Patents by Inventor Shigeo Hatamiya
Shigeo Hatamiya 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: 6578354Abstract: The present invention relates to an air humidifier for adding moisture to a working medium of a gas turbine for humidification, and gas turbine electric power generation equipment for driving the gas turbine by the working medium of high moisture to general electricity. An object of the present invention is to reduce pressure loss of burned exhaust gas of the gas turbine to improve output or efficiency of electric power generation. There comprises a humidifier (3), a combustor (5), a turbine (6), a generator (7), and a water recovery unit (10), further comprises an exhaust gas reheater (11) for heating burned exhaust gas discharged from the water recovery unit by surplus water discharged from the humidifier.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2002Date of Patent: June 17, 2003Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Shigeo Hatamiya, Masahiko Yamagishi, Osamu Yokomizo
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Patent number: 6560957Abstract: Disclosed is a gas turbine power generating system capable of achieving a high output power and a high power generating efficiency under conditions with a small amount of supplied water and little change in design of a gas turbine. A fine water droplet spraying apparatus (11) is disposed in a suction air chamber (22) on the upstream side of an air compressor (2), and a moisture adding apparatus (7) for adding moisture to high pressure air supplied from the compressor (2) is included. A regenerator (5) for heating the air to which moisture has been added by using gas turbine exhaust gas as a heat source is also provided. With this configuration, there can be obtained an effect of reducing power for the compressor (2) and an effect of increasing the output power due to addition of moisture to air (20) for combustion. Further, since the amount of fuel used is reduced by adopting a regenerating cycle, the power generating efficiency is improved.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2002Date of Patent: May 13, 2003Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Shigeo Hatamiya, Masahiko Yamagishi, Osamu Yokomizo, Yoshiki Noguchi, Moriaki Tsukamoto
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Publication number: 20030070415Abstract: The present invention relates to an air humidifier for adding moisture to a working medium of a gas turbine for humidification, and gas turbine electric power generation equipment for driving the gas turbine by the working medium of high moisture to general electricity. An object of the present invention is to reduce pressure loss of burned exhaust gas of the gas turbine to improve output or efficiency of electric power generation. There comprises a humidifier (3), a combustor (5), a turbine (6), a generator (7), and a water recovery unit (10), further comprises an exhaust gas reheater (11) for heating burned exhaust gas discharged from the water recovery unit by surplus water discharged from the humidifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2002Publication date: April 17, 2003Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Shigeo Hatamiya, Masahiko Yamagishi, Osamu Yokomizo
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Publication number: 20030019214Abstract: A gas turbine installation which includes a compressor which compresses supplied air and discharges the same, a combustor which combusts the compressed air obtained from the compressor and fuel and produces combustion gas, a turbine which is driven by combustion gas provided from the combustor, a regenerative heat exchanger which heats all or a part of the compressed air being supplied from the compressor to the combustor by making use of the heat of the exhaust gas exhausted from the turbine and a plurality of water spraying devices which are provided at positions from an intake air chamber of the compressor to the outlet of low temperature side gas flow passage in the regenerative heat exchanger and is characterized in that the regenerative heat exchanger is constituted by connecting in series a plurality of heat exchangers having different heat transfer surface configurations.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2002Publication date: January 30, 2003Inventors: Takanori Shibata, Shigeo Hatamiya, Nobuhiro Seiki, Tomomi Koganezawa, Katsuhiko Sagae
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Publication number: 20030019229Abstract: A heat and electric power supply system which comprises a regenerative gas turbine and an adsorption refrigerator recovering exhaust heat of exhaust gas from the gas turbine is provided with an inlet air cooling equipment including a spray device for spraying cold water form the adsorption refrigerator into an air-intake port of the regenerative gas turbine and a humidifier effecting humidification by hot water injection from the refirigerator into a compressor delivery port of the regenerative gas turbine. The cooling by cold water and humidification by hot water injection are effected according to operational conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2002Publication date: January 30, 2003Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Dodo, Kuniyoshi Tsubouchi, Norio Yasugahira, Hiroshi Arita, Yasuaki Akatsu, Shigeo Hatamiya
