Patents by Inventor Tatsurou Harada

Tatsurou Harada 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).

  • THERMAL POWER PLANT USING LOW-GRADE COAL AS FUEL
    Publication number: 20120006025
    Abstract: A thermal power plant that uses low-grade coal as fuel and allows for increased thermal efficiency of the entire plant is provided. The thermal power plant includes a drying device (3) that dries the low-grade coal to be supplied to a lignite mill (coal pulverizer) (4), and a drying-gas heater (13) that heats air to be supplied to the drying device (3) so as to be used for drying the low-grade coal. A condenser (12) and the drying-gas heater (13) are connected with each other via a heat exchanger (19), and exhaust heat from the condenser (12) is used as a heat source for heating the air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicants: KYUSHU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC., MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Koyama, Takashi Yamamoto, Osamu Shinada, Hiromi Ishii, Hitoji Yamada, Shozo Kaneko, Kimishiro Tokuda, Isao Mochida, Tatsurou Harada