Patents by Inventor Yoshinori Koyama

Yoshinori Koyama 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: 11384933
    Abstract: A burner device includes a burner body which includes a protruding portion protruding from a furnace wall into an interior of a combustion furnace, a cooling pipe through which a refrigerant for cooling the burner body flows, the cooling pipe being disposed so as to surround an outer peripheral surface of the protruding portion, and a light detection unit for detecting internal light of the cooling pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Koyama, Katsuhiko Yokohama, Yasunari Shibata
  • Patent number: 11292976
    Abstract: A slag discharge system includes a slag bath at a bottom portion of a gasifier; a slag cooling water circulation line that discharges a mixture of slag and a slag cooling water from the slag bath; a coarse slag separator device that separates coarse slag contained in the slag cooling water; a fine slag separator device connected to the coarse slag separator device downstream side, the fine slag separator device separating fine slag; and a circulator pump connected to the fine slag separator device downstream side, the circulator pump creating a water flow in the slag cooling water circulation line; wherein the fine slag separator device includes a branch section where the slag cooling water circulation line branches into a plurality of branch lines and again joins together as one line, a fine slag filter portion, and a shutoff valve and disposed in each of the plurality of branch lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoya Hayashi, Masato Murayama, Yoshinori Koyama, Naoshige Yoshida, Yasuyuki Miyata
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11103823
    Abstract: A filter backwashing unit is disposed in a path in which process gas flows to remove at least a part of trapped dust included in a process gas by backwashing an element of a filter device that traps the dust when a process gas passes. The filter backwashing unit includes a gas injection device disposed downstream of the element in a flow direction of a process gas to inject backwashing gas toward the element from downstream; a parameter detection device configured to detect a parameter used for determination of a state of dust adhering to the element; and a control device configured to estimate a thickness of dust deposited on a surface of the element upstream of a process gas based on a result of the detection, and determine an interval at which the element is backwashed based on the estimated thickness of the dust.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Haruto Shinoda, Yoshinori Koyama
  • Publication number: 20210222077
    Abstract: A slag discharge system includes a slag bath at a bottom portion of a gasifier; a slag cooling water circulation line that discharges a mixture of slag and a slag cooling water from the slag bath; a coarse slag separator device that separates coarse slag contained in the slag cooling water; a fine slag separator device connected to the coarse slag separator device downstream side, the fine slag separator device separating fine slag; and a circulator pump connected to the fine slag separator device downstream side, the circulator pump creating a water flow in the slag cooling water circulation line; wherein the fine slag separator device includes a branch section where the slag cooling water circulation line branches into a plurality of branch lines and again joins together as one line, a fine slag filter portion, and a shutoff valve and disposed in each of the plurality of branch lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoya Hayashi, Masato Murayama, Yoshinori Koyama, Naoshige Yoshida, Yasuyuki Miyata
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11002640
    Abstract: A device abnormality diagnosis method for a device to be diagnosed constituting a plant includes: obtaining time-series data of a plurality of state amounts of the plant which are correlated to an abnormality of the device to be diagnosed; a step of obtaining abnormality diagnosis data on the plurality of state amounts by performing pre-processing on at least one state amount of the plurality of state amounts to exclude, from the time-series data on the state amounts, data of the at least one state amount obtained in an exclusion period which is at least a part of a transient state period during which the device to be diagnosed is affected by a state change of another constituent device of the plant; and a step of performing abnormality diagnosis on the device to be diagnosed on the basis of the abnormality diagnosis data of the plurality of state amounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Kubo, Hiromi Aota, Yasunari Shibata, Katsuhiko Yokohama, Yasunori Ishizu, Yoshinori Koyama
  • 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: 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
  • Publication number: 20200269176