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Patent number: 6477852Abstract: A heat and electric power supply system includes a regenerative gas turbine and an adsorption refrigerator recovering exhaust heat of exhaust gas from the gas turbine and is provided with inlet air cooling equipment including a spray device for spraying cold water from the adsorption refrigerator into an air-intake port of the regenerative gas turbine and a humidifier effecting humidification by hot water injection from the refrigerator into a compressor delivery port of the regenerative gas turbine. The cooling by cold water and humidification by hot water injection are effected according to operational conditions.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2001Date of Patent: November 12, 2002Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Dodo, Kuniyoshi Tsubouchi, Norio Yasugahira, Hiroshi Arita, Yasuaki Akatsu, Shigeo Hatamiya
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Patent number: 6442938Abstract: A waste-to-energy incineration system, in which the amount and the heat value of exhaust gas largely changes in long and a short periods, comprises an incinerator for burning waste, a boiler in the incinerator for generating steam with exhaust heat generated by the incinerator, a superheater for superheating steam generated in the boiler, a steam turbine driven by steam superheated by the superheater, a generator driven by the steam turbine, a fuel reformer for reforming source fuel, and a combustor burning fuel gas reformed by the fuel reformer and at least a part of exhaust gas led from the incinerator which is able to stably decompose generated dioxin in waste incineration exhaust gas.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2001Date of Patent: September 3, 2002Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Tsutomu Okusawa, Kazuhito Koyama, Masahiko Yamagishi, Shigeo Hatamiya, Taiko Ajiro, Megumi Sunou, Yukio Ishigaki, Kenji Tokunaga
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Publication number: 20020092286Abstract: Disclosed is a gas turbine power generating system capable of achieving a high output power and a high power generating efficiency under conditions with a small amount of supplied water and less change in design of a gas turbine.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2002Publication date: July 18, 2002Inventors: Shigeo Hatamiya, Masahiko Yamagishi, Osamu Yokomizo, Yoshiki Noguchi, Moriaki Tsukamoto
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Patent number: 6397578Abstract: A gas turbine power plant has no intercooler for compressed air and comprises a compressor, a combustor for burning fuel with compressed air from the compressor to produce combustion gas, a turbine driven by the combustion gas, a generator driven by the turbine to generate electric power, a regenerative heat exchanger which heats the compressed air with the heat of exhaust gas of the turbine and has a water spray arranged therein for spraying water droplets onto the compressed air therein, and a spray device directly communicating with the compressor for spraying water onto compressed air of high temperature from the compressor to humidify the compressed air, the compressed air being led to the regenerative heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2001Date of Patent: June 4, 2002Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Moriaki Tsukamoto, Yoshiki Noguchi, Shigeo Hatamiya
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Patent number: 6389799Abstract: A gas turbine installation includes an air compressor, a combustor for burning fuel together with air discharged from the compressor, and a turbine driven by combustion gas generated by the combustor. The installation includes a spraying apparatus disposed in a suction air chamber on the upstream side of the air compressor and a water adding apparatus for adding moisture to high pressure air supplied from the compressor and which is disposed between the air compressor and the combustor. A heat exchanger is provided between the water adding apparatus and the combustor for heating air prior to the air entering the combustor.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2000Date of Patent: May 21, 2002Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Shigeo Hatamiya, Masahiko Yamagishi, Osamu Yokomizo, Yoshiki Noguchi, Moriaki Tsukamoto
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Publication number: 20010042381Abstract: A heat and electric power supply system which comprises a regenerative gas turbine and an adsorption refrigerator recovering exhaust heat of exhaust gas from the gas turbine is provided with an inlet air cooling equipment including a spray device for spraying cold water form the adsorption refrigerator into an air-intake port of the regenerative gas turbine and a humidifier effecting humidification by hot water injection from the refirigerator into a compressor delivery port of the regenerative gas turbine. The cooling by cold water and humidification by hot water injection are effected according to operational conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2001Publication date: November 22, 2001Inventors: Satoshi Dodo, Kuniyoshi Tsubouchi, Norio Yasugahira, Hiroshi Arita, Yasuaki Akatsu, Shigeo Hatamiya
