Patents by Inventor Hidefumi Araki
Hidefumi Araki has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11939915Abstract: A raw material fluid treatment plant provided with a raw material reaction apparatus for reacting a raw material fluid to form a reaction gas. The raw material reaction apparatus includes preheaters and a reactor. The preheaters are heat exchangers that perform heat exchange between a second heat transfer medium and the raw material fluid to heat the raw material fluid. The reactor is a heat exchanger that performs heat exchange between a first heat transfer medium differing from the second heat transfer medium and the raw material fluid having been heated by the preheaters to heat and react the raw material fluid.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hideyuki Uechi, Hidefumi Araki, Satoshi Tanimura, Masakazu Nose, Jun Sasahara, Yukio Tanaka, Atsushi Yuasa
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Patent number: 11702988Abstract: An ammonia decomposition facility includes a heating medium line configured to flow a heating medium heated by heat generated by a gas turbine, an ammonia supply line configured to flow ammonia, an ammonia decomposition device, and an ammonia removal device. The ammonia decomposition device is configured to use heat of the heating medium from the heating medium line, thermally decompose ammonia from the ammonia supply line, and generate a decomposition gas containing hydrogen, nitrogen, and residual ammonia. The ammonia removal device is configured to remove the residual ammonia contained in the decomposition gas from the ammonia decomposition device.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2020Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hidefumi Araki, Satoshi Tanimura, Masakazu Nose, Jun Sasahara, Hideyuki Uechi, Yukio Tanaka, Atsushi Yuasa
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Publication number: 20220154646Abstract: An ammonia decomposition facility includes a heating medium line configured to flow a heating medium heated by heat generated by a gas turbine, an ammonia supply line configured to flow ammonia, an ammonia decomposition device, and an ammonia removal device. The ammonia decomposition device is configured to use heat of the heating medium from the heating medium line, thermally decompose ammonia from the ammonia supply line, and generate a decomposition gas containing hydrogen, nitrogen, and residual ammonia. The ammonia removal device is configured to remove the residual ammonia contained in the decomposition gas from the ammonia decomposition device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Inventors: Hidefumi ARAKI, Satoshi TANIMURA, Masakazu NOSE, Jun SASAHARA, Hideyuki UECHI, Yukio TANAKA, Atsushi YUASA
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Publication number: 20220099021Abstract: A raw material fluid treatment plant provided with a raw material reaction apparatus for reacting a raw material fluid to form a reaction gas. The raw material reaction apparatus includes preheaters and a reactor. The preheaters are heat exchangers that perform heat exchange between a second heat transfer medium and the raw material fluid to heat the raw material fluid. The reactor is a heat exchanger that performs heat exchange between a first heat transfer medium differing from the second heat transfer medium and the raw material fluid having been heated by the preheaters to heat and react the raw material fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2020Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Hideyuki UECHI, Hidefumi ARAKI, Satoshi TANIMURA, Masakazu NOSE, Jun SASAHARA, Yukio TANAKA, Atsushi YUASA
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Patent number: 11236676Abstract: The invention aims to shorten the time required for start-up and prevent excessive increases in the heat loads on turbine blades.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2018Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Mitsubishi, Power, Ltd.Inventors: Yasushi Iwai, Hidefumi Araki, Takuya Takeda
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Patent number: 10107144Abstract: A thermal power plant for recovering water from exhaust gas includes a gas turbine, a heat recovery steam generator for generating steam by supplying exhaust combustion gas exhausted from the gas turbine as heat source, a water recovery system installed on the downstream side of the heat recovery steam generator, a recovered water system for supplying a part of the water recovered by the water recovery system, allowing the water to be circulating as circulating water, a feed water system for supplying the heat recovery steam generator with other part of the water recovered by the water recovery system as feed water, pH adjusting systems, and a control system for controlling the volumes of pH adjusters supplied from the first and second pH adjusting systems.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2016Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Hidefumi Araki, Kazuhiko Sato, Yasushi Iwai
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Publication number: 20180223737Abstract: The invention aims to shorten the time required for start-up and prevent excessive increases in the heat loads on turbine blades.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2018Publication date: August 9, 2018Inventors: Yasushi Iwai, Hidefumi Araki, Takuya Takeda
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Patent number: 9828882Abstract: A thermal power generation system includes a combustor burning oxygen and fuel with supercritical CO2, a turbine driven by the supercritical CO2 and water vapor fed from the combustor, a low-pressure supercritical CO2 storage storing low-pressure supercritical CO2 from the turbine, a compressor compressing the low-pressure supercritical CO2, a high-pressure supercritical CO2 storage storing high-pressure supercritical CO2 from the compressor, and a high-pressure supercritical CO2 feeder supplying between the high-pressure supercritical CO2 storage and the combustor, in which the high-pressure supercritical CO2 feeder supplies the high-pressure supercritical CO2 to the combustor at a constant pressure.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2013Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Shohei Numata, Susumu Nakano, Takanori Shibata, Hidefumi Araki
