Abstract: A working fluid consisting essentially of CO2, a molecule having a low ratio of specific heats, is expanded by a gas turbine 4. Thus, even if the pressure changes between the inlet side and the outlet side of the gas turbine 4, a temperature drop as a temperature change is suppressed, so that an exhaust gas having a high temperature is obtained. Consequently, the difference between the temperature of the working fluid on the outlet side of a compressor 2 and the temperature of the exhaust gas on the outlet side of the gas turbine 4 is kept so great that a regeneration effect is enhanced, whereby thermal efficiency is increased without a decrease in the output.

Abstract: A method and a system for removing water from high water content solid such as high water content coal, which enables dewatering with small energy consumption. A liquefied material which is a gas at 25° C. under 1 atm. (hereinafter referred to as material D) is contacted with a solid containing water to allow the liquefied material D to dissolve the water contained in the solid, and to produce a liquefied material D having a high water content and simultaneously remove the water from the solid, and by vaporizing the material D in the liquefied material having a high water content, to thereby separate the water from the resulting gaseous material D, recovering the separated gaseous material D, and liquefying the recovered gaseous material by pressurizing, cooling or a combination thereof, to reuse the resulting liquefied material for removing water from a solid containing water.

Abstract: A method and a system for removing water from high water content solid such as high water content coal, which enables dewatering with small energy consumption. A liquefied material which is a gas at 25° C. under 1 atm. (hereinafter referred to as material D) is contacted with a solid containing water to allow the liquefied material D to dissolve the water contained in the solid, and to produce a liquefied material D having a high water content and simultaneously remove the water from the solid, and by vaporizing the material D in the liquefied material having a high water content, to thereby separate the water from the resulting gaseous material D, recovering the separated gaseous material D, and liquefying the recovered gaseous material by pressurizing, cooling or a combination thereof, to reuse the resulting liquefied material for removing water from a solid containing water.

Abstract: To provide a method of and an apparatus for continuously measuring elemental mercury and bivalent mercury both contained in a gaseous medium fractionally with a simplified structure, the concentration of a total mercury (Metallic Mercury+Bivalent Mercury) and the concentration of elemental mercury contained in gases are measured continuously and fractionally. In the practice of this mercury measuring method, a first column 1, filled with a first fixed catalyst, and a second column 11, filled with a second fixed catalyst, are fluid connected in parallel relation to each other. The gases G are introduced into those first and second columns 1 and 11. In the first column 1, the first fixed catalyst collects and removes the bivalent mercury, but passes only the elemental mercury in the gases through the first column.

Abstract: In a method for absorbing and removing sulfur compounds such as hydrogen sulfide and carbonyl sulfide present in a high-temperature reducing gas using an absorbent,disclosed is a method for purifying a high-temperature reducing gas which is characterized in that: said method uses at least four towers of reactors filled with an absorbent and comprises four steps which are an absorption step for absorbing and removing sulfur compounds with an absorbent, a regeneration step for regenerating said absorbent using a gas containing oxygen, a cooling step after the regeneration step, and a reduction step for reducing said regenerated and cooled absorbent with a high-temperature reducing gas until the concentration of the reducing gas becomes uniform before and after passing through the absorbent; heat is continuously recovered from the high-temperature gas at the outlet of the regeneration reactor in said regeneration step; and the regeneration and absorption performance is thus stabilized.