Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Nakashoji
Hiroshi Nakashoji 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: 10464024Abstract: A water treatment device is provided with a separation membrane device having a separation membrane for concentrating dissolved components and dispersed components from water to be treated and obtaining permeated water; a first deposit detecting unit provided in a non-permeated water branch line branched from a non-permeated water line for discharging non-permeated water in which dissolved components and dispersed components have been concentrated, using part of the non-permeated water that has branched off as a detection liquid, and having a first separation membrane for detection in which the detection liquid is separated into permeated water for detection and non-permeated water for detection; and first flow rate measuring devices for separated liquid for detection that measure the flow rates of one or both of the permeated water for detection and the non-permeated water for detection separated by the first separation membrane for detection.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2014Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINEERING, LTD.Inventors: Hideaki Sakurai, Hideo Suzuki, Hiroshi Nakashoji, Shigeru Yoshioka, Susumu Okino, Noriaki Senba, Shigehiro Sugiyama, Masayuki Eda, Hyota Abe, Ryo Kamito, Nobuyuki Ukai
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Patent number: 10407331Abstract: A scale detection device of a concentrating device comprises: a reverse osmosis membrane device 13 that is a concentrating device including a reverse osmosis membrane 13a, which is a filtering membrane for concentrating salt in a water to be treated 11, containing at least calcium sulfate to obtain reclaimed water 12; and a scale detection unit 15 disposed in a branched line L14 branched from a concentrated water line L13 discharging concentrated water 14 having a high concentration of salt, the scale detection unit further concentrating the salt in the concentrated water 14 to obtain reclaimed water for detection 16, and including a detection membrane 15a detecting the absence or presence of scale component deposition in the concentrated water 14.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2014Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINEERING, LTD.Inventors: Ryo Kamito, Susumu Okino, Masayuki Eda, Hideaki Sakurai, Nobuyuki Ukai, Hideo Suzuki, Hiroshi Nakashoji, Shigeru Yoshioka
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Patent number: 10399878Abstract: The water treatment system includes: an aluminate ion addition part for adding an aluminate ion additive to water to be treated containing at least salt content and silica; a first precipitation part provided on the downstream side of the aluminate ion addition part; a first pH adjustment part provided on the downstream side of the first precipitation part; a first solid/liquid separation part for separating the solid content in the water to be treated; a second pH adjustment part for adjusting the pH of the water to be treated from the first solid/liquid separation part to a second pH level; and a first separation membrane (desalination treatment) apparatus provided on the downstream side of the second pH adjustment part so as to separate the water to be treated into first permeated water and first non-permeated water by removing the salt content in the water to be treated.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2015Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINEERING, LTD.Inventors: Nobuyuki Ukai, Susumu Okino, Hideo Suzuki, Hiroshi Nakashoji, Shigeru Yoshioka, Tomomi Komatsu
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Patent number: 10322951Abstract: A reverse osmosis membrane apparatus 17 including an RO membrane 17a that yields recycled water 18 and concentrated water 19 from pre-treated raw water (inflow water 16), salts being removed in the recycled water and salts being concentrated in industrial park waste water 11; monitoring apparatuses 21A and 21B disposed at an inflow water line L1 through which the inflow water 16 flows into the reverse osmosis membrane apparatus 17 or a concentrated water line L2 through which the concentrated water 19 flows out from the reverse osmosis membrane apparatus 17, which monitor the presence of chemical fouling causal substances in the inflow water 16 or the concentrated water 19; and a chemical supply section 22, which is a removal apparatus that removes the chemical fouling causal substances from the inflow water 16 on the front upstream side of the inflow into the reverse osmosis membrane apparatus 17, upon the presence of chemical fouling causal substances in the inflow water 16 or the concentrated water 19 beinType: GrantFiled: January 28, 2015Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINEERING, LTD.Inventors: Nobuyuki Ukai, Hideo Suzuki, Hiroshi Nakashoji, Shigeru Yoshioka, Masayuki Eda
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Publication number: 20190151800Abstract: A method for evaluating the performance of a water treatment device having a plurality of main vessels arranged in parallel to each other and having a reverse osmosis membrane for separating water to be treated into concentrated water and permeable water, the method including a specifying step of specifying a main vessel having a highest concentration rate among the plurality of main vessels as a target vessel, and a detecting step of detecting an index of the precipitation ease of scale in the water to be detected having a concentration corresponding to a concentration of concentrated water discharged from the target vessel.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2016Publication date: May 23, 2019Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd.Inventors: Hideaki Sakurai, Nobuyuki Ukai, Hideo Suzuki, Hiroshi Nakashoji
