Patents by Inventor Hideki Haruta

Hideki Haruta 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).

  • Patent number: 10221777
    Abstract: A combustion control device is installed in a gas turbine including a compressor, a combustor, a turbine, a turbine bypass pipe through which compressed air from a casing is discharged to a turbine downstream part so as to bypass the turbine, and a turbine bypass valve that regulates a turbine bypass flow rate of the compressed air. The combustion control device includes: a fuel distribution setting unit that sets a turbine inlet temperature or a turbine inlet temperature-equivalent control variable on the basis of input data, and sets fuel distribution ratios on the basis of the turbine inlet temperature or the turbine inlet temperature-equivalent control variable; and a fuel valve opening setting section that sets the valve openings of fuel regulating valves. The fuel distribution setting unit includes correction means for modifying the fuel distribution ratios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Noriyoshi Uyama, Hideki Haruta, Wataru Akizuki, Yuji Komagome, Koji Takaoka, Yoshifumi Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 10208678
    Abstract: A combustion control device (50) is installed in a gas turbine including a compressor (2), combustors (3), a turbine (4), a bleed air pipe (12) through which bleed air is returned to an inlet of an air intake facility (7), and an air bleed valve (22) that regulates the amount of bleed air extracted. The combustion control device (50) includes: a fuel distribution setting unit (70) that sets a turbine inlet temperature or a turbine inlet temperature-equivalent control variable on the basis of input data, and sets fuel distribution ratios on the basis of the turbine inlet temperature or the turbine inlet temperature-equivalent control variable; and a fuel valve opening setting section (81) that sets the valve openings of fuel regulating valves. The fuel distribution setting unit (70) includes correction means for modifying the fuel distribution ratios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Noriyoshi Uyama, Hideki Haruta, Wataru Akizuki, Yuji Komagome, Koji Takaoka, Yoshifumi Iwasaki
  • Publication number: 20170089268
    Abstract: A combustion control device is installed in a gas turbine including a compressor, a combustor, a turbine, a turbine bypass pipe through which compressed air from a casing is discharged to a turbine downstream part so as to bypass the turbine, and a turbine bypass valve that regulates a turbine bypass flow rate of the compressed air. The combustion control device includes: a fuel distribution setting unit that sets a turbine inlet temperature or a turbine inlet temperature-equivalent control variable on the basis of input data, and sets fuel distribution ratios on the basis of the turbine inlet temperature or the turbine inlet temperature-equivalent control variable; and a fuel valve opening setting section that sets the valve openings of fuel regulating valves. The fuel distribution setting unit includes correction means for modifying the fuel distribution ratios.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Noriyoshi UYAMA, Hideki HARUTA, Wataru AKIZUKI, Yuji KOMAGOME, Koji TAKAOKA, Yoshifumi IWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20170074175
    Abstract: A combustion control device (50) is installed in a gas turbine including a compressor (2), combustors (3), a turbine (4), a bleed air pipe (12) through which bleed air is returned to an inlet of an air intake facility (7), and an air bleed valve (22) that regulates the amount of bleed air extracted. The combustion control device (50) includes: a fuel distribution setting unit (70) that sets a turbine inlet temperature or a turbine inlet temperature-equivalent control variable on the basis of input data, and sets fuel distribution ratios on the basis of the turbine inlet temperature or the turbine inlet temperature-equivalent control variable; and a fuel valve opening setting section (81) that sets the valve openings of fuel regulating valves. The fuel distribution setting unit (70) includes correction means for modifying the fuel distribution ratios.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Noriyoshi UYAMA, Hideki HARUTA, Wataru AKIZUKI, Yuji KOMAGOME, Koji TAKAOKA, Yoshifumi IWASAKI
  • Patent number: 9062885