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Publication number: 20010032468Abstract: A waste-to-energy incineration system, in which the amount and the heat value of exhaust gas largely changes in a long and a short periods, comprises an incinerator for burning waste, a boiler in the incinerator for generating steam with exhaust heat generated by the incinerator, a superheater for superheating steam generated in the boiler, a steam turbine driven by steam superheated by the superheater, a generator driven by the steam turbine, a fuel reformer for reforming source fuel, and a combustor burning fuel gas reformed by the fuel reformer and at least a part of exhaust gas led from the incinerator which are able to stably decompose generated dioxin, whereby it becomes possible to stably and almost completely decompose dioxin in waste incineration exhaust gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2001Publication date: October 25, 2001Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Tsutomu Okusawa, Kazuhito Koyama, Masahiko Yamagishi, Shigeo Hatamiya, Taiko Ajiro, Megumi Sunou, Yukio Ishigaki, Kenji Tokunaga
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Publication number: 20010032451Abstract: A waste-to-energy incineration system, in which the amount and the heat value of exhaust gas largely changes in a long and a short periods, comprises an incinerator for burning waste, a boiler in the incinerator for generating steam with exhaust heat generated by the incinerator, a superheater for superheating steam generated in the boiler, a steam turbine driven by steam superheated by the superheater, a generator driven by the steam turbine, a fuel reformer for reforming source fuel, and a combustor burning fuel gas reformed by the fuel reformer and at least a part of exhaust gas led from the incinerator which are able to stably decompose generated dioxin, whereby it becomes possible to stably and almost completely decompose dioxin in waste incineration exhaust gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2001Publication date: October 25, 2001Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Tsutomu Okusawa, Kazuhito Koyama, Masahiko Yamagishi, Shigeo Hatamiya, Taiko Ajiro, Megumi Sunou, Yukio Ishigaki, Kenji Tokunaga
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Publication number: 20010020360Abstract: A gas turbine power plant has no intercooler for compressed air and comprises a compressor, a combustor for burning fuel with compressed air from the compressor to produce combustion gas, a turbine driven by the combustion gas, a generator driven by the turbine to generate electric power, a regenerative heat exchanger which heats the compressed air with the heat of exhaust gas of the turbine and has a water spray arranged therein for spraying water droplets onto the compressed air therein, and a spray device directly communicating with the compressor for spraying water onto compressed air of high temperature from the compressor to humidify the compressed air, the compressed air being led to the regenerative heat exchanger.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2001Publication date: September 13, 2001Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Moriaki Tsukamoto, Yoshiki Noguchi, Shigeo Hatamiya
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Patent number: 6282902Abstract: A waste-to-energy incineration system, in which the amount and heat value of exhaust gas largely changes in long and short periods, comprises an incinerator for burning waste, a boiler in the incinerator for generating steam with exhaust heat generated by the incinerator, a superheater for superheating steam generated in the boiler, a steam turbine driven by steam superheated by the superheater, a generator driven by the steam turbine, a fuel reformer for reforming source fuel, and a combustor burning fuel gas reformed by the fuel reformer and at least a part of exhaust gas led from the incinerator which is able to stably decompose generated dioxin in waste incineration exhaust gas.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1999Date of Patent: September 4, 2001Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Tsutomu Okusawa, Kazuhito Koyama, Masahiko Yamagishi, Shigeo Hatamiya, Taiko Ajiro, Megumi Sunou, Yukio Ishigaki, Kenji Tokunaga
