Abstract: A sodium removal method according to the present invention is a method for removing sodium from a sodium-containing solution by precipitating a sodium ion in the sodium-containing solution as a sodium salt, the method including: a sodium precipitating step of precipitating the sodium salt by decreasing a temperature of the sodium-containing solution so that a sodium concentration of the sodium-containing solution exceeds solubility of the sodium salt at said temperature; and a solid-liquid separation step of removing the precipitated sodium salt by solid-liquid separation.

Abstract: This impeller cover is provided with: a machinable abradable seal section which has a shroud surface, which faces the outer peripheral surface of an impeller rotating about its axis, and which provides a seal between the outer peripheral surface and the shroud surface; a cover body which covers the impeller from the outside and which has a seal housing section for housing the abradable seal section therein; and a filling material which is interposed between the abradable seal section and the cover body.

Abstract: A scroll casing forms a scroll flow passage of a centrifugal compressor, and, provided that, in a cross section of the scroll flow passage, Eo is an outer end of the scroll flow passage in a radial direction of the centrifugal compressor, Ef is a front end of the scroll flow passage in an axial direction of the centrifugal compressor, and Mw is a middle point of a maximum flow-passage width Wmax of the scroll flow passage in the radial direction, a flow passage height H of the scroll flow passage in the axial direction gradually increases from a position of the outer end Eo to a position of the front end Ef with respect to the radial direction, and the scroll flow passage has a recirculation flow suppressing cross section in which the front end Ef is disposed on an inner side, in the radial direction, of the middle point Mw, in a section disposed at least partially in a region closer to a scroll start than a connection position of the scroll start and a scroll end.

Abstract: A light source outputs a light. A branching unit branches the light output from the light source into a first branched light and a local oscillation light. A modulator modulates the first branched light to output an optical signal. A receiver causes the local oscillation light to interfere with an optical signal to receive the optical signal. An EDFA amplifies the optical signal output from the modulator. An excitation light source outputs an excitation light exciting the EDFA to the EDFA. An optical attenuator attenuates optical power of the optical signal amplified by the EDFA. A control unit controls attenuation of the optical signal in the optical attenuator. The control unit adjusts the attenuation of the optical signal and adjusts an output of the excitation light from the excitation light source.

Abstract: Provided are: a light source module capable of having a reduced packaging area size while ensuring wavelength precision; and a method for manufacturing this light source module. This light source module is provided with a light amplifying means, a wavelength monitoring means for detecting a change in wavelength of light outputted from the light amplifying means, and a reflecting means which is disposed between the light amplifying means and the wavelength monitoring means, and which is for reflecting the light outputted from the light amplifying means toward the wavelength monitoring means.

Abstract: A pluggable optical connector is configured to be insertable into and removable from an optical communication apparatus, and to be capable of communicating a modulation signal and a data signal with the optical communication apparatus. A wavelength-tunable light source is configured to output an output light and a local oscillation light. An optical transmission unit is configured to output an optical signal generated by modulating the output light in response to the modulation signal. An optical reception unit is configured to demodulate an optical signal received by using the local oscillation light to the data signal. Pluggable optical receptors are configured in such a manner that an optical fiber is insertable into and removable from the pluggable optical receptors, and configured to be capable of outputting the optical signal to the optical fiber and transferring the optical signal received thorough the optical fiber to the optical reception unit.

Abstract: An oil-drain device for a thrust bearing includes: a rotor shaft; a collar member mounted to an outer periphery of the rotor shaft; a thrust bearing supporting the rotor shaft in an axial direction; and an oil-drain space forming member defining an oil-drain space through which lubricant oil leaking from a sliding portion of the thrust bearing flows, between the thrust bearing and the oil-drain space forming member. The oil-drain space includes: an oil-drain channel defined between a first end surface of the thrust bearing and a first end surface of the oil-drain space forming member, surrounding the flange portion of the collar member; and an oil-drain port formed below the oil-drain channel, for discharging the lubricant oil flowing through the oil-drain channel outside the oil-drain space.

