Abstract: A filter system extracts particles and/or drops of liquid from air flowing through the filter system. The filter system has a filter layer disposed in a plane and a cyclone collector that is disposed in the edge region of the filter layer. The cyclone collector is provided with a device which, compared with the filter layer, creates a higher flow speed and stronger vortexing of the circulating air. The cyclone collector can be produced from horizontal cyclone elements, curved, horizontal elements or from expanded metal.

Abstract: Powder overspray that is extracted from a spray booth is recovered back to a powder supply that is used to supply powder to the spray guns inside the spray booth. The powder overspray extracted from the booth is separated from the high flow air stream by a separator such as a cyclone separator. The powder falls into a transfer pan and a vacuum is used to convey the powder from the transfer pan to a vacuum receiver. The powder is then discharged to the feed hopper in the feed center. The use of a vacuum to convey powder from the cyclone to the feed center in effect permits substantially all of the powder overspray to be recovered from the spray booth directly to the feed hopper with minimal dwell or residence time within the cyclone or vacuum receiver subsystems during a spraying operation. The receiver can be rotated for easy cleaning, and the vacuum line cleaned by one or more cleaning elements drawn through the vacuum line.

Abstract: A filter element, a safety element and fluid cleaner assembly. The fluid cleaner assembly generally includes a housing having a cover and a primary fluid cleaner section. The element generally comprises z-filter media, arranged in a straight through configuration, and an axial seal gasket positioned to extend continuously around at outer perimeter of the straight through flow construction. The fluid cleaner assembly can have a precleaner positioned therein. Methods of assembly and use are provided.

Abstract: An air cleaning robot and a system thereof which are capable of performing air cleaning while traveling around a predetermined area. The air cleaning robot includes a robot body, a driving part for driving a plurality of wheels disposed at lower portions of the robot body, an air cleaning part disposed in the robot body, for drawing-in dust-ladened air from a cleaning area, air filtering, and discharging cleaned air. A controller is disposed in the robot body for controlling the air cleaning part and the driving part. Accordingly, since the air cleaning robot and the system thereof perform air cleaning while traveling automatically around a predetermined area, there is an improvement in a residential household, living environment, and less of an inconvenience to operate.

Abstract: A biohazard safety enclosure or workstation particularly adapted for enclosing automated instrumentation includes a chamber defined by front, back, top, bottom, and opposed end walls; a HEPA filter across an air inlet opening into the chamber, and an airflow means to direct air horizontally through at least part of the chamber between the end walls. Preferably, the workstation has a second HEPA filter across an air outlet opening in the work chamber, with the airflow means including a conduit extending from the air outlet opening to the air inlet opening. A fan draws air through the conduit. A part of the filtered air is exhausted from the workstation and is replenished through a make-up air inlet into the chamber.

Abstract: A biological safety cabinet includes a work chamber having a contaminated air discharge opening, a fan enclosure above the work chamber, a conduit extending from the chamber air outlet to the top of the fan enclosure, a first HEPA filter in the top of the fan enclosure, a second HEPA filter between the fan enclosure and the work chamber, and a fan within the fan enclosure to convey air through the conduit from and the first HEPA filter into the fan enclosure, and to discharge air under positive pressure from the fan enclosure through the exhaust port and through the second HEPA filter into the work chamber. Due to the construction of the cabinet, the fan can be repaired or replaced without the need to observe biohazard procedures.

Abstract: A multiple retainer bridge device is provided for securing a utility member (e.g., a magnet or bracket) to posts on a housing member (e.g., a filter housing). When assembled, the utility member is staked onto the posts. A single retainer member prevents the utility member from sliding off of the posts. The retainer member has at least two ends. Each end has a recess, and each recess has a securing portion and a receptacle portion. The securing portion is fixed to the posts by, for example, sonic welding. Flash created by the fixing process is confined within the receptacle portion of the recesses.

Abstract: A filter retaining system formed from multiple filter retaining frames is disclosed. Each of the frames is formed from either a female type extrusion or a combination of male and female type extrusions. Specifically, each frame has either a tongue or a groove which is engageable into a corresponding groove or tongue of an adjacent frame. The tongue and groove engagement provides added rigidity to the retaining system, as well as preventing air from bypassing the filters retained within each frame.

