Patents by Inventor Shigeya HAYASHI
Shigeya HAYASHI 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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Publication number: 20240150658Abstract: A biomass carbonizing apparatus (100) includes a rotary kiln (2) as a carbonization furnace configured to carbonize biomass, a combustion furnace (41) configured to combust gas discharged from the carbonization furnace, a duct (42) connecting the carbonization furnace and the combustion furnace, and an oxygen-containing gas feed unit (45) configured to feed oxygen-containing gas to the duct during operation of the carbonization furnace.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi UBE Cement CorporationInventors: Yuusuke HIRAIWA, Shigeya HAYASHI, Nobuyuki OOI
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Patent number: 11939549Abstract: A biomass solid fuel having low self-heating. In the biomass solid fuel, mutual bonding or adhesion between pulverized biomass particles is maintained and the biomass solid fuel has a maximum reaching temperature of less than 200° C. in a self-heating property test based on the “UNITED NATIONS Recommendations on the TRANSPORT OF DANGEROUS GOODS: Manual of Test and Criteria: 5th revised Edition: Test method for Self-heating substances”.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2018Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi UBE Cement CorporationInventors: Yuusuke Hiraiwa, Shigeya Hayashi, Nobuyuki Ooi
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Publication number: 20240002730Abstract: A biomass solid fuel manufacturing device (100) includes: a rotary kiln (2) that carbonizes a biomass molded body molded from raw material biomass. The rotary kiln (2) includes a kiln body (20), a raw material supply unit (30) that supplies the biomass molded body to an upstream end portion of the kiln body (20), and an inert gas supply unit (50) that supplies inert gas to an upstream end portion inside the kiln body (20).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2021Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi UBE Cement CorporationInventors: Shigeya HAYASHI, Yuusuke HIRAIWA, Nobuyuki OOI
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Patent number: 11667863Abstract: A biomass solid fuel manufacturing method, including: a heating step of carbonizing a biomass molded body formed by molding raw material biomass, in an external heating type rotary kiln, in which the rotary kiln includes a non-heating zone that is provided on an upstream side of a kiln body and is not provided with a heating unit on an outer circumference, the non-heating zone includes a spiral blade on an inner circumferential surface, and in the heating step, the biomass molded body is introduced to the non-heating zone of the kiln body.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2019Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI UBE CEMENT CORPORATIONInventors: Yuusuke Hiraiwa, Shigeya Hayashi, Nobuyuki Ooi
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Patent number: 11390823Abstract: A biomass solid fuel which, when exposed to rain water, has a reduced COD in discharged water and has low disintegration-property, while suppressing an increase in cost. The biomass solid fuel obtained by molding pulverized biomass particles, such that mutual bonding or adhesion between pulverized biomass particles is maintained after immersion in water.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2017Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Ube Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Shigeya Hayashi, Hiroshi Amano, Nobuyuki Ooi, Yuusuke Hiraiwa
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Patent number: 11390822Abstract: A biomass solid fuel is provided which, when exposed to rain water, has a reduced COD in discharged water and has low disintegration-property, while suppressing an increase in cost. The present invention relates to a biomass solid fuel obtained by molding pulverized biomass, having a fuel ratio (fixed carbon/volatile matter) of 0.2 to 0.8, dry-basis higher heating value of 4800 to 7000 (kcal/kg), a molar ratio of oxygen O to carbon C (O/C) of 0.1 to 0.7, and a molar ratio of hydrogen H to carbon C (H/C) is 0.8 to 1.3.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2015Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Shigeya Hayashi, Hiroshi Amano, Nobuyuki Ooi, Yuusuke Hiraiwa
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Patent number: 11198829Abstract: A biomass solid fuel with reduced self-heating. An apparatus for manufacturing a biomass solid fuel including a carbonization furnace for carbonizing a biomass molded block to obtain a biomass solid fuel; a yield calculator for calculating a yield of the biomass solid fuel and/or a temperature detector for measuring a temperature of the carbonization furnace; and a controller for controlling a heat source of the carbonization furnace; in which the controller controls the heat source based on a correlation between (i) a self-heating property of the biomass solid fuel and (ii) the yield and/or the temperature of the carbonization furnace.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2018Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Ube Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yuusuke Hiraiwa, Shigeya Hayashi, Nobuyuki Ooi
