Abstract: According to an embodiment, an operation plan planning device connected to an electric power system and plans an operation plan for responding to a request for a balancing power from the electric power system in a hydrogen production plant that includes a renewable energy generator, a water electrolysis device, and a hydrogen storage facility, the device comprises: an input part; a storage; a calculator including: a balancing power scenario creating unit to create a time series of a balancing power price and a time series of a balancing power ratio, and to create a balancing power scenario by synthesizing them; a mathematical optimization calculator; and a calculation condition setting unit; and an output part.

Abstract: In one embodiment, an acid gas removing apparatus includes an absorber configured to bring a first gas including an acid gas and a lean solution into contact to discharge a rich solution that is the lean solution having absorbed the acid gas, a regenerator configured to separate the acid gas from the rich solution discharged by the absorber to discharge the lean solution that is the rich solution separated from the acid gas, and a measuring instrument configured to measure a temperature of the rich or lean solution in the regenerator. Furthermore, an acid gas removal control apparatus that controls the acid gas removing apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive the measured temperature, and a controller configured to control resupply of a resupplied solution to the rich or lean solution or removal of an acid component from the rich or lean solution, based on the received temperature.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a turbine monitoring system includes a temperature measurer configured to sense a temperature of steam to be introduced to a steam turbine, and output a sensing result of the temperature. The system further includes an electrical output measurer configured to sense an electrical output of a generator driven by the steam turbine, and output a sensing result of the electrical output. The system further includes a computing module configured to compute an erosion quantity of a moving vane of the steam turbine with water drops, based on the sensing result of the temperature that is output from the temperature measurer and the sensing result of the electrical output that is output from the electrical output measurer. The system further includes an outputting module configured to output information that is based on the erosion quantity computed by the computing module.

Abstract: According to one embodiment an information processing device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires operation data of an energy system which includes a power generation device configured to generate power based on an environmental condition, a manufacturing device configured to be able to manufacture a demanded amount using power generated by the power generation device, a storage device configured to be able to store the demanded amount manufactured by the manufacturing device and a supply device configured to be able to supply the demanded amount in the storage device to a demand device. The processing circuitry creates an operation plan of the energy system based on the operation data and at least one of data related to the environmental condition or first demand data related to the demanded amount necessary for the demand device.

Abstract: To enable avoiding interference between a path of a separated charged particle beam and an electromagnet as well as providing a sufficient separation distance between: a path of a separated charged particle beam; and a path of a charged particle beam traveling in a main region. A quadrupole electromagnet includes: an iron core provided with a beam passing gap for travel of an output beam that is a separated charged particle beam, in addition to a main region for travel of a circulating beam that is a charged particle beam; excitation coils, and each wound around the iron core; a main vacuum duct, provided in a main region of the iron core, inside which the circulating beam travels; and a sub-vacuum duct, provided in the beam passing gap of the iron core, inside which the output beam travels.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a reading support system includes a processing device. The processing device includes an extractor and a type determiner. The extractor extracts a plurality of regions from a candidate region. The candidate region is a candidate of a region in which a meter is imaged. The regions respectively include a plurality of characters of the meter. The type determiner determines a type of the meter based on positions of the regions.

Abstract: A channel box has a hollow elongated portion and accommodates a plurality of nuclear reactor fuel rods inside the hollow elongated portion, wherein the hollow elongated portion is constituted by a plurality types of silicon carbide composite materials. The channel box has a shape that can be achieved by applying the silicon carbide composite material and can increase earthquake resistance and improve functions and performance as a fuel assembly.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus, includes: processing circuitry configured to calculate, based on measured data of a voltage value and a charge amount of a rechargeable battery which is controlled for charge/discharge according to a charge/discharge command value, first information indicating a change of the voltage value with respect to the charge amount; and acquire second information indicating a reference change of a voltage value with respect to a charge amount in accordance with a range of the voltage values in the measured data and estimate a state of the rechargeable battery based on the first information and the second information.

Abstract: A combustor structure of an embodiment includes: a plurality of combustors; a rear liner which guides a combustion gas from the plurality of combustors to a downstream side; and a scroll which guides the combustion gas from the rear liner in an axial direction and a circumferential direction of a turbine rotor. Each of the combustors includes: a combustor liner; a fuel supply part which supplies fuel into the combustor liner; and an oxidant supply part which supplies a swirling flow of an oxidant from the circumference of the fuel supply part into the combustor liner. The plurality of combustors include: the combustor in which a swirling direction of the swirling flow of the oxidant is clockwise; and the combustor in which a swirling direction of the swirling flow of the oxidant is counterclockwise.