Abstract: A vehicle air cleaner includes a filter material and a frame, which is formed integral around the circumferential edge of the filter material. The filter material is curved into a plurality of V-shaped air intake grooves able to let air filtered and sucked into an engine quickly and effectively. The frame has its upper edge formed with an arc-shaped current guiding surface able to smoothly guide air to move downward into the air intake grooves. The vehicle air cleaner of the invention is able to filter air effectively, avoid clogging of the filter material, and increase quantity of air sucked into the engine for carrying out complete combustion so as to lower exhaust and maintain good air quality.

Abstract: A harvesting platform comprising a conveyor belt assembly being located rearwardly from a cutter bar. The conveyor belt assembly comprises a first roller and a second roller around which a conveyor belt runs. The rollers are fastened to each other by mounting elements. The conveyor belt assembly is pivotally mounted to the floor of the platform so it can be pivoted upward from the floor.

Abstract: The device comprises: a two-for-one twisting spindle supporting a yarn winding which is twisted or cabled via a second yarn; a mechanism for pulling the yarn in order to cancel the tension resulting from the twisting or cabling operation; a heater for heating the yarn followed by a cooling area; and a mechanism for coiling the yarn. The heater comprises at least one cup-shaped element which is associated with a return guide enabling the yarn to be wound. The cup-shaped element is brought to a specific temperature and is positively driven in a state of rotation.

Abstract: A multicolored effect yarn for use in carpeting includes a core yarn which exhibits substantially zero twist and is formed of a multiplicity of BCF singles yarns, at least one of which has a different color from another, and which are entangled at first and second frequencies of entanglement points and different degrees of entanglements, and a wrapper yarn helically wrapped around the core yarn and has a lower denier than any of the singles yarns.

Abstract: The invention concerns a thread possessing properties of resistance to cutting, comprising at least one core thread (2) sheathed with at least one sheathing thread (3) consisting of continuous fibres or filaments, characterised in that the core thread (2) is a multifilament thread comprising from 50 to 1800 continuous glass filaments (4). The invention also concerns equipment for protecting against cutting produced from such a thread and a method of producing such equipment.

Abstract: The device comprises: a two-for-one twisting spindle supporting a thread winding which is twisted or cabled via a second thread; a mechanism for pulling the thread in order to cancel the tension resulting from the twisting or cabling operation; a heater for heating the thread followed by a cooling area; and a mechanism for coiling the thread. Upstream from the heater, thread is subject to the action of at least one colorant.

Abstract: An exchangeable adapter is provided for reducing the size of a trash removal opening of an opening roller housing in open-end spinning arrangements. The said adapter comprises two semi-spherical supporting surfaces at a distance to one another for positioning the adapter on corresponding rounded countersurfaces. The adapter comprises further a curved fiber guiding surface corresponding to the curve of an opening roller as well as a boundary wall for reducing the size of the trash removal opening arranged directly upstream of the fiber guiding surface. The adapter is made from profiled bars and cut to the required effective width. The fiber guiding surface can be provided with a recess which is connected with the external atmosphere and which permits the entry of air into the opening roller housing.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided a single shaft combined cycle power plant which can quickly switch from single operation of a gas turbine to combined operation of the gas turbine and a steam turbine, and can quickly increase output power, from low power to high power. The single shaft combined cycle power plant includes a means for maintaining the rotation speed of the steam turbine at a speed slower than but near a rated rotation speed when the steam turbine is separated from a coupled unit of a generator and the gas turbine.

Abstract: A thermal recirculation throttle valve (1) for an aircraft fuel system includes a housing (11) having a throttling valve chamber; a cover (5) operatively engaging a first side of the housing (11); a power piston (6) within a power piston sleeve (7), the power piston (6) having a first (21) and second face (22) for control pressure to act upon, the power piston (6) and power piston sleeve (7) operatively engaged with the housing (11) within the throttling valve chamber; a Linear Variable Differential Transformer (15) for measuring a linear position of the power piston (6) within the housing (11); a throttling valve (8) within a throttling valve sleeve (9), the throttling valve (8) operatively engaged with the power piston (60) to transfer the linear movement of the piston (6) between a fully extended and a fully retracted operating position; and a flow deflector (10) engaged with the throttling valve (8) for protecting the housing (11) from flow erosion from fuel exiting flow windows (37).

Abstract: A recuperated gas turbine engine system and associated method employing catalytic combustion, wherein the combustor inlet temperature can be controlled to remain above the minimum required catalyst operating temperature at a wide range of operating conditions from full-load to part-load and from hot-day to cold-day conditions. The fuel is passed through the compressor along with the air and a portion of the exhaust gases from the turbine. The recirculated exhaust gas flow rate is controlled to control combustor inlet temperature.