Abstract: A compressor cover covering a delivery fan radially outwardly discharging a fluid from an axial direction by rotating around the axis, the compressor cover comprising: a cover body including a tubular part in which a tubular inner peripheral surface along the axis and a shroud surface disposed on an axially downstream side of the tubular inner peripheral surface and expands in diameter toward the downstream side are formed; and a sleeve including an outer tube having an outer peripheral surface fitted to the tubular inner peripheral surface, an inner tube disposed on a radially inner side of the outer tube and defines a recirculation flow path in which a portion of the fluid circulates between the inner tube and the outer tube, and a plurality of struts disposed at intervals in the peripheral direction.

Abstract: An impeller wheel according to an embodiment includes a hub, a plurality of long blades disposed on a circumferential surface of the hub, the plurality of long blades extending from an inlet portion to an outlet portion of fluid and a plurality of short blades each disposed on the circumferential surface of the hub, the plurality of short blades extending from a downstream side of leading edges of the plurality of the long blades to the outlet portion in a flow passage formed between adjacent long blades of the plurality of long blades. In the impeller wheel, an expression ?2s,full<?2s,spl is satisfied, where ?2s,full and ?2s,spl are respectively blade angles on tip side edges of the plurality of long blades and the plurality of short blades at the outlet portion.

Abstract: A compressor includes: an impeller including a hub and a plurality of blades disposed on an outer surface of the hub; and a housing which houses the impeller. The housing includes: a shroud section facing the outer surface of the hub to form a fluid flow path between the shroud section and the outer surface, and surrounding the impeller; and a casing section formed integrally with the shroud section and supporting the shroud section. The shroud section includes a first resin-based material having a static tensile strength of at least 65 MPa and no more than 200 MPa and a breaking strain of no more than 0.3 mm/mm at a temperature of 100° C. The casing section includes a second resin-based material having a static tensile strength of at least 40 MPa and a breaking strain of at least 0.1 mm/mm at a temperature of 100° C.

Abstract: A compressor scroll (1A) is provided with: a scroll-flow-path formation part (8A) that forms a scroll flow path; and an outlet-flow-path formation part (9) that is connected to a winding-end section (11) of a scroll flow path (8a) and that forms an outlet flow path (9a) extending in a direction tangential to a circle around an axis (O), wherein, at least at the winding-end section (11) in an area where a winding-start section (10) intersects with the winding-end section (11), the scroll-flow-path formation part (8A) is provided with a bulging part (15A) that bulges the scroll flow path in the radial direction toward the side where the winding-start section (10) is present.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to decrease a surging limit flow rate at a low flow rate time, by increasing the inflow velocity to the blade of the impeller wheel, by providing a resistive element that narrows in the radial direction a passage cross section of an air intake passage which communicates between a impeller wheel of a centrifugal compressor and an air intake opening. The centrifugal compressor includes: the compressor housing 9 having the air intake opening 13 opened in a rotary shaft direction, and the air intake passage 11; and the impeller wheel 7 for compressing the air flowing in from the air intake opening 13, inside the housing.

Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes an impeller and a casing. The casing includes a scroll part forming a scroll flow passage on a radially outer side of the impeller and a diffuser part forming a diffuser flow passage for supplying the scroll flow passage with compressed air compressed by the impeller. The diffuser part includes: a first diffuser portion belonging to a first angular range including an angular position of a tongue section of the scroll part, of an angular range in a circumferential direction of the impeller; and a second diffuser portion belonging to a second angular range downstream of the first angular range in a flow direction of the scroll flow passage, of the angular range in the circumferential direction of the impeller, the second diffuser portion having an outer radius R2 which is defined along a reference circle centered at a rotational center of the impeller.