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Patent number: 6247302Abstract: A gas turbine power plant with no intercooler for compressed air includes a compressor, a combustor for burning fuel with compressed air from the compressor to produce combustion gas, a turbine driven by the combustion gas, a generator driven by the turbine to generate electric power, a regenerative heat exchanger which heats the compressed air with the heat of exhaust gas of the turbine and has a water spray arranged therein for spraying water droplets onto the compressed air therein, and a spray device directly communicating with the compressor for spraying water onto compressed air of high temperature from the compressor to humidify the compressed air, the compressed air being led to the regenerative heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 1999Date of Patent: June 19, 2001Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Moriaki Tsukamoto, Yoshiki Noguchi, Shigeo Hatamiya
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Patent number: 6058856Abstract: A waste-to-energy incineration system, in which the amount and the heat value of exhaust gas changes during operation, includes an incinerator for burning waste, a boiler in the incinerator for generating steam with exhaust heat generated by the incinerator, and a superheater for superheating steam generated in the boiler. A steam turbine is provided which is driven by steam superheated by the superheater and a generator is driven by the steam turbine. A fuel reformer is provided for reforming source fuel. A combustor burning fuel gas reformed by the fuel reformer and at least a part of exhaust gas fed from the incinerator is provided which decomposes generated dioxin in waste incineration exhaust gas.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 1998Date of Patent: May 9, 2000Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Tsutomu Okusawa, Kazuhito Koyama, Masahiko Yamagishi, Shigeo Hatamiya, Taiko Ajiro, Megumi Sunou, Yukio Ishigaki, Kenji Tokunaga
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Patent number: 6014863Abstract: A waste-to-energy incineration system, in which the amount and heat value of exhaust gas largely changes in long and short periods, comprises an incinerator for burning waste, a boiler in the incinerator for generating steam with exhaust heat generated by the incinerator, a superheater for superheating steam generated in the boiler, a steam turbine driven by steam superheated by the superheater, a generator driven by the steam turbine, a fuel reformer for reforming source fuel, and a combustor burning fuel gas reformed by the fuel reformer and at least a part of exhaust gas led from the incinerator which is able to stably decompose generated dioxin in waste incineration exhaust gas.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 1997Date of Patent: January 18, 2000Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Tsutomu Okusawa, Kazuhito Koyama, Masahiko Yamagishi, Shigeo Hatamiya, Taiko Ajiro, Megumi Sunou, Yukio Ishigaki
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Patent number: 5272737Abstract: There is disclosed a nuclear reactor installation. An accumulator-type emergency core cooling system, a gravity-driven core cooling system and an equalizing system for submerging a reactor core are provided within a primary containment vessel containing a reactor pressure vessel in which the reactor core is disposed. These cooling systems are automatically operated sequentially in accordance with the pressure in the reactor pressure vessel without the need for any particular powered source. The primary containment vessel is made of steel, and the interior of this containment vessel is divided into a space containing the reactor pressure vessel and a space containing an operation floor in such a manner that the two spaces are isolated from each other.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 1991Date of Patent: December 21, 1993Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Tadashi Fujii, Yoshiyuki Kataoka, Tohru Fukui, Masataka Hidaka, Toshitsugu Nakao, Shigeo Hatamiya, Hiroaki Suzuki, Masanori Naitoh, Isao Sumida, Kenji Tominaga, Tsuyoshi Niino
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Patent number: 5211906Abstract: A pressure control chamber of a reactor containment vessel for receiving the atmosphere of the reactor containment vessel containing leakage steam developing in the event of an accident includes a pressure control pool, and a wet well disposed above the pressure control pool. The wet well is divided into an inner peripheral portion and an outer peripheral portion. The inner and outer peripheral portions are communicated with each other via the pressure control pool. An outlet port for flowing the atmosphere of the reactor containment vessel containing the leakage steam is provided at the inner peripheral side of the pressure control pool. When the atmosphere of the reactor containment vessel containing the leakage steam is introduced into the pressure control pool in the event of the accident, this atmosphere is condensed by the water in the pressure control pool, and the gas of this atmosphere not condensed is accumulated in the inner peripheral portion of the wet well.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 1990Date of Patent: May 18, 1993Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Shigeo Hatamiya, Masanori Naitoh, Yoshiyuki Kataoka, Hiroaki Suzuki, Isao Sumida, Toshitsugu Nakao, Kanehiro Ochiai, Tsuyoshi Niino, Masataka Hidaka, Tohru Fukui, Ryuhei Kawabe