    Abstract: A filter backwashing unit is disposed in a path in which process gas flows to remove at least a part of trapped dust included in a process gas by backwashing an element of a filter device that traps the dust when a process gas passes. The filter backwashing unit includes a gas injection device disposed downstream of the element in a flow direction of a process gas to inject backwashing gas toward the element from downstream; a parameter detection device configured to detect a parameter used for determination of a state of dust adhering to the element; and a control device configured to estimate a thickness of dust deposited on a surface of the element upstream of a process gas based on a result of the detection, and determine an interval at which the element is backwashed based on the estimated thickness of the dust.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Haruto Shinoda, Yoshinori Koyama
  • Publication number: 20200270536
    Abstract: A gasification unit includes a gasifier configured to gasify a carbon-containing solid fuel; a pressure vessel housing the gasification furnace; a pressure holding section that is to be filled with a pressurizing gas and is provided between the gasifier and the pressure vessel; a pressurizing gas supply device configured to supply a pressurizing gas to the pressure holding section; pressure equalizing pipes by which the inside of the gasifier is communicated with the pressure holding section; a pressure difference detection and estimation device configured to detect or estimate a pressure difference between a first pressure on the gasifier side and a second pressure on the pressure holding section side; and a control device configured to control the pressurizing gas supply device such that the second pressure is higher than the first pressure based on a detection or estimation result of the pressure difference detection and estimation device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kengo Shibata, Yasunari Shibata, Yoshinori Koyama
  • Patent number: 10745632
    Abstract: This slag discharge system (1) includes: a slag hopper (5) of a coal gasifier (2); a slag discharge line (7) that discharges a mixture of slag and slag water (W); a slag separation device (10) that separates the slag from the mixture of slag and slag water (W); a circulation pump (24) that forms a water flow from the slag hopper (5) to the slag separation device (10) in the slag discharge line (7); a lock hopper (14) that stores slag which has been separated at the slag separation device (10) and discharges the same out of the coal gasifier (2) system; a slag discharge valve (15) that is provided on a lower outlet of the lock hopper (14); and a slag water return flow line (20) for returning the slag water (W) which has been separated at the slag separation device (10) to the slag hopper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Koyama, Masato Murayama
  • Patent number: 10746105
    Abstract: A control device for a power generation system whereby power is generated by a first power source that operates by burning a fuel. The control device identifies, on the basis of a pressure difference in a prior-stage mechanism that supplies the fuel to the first power source, a fuel capacity that compensates for the pressure difference in the prior-stage mechanism. The pressure difference is the difference between a pressure set for the fuel before a load change in the prior-stage mechanism and a pressure set for the fuel after the load change in the prior-stage mechanism. The control device calculates a fuel supply command value, which is a command value for adjusting the amount of fuel supplied to a fuel supply device that supplies the fuel to the first power source, and is output to the fuel supply device using a fuel supply acceleration command value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masato Murayama, Takanori Tsutsumi, Yoshinori Koyama, Ken Tamura, Takashi Fujii
  • Patent number: 10717594
    Abstract: Provided is a pressurizing system which includes: a pressurizing nozzle configured to supply a pressurizing gas into a hopper (3) where pulverized coal is accumulated; a filter configured to face a space in the hopper (3) where the pulverized coal is accumulated, and to allow the pressurizing gas to pass through the filter, the filter being provided at an end of the pressurizing nozzle; buffer tanks (5a), (5b) in which a pressurizing gas to be supplied to the hopper (3) is collected at a first predetermined pressure; and a pressure control means configured to start, at a time of starting pressurization of the hopper (3), supply of a pressurizing gas at a second predetermined pressure which is lower than the first predetermined pressure of the pressurizing gas collected in the buffer tanks (5a), (5b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Urakata, Koji Nishimura, Naoto Nakayama, Yoshinori Koyama, Tatsuya Kameyama
  • Patent number: 10697714