    Abstract: A fuel nozzle for a gas turbine combustor includes: an internal cylinder; a burner cylinder concentrically provided on the outer circumference of the internal cylinder in the vicinity of its distal end to surround the distal end portion of the internal cylinder; an air passage provided between the burner cylinder and the internal cylinder for delivering combustion air; a space provided at an axial center of the internal cylinder and extending in the axial direction of the internal cylinder; a plurality of inner passages provided at approximately equal intervals in the circumferential direction of the internal cylinder for injecting fluid through its distal end portion; and at least one communication portion provided on the upstream side of the distal end portion of the internal cylinder and extending from the outer wall of the internal cylinder toward the inner side in the radial direction to communicate with the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Eiji Takami, Katsunori Tanaka, Koichi Nishida, Shinji Akamatsu, Hideki Haruta, Tomo Kawakami, Kei Inoue
  • Patent number: 8510014
    Abstract: A gas turbine control method and device to restrain combustion vibration more precisely by alleviating the relationship between the composition or heat quantity of the fuel and the combustion vibration characteristic and by grasping the combustion vibration characteristic more accurately. The combustion vibration generated by a burner of the gas turbine and the composition or heat quantity and other plant status amounts of fuel supplied to the burner are detected. The combustion vibration characteristic is grasped based on the detected values. When the combustion flow rate or air flow rate supplied to the burner is increased/decreased to obtain operation condition under which no combustion vibration occurs, the detected values of the combustion vibration as well as the composition or heat quantity and other plant status amounts of the fuel are divided and stored in multiple databases corresponding to the value of the composition or heat quantity of the fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masumi Nomura, Hideki Haruta, Shigeru Ano
  • Publication number: 20120180490
    Abstract: A fuel nozzle for a gas turbine combustor includes: an internal cylinder; a burner cylinder concentrically provided on the outer circumference of the internal cylinder in the vicinity of its distal end to surround the distal end portion of the internal cylinder; an air passage provided between the burner cylinder and the internal cylinder for delivering combustion air; a space provided at an axial center of the internal cylinder and extending in the axial direction of the internal cylinder; a plurality of inner passages provided at approximately equal intervals in the circumferential direction of the internal cylinder for injecting fluid through its distal end portion; and at least one communication portion provided on the upstream side of the distal end portion of the internal cylinder and extending from the outer wall of the internal cylinder toward the inner side in the radial direction to communicate with the space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Eiji Takami, Katsunori Tanaka, Koichi Nishida, Shinji Akamatsu, Hideki Haruta, Tomo Kawakami, Kei Inoue
  • Publication number: 20110191004
    Abstract: To restrain combustion vibration more precisely by alleviating the relationship between the composition or heat quantity of the fuel and the combustion vibration characteristic and by grasping the combustion vibration characteristic more accurately. The combustion vibration generated by burner of gas turbine as well as the composition or heat quantity and other plant status amounts of fuel f supplied to the burner are detected. The combustion vibration characteristic is grasped based on the detected values. When the combustion flow rate or air flow rate supplied to the burner is increased/decreased in order to obtain operation condition under which no combustion vibration occurs, the detected values of the combustion vibration as well as the composition or heat quantity and other plant status amounts of the fuel are divided and stored in multiple databases corresponding to the value of the composition or heat quantity of the fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masumi Nomura, Hideki Haruta, Shigeru Ano
  • Patent number: 6327861