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Publication number: 20190152801Abstract: A water treatment system includes a pretreatment device which generates primary treated water by performing pretreatment on water to be treated; a membrane separation device having a reverse osmosis membrane through which the primary treated water passes to be separated into concentrated water and permeable water; a first sensor device provided between the pretreatment device and the membrane separation device to detect the presence or absence of the occurrence of biofouling caused by the primary treated water; a second sensor device provided on a downstream side of the membrane separation device to detect the presence or absence of scale precipitation caused by the concentrated water; and a control device which determines operating parameters including a supply pressure and a supply flow rate of the primary treated water to the membrane separation device, on the basis of a biofouling amount and a scale precipitation amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2016Publication date: May 23, 2019Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd.Inventors: Hideaki Sakurai, Nobuyuki Ukai, Hideo Suzuki, Hiroshi Nakashoji
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Patent number: 10160671Abstract: A water treatment system includes a first demineralizing section that separates water to be treated including Ca ions, SO4 ions, and carbonate ions into concentrated water and treated water; a crystallizing section including a first crystallizing tank 21 that crystallizes gypsum from the concentrated water and a first seed crystal supplying section 22 that supplies seed crystals of gypsum to the first crystallizing tank 21; a first pH measuring section 543 that measures the pH of the first concentrated water in the first crystallizing tank 21; and a first controlling section that reduces the amount of the seed crystals of the gypsum to be supplied when the measured pH falls within a pH range in which a scale inhibition function of the calcium scale inhibitor is reduced, and increases the amount of the seed crystals of the gypsum to be supplied when the measured pH is beyond the pH range.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2015Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINEERING, LTD.Inventors: Masayuki Eda, Susumu Okino, Ryuji Yoshiyama, Hideaki Sakurai, Nobuyuki Ukai, Hideo Suzuki, Hiroshi Nakashoji, Shigeru Yoshioka
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Patent number: 10138147Abstract: A water treatment device (1) is provided with: a biological treatment tank (2) for storing a stored liquid (5); a pump (7) for generating a circulating liquid flow formed of the stored liquid (5); a gas-liquid two-phase flow generation device (8) for using the circulating liquid flow to suction a gas containing oxygen, whereby a gas-liquid two-phase flow in which the gas is dispersed in the circulating liquid flow is generated; and a nozzle (12) for injecting the gas-liquid two-phase flow into the biological treatment tank (2). Such a water treatment device (1) is capable of adequately circulating the stored liquid (5) in the biological treatment tank (2), adequately aerating the stored liquid (5), and adequately treating the stored liquid (5).Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2013Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINEERING, LTD.Inventors: Jun Satou, Susumu Okino, Nobuyuki Ukai, Hideo Suzuki, Hiroshi Nakashoji, Shigeru Yoshioka, Hideaki Sakurai, Naoki Ogawa
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Patent number: 10029929Abstract: Provided are a water treatment system and a water treatment process, which are capable of reproducing water containing salts with high water recovery. In the water treatment system (200) and the water treatment process of the present invention, after a calcium scale inhibitor and a silica scale inhibitor are supplied to water to be treated containing Ca ions, SO4 ions, carbonate ions, and silica, and the water to be treated is separated in a second demineralizing section (210) into second concentrated water in which the Ca ions, the SO4 ions, the carbonate ions, and the silica are concentrated and treated water. In a second crystallizing section (220), seed crystals of gypsum are supplied to the second concentrated water, whereby gypsum is crystallized and removed from the second concentrated water.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2015Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Masayuki Eda, Susumu Okino, Ryuji Yoshiyama, Hideaki Sakurai, Nobuyuki Ukai, Hideo Suzuki, Hiroshi Nakashoji, Shigeru Yoshioka
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Patent number: 9969629Abstract: Provided are a water treatment system and a water treatment process, which are capable of reproducing water containing salts with high water recovery. A water treatment system 100 comprises a second demineralizing section 210a, 210b that separates water to be treated containing Ca ions, SO4 ions and carbonate ions into concentrated water in which the Ca ions and the SO4 ions are concentrated and treated water; a crystallizing section which is positioned on a downstream side of the second demineralizing section 210a, 210b and which includes a second crystallizing tank 221a, 221b that crystallizes gypsum from the concentrated water and a seed crystal supplying section that supplies seed crystals of gypsum to the second crystallizing tank 221a, 221b; and a separating section that is positioned on a downstream side of the crystallizing section and separates the gypsum from the concentrated water.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2015Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Masayuki Eda, Susumu Okino, Ryuji Yoshiyama, Hideaki Sakurai, Nobuyuki Ukai, Hideo Suzuki, Hiroshi Nakashoji, Shigeru Yoshioka