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Publication number: 20170002694Abstract: A thermal power plant for recovering water from exhaust gas comprising: a gas turbine; a heat recovery steam generator for generating steam by supplying exhaust combustion gas exhausted from the gas turbine as heat source; a water recovery system installed on the downstream side of the heat recovery steam generator for condensing and recovering water in the exhaust combustion gas through direct gas/liquid contact between the exhaust combustion gas coming down from the heat recovery steam generator and water; a recovered water system for supplying a part of the water recovered by the water recovery system, thereby allowing the water to be circulating as circulating water; a feed water system for supplying the heat recovery steam generator with other part of the water recovered by the water recovery system as feed water; a first pH adjusting system installed in the recovered water system to adjust the circulating water flowing through the recovered water system to a first pH value (hydrogen ion concentration inType: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2016Publication date: January 5, 2017Inventors: Hidefumi ARAKI, Kazuhiko SATO, Yasushi IWAI
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Patent number: 9486652Abstract: The present invention provides a gel composition having improved texture in use. A gel composition consisting of an organosiloxane derivative represented by the following formula (1) or (3), a monohydric aliphatic alcohol having 10 to 30 carbon atoms, and water.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2008Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignees: SHISEIDO COMPANY LTD., DOW CORNING TORAY CO.Inventors: Hidefumi Araki, Kei Watanabe, Yasunari Nakama, Teruhiko Hineno, Tomohiro Ilmura, Tadashi Okawa
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Patent number: 8946137Abstract: To provide a skin washing agent which is excellent in the foaming speed and the foam creaminess in washing therewith, and which, after washing therewith, is excellent in the moist feeling and the absence of pulling feeling of the skin and does not change the moisture content of skin. A foamable skin washing agent comprising (a) a fatty acid salt, (b) one or more selected from a homopolymer, a dipolymer and a terpolymer derived from a specific cationated monomer (e.g., dimethyldiallylammonium chloride), (c) a polyglyceryl monoalkyl ether, and (d) one or more selected from an acylmethyltaurine salt and a hydroxy ether carboxylate salt.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2012Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Shiseido Company, Ltd.Inventors: Tomohiko Kimura, Hidefumi Araki
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Publication number: 20140216034Abstract: A thermal power generation system includes a combustor burning oxygen and fuel with supercritical CO2, a turbine driven by the supercritical CO2 and water vapor fed from the combustor, a low-pressure supercritical CO2 storage storing low-pressure supercritical CO2 from the turbine, a compressor compressing the low-pressure supercritical CO2, a high-pressure supercritical CO2 storage storing high-pressure supercritical CO2 from the compressor, and a high-pressure supercritical CO2 feeder supplying between the high-pressure supercritical CO2 storage and the combustor, in which the high-pressure supercritical CO2 feeder supplies the high-pressure supercritical CO2 to the combustor at a constant pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Shohei NUMATA, Susumu NAKANO, Takanori SHIBATA, Hidefumi ARAKI
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Patent number: 8726627Abstract: A gas turbine equipment utilizing high humidity, for preventing generation of white smoke throughout a year, and for restraining radiation of extra heat so as to restrain lowering of heat efficiency, the equipment comprising a humidifying device for humidifying compressed gas for combustion, a heat recovery device for recovering exhaust heat from a gas turbine or the compressed air so as to heat humidifying water in the humidifying device, a recuperator for recovering exhaust heat from the gas turbine and heating the compressed gas for combustion, a dehumidifying device for dehumidifying and recovering moisture in the exhaust gas having passed through the recuperator, and an exhaust gas reheater for heating the exhaust gas after dehumidification, and further comprising a temperature measuring device for measuring a temperature of the exhaust gas passing through the exhaust gas reheater, and a heating temperature adjusting device for increasing the heating temperature of the exhaust gas reheater if a temperatuType: GrantFiled: June 7, 2010Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Sasaki, Hidefumi Araki, Yukinori Katagiri, Moriaki Tsukamoto, Shinichi Hoizumi
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Publication number: 20130331468Abstract: The present invention provides a production method that can easily produce an O/W emulsion composition without using a special cooling apparatus and be economical. The production method of an O/W emulsion composition comprising the preparation of an emulsified part that is an O/W emulsion by emulsifying, at a temperature of 70° C. or higher, an oil phase comprising (A) a mono-branched fatty acid POE (0-60) glycerin ester, (B) a linear higher alcohol having 16 or more carbon atoms capable to form an ?-gel in water with said (A), and (C) an oil component, and a part of an aqueous phase (a first aqueous phase) comprising (D) water; and the cooling of this emulsified part by mixing with stirring the remaining main aqueous phase (a second aqueous phase) at 10 to 35° C., wherein an aqueous solvent in the emulsified part is 15 mass % or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2012Publication date: December 12, 2013Applicant: SHISEIDO COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Makoto Uyama, Reiji Miyahara, Hidefumi Araki