Abstract: A system for protecting a rocket engine, comprising, a storage reservoir of first protectant material, a control system configured to release it after the engine has finished firing, a conduit to deliver first protectant material to the engine injector, a valve to isolate first protectant material storage reservoir, an apparatus configured to drive the first protectant material from the reservoir to the engine injector.

Abstract: A casing for a gas turbine includes a fan case, an intermediate case and a gas generator case integrated with one another.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for mixing two fluid flows, initially guided separately from one another, in a two-circuit reaction engine, a mixing tube which encloses a hot core stream being provided, along the outer shaped lateral surface of which a cold bypass flow flows. The mixing tube is designed in the form of a truncated cone narrowing in the direction of flow and has openings arranged at the downstream end in the circumferential direction of the mixing-tube lateral surface in a cross-sectional plane lying perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the mixing tube. The hot core stream flowing through the mixing tube penetrates through the openings into the cold bypass flow flowing around the mixing-tube lateral surface. The openings have passage areas of elliptical shape with a major axis and a minor axis, the major axis of the passage areas running on the lateral surface of the mixing tube in the direction of flow of the fluids and the minor axis running perpendicularly thereto.

Abstract: An exhaust gas cleaning apparatus for an engine has a NOx trapping catalytic converter and a control unit for controlling an intake air throttle valve and a fuel injection timing in accordance with an operating condition of the engine. The opening degree of the intake air throttle valve is reduced to accomplish rich spike control. The fuel injection timing is adjusted according to the boost pressure that develops downstream of the intake air throttle valve during rich spike control. Since the combustion tends to degrade when the boost pressure changes during rich spike control, the fuel injection timing is advanced more as the boost pressure becomes larger. This advancement of the injection timing compensates for the combustion degradation and prevents the occurrence of torque fluctuations when the opening degree of the throttle valve is adjusted during the shift to rich spike control to improve the engine operating performance.

Abstract: When rich spike control is executed in a diesel engine equipped with a NOx trapping catalytic converter, there are times when the amount of NOx desorbed is too little or too much. The rich spike control start timing is determined based on the NOx accumulation amount calculated during lean combustion operation and the rich spike control end timing is determined based on the NOx accumulation amount and the NOx desorption rate. Since the actual amount of NOx remaining in the NOx trapping catalytic converter can be estimated based on the NOx desorption rate during rich spike control, the rich spike control can be ended when the amount of remaining NOx reaches a prescribed target value.

Abstract: The regeneration control system is provided that conducts a regeneration processing for oxidizing particulate matter collected in the diesel particulate filter (DPF) whereby the regeneration processing can be performed efficiently while avoiding the melting of the diesel particulate filter. The regeneration control system is provided for an exhaust filter wherein at least one parameter selected from among the target filter temperature, target exhaust air-fuel ratio, and target regeneration control time in the DPF regeneration is varied in accordance with the amount of particulate matter when the exhaust air-fuel ratio and exhaust temperature are controlled to perform the DPF regeneration by staged retarded combustion, which is composed of preliminary combustion that is performed at least once in the vicinity of the top dead center, and main combustion that causes the generation of main torque and is initiated after the preliminary combustion has been completed.

Abstract: In a combustion control system, a control unit determines, based on an operating condition of an exhaust purifying device, whether a request for an exhaust temperature rise or a rich A/F ratio engine operating mode is present. The control unit executes, by way of fuel injection control in presence of the request of the exhaust temperature rise or the rich operating mode, a split retard combustion mode in which a main combustion needed to produce a main engine torque and at least one preliminary combustion occurring prior to the main combustion are both achieved, and the preliminary combustion occurs near top dead center on a compression stroke, and the main combustion initiates after completion of the preliminary combustion. The control unit simultaneously executes an exhaust-emission reduction control that reduces HC and CO emissions, while keeping the excess air factor at a desired value in the catalyst deactivated state.

Abstract: A control for diagnosing a catalytic converter in the exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine having means for determining the catalytic converter temperature is presented. The diagnostic method is carried out in dependence upon the catalytic converter temperature. In the diagnosis, only such results are used which have been determined below a threshold value for the catalytic converter temperature.