Abstract: Provided are a photoelectric conversion element that can generate power with high efficiency and has high durability, and a method for manufacturing the same. A photoelectric conversion element according to an embodiment includes a first electrode, an active layer having a perovskite structure containing a halogen ion, and a second electrode having light transmissivity, in which a Warburg coefficient of the active layer measured by an AC impedance spectroscopy method is specified. The element can be manufactured by applying a solution containing a precursor of the perovskite structure and then performing appropriate annealing treatment or gas blowing.

Abstract: A connection structure of a superconducting layer of an embodiment incudes a first superconducting member including a first superconducting layer, and extends in a first direction, a second superconducting member including a second superconducting layer facing the first superconducting layer, and extends in the first direction, the second superconducting member having a first region, a second region, and a third region which is separated in the second direction from the second region, and a connection layer that contains a rare earth element (RE), barium (Ba), copper (Cu), and oxygen (O), and connects the first superconducting layer and the second superconducting layer. The first superconducting layer is present in a third direction between the second region and the third region, the third direction being perpendicular to the first direction and perpendicular to the second direction.

Abstract: There is provided a metal member capable of effectively preventing a coating layer from peeling off from a base. The metal member in an embodiment is a metal member that is used in a solid-oxide type electrochemical stack, and includes: a base formed of ferritic stainless steel; and a metal film provided on the base, in which the metal film includes a first metal layer containing Co and a second metal layer made of Mn, and is a stack in which the first metal layer and the second metal layer are sequentially stacked from the side of the base.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a power generation element includes a first conductive region including a first surface, a plurality of second conductive regions, and a plurality of insulating structure regions. The second conductive regions are arranged along the first surface. A gap is provided between the second conductive regions and the first surface. One of the structure regions is provided between one of the second conductive regions and the first surface. An other one of the structure regions is provided between an other one of the second conductive regions and the first surface.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a reverse flow power control device includes: an input unit that accepts actual values of output power of the power conditioner, load power with respect to the load device, and reception power, and a minimum reception power value; a storage unit; and a calculator having an output controller that calculates an output command calculation value, a load controller that calculates a load command calculation value, and a command value re-calculator that calculates, by using the respective actual values, the output command calculation value, the load command calculation value, and the minimum reception power value, an output command value with respect to the power conditioner, in order to prevent a reception power value from the power system from becoming less than the minimum reception power value.

Abstract: The present embodiment provides a partial discharge measurement apparatus configured to detect partial discharge generated in a rotating electrical machine supplying or receiving power via an insulated conductor, where the apparatus comprises a calibration signal generator, a sensor, a compensation processor, and a signal processor. The calibration signal generator is configured to supply a calibration signal to a surface of an insulating layer of the insulated conductor. The sensor is configured to measure a physical quantity regarding the partial discharge. The compensation processor is configured to use an output signal of the sensor when the calibration signal has been supplied to generate a compensation coefficient. The signal processor is configured to process the output signal of the sensor based on the compensation coefficient.

Abstract: A treatment system of embodiments includes an imaging system including one or more radiation sources and a plurality of detectors, a first acquirer, a second acquirer, a first deriver, a second deriver, and a calibrator. The radiation sources radiate radiation to an object in a plurality of different directions. The plurality of detectors detect the radiation at different positions. The first acquirer acquires images based on the radiation. The second acquirer acquires position information of a first imaging device in a three-dimensional space. The first deriver derives the position of the object in the images. The second deriver derives the position of a second imaging device in the three-dimensional space based on the position of the object in the images, the position of the first imaging device, and the like. The calibrator performs calibration of the imaging system based on a derivation result of the second deriver.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, electronic circuitry, includes a first radiating element; a second radiating element; a first circuit element including a first end and a second end, the first end being connected to one end of one of the first radiating element or the second radiating element; and a second circuit element connected between the second end of the first circuit element and one end of another of the first radiating element or the second radiating element.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a holding apparatus holds a moving body and changes a position of the moving body in a second direction perpendicular to a surface of a columnar body. The surface of the columnar body extends in the first direction. The moving body is movable along the first direction. The apparatus includes first and second holders separated from each other. The first holder includes first and second portions separated from each other, and a third portion. The second holder includes fourth and fifth portions separated from each other, and a sixth portion. The moving body is held by the first and second holders in a state in which the moving body is at a hold position. The hold position is where the moving body opposes the third and sixth portions and is between the first and second portions and between the fourth and fifth portions.

Abstract: According to one embodiment of the invention, a coating apparatus includes a coating bar, a plurality of nozzles, a plurality of holding portions, and a detector. The coating bar is configured to face a coating target member. The plurality of nozzles are configured to supply a liquid toward the coating bar. One of the plurality of holding portions holds one of the plurality of nozzles. The one of the plurality of holding portions is configured to control a position of the one of the plurality of nozzles relative to the coating bar. The detector is configured to detect a quantity corresponding to respective positions of the plurality of nozzles with respect to the coating bar.

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.