control program.

Abstract: A power supply control device that controls power supply from a power source device to a plurality of loads includes a circuit that parallely connects the plurality of loads to the power source device. The circuit is connected to a plurality of switches that switch between a connection and a shut off between the power source device and the plurality of loads. The power supply control device further includes a priority setting unit that assigns priorities to the plurality of loads, a power detection unit that detects a change in a total power consumption by the loads that are connected to the power source device, a load identifying unit that repeatedly performs a load identifying process, and a changeover control unit that controls a changeover of the switch corresponding to the load that is identified as the connection target and to connect the power source device to the identified load.

Abstract: A plasma spraying apparatus includes a main torch and an auxiliary torch. The main torch includes a first electrode including a spraying material discharge hole, a first mantle, and a first insulator including a first plasma gas introducing port. The auxiliary torch includes a second electrode, a second mantle, and a second insulator including a second plasma gas introducing port. A spraying material supplied from the spraying material discharge hole is melted at the axial center of plasma that is formed on the central axis of the first electrode by the first electrode and the second electrode, and a gas introducing part that introduces gas is provided on an inlet side of an opening part and/or in a tapered part provided between the opening part and the first insulator in the first mantle.

Abstract: A method for regenerating an NOx removal catalyst, which includes connecting an upstream fixing member (10) to one end of a member to be ground, and connecting a downstream fixing member (20) to the other end; connecting a mixing part (40) for mixing an abrasive with a gas to an upstream portion of the upstream fixing member, and disposing a screen member in the expanded part, and connecting a classification part (70) and a dust-collecting part (80) to the downstream fixing member; and transferring the abrasive which has been mixed with the gas from the mixing part to the upstream fixing member, reducing the flow rate of the mixture in the expanded part, subsequently, causing the mixture to pass through the through-hole of the NOx removal catalyst and the downstream fixing member, and then collecting dust by means of the dust-collecting part via the classification part.

Abstract: A distance measuring system includes: a reference member configured to be provided on a surface of a first pipe made of metal, the reference member serving as a reference for distance measurement; an attachment member provided on a surface of a second pipe, made of metal, connected with the first pipe through a weld; a distance sensor configured to be attached to the attachment member, to measure a distance to the reference member; and a measuring unit configured to measure the distance based on an output from the distance sensor.

Abstract: A pipe-reinforcing implement with excellent workability during attachment to the piping is provided. The reinforcing implement 1 is to be arranged along an outer circumferential face Xb of a metal piping X, in a state surrounding the piping in a circumferential direction, in which creep may occur due to a high temperature and pressure fluid inside, and configured to reinforce creep strength of the piping, the reinforcing implement including a plurality of reinforcing members 11 arranged in the circumferential direction to be joined and a plurality of laminate members 12, 13, 14 overlaid in a radial direction of the piping to configure each of the reinforcing members.

Abstract: A slag monitoring device 100 for a coal gasifier includes a slag hole camera 11 that observes a slag hole 3 from which molten slag flows out, a water surface camera 12 that observes a situation in which the slag flowing out from the slag hole 3 falls onto a water surface 5H of cooling water 5, a falling sound sensor 13 that observes a sound of the slag falling onto the water surface 5H, and a processing device 20 that determines a solidification and adhesion position of the slag based on an opening area of the slag hole 3 observed by the slag hole camera 11 and falling lines and falling positions of the slag observed by the water surface camera.

Abstract: A method of predicting growth of a crack in a member includes memorizing, for each portion on the member, stress distribution ??(a) in the depth direction obtained in the case that no crack is present, a relationship between depth of growing cracks and creep contribution, and a relationship between creep contribution and parameters C and in of the Paris's law, receiving from a user an indication of a certain portion on the member, acquiring the stress distribution ??(a) in the depth direction for the certain portion, acquiring a creep contribution at the depth of a growing crack for the certain portion, from the relationship between depth of cracks and creep contribution memorized for the certain portion, and acquiring parameters C and in corresponding to the acquired creep contribution, from the relationship between creep contribution and parameters C and m of the Paris's law memorized for the certain portion.