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Patent number: 9950936Abstract: In a water treatment system (1) and a water treatment process, a scale inhibitor is supplied to water to be treated containing Ca ions, SO4 ions, carbonate ions, and silica, and the water to be treated is adjusted to a pH at which silica is soluble. The pH-adjusted water to be treated containing the calcium scale inhibitor is separated in a demineralizing section (10) into concentrated water and treated water. In a crystallizing section (20), seed crystals of gypsum are supplied to the concentrated water, whereby gypsum is crystallized and removed. Silica in the water to be treated is removed from the concentrated water on the downstream side of the crystallizing section (20). Calcium carbonate in the water to be treated is removed from the concentrated water on the upstream side of the demineralizing section (10) or the downstream side of the crystallizing section (20).Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Masayuki Eda, Susumu Okino, Ryuji Yoshiyama, Hideaki Sakurai, Nobuyuki Ukai, Hideo Suzuki, Hiroshi Nakashoji, Shigeru Yoshioka
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Publication number: 20180104650Abstract: A membrane separation apparatus includes: a lower support body that includes a water-to-be-treated introduction port and a concentrated water discharge port; an upper support body that includes a permeated water discharge port; a separation membrane that is provided between the lower support body and the upper support body, and that separates water to be treated into permeated water and concentrated water; and a first sheet-like elastic member that is provided between the separation membrane and the lower support body, and that forms seals between the separation membrane and the lower support body and between the lower support body and the upper support body.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2015Publication date: April 19, 2018Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Ryo Kamito, Susumu Okino, Shigehiro Sugiyama, Masayuki Eda, Hideaki Sakurai, Nobuyuki Ukai, Hideo Suzuki, Hiroshi Nakashoji, Shigeru Yoshioka
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Patent number: 9914652Abstract: Provided are a water treatment system and a water treatment process, which are capable of reproducing water containing salts with high water recovery. In the water treatment system (400) and the water treatment process of the present invention, after a calcium scale inhibitor and a silica scale inhibitor are supplied to water to be treated containing Ca ions, SO4 ions, carbonate ions, and silica, and the water to be treated is separated in a second demineralizing section (210) into second concentrated water in which the Ca ions, the SO4 ions, the carbonate ions, and the silica are concentrated and treated water. In a second crystallizing section (220), seed crystals of gypsum are supplied to the second concentrated water, whereby gypsum is crystallized and removed from the second concentrated water.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2015Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Masayuki Eda, Susumu Okino, Ryuji Yoshiyama, Hideaki Sakurai, Nobuyuki Ukai, Hideo Suzuki, Hiroshi Nakashoji, Shigeru Yoshioka
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Patent number: 9914653Abstract: In a water treatment system and a water treatment process, a scale inhibitor is supplied to water to be treated containing Ca ions, SO4 ions, carbonate ions, and silica, and the water to be treated is adjusted to a pH at which silica is soluble. The pH-adjusted water containing the calcium scale inhibitor is separated in a first demineralizing section into concentrated and treated water. In a first crystallizing section, seed crystals of gypsum are supplied to the first concentrated water, whereby gypsum is crystallized and removed from the first concentrated water. Silica in the water to be treated is removed from the first concentrated water on the downstream side of the first crystallizing section. Calcium carbonate in the water to be treated is removed from the first concentrated water on the upstream side of the first demineralizing section or the downstream side of the first crystallizing section.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2015Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Masayuki Eda, Susumu Okino, Ryuji Yoshiyama, Hideaki Sakurai, Nobuyuki Ukai, Hideo Suzuki, Hiroshi Nakashoji, Shigeru Yoshioka
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Publication number: 20180037483Abstract: An industrial waste water treatment system is provided. The industrial waste water treatment system includes: a buffer tank that temporarily receives and stores industrial estate waste water; a primary treatment unit that performs a primary treatment on effluent water from a buffer tank; an activated sludge treatment apparatus that is a secondary treatment unit that performs a secondary treatment using activated sludge on influent water that has been treated by the primary treatment unit; an organic matter concentration measurement unit that measures an organic matter concentration in the industrial estate waste water flowing into the buffer tank; and an activator dispensing unit that dispenses, into the secondary treatment unit, an activator that activates microorganisms included in the activated sludge of the activated sludge treatment apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2015Publication date: February 8, 2018Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Nobuyuki UKAI, Naoki OGAWA, Susumu OKINO, Yuuji NAKAJIMA, Hiroshi NAKASHOJI, Hideo SUZUKI, Shigeru YOSHIOKA, Kazuhisa TAKEUCHI