Abstract: A method for checking an exhaust gas cleaning plant connected to an internal combustion engine in an exhaust gas tract that includes a catalytic converter having oxygen storage characteristics as well as a NOx sensor positioned downstream in the exhaust gas tract that emits a sensor signal depending on the NOx and the NH3 concentration in the exhaust gas in which case the internal-combustion engine is operated with a periodic air/fuel ratio oscillating around the value lambda=1 and that the average of the sensor signal is formed over one period or several periods and if the threshold value of the average is exceeded, damage to the monolith of the catalytic converter is detected.

Abstract: A controller for cylinder cut-off for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine including a partially operable cylinder that can be cutoff by a cut-off cylinder mechanism provided therewith and a full operating cylinder that is not cut off, the controller for cylinder cut-off including a partially operable cylinder side catalyst temperature estimating section, a full operating cylinder side catalyst temperature estimating section, and a cylinder cut-off authorization determining section for determining whether to authorize or prohibit a cut-off of the partially operable cylinder based on a partially operable cylinder side catalyst temperature estimated by the partially operable cylinder side catalyst temperature estimating section: and a full operating cylinder side catalyst temperature estimated by the full operating cylinder side catalyst temperature estimating section.

Abstract: A catalyst is positioned in an exhaust path of an internal-combustion engine. A main air-fuel ratio sensor and sub-oxygen sensor are respectively positioned upstream and downstream of the catalyst. A main feedback operation is performed so that the output of the main air-fuel ratio sensor is fed back and reflected in the fuel injection quantity until the control A/F prevailing upstream of the catalyst coincides with the target A/F. A sub-feedback operation is performed so that the output of the sub-oxygen sensor is fed back and reflected in the fuel injection quantity until the air-fuel ratio of an exhaust gas flowing out of the catalyst agrees with a theoretical air-fuel ratio. Since a catalyst window varies in accordance with the intake air quantity, the fuel injection quantity is corrected so that the larger the intake air quantity becomes, the richer the control A/F is.

Abstract: An engine exhaust gas cleaning apparatus is provided to suppress EGR ratio fluctuations when the excess air ratio is adjusted and thereby stabilize the engine operating performance.

Abstract: An engine fuel injection control system including a particulate filter is configured to compare an accelerator request fuel injection quantity based on an accelerator depression amount to an air fuel ratio request fuel injection quantity determined based on a target air fuel ratio based on the engine operating condition. The engine fuel injection control system is configured to select the smaller of the accelerator request fuel injection quantity and the air fuel ratio request fuel injection quantity as a target fuel injection quantity. When the engine is operating in a low rotational speed region with full load, the target air fuel ratio is adjusted to a value substantially equal to the air fuel ratio that provides a maximum torque. Thus, the fuel is injected to achieve an air fuel ratio close to the stoichiometric air fuel ratio the torque performance and acceleration performance can be improved.

Abstract: In an internal combustion engine equipped with a fuel injection system and an exhaust purifying device, such as NOx trap catalyst and/or diesel particulate filter (DPF), a control unit is provided. The control unit controls the fuel injection system to permit the engine to have a predetermined combustion mode in which, under a predetermined condition of the exhaust purifying device, the fuel injection system causes the engine to carry out a main combustion to produce a torque and at least one preliminary combustion prior to the main combustion. The at least one preliminary combustion is effected at a timing in the vicinity of top dead center of compression stroke, and the main combustion is effected at a first timing after completion of the preliminary combustion.

Abstract: In combustion control apparatus and method for an internal combustion engine, an exhaust gas purifying section is disposed in an exhaust system of the engine, a determination is made, on the basis of a state of the exhaust gas purifying section, whether a request is issued to switch a combustion mode of the engine to a split retard combustion (a predetermined fuel combustion mode) in which a preliminary combustion is carried out at least once at or near to a top dead center and a main combustion to develop a main torque is started after a completion of the preliminary combustion, and the combustion mode of the engine is switched to the split retard combustion when the combustion mode switching request determining section determines that the request is issued and during a low load driving state of the engine.

Abstract: A motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine, which is adapted to be supplied with fuel from a fuel tank, is provided. A preliminary muffler and a main muffler are disposed in an exhaust gas section of the engine. A hydrolysis catalytic converter and optionally at least one oxidation catalytic converter are disposed in the preliminary muffler. A dosing mechanism supplies a urea-water solution to the hydrolysis catalytic converter from a UWS tank. A structural unit is provided that is comprised of a fuel tank, the UWS tank, and the preliminary muffler, with the structural unit being adapted to be secured in its entirety to the chassis frame of the vehicle.

