Patents by Inventor Masashi Kitada

Masashi Kitada 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: 11286437
    Abstract: An object is to curb damage localized in a slag capturing portion caused when slag passes therethrough. A slag discharge device includes: a screen mesh (6) that is a porous member including a plurality of through-holes (6a) formed therein; and a crushing device (7) that crushes water-granulated slag (S2) captured by the screen mesh (6). The crushing device has a crusher head (12) that breaks, with a pressure, and thus crushes the water-granulated slag (S2), a hydraulic cylinder (13) that reciprocates the crusher head in a predetermined direction, a guide plate (14) that restricts movement of the crusher head caused by the hydraulic cylinder, and a plurality of crushing spaces (15) in which the water-granulated slag (S2) is crushed. A communication opening that causes the crushing spaces (15) to communicate with each other is formed in a partitioning wall guide plate (14a) of the guide plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Kume, Haruto Shinoda, Yoshiaki Arakawa, Yoshinori Koyama, Yasunari Shibata, Yasuyuki Miyata, Masashi Kitada
  • Publication number: 20210339260
    Abstract: Provided are a slag crusher, a gasifier, an integrated gasification combined cycle, and an assembly method of a slag crusher that can ensure the strength of a guide rod. The slag crusher includes: a porous member screen; a spreader that is reciprocated in a predetermined direction along a top surface of the screen and crushes the slag accumulated on the screen; and a guide rod having an axis line along the predetermined direction, is connected to the spreader, and restricts a moving direction of the spreader, the guide rod has a spreader-side member connected to the spreader and a shaft member connected to the spreader-side member, the spreader-side member and the shaft member are connected by butt welding in the axis line direction, and the spreader-side member and the shaft member have the same shape of cross sections orthogonal to the axis line direction at a butt welding position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kengo Shibata, Makoto Toyomaru, Masashi Kitada
  • Publication number: 20210215334
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to improve workability when installing a cooling pipe and a burner oxidizer supply pipe through which fuel and an oxidizer are supplied to a combustion furnace or the like of a gasifier. A burner (2) is provided with: an air supply pipe (8) through which air is supplied into a combustion furnace (1); a cooling pipe (6) that is provided so as to surround a supply pipe (5); and a closed flange (7) which is detachably fixed to a furnace wall and to which the air supply pipe (8) and the cooling pipe (6) are fixed. The tip of the cooling pipe (6) on a furnace inside is arranged to project to the furnace inside more than the tip of the supply pipe (5) by a projection allowance length (L1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Kitada, Shinya Hamasaki, Keisuke Matsuo, Yoshinori Koyama, Tatsuya Kameyama
  • Publication number: 20210207529
    Abstract: A gasifier wall is formed of a plurality of pipes through which a cooling medium flows. The plurality of pipes are made of a first material and arranged side by side. At least a part of the gasifier wall includes an outer peripheral portion stacked on a periphery of each of the pipes and made of a second material having higher corrosion resistance than the pipes; a board disposed between the outer peripheral portion and an adjacent outer peripheral portion; and a welded portion coupling the outer peripheral portion and the board. The outer peripheral portion and the board constitute a wall surface that separates an internal space and an external space from each other. The outer peripheral portion covers an entire region of the pipe in a circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta Haari, Yasunari Shibata, Masashi Kitada, Fumihiro Chuman, Kenichiro Minato, Koichi Koga, Masakazu Matsui, Yuzo Imagawa
  • Patent number: 10962223
    Abstract: In a soot blower, a heat transfer tube of a heat exchanger is arranged inside a pressure vessel, and gas for cleaning is injected toward the heat transfer tube from an injection pipe movable into and out of the pressure vessel. The soot blower includes a cylindrical casing provided to surround an insertion hole on the pressure vessel side into which the injection pipe is inserted, to extend outside the pressure vessel, the injection pipe being inserted into an inside of the casing; a support part provided inside the casing to guide movement of the injection pipe and to ensure airtightness between the casing and the injection pipe; and a gas supplying device provided immediately close to the support part to generate a jet stream of gas in a portion of the injection pipe that projects to the pressure vessel side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD., MHI PLANT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gen Sakashita, Yoshinori Koyama, Takashi Yamamoto, Kenta Haari, Yasunari Shibata, Masashi Kitada, Yasushi Okuda, Masami Tsuda, Satoru Murai