    Abstract: In a central portion of inner tube 28 of combustor 20, pilot fuel nozzle 22 and pilot cone 33 are arranged and main fuel nozzles 21 and main swirlers 32 therearound. Air intake portion (X-1) is provided with rectifier tube 11 for making air intake uniform. In air intake portion (X-2), air holes of appropriate number of pieces are provided in circumferential wall of the inner tube 28. In main swirler portion (X-3) and pilot cone portion (X-4), bolt joint of the main swirlers 32 is employed and optimized welded structure having less influence of thermal stress of the pilot swirler 33 is employed, respectively. Tail tube cooling portion (X-5) is provided with cooling structure having less influence of thermal stress to cool flange 71 portion of tail tube 24 uniformly. By the improvements in the portions (X-1) to (X-5), obstacles in attaining higher temperature in the combustor 20 is dissolved and combustor performance is enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshichika Sato, Yoji Kochi, Koichi Akagi, Kazuya Kobayashi, Koichi Nishida, Shinji Akamatsu, Hideki Haruta, Kotaro Miyauchi, Rintaro Chikami, Shigemi Mandai, Masataka Ota
  • Patent number: 6324829
    Abstract: A gas turbine steam cooled system has a high temperature portion 8 outlet steam temperature maintained to a predetermined value without a cooling steam pressure becoming lower than the pressure in the gas turbine cylinder. Steam coming from an intermediate pressure superheater 10 of a waste heat recovery boiler 2 is led into the high temperature portion 8 of the gas turbine for cooling thereof. The temperature of the cooling steam at the outlet of the high temperature portion 8 is detected by a high temperature portion outlet steam temperature detector 15, and a signal thereof is sent a lower value selector 19 via a temperature controller 11. Pressure in the gas turbine cylinder is detected by a gas turbine cylinder pressure detector 17, and pressure of the cooling steam at the high temperature portion 8 outlet is detected by a high temperature portion outlet steam pressure detector 16. A differential signal thereof is sent to a pressure controller 18.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kita, Tomoka Tanaka, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Masayuki Takahama, Jun Yasuraoka, Hidetoshi Iida, Koichi Akagi, Hideki Haruta
  • Patent number: 6301900
    Abstract: A nozzle cap (10) is disposed downstream of a nozzle body (1) of a combustor for a gas turbine, an inner surface part (12) of which is of a conical shape diverging downstream to define a fuel-jet guide (17) for guiding fuel jet ejected from one or more nozzle holes (3) provided at the center of a downstream end surface of the nozzle body. Fuel ejected from the one or more nozzle holes smoothly runs along the fuel-jet guide without remaining there to join with a swirl stream (S) in a swirl path (9), and to burn without generating smoke. Air introduced into a first auxiliary air path (6) defined between the nozzle body and a partition (5) at a position upstream thereof passes through a second auxiliary air path (16) defined between a downstream end surface (2) of the nozzle body (1) and an upstream end surface (13) of the nozzle cap and reaches an entrance (19) of the fuel-jet guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigemi Mandai, Masataka Ohta, Hideki Haruta, Koichi Nishida, Shinji Akamatsu, Masahiro Kamogawa
  • Publication number: 20010020364
    Abstract: In a central portion of inner tube 28 of combustor 20, pilot fuel nozzle 22 and pilot cone 33 are arranged and main fuel nozzles 21 and main swirlers 32 therearound. Air intake portion (X-1) is provided with rectifier tube 11 for making air intake uniform. In air intake portion (X-2), air holes of appropriate number of pieces are provided in circumferential wall of the inner tube 28. In main swirler portion (X-3) and pilot cone portion (X-4), bolt joint of the main swirlers 32 is employed and optimized welded structure having less influence of thermal stress of the pilot swirler 33 is employed, respectively. Tail tube cooling portion (X-5) is provided with cooling structure having less influence of thermal stress to cool flange 71 portion of tail tube 24 uniformly. By the improvements in the portions (X-1) to (X-5), obstacles in attaining higher temperature in the combustor 20 is dissolved and combustor performance is enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2001
    Publication date: September 13, 2001
    Inventors: Yoshichika Sato, Yoji Kochi, Koichi Akagi, Kazuya Kobayashi, Koichi Nishida, Shinji Akamatsu, Hideki Haruta, Kotaro Miyauchi, Rintaro Chikami, Shigemi Mandai, Masataka Ota
  • Patent number: 6282886
