Patents by Inventor Kouji Muramoto

Kouji Muramoto 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: 8496742
    Abstract: In an absorbing tower including an absorption unit of relatively small diameter capable of absorption and removal by an absorbent slurry for exhaust gas purification and a tank unit of relatively large diameter for temporarily storing the absorbent slurry flowing down from the absorption unit, the tank unit and the absorption unit are joined together by a conical member. By disposing an entrance flue at the conical member, a distance from an upper portion of the conical member to a spray header is shortened, and a height of the absorbing tower can be reduced accordingly. By extending a front end of the entrance flue to the absorption unit into which droplets of the absorbent slurry fall, a high-temperature exhaust gas from a boiler, etc., that has passed through the entrance flue, is made to pass through a circumference of the conical member so that an inexpensive material can be used in the conical member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Babcock-Hitachi Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Konishi, Takanori Nakamoto, Kouji Muramoto, Hiroyuki Nosaka, Atsushi Katagawa, Takuro Ueda
  • Patent number: 7691349
    Abstract: An exhaust gas processing method using a device having an air preheater for preheating air for combustion in a combustion device by using an exhaust gas emitted from the combustion device; a gas-gas heater (GGH) heat recovery device composed of a heat transfer tube for recovering the heat of the exhaust gas to a heat medium; a dust collector; a wet-type desulfurization device; a gas-gas heater (GGH) re-heater composed of a heat transfer tube for heating the exhaust gas at its outlet by using the heat medium supplied from the gas-gas heater heat recovery device, which are installed in that order from the upstream to the downstream of an exhaust gas duct of the combustion device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Babcock-Hitachi Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kouji Muramoto, Takayuki Saitou, Hiromichi Shimazu, Takanori Nakamoto, Toshio Katsube
  • Publication number: 20100077925
    Abstract: In an absorbing tower including an absorption unit of relatively small diameter capable of absorption and removal by an absorbent slurry for exhaust gas purification and a tank unit of relatively large diameter for temporarily storing the absorbent slurry flowing down from the absorption unit, the tank unit and the absorption unit are joined together by a conical member. By disposing an entrance flue at the conical member, a distance from an upper portion of the conical member to a spray header is shortened, and a height of the absorbing tower can be reduced accordingly. By extending a front end of the entrance flue to the absorption unit into which droplets of the absorbent slurry fall, a high-temperature exhaust gas from a boiler, etc., that has passed through the entrance flue, is made to pass through a circumference of the conical member so that an inexpensive material can be used in the conical member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2007
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: BABCOCK-HITACHI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoyuki KONISHI, Takanori NAKAMOTO, Kouji MURAMOTO, Hiroyuki NOSAKA, Atsushi KATAGAWA, Takuro UEDA
  • Patent number: 7507381
    Abstract: An exhaust gas processing device includes an air preheater for preheating air for combustion in a combustion device by using an exhaust gas emitted from the combustion device; a gas-gas heater heat recovery device composed of a heat transfer tube for recovering the heat of the exhaust gas to a heat medium; a dust collector; a wet-type desulfurization device; a gas-gas heater re-heater composed of a heat transfer tube for heating the exhaust gas at its outlet by using the heat medium supplied from the gas-gas heater heat recovery device, which are installed in that order from the upstream to the downstream of an exhaust gas duct of the combustion device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Babcock-Hitachi Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kouji Muramoto, Takayuki Saitou, Hiromichi Shimazu, Takanori Nakamoto, Toshio Katsube
  • Publication number: 20080209899
    Abstract: An exhaust gas processing method using a device having an air preheater for preheating air for combustion in a combustion device by using an exhaust gas emitted from the combustion device; a gas-gas heater (GGH) heat recovery device composed of a heat transfer tube for recovering the heat of the exhaust gas to a heat medium; a dust collector; a wet-type desulfurization device; a gas-gas heater (GGH) re-heater composed of a heat transfer tube for heating the exhaust gas at its outlet by using the heat medium supplied from the gas-gas heater heat recovery device, which are installed in that order from the upstream to the downstream of an exhaust gas duct of the combustion device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Applicant: BABCOCK-HITACHI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kouji MURAMOTO, Takayuki SAITOU, Hiromichi SHIMAZU, Takanori NAKAMOTO, Toshio KATSUBE
  • Publication number: 20060008394
    Abstract: An exhaust gas processing device includes an air preheater for preheating air for combustion in a combustion device by using an exhaust gas emitted from the combustion device; a gas-gas heater heat recovery device composed of a heat transfer tube for recovering the heat of the exhaust gas to a heat medium; a dust collector; a wet-type desulfurization device; a gas-gas heater re-heater composed of a heat transfer tube for heating the exhaust gas at its outlet by using the heat medium supplied from the gas-gas heater heat recovery device, which are installed in that order from the upstream to the downstream of an exhaust gas duct of the combustion device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2003
    Publication date: January 12, 2006
    Inventors: Kouji Muramoto, Takayuki Saitou, Hiromichi Shimazu, Takanori Nakamoto, Toshio Katsube