Abstract: A rotor blade 32 includes a blade body 33 which has a negative-pressure surface 33a and a positive-pressure surface 33b extending in a blade height direction Z, and a platform 35 which is connected to an end portion of the blade body 33 in the blade height direction Z and extends in a circumferential direction Dc. In an end surface 35a of the platform 35 facing an axial direction Da, a convex portion 51 protruding in the axial direction Da and a concave portion 52 recessed in the axial direction Da are formed on an end surface 35a of the platform 35 facing the upstream side Dau. When viewed in the blade height direction Z, the convex portion 51 and the concave portion 52 are alternately formed in the circumferential direction Dc.

Abstract: A steam turbine includes a guide member that is disposed between a first rotor blade row and a second stator vane row to guide a fluid from the first rotor blade row toward the second stator vane row. When seen in a circumferential direction, an outer peripheral surface of an inner ring of the second stator vane row is disposed farther to an inner side in a radial direction than an outer peripheral surface of a platform of the first rotor blade row. The guide member has a guide surface that extends from an outer peripheral surface of a shroud of the first rotor blade row toward an inner peripheral surface of an outer ring of the second stator vane row so as to be inclined toward the inner side in the radial direction as the guide surface approaches a second side from a first side in an axial direction.

Abstract: The present application relates to a method for producing a catheter tube. The method including sucking gas from a second end 43 of a tubular body 40 while introducing pressurized gas into a lumen 41 of the tubular body 40 from a first end 42 of the tubular body 40, so that an internal pressure is applied to the lumen 41 of the tubular body 40 by introducing the pressurized gas, and the tubular body 40 is delivered in a direction from the first end 42 to the second end 43 by sucking the gas from the second end 43 of the tubular body 40.

Abstract: A steam turbine system 1 includes a steam turbine 10 including a plurality of rotor blades 16; a first mixed steam supply pipe 21 that supplies the steam, which is supplied from a steam supply source 40 capable of supplying the steam with fluctuating pressure, to an upstream stage Sa within the casing 11; a second mixed steam supply pipe 22 that supplies the steam to the second stepped part Sb; an adjusting unit 25 that adjusts a flow rate of the steam supplied to the first stepped part Sa and the second stepped part Sb; and a control unit 30 that controls the adjusting unit 25 on the basis of a differential pressure between a pressure P0 of the steam supplied from the steam supply source 40 and a pressure in the first stepped part Sa.

Abstract: Provided is a steam turbine in which, among a plurality of stages thereof, a stage that is disposed furthest upstream is a speed-adjusting stage, at least one stage that is disposed downstream of the speed-adjusting stage is a medium-pressure stage, and at least one stage that is disposed downstream of the medium-pressure stage is a low-pressure stage. The speed-adjusting stage is an impulse stage. The medium-pressure stage is a medium reaction degree impulse stage in which the degree of reaction is a medium degree of reaction of 10-40%. The low-pressure stage is a reaction stage having a higher degree of reaction than the medium-pressure stage.

Abstract: A blade of a steam turbine includes a plurality of turbine blade rows which are fixed to a radially outer side of a rotor shaft rotating about an axis, and are arranged in an axial direction in which the axis extends, and a turbine vane row which is disposed to be adjacent to an upstream side of the turbine blade row in the axial direction for each of the plurality of turbine blade rows, the blade of a steam turbine including a blade body which is disposed in a steam main flow path which is formed around a rotary shaft such that main steam flows through the steam main flow path, the blade body having an airfoil cross section in which a concave positive-pressure surface and a convex negative-pressure surface are continuous to each other via a leading edge and a trailing edge.

Abstract: A steam turbine includes: a rotor; a casing; a thrust bearing; a steam inlet; a first pipe; a first regulation valve; a second pipe; a second regulation valve; and a control device. The control device estimates an exhaust flow rate of the steam turbine based on an operating point map which derives the exhaust flow rate of the steam turbine from an operating point of the steam turbine and estimates the thrust force applied to the thrust bearing based on the exhaust flow rate.

Abstract: A steam turbine includes a guide member that is disposed between a first rotor blade row and a second stator vane row to guide a fluid from the first rotor blade row toward the second stator vane row. When seen in a circumferential direction, an outer peripheral surface of an inner ring of the second stator vane row is disposed farther to an inner side in a radial direction than an outer peripheral surface of a platform of the first rotor blade row. The guide member has a guide surface that extends from an outer peripheral surface of a shroud of the first rotor blade row toward an inner peripheral surface of an outer ring of the second stator vane row so as to be inclined toward the inner side in the radial direction as the guide surface approaches a second side from a first side in an axial direction.

Abstract: A blade of a steam turbine includes a plurality of turbine blade rows which are fixed to a radially outer side of a rotor shaft rotating about an axis, and are arranged in an axial direction in which the axis extends, and a turbine vane row which is disposed to be adjacent to an upstream side of the turbine blade row in the axial direction for each of the plurality of turbine blade rows, the blade of a steam turbine including a blade body which is disposed in a steam main flow path which is formed around a rotary shaft such that main steam flows through the steam main flow path, the blade body having an airfoil cross section in which a concave positive-pressure surface and a convex negative-pressure surface are continuous to each other via a leading edge and a trailing edge.

Abstract: The present invention provides a steam turbine blade and a steam turbine capable of further improving efficiency. A steam turbine blade includes a proximal end portion T11 which is formed in a blade shape having an intermediate reaction degree, an intermediate portion T12 which is formed in a blade shape having a low reaction degree; and a distal end portion T13 which is formed in a blade shape having a high reaction degree.