  • Publication number: 20210087482
    Abstract: In order to allow for thermal elongation of a liner, a pipe member, in the interior of which flows a fluid containing solids, is provided with: a tubular outer pipe; a single tubular liner provided inside the outer pipe with a gap therebetween in the radial direction, or a plurality thereof arranged serially in the direction of the pipe axis C; a refractory material filled in between the outer pipe and the liner; a first liner holding member that is provided on an end portion side of the outer pipe, and that holds the liner arranged on the end portion side in a restrained state in the pipe axis C direction and the circumferential direction around the pipe axis C; and a second liner holding member that is provided on an end portion side of the outer pipe, and that holds the liner arranged on the end portion side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Kitada, Fumihiro Chuman
  • Patent number: 10954853
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a furnace wall in which a throat section with a smaller channel diameter than other regions can be formed using all peripheral wall tubes. Provided is a furnace wall comprising: a plurality of peripheral wall tubes (142), which are disposed so as to form a cylindrical shape when aligned in one direction and through the interior of which cooling water flows; and fins (140) that connect neighboring peripheral wall tubes (142) in an airtight manner. In a throat section in which the diameter of a horizontal cross-section of the cylindrical shape is reduced in comparison to other regions, the peripheral wall tubes (142) are disposed so as to be in mutual contact and the fins (140) are disposed on the inner circumferential sides of the cylindrical shapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Fumihiro Chuman, Masashi Kitada, Makoto Toyomaru
  • Publication number: 20210002567
    Abstract: An object is to curb damage localized in a slag capturing portion caused when slag passes therethrough. A slag discharge device includes: a screen mesh (6) that is a porous member including a plurality of through-holes (6a) formed therein; and a crushing device (7) that crushes water-granulated slag (S2) captured by the screen mesh (6). The crushing device has a crusher head (12) that breaks, with a pressure, and thus crushes the water-granulated slag (S2), a hydraulic cylinder (13) that reciprocates the crusher head in a predetermined direction, a guide plate (14) that restricts movement of the crusher head caused by the hydraulic cylinder, and a plurality of crushing spaces (15) in which the water-granulated slag (S2) is crushed. A communication opening that causes the crushing spaces (15) to communicate with each other is formed in a partitioning wall guide plate (14a) of the guide plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Kume, Haruto Shinoda, Yoshiaki Arakawa, Yoshinori Koyama, Yasunari Shibata, Yasuyuki Miyata, Masashi Kitada
  • Patent number: 10808191
    Abstract: A gasification apparatus for gasifying a carbonaceous feedstock to produce raw syngas includes a gasifier in which the raw syngas flows, a heat exchanger provided inside the gasifier downstream to exchange heat with the raw syngas, a hanger pipe through which a part of water supplied from a water supply passage flows to support a load of the heat exchanger, a heat exchanger inflow passage configured to cause the water flowing out from the hanger pipe to flow to an inflow side of the heat exchanger, a bypass passage branching from the water supply passage to cause a remaining of the water supplied to the hanger pipe, a bypass valve provided in the bypass passage, and a control device configured to control, depending on a gasifier load, an opening degree of the bypass valve to adjust the water supplied to the hanger pipe and the bypass passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta Haari, Yasunari Shibata, Yasuhiro Takei, Masashi Kitada, Fumihiro Chuman, Shigetaka Takeda
  • Patent number: 10465134
    Abstract: A char recycling system capable of easily determining whether or not a char exhausting pipe is blocked by char. The char recycling system comprises: a stand pipe (31) forming a vertically-downwards flowpath (33) through which char is conveyed; and a differential pressure gauge (41) that measures the pressure difference between the pressure in a downstream area (45) in the vertically-downwards flowpath (33) and the pressure in an upstream area (46) in the vertically-downwards flowpath (33). The pressure difference fluctuates when char accumulates between the downstream area (45) and the upstream area (46) in the vertically-downwards flowpath (33). As a result, this kind of char recovery system is capable of easily determining whether or not the vertically-downwards flowpath (33) is blocked by char, on the basis of the measured pressure difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Yamamoto, Yoshinori Koyama, Yasutaka Mizokoshi, Yasunari Shibata, Haruto Shinoda, Osamu Shinada, Masashi Kitada