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Publication number: 20210324285Abstract: A biomass solid fuel manufacturing method, including: a heating step of carbonizing a biomass molded body formed by molding raw material biomass, in an external heating type rotary kiln, in which the rotary kiln includes a non-heating zone that is provided on an upstream side of a kiln body and is not provided with a heating unit on an outer circumference, the non-heating zone includes a spiral blade on an inner circumferential surface, and in the heating step, the biomass molded body is introduced to the non-heating zone of the kiln body.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2019Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: Yuusuke HIRAIWA, Shigeya HAYASHI, Nobuyuki OOI
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Publication number: 20200239800Abstract: A biomass solid fuel with reduced self-heating. An apparatus for manufacturing a biomass solid fuel including a carbonization furnace for carbonizing a biomass molded block to obtain a biomass solid fuel; a yield calculator for calculating a yield of the biomass solid fuel and/or a temperature detector for measuring a temperature of the carbonization furnace; and a controller for controlling a heat source of the carbonization furnace; in which the controller controls the heat source based on a correlation between (i) a self-heating property of the biomass solid fuel and (ii) the yield and/or the temperature of the carbonization furnace.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2018Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventors: Yuusuke HIRAIWA, Shigeya HAYASHI, Nobuyuki OOI
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Publication number: 20200239799Abstract: A biomass solid fuel having low self-heating. In the biomass solid fuel, mutual bonding or adhesion between pulverized biomass particles is maintained and the biomass solid fuel has a maximum reaching temperature of less than 200° C. in a self-heating property test based on the “UNITED NATIONS Recommendations on the TRANSPORT OF DANGEROUS GOODS: Manual of Test and Criteria: 5th revised Edition: Test method for Self-heating substances”.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2018Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventors: Yuusuke HIRAIWA, Shigeya HAYASHI, Nobuyuki OOI
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Publication number: 20190119593Abstract: A biomass solid fuel which, when exposed to rain water, has a reduced COD in discharged water and has low disintegration-property, while suppressing an increase in cost. The biomass solid fuel obtained by molding pulverized biomass particles, such that mutual bonding or adhesion between pulverized biomass particles is maintained after immersion in water.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2017Publication date: April 25, 2019Inventors: Shigeya HAYASHI, Hiroshi AMANO, Nobuyuki OOI, Yuusuke HIRAIWA
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Publication number: 20190112530Abstract: An apparatus including a carbonizing furnace for obtaining a carbonized biomass by carbonizing a molded biomass and classification means disposed at the downstream side of the carbonizing furnace for classifying the carbonized biomass, and cooling means disposed at the downstream side of the classification means for cooling the classified carbonized biomass. The molded biomass is obtained by molding pulverized raw biomass and the cooling means cools the carbonized biomass by spraying water.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2017Publication date: April 18, 2019Applicant: UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Shigeya HAYASHI, Tatsumi TANO, Naohide FUJIMOTO, Daisuke MAKI
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Publication number: 20170218290Abstract: A biomass solid fuel is provided which, when exposed to rain water, has a reduced COD in discharged water and has low disintegration-property, while suppressing an increase in cost. The present invention relates to a biomass solid fuel obtained by molding pulverized biomass, having a fuel ratio (fixed carbon/volatile matter) of 0.2 to 0.8, dry-basis higher heating value of 4800 to 7000 (kcal/kg), a molar ratio of oxygen O to carbon C (O/C) of 0.1 to 0.7, and a molar ratio of hydrogen H to carbon C (H/C) is 0.8 to 1.3.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2015Publication date: August 3, 2017Inventors: Shigeya HAYASHI, Hiroshi AMANO, Nobuyuki OOI, Yuusuke HIRAIWA
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Patent number: 9523056Abstract: The present invention relates to a biomass solid fuel obtained by steam exploding and then molding biomass into biomass blocks and then heating the biomass blocks, wherein the biomass solid fuel has a fuel ratio of 0.2 to 2.5, a dry-based higher heating value of 5,000 to 7,500 (kcal/kg), a molar ratio of oxygen O to carbon C (O/C) of 0.1 to 0.6, and a molar ratio of hydrogen H to carbon C (H/C) of 0.5 to 1.35.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2013Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Shigeya Hayashi, Hiroshi Amano, Nobuyuki Ooi, Yuusuke Hiraiwa
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Publication number: 20150315505Abstract: The present invention relates to a biomass solid fuel obtained by steam exploding and then molding biomass into biomass blocks and then heating the biomass blocks, wherein the biomass solid fuel has a fuel ratio of 0.2 to 2.5, a dry-based higher heating value of 5,000 to 7,500 (kcal/kg), a molar ratio of oxygen O to carbon C (O/C) of 0.1 to 0.6, and a molar ratio of hydrogen H to carbon C (H/C) of 0.5 to 1.35.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2013Publication date: November 5, 2015Inventors: Shigeya HAYASHI, Hiroshi AMANO, Nobuyuki OOI, Yuusuke HIRAIWA