Abstract: A rotor blade 32 includes a blade body 33 which has a negative-pressure surface 33a and a positive-pressure surface 33b extending in a blade height direction Z, and a platform 35 which is connected to an end portion of the blade body 33 in the blade height direction Z and extends in a circumferential direction Dc. In an end surface 35a of the platform 35 facing an axial direction Da, a convex portion 51 protruding in the axial direction Da and a concave portion 52 recessed in the axial direction Da are formed on an end surface 35a of the platform 35 facing the upstream side Dau. When viewed in the blade height direction Z, the convex portion 51 and the concave portion 52 are alternately formed in the circumferential direction Dc.

Abstract: A steam turbine system includes: a steam turbine having a casing into which steam is fed from an outside of the casing and a rotating shaft that is provided within the casing so as to be rotatable around a central axis; a deaerator that is connected to the steam turbine and that deaerates leaked steam that has leaked from a gap between the casing and the rotating shaft to the outside of the casing; a vacuum pump that is connected to the deaerator and that lowers a pressure within the deaerator; and a shaft sealing device that is connected to the deaerator and that seals the gap between the casing and the rotating shaft. The shaft sealing device has a seal member having a seal body, a housing, a biasing member, and a negative-pressure introduction part.

Abstract: A steam turbine system 1 includes a steam turbine 10including a plurality of rotor blades 16; a first mixed steam supply pipe 21 that supplies the steam, which is supplied from a steam supply source 40 capable of supplying the steam with fluctuating pressure, to an upstream stage Sa within the casing 11; a second mixed steam supply pipe 22 that supplies the steam to the second stepped part Sb; an adjusting unit 25 that adjusts a flow rate of the steam supplied to the first stepped part Sa and the second stepped part Sb; and a control unit 30 that controls the adjusting unit 25 on the basis of a differential pressure between a pressure P0 of the steam supplied from the steam supply source 40 and a pressure in the first stepped part Sa.

Abstract: The present invention provides a steam turbine blade and a steam turbine capable of further improving efficiency. A steam turbine blade includes a proximal end portion T11 which is formed in a blade shape having an intermediate reaction degree, an intermediate portion T12 which is formed in a blade shape having a low reaction degree; and a distal end portion T13 which is formed in a blade shape having a high reaction degree.

Abstract: Provided are a dip coating device which minimizes attachment of a coating material to a member to which a member to be coated is fixed, thereby facilitating coating of the member to be coated and a method for producing a coated member which is obtained by dip coating a member to be coated with a coating material. The dip coating device 10 of the present invention for coating a member to be coated 20 with a coating material 70, comprises a reservoir 30 that stores a coating material 70, a first fixing part 40 that holds a member to be coated 20, and a second fixing part 50 directly or indirectly provided on a wall 31 of the reservoir 30, wherein the first fixing part 40 and the second fixing part 50 magnetically attract to each other.

Abstract: A valve device includes a main steam valve that is provided on a steam flow channel, a regulating valve that is provided on the steam flow channel to be connected to the main steam valve in series and that includes a first valve seat and a first valve body, an overload valve that is provided on a branch flow channel which connects a portion of the steam flow channel between the main steam valve and the regulating valve and a steam turbine to each other and that includes a second valve seat and a second valve body, and a driving unit that drives the first valve body and the second valve body as a common driving source of the first valve body and the second valve body such that the first valve body and the second valve body are interlocked with each other.

Abstract: A steam turbine includes: a rotor; a casing; a thrust bearing; a steam inlet; a first pipe; a first regulation valve; a second pipe; a second regulation valve; and a control device. The control device estimates an exhaust flow rate of the steam turbine based on an operating point map which derives the exhaust flow rate of the steam turbine from an operating point of the steam turbine and estimates the thrust force applied to the thrust bearing based on the exhaust flow rate.

Abstract: A steam turbine includes: a rotor shaft including a shaft core that rotates about an axis and disk portions that are fixed to the shaft core and expand toward a radially outer side in the shaft core; and a plurality of rotor blades that are fixed to outer peripheries of the disk portions and are disposed in a circumferential direction of the shaft core. A first surface that is toward a first direction including a directional component toward a radially inner side of the shaft core is formed on each of the rotor blades, and a second surface that is toward a second direction including a directional component toward the radially outer side and faces the first surface is formed on each of the disk portions.

Abstract: A steam turbine includes: a rotor shaft including a shaft core and a disk portion fixed to the shaft core and that expands toward a radially outer side in the shaft core; rotor blade rows that are fixed to an outer periphery of the disk portion and arranged in an axial direction in which the shaft core extends; a stator vane row adjacent to an upstream side of the rotor blade row in the axial direction for each of the plurality of rotor blade rows; a gap flow passage that extends toward a radially inner side from a steam main flow passage that extends in the axial direction; and a communication passage including a first end that communicates with the gap flow passage and a second end that communicates with a space where steam with higher pressure than pressure of the steam inside the gap flow passage exists.

Abstract: A steam turbine system includes: a steam turbine having a casing into which steam is fed from an outside of the casing and a rotating shaft that is provided within the casing so as to be rotatable around a central axis; a deaerator that is connected to the steam turbine and that deaerates leaked steam that has leaked from a gap between the casing and the rotating shaft to the outside of the casing; a vacuum pump that is connected to the deaerator and that lowers a pressure within the deaerator; and a shaft sealing device that is connected to the deaerator and that seals the gap between the casing and the rotating shaft. The shaft sealing device has a seal member having a seal body, a housing, a biasing member, and a negative-pressure introduction part.