Abstract: A surroundings monitoring device (100) includes an object detection unit (110) which is mounted in a structure and detects objects around the structure, a first sensor (120) for determining whether an object has collided with the structure, and a first controller (140) which determines whether the object has collided with the structure on the basis of the detection result of the first sensor and restrains the operation of the object detection unit or causes an information output unit to output predetermined information in a case that it is determined that the object has collided with the structure.

Abstract: A centrifugal compressor which can be stably operated in a wide range by increasing an operating range on a low-flow-rate side and on a high-flow-rate side, with a simple structure of combining a recirculation flow path and a reverse swirling flow generation unit including fixed blades, without providing a complicated movable mechanism for a guide vane.

Abstract: An object is to provide a fluid machine whereby it is possible to improve performance, for example, expand a flow-rate operation rage with a simplified shape of an intake pipe. A fluid machine includes an impeller mounted to a rotation shaft, a housing which houses the impeller rotatably, and an intake pipe for supplying a fluid to the housing. The intake pipe includes at least a first bend portion disposed on a first plane, and a second bend portion disposed at a downstream side of the first bend portion and on a second plane which is different from the first plane. The second bend portion includes an upstream section having a center axis oriented along a center axis of a downstream section of the first bend portion and a downstream section having a center axis oriented along an axial direction of the impeller at a front of the impeller. The intake pipe has a constant cross-sectional shape from an upstream end of the first bend portion to a downstream end of the second bend portion.

Abstract: A scroll casing forms a scroll flow passage of a centrifugal compressor, and, provided that, in a cross section of the scroll flow passage, Eo is an outer end of the scroll flow passage in a radial direction of the centrifugal compressor, Ef is a front end of the scroll flow passage in an axial direction of the centrifugal compressor, and Mw is a middle point of a maximum flow-passage width Wmax of the scroll flow passage in the radial direction, a flow passage height H of the scroll flow passage in the axial direction gradually increases from a position of the outer end Eo to a position of the front end Ef with respect to the radial direction, and the scroll flow passage has a recirculation flow suppressing cross section in which the front end Ef is disposed on an inner side, in the radial direction, of the middle point Mw, in a section disposed at least partially in a region closer to a scroll start than a connection position of the scroll start and a scroll end.

Abstract: A compressor impeller includes: a hub; and a blade group including a plurality of blades arranged along a circumferential direction on an outer peripheral surface of the hub, the blade group being configured such that hub-side ends of leading edges of the respective blades are aligned on the same circle. The plurality of blades include at least one first blade and at least one second blade having a different shape from the at least one first blade. When comparing a blade angle of a leading edge of the at least one first blade to a blade angle of a leading edge of the at least one second blade at the same position in a radial direction of the compressor impeller, the blade angle of the leading edge of the at least one first blade is different from the blade angle of the leading edge of the at least one second blade, at least in a partial range in the radial direction of the compressor impeller.

Abstract: An object is to provide a sheet-metal turbine housing reinforced by a readily-manufacturable structure, the sheet-metal turbine housing also having a small thickness and improved containment performance. A sheet-metal turbine housing includes: a scroll part forming an exhaust gas channel of a scroll shape in a turbocharger for driving a turbine with exhaust gas of an engine, the scroll part comprising sheet metal; and at least one rib portion of a protrusion shape formed on an outer wall surface of the scroll part at a radially outer side of an inlet edge of a turbine blade along a circumferential direction of the scroll part, the at least one rib portion protruding either outward or inward, or both, and including a bend and bend-back structure formed on the sheet metal forming the scroll part.

Abstract: Provided are: a light source module capable of having a reduced packaging area size while ensuring wavelength precision; and a method for manufacturing this light source module. This light source module is provided with a light amplifying means, a wavelength monitoring means for detecting a change in wavelength of light outputted from the light amplifying means, and a reflecting means which is disposed between the light amplifying means and the wavelength monitoring means, and which is for reflecting the light outputted from the light amplifying means toward the wavelength monitoring means.