    Abstract: In a central portion of inner tube 28 of combustor 20, pilot fuel nozzle 22 and pilot cone 33 are arranged and main fuel nozzles 21 and main swirlers 32 therearound. Air intake portion (X-1) is provided with rectifier tube 11 for making air intake uniform. In air intake portion (X-2), air holes of appropriate number of pieces are provided in circumferential wall of the inner tube 28. In main swirler portion (X-3) and pilot cone portion (X-4), bolt joint of the main swirlers 32 is employed and optimized welded structure having less influence of thermal stress of the pilot swirler 33 is employed, respectively. Tail tube cooling portion (X-5) is provided with cooling structure having less influence of thermal stress to cool flange 71 portion of tail tube 24 uniformly. By the improvements in the portions (X-1) to (X-5), obstacles in attaining higher temperature in the combustor 20 is dissolved and combustor performance is enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshichika Sato, Yoji Kochi, Koichi Akagi, Kazuya Kobayashi, Koichi Nishida, Shinji Akamatsu, Hideki Haruta, Kotaro Miyauchi, Rintaro Chikami, Shigemi Mandai, Masataka Ota
  • Patent number: 6250065
    Abstract: Liquid fuel purge device uses water, not compressed air as in the prior art, thereby prevented are rapid load change of gas turbine due to sudden discharge of liquid fuel and coking of remaining liquid fuel. Upon supply of liquid fuel to fuel nozzle (05) being stopped, water purge system (15) having stop valve (16) supplies water into fuel system including liquid fuel system (08) and fuel nozzle (05) and liquid fuel remaining therein is purged by water into combustion chamber (013) from the fuel nozzle (05).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigemi Mandai, Tetsuo Gora, Koichi Nishida, Masataka Ota, Ichiro Fukue, Shinji Akamatsu, Satoshi Tanimura, Hideki Haruta, Tomohisa Takasaki, Teruya Tachibana
  • Patent number: 6209326
    Abstract: To prepare a more homogeneous premixture than that of the device of the prior art thereby to suppress an NOx emission and to lower a fuel feed pressure. A gas turbine combustor comprising: an outer cylinder 106 having main swirlers 101 therein and adapted to be fed with air; and an annular fuel feed manifold 110 disposed at the outer circumference of the outer cylinder 106 on the upstream or downstream side of the main swirlers 101 and having a plurality of nozzle ports 111 communicating with the inside of the outer cylinder 106, so that a fuel is injected from the outer circumference to the center of the air flowing in the outer cylinder 106.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2001
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigemi Mandai, Koichi Nishida, Masataka Ota, Tatsuo Ishiguro, Mitsuru Inada, Hideki Haruta
  • Patent number: 6158223
    Abstract: In gas turbine combustor in which combustion air flows on outer periphery of cylinder body and turns to enter the cylinder body while being mixed with fuel in main burner to form pre-mixture, there is provided upstream of the main burner 101 in the combustor 103 a rectifier 106 or 108 for rectifying the combustion air so as to make flow velocity of the combustion air uniform, thereby shortcomings in the prior art of concentration non-uniformity of the pre-mixture of main fuel and combustion air, high concentration of NO.sub.x generated from the main burner 101 in combustion, etc. are eliminated and larger combustion range to maintain stable combustion is attained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigemi Mandai, Masataka Ota, Satoshi Tanimura, Hideki Haruta
  • Patent number: 6068467
    Abstract: A combustor has a pilot nozzle 02 arranged at a central portion of an inner cylinder 01 opening at its end into a combustion chamber 018 and includes a plurality of main nozzles 03 arranged around its outer circumference. Along the outer circumference of a flame holding cone 014 for igniting a fuel F injected from the main nozzles 03 there are disposed elliptical extension pipes 016 of an elliptical sectional shape which are extended from the fronts of the main nozzles 03 to have openings at the axial position of the opening of the flame holding cone 014. As a result, a hot premixed flame 013 does not flow back to a main swirler zone 015 of the circumferential edges of the openings of the main nozzles 03 so that mixing between the fuel F and an air flow A can be improved, reducing the Nox emission while eliminating the burning of a base plate 04 and the main nozzles 03.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigemi Mandai, Koichi Nishida, Masataka Ota, Satoshi Tanimura, Kotaro Miyauchi, Mitsuru Inada, Shinji Akamatsu, Hideki Haruta