  • Publication number: 20190186358
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a furnace wall in which a throat section with a smaller channel diameter than other regions can be formed using all peripheral wall tubes. Provided is a furnace wall comprising: a plurality of peripheral wall tubes (142), which are disposed so as to form a cylindrical shape when aligned in one direction and through the interior of which cooling water flows; and fins (140) that connect neighboring peripheral wall tubes (142) in an airtight manner. In a throat section in which the diameter of a horizontal cross-section of the cylindrical shape is reduced in comparison to other regions, the peripheral wall tubes (142) are disposed so as to be in mutual contact and the fins (140) are disposed on the inner circumferential sides of the cylindrical shapes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumihiro Chuman, Masashi Kitada, Makoto Toyomaru
  • Publication number: 20190078779
    Abstract: In a soot blower, a heat transfer tube of a heat exchanger is arranged inside a pressure vessel, and gas for cleaning is injected toward the heat transfer tube from an injection pipe movable into and out of the pressure vessel. The soot blower includes a cylindrical casing provided to surround an insertion hole on the pressure vessel side into which the injection pipe is inserted, to extend outside the pressure vessel, the injection pipe being inserted into an inside of the casing; a support part provided inside the casing to guide movement of the injection pipe and to ensure airtightness between the casing and the injection pipe; and a gas supplying device provided immediately close to the support part to generate a jet stream of gas in a portion of the injection pipe that projects to the pressure vessel side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD., MHI PLANT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gen Sakashita, Yoshinori Koyama, Takashi Yamamoto, Kenta Haari, Yasunari Shibata, Masashi Kitada, Yasushi Okuda, Masami Tsuda, Satoru Murai
  • Publication number: 20190030543
    Abstract: A slag crusher includes a screen provided so as to intersect a falling direction of a slag and having openings; at least two spreaders disposed opposite from one another on the screen; and a spreader moving unit configured to support the spreaders and move the spreaders in a direction vertical to the opposing faces of the spreaders. Each spreader includes projections and a lower projection so as to face the other spreader. In a state in which the lower projection is closest to the other spreader, the lower projection does not come into surface contact with the opposed lower projection, and a distance between the opposing lower projections is smaller than an opening dimension of the openings of the screen across a width direction of the spreaders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryohei Ohashi, Katsuhiko Yokohama, Yoshinori Koyama, Yasuyuki Miyata, Yasunori Ishizu, Kengo Shibata, Masashi Kitada
  • Publication number: 20180334626
    Abstract: A gasification apparatus for gasifying a carbonaceous feedstock to produce raw syngas includes a gasifier in which the raw syngas flows, a heat exchanger provided inside the gasifier downstream to exchange heat with the raw syngas, a hanger pipe through which a part of water supplied from a water supply passage flows to support a load of the heat exchanger, a heat exchanger inflow passage configured to cause the water flowing out from the hanger pipe to flow to an inflow side of the heat exchanger, a bypass passage branching from the water supply passage to cause a remaining of the water supplied to the hanger pipe, a bypass valve provided in the bypass passage, and a control device configured to control, depending on a gasifier load, an opening degree of the bypass valve to adjust the water supplied to the hanger pipe and the bypass passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta Haari, Yasunari Shibata, Yasuhiro Takei, Masashi Kitada, Fumihiro Chuman, Shigetaka Takeda
  • Patent number: 9951284
    Abstract: Provided is a gasifier cooling structure allowing the complexity of the furnace wall structure to be reduced to a minimum, allowing the configurability of headers and connecting pipes to be improved while maintaining as much as possible the ability to cool raw syngas. In the gasifier cooling structure, the raw syngas from a gasified carbonaceous solid fuel flows through the interior of a furnace wall formed inside a pressure vessel having a circular cross section, and the raw syngas is cooled by heat exchange with a fluid flowing inside a heat exchanger tube from a heat exchanger, whereof a plurality is provided within the furnace wall. The furnace wall has a polygonal structure wherein mutually orthogonal faces are linked by an oblique face in between, and whereof the cross sectional shape is such that the edge of the oblique face is shorter than the edges of the mutually orthogonal faces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kizu, Osamu Shinada, Masashi Kitada