Abstract: An engine exhaust gas cleaning apparatus is provided to minimize torque shock as during regeneration of an exhaust gas cleaning device. The engine exhaust gas cleaning apparatus comprises a fuel delivery device that delivers fuel to an engine at a lean excess air ratio during normal operation of the engine; a NOx trapping catalytic converter that adsorbs NOx from the exhaust gas during the lean operation; a regeneration control section that adjusts the excess air ratio to a rich target value to regenerate the NOx trapping catalytic converter; a feedback control section that feedback-controls the fuel delivery quantity to hold the excess air ratio at the target value during regeneration; a feedback control restricting section that restricts the feedback control during regeneration until the difference between the target value and the actual excess air ratio is less than a prescribed value.

Abstract: An engine fuel injection control apparatus is configured to alleviate the torque fluctuation that occurs due to deviation of the fuel injection timing from the optimum value when the excess air ratio is changed suddenly from lean to rich, such as when a NOx trapping catalytic converter is subjected to desorption and deoxidation treatment. When the excess air ratio changes by a large amount, the fuel injection timing is adjusted so as to change in accordance with the actual excess air ratio by executing an interpolation calculation based on the target excess air ratio and the actual excess air ratio. During the transient period when the actual excess air ratio is converging toward the target excess air ratio, the fuel injection timing is changed in accordance with the change in the actual excess air ratio and can therefore be set appropriately in relation to the actual excess air ratio.

Abstract: Process for the decontamination of the emissions from an internal combustion engine (1), the exhaust line (5) of which is equipped with a particle filter (7), characterized in that an NOx trap additive is added to the fuel, so that the said additive is found trapped within the soot, and in that, at the time of the regenerations of the particle filter (7), the engine (1) is controlled with a richness balance according to at least one alternation of a lean-mixture phase and of a rich-mixture phase, in order to bring about the adsorption of the NO2 from the exhaust gases by the said additive during the lean-mixture phase or phases and to bring about the oxidation of the soot particles by the adsorbed NO2 during the rich-mixture phase or phases. Device for the implementation of this process.

Abstract: An exhaust gas cleaning system is provided that includes a particulate filter in an exhaust passage. The exhaust gas cleaning system is configured and arranged to determine an accumulation state of particulate matter in a particulate filter by obtaining a reference equivalent surface area of a passage inside the particulate filter based on a pressure difference between before and after the particulate filter, an exhaust gas flow rate, and a temperature of the exhaust gas passing through the particulate filter. The exhaust gas cleaning system is configured and arranged to obtain an adjusted equivalent surface area by adjusting the reference equivalent surface area based on a temperature of the particulate filter and the exhaust gas flow rate. Thus, an amount of particulate matter accumulated in a particulate filter of a diesel engine is accurately estimated without the estimation result being erroneously affected by the engine operating conditions.

Abstract: An exhaust gas cleaning system is provided that comprises a particulate filter and an NOx trapping catalytic converter disposed upstream of the particulate filter. The exhaust gas cleaning system is configured to determine a combustion amount of the particulate matter accumulated in the particulate filter that are combusted by the NOx in the exhaust gas, and adjust the combustion amount of the particulate matter based on an NOx adsorption condition of the NOx trapping catalytic converter. Then, the exhaust gas cleaning system is configured to estimate a particulate matter accumulation amount in the particulate filter by subtracting the adjusted combustion amount of the particulate matter from a discharge amount of the particulate matter. Thus, the amount of particulate matter accumulated in the particulate filter is estimated more accurately by taking into consideration the combustion of particulate matter by NOx in the exhaust gas.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine exhaust cooling and removal apparatus includes a heat exchange assembly connected to an exhaust pipe of an internal combustion engine. A flexible hose is connected to the heat exchange assembly, and an exhaust fan assembly is connected to the flexible hose. Use of the internal combustion engine exhaust cooling and removal apparatus of the invention provides a clean air environment in an indoor confined space by removing the engine exhaust gases which are hazardous to one's health. The apparatus of the invention is especially useful with non-electric powered tools and machines, such as for indoor excavations with diesel-powered excavators or other construction equipment. The apparatus of the invention can also be used with diesel-powered saws.

