Abstract: Siloxane compounds are removed from the atmospheres by silica supporting an organic sulfonic acid compound. The silica with the organic sulfonic acid compound has a specific surface area down to 500 m2/g and up to 750 m2/g and a pore volume down to 0.8 m3/g and up to 1.2 m3/g, both measured by nitrogen gas adsorption method and has a pore diameter down to 4 nm and up to 8 nm, at the peak of differential pore volume measured by nitrogen gas adsorption method. The durability of gas sensing element against siloxanes is improved.

Abstract: A gas detector comprises a gas detection unit and a filter introducing surrounding atmosphere to the gas detection unit. The filter comprises a gas-permeable organic polymer membrane having an acidic group or a basic group.

Abstract: A sealing member that forms a combustion gas flow path of a gas turbine includes a first body portion having a cooling passage. The first body portion includes a first end portion forming one end portion in a circumferential direction, a second end portion forming the other end portion on an opposite side in the circumferential direction, and an intermediate portion formed between the first and second end portions. The cooling passage includes an intermediate portion cooling passage inclined at a first angle with respect to an axial direction, a first end portion cooling passage provided in the first end portion and inclined at a second angle with respect to the axial direction, and a second end portion cooling passage provided in the second end portion and inclined at a third angle with respect to the axial direction, and the second and third angles are smaller than the first angle.

Abstract: This exit seal is for connecting an exit flange of a combustor and a shroud in a stator blade of a turbine. The exit seal is equipped with: a seal body that extends in a circumferential direction; and a lid member disposed at a circumferential end of the seal body. The seal body comprises one or more recessed sections that are recessed in a radial direction or in an axial direction and extend in the circumferential direction. At a position of the circumferential end of at least one recessed section among the one or more recessed sections, the lid member is disposed so as to overlap, in the axial direction and the radial direction, with a recessed space formed by the one recessed section.

Abstract: A combustor for a gas turbine, includes: a first fuel nozzle group and a second fuel nozzle group each of which includes a fuel nozzle capable of supplying a fuel and has an independently controllable fuel supply system; a cylinder inside which a combustion region allowing a combustion gas produced by combustion of the fuel to flow is formed; and a first contraction portion extending partially along a circumferential direction so as to correspond to one of the first fuel nozzle group or the second fuel nozzle group and protruding radially inward from an inner peripheral surface of the cylinder.

Abstract: A combustor includes: a tube plate having an upstream side end face and a downstream side end face that are orthogonal to a combustor axis, in which an air hole passing through the upstream side end face and the downstream side end face is formed in the tube plate; and a fuel injector that injects fuel into air passing through the air hole. The air hole has: a bent channel that curves toward a direction orthogonal to the combustor axis toward the downstream side; and an inclined channel that is connected to the downstream side of the bent channel so as to be continuous therewith, and that extends inclining with respect to the combustor axis and opens to the downstream side end face. A fuel injection position at which the fuel injector injects fuel is located on the downstream side of the upstream end of the bent channel.

Abstract: A combustion tube for a gas turbine including an outlet section having a cross-section of an annular sector-shape. The outlet section includes an outer wall forming an outer peripheral boundary of the annular sector-shape, an inner wall forming an inner peripheral boundary of the annular sector-shape, and a pair of side walls forming boundaries on both sides of the annular sector-shape in a circumferential direction, respectively. The outer wall extends obliquely with respect to the inner wall such that a height of the annular sector-shape decreases toward an outlet opening of the combustion tube. A first side wall extends obliquely with respect to a second side such that a perimeter of the annular sector-shape increases toward the outlet opening of the combustion tube. An inclination angle ?1 of the first side wall with respect to the second side wall satisfies 0<?1?56.

Abstract: A perforated plate for a gas turbine combustor according to at least one embodiment is a perforated plate provided between a combustor basket and a combustor casing of the gas turbine combustor and fixed to an outer peripheral portion of the combustor basket. In a hole arrangement area with a plurality of through holes of the perforated plate, a region close to the combustor basket has a larger average value of a ligament ratio than a region close to the combustor casing, where the ligament ratio is obtained by dividing a distance between outer peripheral edges of two adjacent holes of the plurality of through holes by a distance between centers of the two holes.

Abstract: The upstream-side wall portion 54 includes, in the circumferential direction thereof, a first region 31 where air inlets 30 are formed at a lower density, and a second region 32 which is disposed at a position offset from the first region 31 in the circumferential direction, and in which the air inlets 30 are formed at a higher density than in the first region 31.

Abstract: This transition piece comprises a pair of side plates which face each other across an axis, a plate inside the curve which, with reference to the axis, is arranged inside the curve where the downstream portion curves relative to the upstream portion on the axis, and a plate outside the curve which, with reference to the axis, is arranged outside the curve on the side opposite of the aforementioned inside the curve. The plate inside the curve, the plate outside the curve and the pair of side plates each has multiple passage groups which are configured from multiple cooling passages that allow flow of a cooling medium and that extend in the axis direction and are arranged side-by-side in the circumferential direction, and one or more headers which allow flow of the cooling medium and which extend in the circumferential direction. The number of the one or more headers of the plate inside the curve is less than the number of the one or more headers in the plate outside the curve and the pair of side plats.