  • Publication number: 20170342337
    Abstract: A slag crusher (20) is provided in a combustor of a gasifier (10) for gasifying a carbonaceous feedstock, and discharges falling slag generated in the combustor from the gasifier (10). The slag crusher (20) is provided with: a screen (22) provided so as to intersect with the direction in which the slag falls, the screen (22) having a plurality of openings (30) and passing slag having a diameter smaller than that of the openings (30); a spreader (24) for moving over the top surface of the screen (22) and crushing slag deposited on the top surface of the screen (22); and a nozzle (26) for spraying high-pressure water onto the slag deposited on the screen (22). The slag deposited on the top surface of the screen (22) thereby more easily passes from the openings (30) in the screen (22).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki MIYATA, Yoshinori KOYAMA, Yasuo SODA, Yasunari SHIBATA, Masashi KITADA, Haruto SHINODA
  • Patent number: 9550949
    Abstract: In a gasification apparatus, a gasification furnace (101) having an octagonal hollow cross-sectional shape, a heat exchanger (102) having a quadrangular hollow cross-sectional shape, and a connection portion (103) which connects an upper portion of the gasification furnace (101) to a lower portion of the heat exchanger (102) are provided, thereby simplifying structures and enhancing efficiencies can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Yokohama, Masashi Kitada, Osamu Shinada, Fumihiro Chuman
  • Publication number: 20170009161
    Abstract: Provided is a gasifier cooling structure allowing the complexity of the furnace wall structure to be reduced to a minimum, allowing the configurability of headers and connecting pipes to be improved while maintaining as much as possible the ability to cool raw syngas. In the gasifier cooling structure, the raw syngas from a gasified carbonaceous solid fuel flows through the interior of a furnace wall formed inside a pressure vessel having a circular cross section, and the raw syngas is cooled by heat exchange with a fluid flowing inside a heat exchanger tube from a heat exchanger, whereof a plurality is provided within the furnace wall. The furnace wall has a polygonal structure wherein mutually orthogonal faces are linked by an oblique face in between, and whereof the cross sectional shape is such that the edge of the oblique face is shorter than the edges of the mutually orthogonal faces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Tetsuya KIZU, Osamu SHINADA, Masashi KITADA
  • Publication number: 20160298042
    Abstract: A char recycling system capable of easily determining whether or not a char exhausting pipe is blocked by char. The char recycling system comprises: a stand pipe (31) forming a vertically-downwards flowpath (33) through which char is conveyed; and a differential pressure gauge (41) that measures the pressure difference between the pressure in a downstream area (45) in the vertically-downwards flowpath (33) and the pressure in an upstream area (46) in the vertically-downwards flowpath (33). The pressure difference fluctuates when char accumulates between the downstream area (45) and the upstream area (46) in the vertically-downwards flowpath (33). As a result, this kind of char recovery system is capable of easily determining whether or not the vertically-downwards flowpath (33) is blocked by char, on the basis of the measured pressure difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi YAMAMOTO, Yoshinori KOYAMA, Yasutaka MIZOKOSHI, Yasunari SHIBATA, Haruto SHINODA, Osamu SHINADA, Masashi KITADA
  • Publication number: 20160290742
    Abstract: An object is to provide a heat exchanger including a resonance-prevention baffle plate disposed between a plurality of heat transfer tubes, the resonance-prevention baffle plate being obtainable and mountable readily and at lower cost. A heat exchanger 10 disposed in a flow passage of combustion gas of a boiler or the like includes: a plurality of heat transfer tubes 14 disposed in parallel and spaced from one another, an axial direction of each heat transfer tube intersecting with the combustion gas g, inside a duct wall 12 forming the flow passage of the combustion gas g; and a resonance-prevention baffle 16 having a plate shape and disposed along the combustion gas g and between the heat transfer tubes 14, the resonance-prevention baffle including a metal foil sheet 18.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Takahiro OKIMOTO, Naoki SUGANUMA, Toshifumi KUDO, Tetsuya YAMADA, Masashi KITADA