Abstract: The invention concerns a hydraulic steering arrangement with a steering motor, a supply path between a pressure source and the steering motor, in which supply path a throttling device and a measuring motor are located, a return path between the steering motor and a pressure sink, in which return path a return throttle is located, and a bypass path, which connects the supply path and the return path on the pressure source end or the pressure sink end, respectively, and which has a bypass throttle. It is endeavoured to make such steering arrangements suitable for fast motorboats. For this purpose it is ensured that with a load on the steering motor the pressure drop over the bypass throttle is larger than the sum of the pressure drops between a point before the first throttle and a point after the last throttle of the throttling device.

Abstract: An actuator comprises a pump-driving section which is driven and rotated by a current, and a pump mechanism which is connected to the pump-driving section and which sucks/discharges a pressure oil. A cylinder mechanism, which has a piston that is displaceable in the axial direction by being supplied with the pressure oil, is provided on the pump-driving section and the pump mechanism. The amount of discharge of the pressure oil to the cylinder mechanism is adjusted by freely changing the angle of inclination of a tilting member provided in the pump mechanism.

Abstract: The invention provides a variable nozzle control apparatus for a turbocharger in an engine comprising: a variable nozzle having a vane; an engine ECU for identifying an operating situation of the engine by detected outputs of sensors in the engine and outputting a control signal; and an electronic control actuator for controlling an opening of the vane in response to the control signal transmitted from the engine ECU, wherein the electronic control actuator includes an electronic control circuit section for receiving an opening indication information of the vane from the engine ECU and outputting an output signal; a driving section for receiving the output signal from the electronic control circuit and driving the vane of the variable nozzle through an output shaft; and an angle sensor for detecting a rotation angle of the output shaft to output an actual angle signal of the output shaft to the electronic control circuit.

Abstract: An electrical booster in an internal combustion engine with an exhaust gas turbocharger is activated so that the electrical booster is connected with the minimum possible power consumption. The connection of the electric booster depends on the power balance, the electric booster being activated when the instantaneously available compressor power-of the exhaust gas turbocharger is insufficient to provide the necessary power.

Abstract: A supercharging air compressor for an internal combustion engine, having a compressor wheel which is rotatably mounted in a compressor inlet duct, and to which combustion air can be fed via the compressor inlet duct. A partial stream of the compressed supercharging air is branched off downstream of the compressor wheel and is fed to a temperature reducing unit. The branched-off partial stream is fed, as cooling air, to a component of the supercharging air compressor after it has flowed through the temperature reducing unit.

Abstract: A steam turbine that can effectively operate with the steam at the higher temperatures, while maintaining the strength of turbine constituent components despite the high steam temperature of the steam is provided. The steam turbine includes a casing, a rotor, a plurality of turbine stages, a steam pass, a nozzle box, and a cover plate. The rotor is rotatably installed in the casing. The turbine stages are disposed in the turbine, at least one of the turbine stages including a turbine nozzle and including a moving blade that is fixed to the rotor. The steam pass includes the turbine stages. The nozzle box is placed in a space between the casing and the rotor for providing a heated steam into the steam pass. The cover plate is arranged along an outer surface of the nozzle box.

Abstract: A tool for securing a connector on a conductor using an explosive charge includes a first tool member and a second tool member movably mounted on the first tool member. A breech chamber is defined in at least one of the first and second tool members. The breech chamber is adapted to receive the explosive charge. A breech opening is defined in at least one of the first and second tool members and communicates with the breech chamber. A drive member is provided. The tool is adapted to forcibly move the drive member responsive to an explosion of the explosive charge in the breech chamber.

Abstract: An intermediate-pressure turbine is divided into a high-temperature, high-pressure side high-temperature, intermediate-pressure turbine section 11a and a low-temperature, low-pressure side low-temperature, intermediate-pressure turbine section 11b, the component members of the high-temperature, intermediate-pressure turbine section 11a are formed of austenitic heat-resistant steels or Ni-based alloys, and the high-temperature, intermediate-pressure turbine section 11a is operated by steam having a temperature of 650° C. or more. Other turbines are mainly formed of ferritic heat-resistant steels. Thus, a steam turbine power plant having high thermal efficiency and being economical can be provided.

Abstract: A thermal isolation device for a gas turbine combustor assembly includes a plurality of substantially flat plates secured in spaced relationship by a plurality of columns, at least one column incorporating a bolt hole for use in securing the device between a pair of combustor components.

Abstract: A combustor heat shield panel is secured relative to a combustor shell so as to hold the panel exterior surface spaced apart from and facing the shell interior surface over major area of the panel exterior surface. A gap is formed between the heat shield exterior surface and shell interior surface along at least a major portion of the perimeter of the heat shield.