Patents Assigned to THE TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY, INCOPORATED
  • Publication number: 20110318697
    Abstract: Provided is a ground flare in which a low-frequency vibration generated from a ground flare tower, such as a chimney, is properly adjusted to suppress it below a fixture-vibration generation limit, thereby preventing surrounding objects from resonating and vibrating. In a ground flare that burns a flammable exhaust gas with a burner at the lower end of a chimney, in which the lower end of the chimney and the periphery of the burner are surrounded by a windbreak, the low-frequency-noise sound pressure level of a ground flare tower composed of the chimney and the windbreak is reduced by selecting at least one of changing a natural frequency generated from the ground flare tower, using multiple ground flare towers, and installing a low-frequency-vibration absorber in the ground flare tower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., HOKKAIDO ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY, INCORPORATED, TOHOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC., THE TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY, INCOPORATED, CHUBU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC., CLEAN COAL POWER R&D CO., LTD., THE KANSAI ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC., THE CHUGOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC., SHIKOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC., KYUSHU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC., ELECTRIC POWER DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD., HOKURIKU ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Yokohama, Iwao Honda, Naoki Suganuma, Hirofumi Ando, Naoshige Yoshida, Yoshihiko Horie, Hitoshi Terada, Toru Kawai, Atsushi Kimura