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Patent number: 8513174Abstract: The present invention provides a cleanser which is excellent in both of the foaming property and the cleansing capability. The cleanser comprises an organosiloxane derivative salt represented by the following formula (1) or (3) and one or more anionic surfactants selected from a group consisting of carboxylate salt with an alkyl group having 10 to 20 carbon atoms, sulfate salt with an alkyl group having 10 to 20 carbon atoms, sulfonate salt with an alkyl group having 10 to 20 carbon atoms, and phosphate salt with an alkyl group having 10 to 20 carbon atoms.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2009Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignees: Shiseido Company Ltd., Dow Corning Toray Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hidefumi Araki, Tomohiko Kimura, Yasunari Nakama, Kei Watanabe, Tadashi Okawa, Tomohiro Iimura
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Patent number: 8453453Abstract: A heat pump includes an evaporator 10 evaporating water; a steam compressor 1 compressing the vapor generated by the evaporator 10; a vapor supply duct 31 adapted to supply the vapor 30 compressed by the compressor 1 to steam-utilizing facility 2; a measuring device 91 for measuring a state of vapor between the evaporator 10 and the compressor 1; and a valve 81 adjusting an amount of vapor flowing in the compressor 1 based on information from the measuring device 91.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2010Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yasuo Takahashi, Takanori Shibata, Hidefumi Araki
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Patent number: 8438874Abstract: Motive power supply equipment for a natural gas liquefaction plant includes gas turbine equipment having a compressor for compressing air, a combustor for generating combustion gases by burning a fuel and the compressed air from the compressor, and a turbine rotated by the combustion gases from the combustor. A low-temperature heat source supply system is provided which, during rated load operation of the gas turbine equipment, supplies carbon dioxide as a cooling medium to the gas turbine equipment in order to cool the gas turbine equipment. The carbon dioxide supplied is generated by separation from the natural gas in the natural gas purification equipment.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2008Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Tomomi Koganezawa, Hidefumi Araki, Shinichi Higuchi, Yasuhiro Horiuchi, Mutsumi Horitsugi
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Patent number: 8402735Abstract: The amount of water to be injected in an intercooler is controlled to cool the compressed gas to the saturation temperature. It is difficult to adjust the amount of the water to be injected, however, since the temperature of the compressed gas at an intercooler outlet is actually higher than the saturation temperature. An intercooling system is configured so as to cool a gas to the saturation temperature without controlling the amount of water injection and thereby maintain the reliability of the compressor while improving the cooling efficiency. The intercooling system is located between a plurality of compression stages of a gas compressor to cool the gas that has been in the compressor. A desired amount of liquid is sprinkled to cool the compressed gas while restraining inflow of the liquid into the compression stages.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2012Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hidefumi Araki, Takanori Shibata, Shigeo Hatamiya, Moriaki Tsukamoto
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Publication number: 20120282080Abstract: The amount of water to be injected in an intercooler is controlled to cool the compressed gas to the saturation temperature. It is difficult to adjust the amount of the water to be injected, however, since the temperature of the compressed gas at an intercooler outlet is actually higher than the saturation temperature. An intercooling system is configured so as to cool a gas to the saturation temperature without controlling the amount of water injection and thereby maintain the reliability of the compressor while improving the cooling efficiency. The intercooling system is located between a plurality of compression stages of a gas compressor to cool the gas that has been in the compressor. A desired amount of liquid is sprinkled to cool the compressed gas while restraining inflow of the liquid into the compression stages.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2012Publication date: November 8, 2012Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Hidefumi ARAKI, Takanori SHIBATA, Shigeo HATAMIYA, Moriaki TSUKAMOTO
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Patent number: 8240122Abstract: The amount of water to be injected in an intercooler is controlled to cool the compressed gas to the saturation temperature. It is difficult to adjust the amount of the water to be injected, however, since the temperature of the compressed gas at an intercooler outlet is actually higher than the saturation temperature. An intercooling system is configured so as to cool a gas to the saturation temperature without controlling the amount of water injection and thereby maintain the reliability of the compressor while improving the cooling efficiency. The intercooling system is located between a plurality of compression stages of a gas compressor to cool the gas that has been in the compressor. A desired amount of liquid is sprinkled to cool the compressed gas while restraining inflow of the liquid into the compression stages.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2007Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hidefumi Araki, Takanori Shibata, Shigeo Hatamiya, Moriaki Tsukamoto