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Patent number: 9803853Abstract: This invention provides a heat recovery and utilization system for efficiently utilizing heat recovered from boiler exhaust gas with a heat recovery unit without any complicated equipment or high operation costs. The heat recovery and utilization system includes: a boiler for electricity generation; a heat recovery unit for recovering heat from exhaust gas of the boiler; a heat exchanger for using heat recovered with the heat recovery unit as heat source for equipment other than for electricity generation; a heat accumulator for accumulating heat source for the equipment other than for electricity generation; and a heat medium circulation line in which heat medium circulates between the heat recovery unit and the heat exchanger to exchange the heat recovered with the heat recovery unit with the heat exchanger. Upon startup of the system, the heat exchanger preheats the heat recovery unit with heat source accumulated in the heat accumulator.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2011Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWERS SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Nakashoji, Tatsuto Nagayasu
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Publication number: 20170275189Abstract: A deposit monitoring device includes a non-permeated water line discharging non-permeated water where dissolved components and dispersed components are concentrated from water to be treated from a separation membrane device for obtaining permeated water by concentrating the dissolved components and dispersed components from water to be treated by a separation membrane; a first deposit detecting unit using part of the non-permeated water branched off as a detection liquid, and having a first separation membrane for detection in which the detection liquid is separated into permeated water for detection and non-permeated water for detection; a deposition condition altering device altering deposition conditions for deposits in the first separation membranes for detection; and first flow rate measuring devices for separated liquid detection that measure the flow rates of one or both of the permeated water for detection and the non-permeated water for detection separated by the first separation membrane for detectiType: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2014Publication date: September 28, 2017Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hideaki Sakurai, Hideo Suzuki, Hiroshi Nakashoji, Shigeru Yoshioka, Susumu Okino, Noriaki Senba, Shigehiro Sugiyama, Masayuki Eda, Hyota Abe, Ryo Kamito, Nobuyuki Ukai
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Publication number: 20170232395Abstract: A water treatment device is provided with a separation membrane device having a separation membrane for concentrating dissolved components and dispersed components from water to be treated and obtaining permeated water; a first deposit detecting unit provided in a non-permeated water branch line branched from a non-permeated water line for discharging non-permeated water in which dissolved components and dispersed components have been concentrated, using part of the non-permeated water that has branched off as a detection liquid, and having a first separation membrane for detection in which the detection liquid is separated into permeated water for detection and non-permeated water for detection; and first flow rate measuring devices for separated liquid for detection that measure the flow rates of one or both of the permeated water for detection and the non-permeated water for detection separated by the first separation membrane for detection.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2014Publication date: August 17, 2017Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hideaki Sakurai, Hideo Suzuki, Hiroshi Nakashoji, Shigeru Yoshioka, Susumu Okino, Noriaki Senba, Shigehiro Sugiyama, Masayuki Eda, Hyota Abe, Ryo Kamito, Nobuyuki Ukai
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Patent number: 9718715Abstract: Provided is a water treatment device that suppresses the degradation of electrodes in a capacitive de-ionization treatment section and is capable of maintaining high water treatment capability. The water treatment device includes an activated carbon treatment section that receives an inflow of water having a total organic carbon concentration of 100 mg/l or less and adsorbs and removes organic matters contained in the water; and, on the downstream side of the activated carbon treatment section, a capacitive de-ionization treatment section including a pair of electrodes to which voltages having polarities opposite to each other are applied, a flow path, and ion exchange membranes. Ions contained in the water are adsorbed to the electrodes with voltages applied thereto, and voltages reverse to the voltages at the time of ions adsorption are applied to the electrodes to release the ions from the electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2012Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventors: Kazuhide Kamimura, Hozumi Otozai, Kosuke Shigiishi, Hideo Suzuki, Hiroshi Nakashoji
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Publication number: 20170029306Abstract: The water treatment system includes: an aluminate ion addition part for adding an aluminate ion additive to water to be treated containing at least salt content and silica; a first precipitation part provided on the downstream side of the aluminate ion addition part; a first pH adjustment part provided on the downstream side of the first precipitation part; a first solid/liquid separation part for separating the solid content in the water to be treated; a second pH adjustment part for adjusting the pH of the water to be treated from the first solid/liquid separation part to a second pH level; and a first separation membrane (desalination treatment) apparatus provided on the downstream side of the second pH adjustment part so as to separate the water to be treated into first permeated water and first non-permeated water by removing the salt content in the water to be treated.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2015Publication date: February 2, 2017Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Nobuyuki Ukai, Susumu Okino, Hideo Suzuki, Hiroshi Nakashoji, Shigeru Yoshioka, Tomomi Komatsu