Abstract: A technique for simulating and precisely evaluating creep deformation behavior of a nozzle diaphragm in a steam turbine to be operated in a power generation plan involving large output change is provided. A damage evaluation apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire detection data from each of a plurality of sensors installed in a steam turbine; a calculation unit configured to calculate operating state quantity of a nozzle diaphragm in the steam turbine on the basis of these detection data; a computation unit configured to compute creep deformation velocity of the nozzle diaphragm on the basis of the operating state quantity; and an estimation unit configured to estimate deformation amount of the nozzle diaphragm from the creep deformation velocity on the basis of a future operation plan for the steam turbine.

Abstract: A medical image processing device includes a first position acquirer, a first converter, a first likelihood image generator, and a learner. The first position acquirer is configured to acquire, as first positions, target positions in plural first images. The first converter is configured to convert the first positions to second positions by expanding movement in a second direction intersecting a first direction based on movement over time of the first positions. The first likelihood image generator is configured to generate a first likelihood image showing a distribution of likelihood of the second positions. The learner is configured to output a model using the plural first images and the first likelihood image as training data, and upon receiving part or all of a transparent image, derives a second likelihood image showing a distribution of likelihood indicating probability of the part or all of the transparent image corresponding to the second positions.

Abstract: A superconducting coil includes: a winding member 12 that has a side surface 18 along a coil radial direction and is formed by laminating a superconducting tape wire 20 in the coil radial direction by winding; and a bypass 19 that is provided on the side surface 18 of the winding member 12 and electrically connects the superconducting tape wire 20 in the coil radial direction.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a radiation therapy device includes an acquirer, a projection position calculator, an element projection image generator, and an element projection image synthesizer. The acquirer acquires a condition of X-ray imaging in a treatment stage and a three-dimensional image of a patient imaged before the treatment stage. The projection position calculator calculates a projection position when each of pixels included in the three-dimensional image is projected onto a two-dimensional X-ray fluoroscopic image generated in the X-ray imaging on the basis of the condition of the X-ray imaging. The element projection image generator generates an element projection image for each pixel when each of the pixels included in the three-dimensional image is projected onto the X-ray fluoroscopic image. The element projection image synthesizer performs a synthesis process for the element projection image for each pixel on the basis of the projection position to generate a reconstructed image.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a superconducting coil apparatus comprising at least one superconducting coil formed of a plurality of turns under a definition that one turn is a portion of a superconducting wire annularly wound for one round, wherein: the superconducting coil has a shape along an outer peripheral surface of a tubular structure having a tubular shape; each of the plurality of turns has a coil longitudinal portion extending along an axial direction of the tubular structure and a coil end portion extending from the coil longitudinal portion along a circumferential direction of the tubular structure; and a boundary line indicating a border between the coil longitudinal portion and the coil end portion at each of the plurality of turns is inclined with respect to a reference line extending in the circumferential direction of the tubular structure in a side view of the tubular structure.

Abstract: A medical image processing device includes a first image acquiring unit, a second image acquiring unit, a first likelihood distribution calculating unit, a trackability determining unit, and a tracking unit. The first image acquiring unit acquires first images which are transparent images of the patient. The second image acquiring unit acquires second images which are transparent images of the patient generated at a time different from that of the first images. The first likelihood distribution calculating unit calculates a first likelihood distribution indicating a distribution of likelihoods indicating a likeness to the object in the first images. The trackability determining unit determines whether the object is trackable on the basis of the first likelihood distribution. The tracking unit tracks the position of the object in the second images on the basis of the result of determination.

Abstract: To provide an electrochemical device capable of sufficiently ensuring sealing performance, and the like. The electrochemical device of this embodiment has an electrochemical cell with an electrolyte membrane interposed between a hydrogen electrode and an oxygen electrode; a plurality of separators formed of a metal material; and gas-sealing materials that seal at least one of between the electrochemical cell and the separator and between the plurality of separators. In the electrochemical device, diffusion-preventing coatings, which prevent diffusion of metal elements in the metal material composing the separators, cover surfaces of the separators. The diffusion-preventing coating is formed of a material that reacts with a material composing the gas-sealing material. There are portions where the separators are in direct contact with the gas-sealing materials.

Abstract: A hydrogen-energy control system according to the present embodiment includes a hydrogen energy system, a power grid control system, a hydrogen transport system, and a hydrogen-energy integrated management system configured to control the hydrogen energy system based on information on communication with the power grid control system, wherein the hydrogen-energy integrated management system includes a first communication portion configured to perform communication of at least data of a charge request in charge and discharge requests with the power grid control system, a second communication portion configured to perform communication of hydrogen demand data with the hydrogen transport system, a target hydrogen-amount acquisition portion configured to acquire a target hydrogen-production amount based on the hydrogen demand data, and an operation planning portion configured to create an operation plan in the hydrogen energy system based on the target hydrogen-production amount and the data of the charge request.

Abstract: There is provided a method for manufacturing a turbine component which enables obtaining a single crystal structure more easily and manufacturing a good turbine component. In the seed crystal placing step, the seed crystal is placed on the surface of the base in a manner that a first direction along <001> of the seed crystal has an angle within 15 degrees in absolute value in relation to a laminating direction. In the shaped layer forming step, scanning is performed in a manner that the scan direction has an angle within 20 degrees in absolute value in relation to a second direction being <001> orthogonal to the first direction of the seed crystal.