    Abstract: A multiple tube-type heat exchanger (25) is provided with a cylindrical heat exchanger shell (36) and a heat transfer tube unit (38) which is mounted in a removable manner within the heat exchanger shell (36). The heat transfer tube unit (38) is provided with a plurality of heat transfer tubes (50) extending inside the heat exchanger shell (36) in the longitudinal axis direction; a binding member (51 serves also as this binding member) for binding the heat transfer tubes (50); and a plurality of rotary journal sections (51, 52) which are concentric with the center axis (CL) of the heat transfer tube unit (38), are provided at positions located at a distance from each other in the direction of the center axis (CL), and enable the heat transfer tube unit (38) to be supported by predetermined rotation support sections provided outside the heat exchanger shell (36).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Koyama, Masato Murayama
  • Patent number: 10669494
    Abstract: A system is disclosed provided with: a slag bath that retains slag cooling water and receives slag; a slag cooling water feed line and a slag pump outlet via which the slag and the slag cooling water are pumped and fed to a slag separation device; a circulation pump that forms a water flow for pumping out the slag; a slag cooling water circulation line linking from the slag separation device to the slag bath; a reverse flow line that causes the slag cooling water dispensed from the circulation pump to flow in reverse in the slag cooling water feed line; a selective supply unit capable of selectively supplying the slag cooling water dispensed from the circulation pump to the slag cooling water circulation line and the reverse flow line; and a water supply line, one end of which is connected to the slag cooling water feed line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoya Hayashi, Masato Murayama, Yoshinori Koyama, Naoshige Yoshida, Yasuyuki Miyata
  • Patent number: 10527371
    Abstract: An anomaly monitoring device is installed in an integrated gasification combined cycle plant that experiences varying loads, and the device monitors a heat exchanger that performs heat exchange between a carbon-containing fuel and a heat exchange medium flowing through a heat transfer tube. For each load on the integrated gasification combined cycle plant, the anomaly monitoring device calculates the average value and the standard deviation of a state quantity of the heat exchanger, calculates the Mahalanobis distance on the basis of the average value and the standard deviation, and from the calculated Mahalanobis distance determines the presence or absence of an anomaly of the heat transfer surface of the heat transfer tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Kubo, Hiromi Aota, Yoshinori Koyama, Kenichiro Kosaka, Yasunari Shibata, Yuichiro Urakata
  • Publication number: 20200001310
    Abstract: A cyclone integrated type storage device that helps to reduce equipment costs, which includes: a hollow pressure vessel; a cyclone provided in a vertically upper part of the pressure vessel and configured to swirl a produced gas introduced from outside and containing particles to thereby separate at least some of char from the produced gas, the cyclone including an opening and an exhaust port, the opening permitting discharge of the separated char vertically downward in the pressure vessel, the exhaust port permitting discharge of the produced gas to the outside of the pressure vessel; a particle storage chamber provided in a vertically lower part of the pressure vessel and storing the char discharged through the opening; and an outlet port formed in a bottom of the pressure vessel and permitting discharge of the particles stored in the particle storage chamber to the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Haruto Shinoda, Yuichiro Urakata, Yasunari Shibata, Yoshinori Koyama, Katsuhiko Yokohama
  • 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
  • Patent number: 10415467
    Abstract: Provided is an integrated coal gasification combined cycle equipped with: a gasifier that generates combustible gas from pulverized coal; a gas cooler; gas turbine equipment; an auxiliary fuel supply unit that supplies an auxiliary fuel to the gas turbine equipment; a heat recovery steam generator; steam turbine equipment; generators; and a circulation line unit that circulates cooling water. The heat recovery steam generator has a first medium-pressure coal economizer and a second medium-pressure coal economizer. When the combustible gas generated from the pulverized coal is burned, a serial heat exchange line is formed wherein cooling water passes through the first medium-pressure coal economizer, the second medium-pressure coal economizer, and the gas cooler. When the auxiliary fuel is burned, separate heat exchange lines are formed, wherein the cooling water separately passes through the first medium-pressure coal economizer and the second medium-pressure coal economizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoshige Yoshida, Koichi Sakamoto, Kenichiro Kosaka, Tetsuya Kizu, Yoshinori Koyama, Takashi Fujii, Osamu Shinada