Abstract: A combustion tube for a gas turbine including an outlet section having a cross-section of an annular sector-shape. The outlet section includes an outer wall forming an outer peripheral boundary of the annular sector-shape, an inner wall forming an inner peripheral boundary of the annular sector-shape, and a pair of side walls forming boundaries on both sides of the annular sector-shape in a circumferential direction, respectively. The outer wall extends obliquely with respect to the inner wall such that a height of the annular sector-shape decreases toward an outlet opening of the combustion tube. A first side wall extends obliquely with respect to a second side such that a perimeter of the annular sector-shape increases toward the outlet opening of the combustion tube. An inclination angle ?1 of the first side wall with respect to the second side wall satisfies 0<?1?56.

Abstract: This exit seal is for connecting an exit flange of a combustor and a shroud in a stator blade of a turbine. The exit seal is equipped with: a seal body that extends in a circumferential direction; and a lid member disposed at a circumferential end of the seal body. The seal body comprises one or more recessed sections that are recessed in a radial direction or in an axial direction and extend in the circumferential direction. At a position of the circumferential end of at least one recessed section among the one or more recessed sections, the lid member is disposed so as to overlap, in the axial direction and the radial direction, with a recessed space formed by the one recessed section.

Abstract: A burner assembly includes a plurality of bumers for mixing fuel and air. Each of the plurality of burners includes: at least one fuel nozzle for injecting the fuel; and a mixing passage into which the fuel injected from the at least one fuel nozzle and the air are introduced. Each fuel nozzle includes a protruding portion protruding upstream of an inlet of the mixing passage in a flow direction of the air. Each fuel nozzle includes a fuel injection hole formed on a side surface of the protruding portion. At least a portion of a first air passage for flowing the air is formed inside the protruding portion. The first air passage includes: an inlet formed on a surface of the protruding portion on an upstream side of the fuel injection hole in the flow direction of the air; and an outlet formed on a side surface of the protruding portion or a passage wall of the mixing passage. At least a portion of the outlet is formed downstream of the fuel injection hole in the flow direction of the air.

Abstract: A burner assembly includes a plurality of burners for mixing fuel and air. Each of the plurality of burners includes: at least one fuel nozzle for injecting the fuel; and a mixing passage into which the fuel injected from the at least one fuel nozzle and the air are introduced. Each of the at least one fuel nozzle includes a protruding portion protruding upstream of an inlet of the mixing passage in a flow direction of the air. Each of the at least one fuel nozzle includes at least one fuel injection hole formed on a side surface of the protruding portion. A top surface of the protruding portion includes a convex curved surface.

Abstract: A combustor for a gas turbine includes: a flange portion to be mounted to a casing; an extension portion having an annular shape and extending from the flange portion along an axial direction of the combustor; a pipe portion having a first end connected to the flange portion and a second end connected to an outer peripheral surface of the extension portion, the pipe portion extending from the first end to the second end at an outer side of the extension portion in a radial direction; and at least one fuel nozzle configured to receive supply of a fuel via the pipe portion and a passage disposed inside the extension portion.

Abstract: A gas turbine combustor is equipped with a nozzle in which an air ejection passage extending along an axis and having an open distal end, and a fuel supply passage extending along the axis and having an open distal end are formed; swirling vanes provided around the nozzle so as to be twisted around the axis of the nozzle; an inner cylinder surrounding an outer periphery of the nozzle and the swirling vanes, and in which compressed air flows through an inside of the inner cylinder toward a downstream side; an outer cylinder which defines an inversion flow path, which inverts the compressed air on an outer periphery of the inner cylinder and introduces the compressed air to the inside of the inner cylinder, between the inner and outer cylinders; and an air introduction pipe having one end connected to a space on an upstream side of the compressed air from the inversion flow path, and the other end connected to the air ejection passage.

Abstract: A tail pipe (50) comprises: a pipe (51); an acoustic attenuator (61) that forms an acoustic space (Ss) on the outer peripheral side of the pipe (51); and a cooling air jacket (65) that forms a cooling air space (Sa) isolated from the outer space (So), which is the space on the outer peripheral side of the pipe (51). The pipe (51) has: a first air flow path (56) that is formed between the outer peripheral surface (55o) and the inner peripheral surface (55i); and an acoustic hole (59) that penetrates from the acoustic space (Ss) to a combustion space (Sc), which is a space on the inner peripheral side of the pipe (51c). The first air flow path (56) has: an inlet (56i) that faces into the cooling air space (Sa) and guides the air in the cooling air space (Sa) into the first air flow path (56); and an outlet (56o) that faces into the acoustic space (Ss) and guides the air passing through the first air flow path (56) into the acoustic space (Ss).

Abstract: A combustor nozzle includes a nozzle main body extending along an axis. The nozzle main body includes a first fuel passage which extends along the axis and through which first fuel is configured to flow, a first fuel ejection passage which extends to an outer circumferential surface of the nozzle main body toward a distal end side thereof from the first fuel passage and is configured to eject the first fuel from the outer circumferential surface, an air flow passage which extends in an axial direction on a radial outer side of the first fuel passage with respect to the axis and through which purge air is configured to flow, and an air ejection passage which extends from the air flow passage toward a center of a distal end of the nozzle main body and is configured eject the purge air from the center of the distal end.

Abstract: The present invention is a downstream plate which is provided on a downstream side of an upstream plate includes an air inlet into which cooling air is introduced from a cooling air introduction pipe and a cooling flow path which extends in a direction along a surface of the downstream plate from the air inlet so as to avoid a premix tube and through which cooling air flows.