Abstract: In a burner of an embodiment, a torch part includes: a torch combustor liner that is provided in a torch part casing and burns a fuel and an oxidant; a torch fuel supply part that supplies a fuel; a torch oxidant supply part that supplies an oxidant; an ignition device that ignites a fuel-air mixture; and a combustion gas pipe that is arranged at the center of the torch part and leads a combustion gas in the torch combustor liner to one end side of the torch part. A main fuel-main oxidant supply part includes: a main fuel supply passage formed in an annular shape on an outer periphery of the torch part; and a main oxidant supply passage formed in an annular shape on an outer periphery of the main fuel supply passage.

Abstract: There is provided an axial flow turbine capable of realizing a reduction in gland leakage amount. The axial flow turbine in an embodiment is of a single flow type and includes an upstream-side gland part located on an upstream side of a working medium in an axial direction of a turbine rotor and a downstream-side gland part located on a downstream side of the working medium in the axial direction of the turbine rotor. The axial flow turbine is configured such that a cooling medium lower in temperature and higher in pressure than the working medium is extracted in a middle of flowing from the inside to the outside of the turbine casing in the upstream-side gland part, and the extracted cooling medium is introduced into the stationary blade.

Abstract: There is provided a turbine power generation system with a single casing configuration capable of easily executing the inhibition of an over-rotation speed. A turbine power generation system in an embodiment includes: a turbine including a turbine casing and a turbine rotor that rotates by a working medium to be introduced into the turbine casing; and a power generator including a power generator rotor connected to the turbine rotor, the power generator being caused to generate power by rotation of the power generator rotor caused by the rotation of the turbine rotor. The turbine casing of the turbine is single, and a moment of inertia of the power generator rotor is larger than a moment of inertia of the turbine rotor.

Abstract: A solid oxide electrochemical cell includes an oxygen electrode containing a strontium-containing perovskite-type composite oxide represented by Ln1-xSrxCo1-y-zFeyBzO3-? (Ln is a trivalent lanthanide element, B is a tetravalent element, 0<x<1, 0?y<1, 0<z<1, and 0<z+y<1, and ? is a value that is determined to satisfy charge neutrality conditions), a solid electrolyte containing zirconium oxide, a hydrogen electrode, and an interlayer containing a rare-earth-doped cerium oxide that is provided between the solid electrolyte and the oxygen electrode.

Abstract: In a method for operating a combustor of an embodiment, before ignition in the combustor, a mixed gas containing oxygen is circulated through the combustor as a circulating gas. Then, in an operating time from the time of ignition in the combustor to the time of a rated load of a turbine, from the time of ignition until reaching stable combustion conditions allowing stable combustion, a combustion gas in which a controller controls a flow rate of a fuel supplied from a fuel supply part and a flow rate of an oxidant supplied from an oxidant supply part to maintain the same oxygen concentration as an oxygen concentration in the mixed gas is circulated as the circulating gas.

Abstract: There are provided a throttle mechanism and the like that are capable of easily changing a cross-sectional area of a flow path according to an operating state. The throttle mechanism in an embodiment is a throttle mechanism that controls a flow rate of a fluid flowing through a flow path, and is configured to make a cross-sectional area of the flow path change autonomously according to temperature.

Abstract: To provide a hydrogen system operation planning device capable of accurately preparing an operation plan that achieves efficient operation in a hydrogen system. In the hydrogen system operation planning device of the embodiment, a classification unit receives input of DR commands regarding demand for electric power in the hydrogen system and classifies the input DR commands into a first DR group and a second DR group with a lower priority than the first DR group. A first planning unit prepares a first operation plan to reflect the DR command classified into the first DR group. A second planning unit prepares a second operation plan by reflecting contents of the DR command classified into the second DR group on the first operation plan so that contents of the DR command classified into the first DR group have priority over the contents of the DR command classified into the second DR group.

Abstract: A controller according to an embodiment controls a hydrogen system including at least a hydrogen production system in which received power is planned in advance and a hydrogen production amount changes in accordance with the received power. The controller includes: a processor that calculates, in a preparation time period before a demand adjustment time period in which a target value of the received power is set in advance, a control command value such that input power to be inputted as the received power to the hydrogen production system matches the target value at a start of the demand adjustment time period; and a command controller that outputs the control command value calculated by the processor to the hydrogen production system.

Abstract: According to the present embodiment, the first fuel cell group is formed of a plurality of fuel cell stacks connected in series. The first power converter is capable of controlling a first power to be generated by the first fuel cell group according to a first output current. The second fuel cell group is formed of a plurality of fuel cell stacks connected in series, the fuel cell stacks corresponding respectively to the fuel cell stacks in the first fuel cell group. The second power converter is capable of controlling a second power to be generated by the second fuel cell group according to a second output current. Oxygen-containing gas is supplied through the first pipe to each of the fuel cell stacks in the first fuel cell group and each of the fuel cell stacks in the second fuel cell group.

Abstract: A turbine rotor in an embodiment is configured by joining a rotor component member and a rotor component member together by bolt fastening with an abutting end surface of the rotor component member and an abutting end surface of the rotor component member abutting on each other. The turbine rotor includes: a cylindrical recessed portion that is formed at the abutting end surface and is recessed in an axial direction; an axial passage bored from a bottom surface of the cylindrical recessed portion in the axial direction; an introduction passage introducing the cooling medium into the axial passage; a discharge passage discharging the cooling medium from the axial passage; and a sealing member that is arranged in the cylindrical recessed portion and seals one end of the axial passage.

Abstract: An electrochemical cell according to an embodiment includes a hydrogen electrode, an electrolyte laminated on the hydrogen electrode, a barrier-layer laminated on the electrolyte, and an oxygen electrode laminated on the barrier-layer. The barrier-layer has a porous structure having a thickness of greater than 20 ?m and a porosity of greater than 10%.